Information;Judgment — ECLI:EU:T:2024:486
Date: 2024-07-17
Language of the case: German
Court formation: Eighth Chamber, Extended Composition
Subject matter: Economic and monetary policy
Procedure: Action for annulment - unfounded;Action for annulment - successful;Action for annulment - inadmissible
Origin: Germany

Judgment of the General Court of 17 July 2024 – Norddeutsche Landesbank – Girozentrale v SRB (Case T-412/21) 1 (Economic and monetary union – Banking union – Single Resolution Mechanism for credit institutions and certain investment firms (SRM) – Single Resolution Fund (SRF) – Decision of the SRB on the calculation of the 2021 ex ante contributions – Duty to state reasons – Equal treatment – Proportionality – SRB’s discretion – Manifest error of assessment – Plea of illegality – Commission’s discretion – Limitation of the temporal effects of the judgment) Language of the case: German Parties Applicant: Norddeutsche Landesbank – Girozentrale (Hanover, Germany) (represented by: J. Seitz and C. Marx, lawyers) Defendant: Single Resolution Board (represented by: J. Kerlin, T. Wittenberg and C. De Falco, acting as Agents, and by G. Coppo, S. Reinart and K. Bongs, lawyers) Intervener in support of the defendant: European Commission (represented by: D. Triantafyllou and A. Steiblytė, acting as Agents) Re: By its action under Article 263 TFEU, the applicant seeks the annulment of Decision SRB/ES/2021/22 of the Single Resolution Board (SRB) of 14 April 2021 on the calculation of the 2021 ex ante contributions to the Single Resolution Fund, in so far as that decision concerns it. Operative part of the judgment The Court: Annuls Decision SRB/ES/2021/22 of the Single Resolution Board (SRB) of 14 April 2021 on the calculation of the 2021 ex ante contributions to the Single Resolution Fund, in so far as it concerns Norddeutsche Landesbank – Girozentrale; Maintains the effects of Decision SRB/ES/2021/22, in so far as it concerns Norddeutsche Landesbank – Girozentrale, until the entry into force, within a reasonable period which cannot exceed six months from the date of delivery of the present judgment, of a new decision of the SRB fixing the 2021 ex ante contribution to the Single Resolution Fund of that institution; Orders the SRB to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by Norddeutsche Landesbank – Girozentrale; Orders the European Commission to bear its own costs. ____________ 1 OJ C 368, 13.9.2021.