CELEX: 62003TJ0375
State aid
Measures to promote the use of insulating materials produced from renewable raw materials
Decision declaring the aid compatible with the common market
Preliminary investigation procedure
Action for annulment
Admissibility
Meaning of ‘party concerned’ in Article 88(2) EC
Commission’s duty to initiate the inter partes procedure

APPLICATION for annulment of Commission Decision C(2003) 1473 final of 9 July 2003 declaring the measures which the German
authorities propose to take to promote the use of insulating materials produced from renewable raw materials compatible with
the common market (State aid No 694/2002).
Operative part
The Court:
1.
Dismisses the action;
2.
Orders Fachvereinigung Mineralfaserindustrie eV Deutsche Gruppe der Eurima – European Insulation Manufacturers Association
to bear its own costs as well as those incurred by the Commission;
3.
Orders the Federal Republic of Germany to bear its own costs.