Order — ECLI:EU:C:2008:356
Date: 2008-06-19
Language of the case: English
Court formation: Sixth Chamber
Based on: Treaty establishing the European Economic Community (1957)
Subject matter: Environment;Pollution
Concepts: Applications by natural or legal persons
Procedure: Action for annulment;Appeal - unfounded
Origin: Slovakia

Order of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 19 June 2008 – US Steel Košice v Commission (Case C‑6/08 P) Appeal – Directive 2003/87/EC – Scheme for greenhouse gas emission allowance trading – Integrated pollution prevention and control – Slovak Republic – Act of Accession – Allocation of allowances – Period 2008-12 – Conditions – Whether directly affected – Inadmissibility Actions for annulment – Natural or legal persons – Measures of direct and individual concern to them (Art. 230, fourth para., EC; European Parliament and Council Directive 2003/87) (see paras 60-61, 75) Re: Appeal against the order of the Court of First Instance (Third Chamber) of 1 October 2007 in Case T-27/07 US Steel Košice s.r.o. v Commission dismissing as inadmissible an application for the annulment of the Commission’s decision of 29 November 2006 concerning the national allocation plan for greenhouse gas emission allowances notified by Slovakia for the period from 2008 to 2012 in accordance with Directive 2003/87/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (OJ 2003 L 275, p. 32) – Natural or legal persons – Acts of direct and individual concern to them – Direct concern – Criteria. Operative part The Court: 1. Dismisses the appeal; 2. Orders US Steel Košice s.r.o. to pay the costs.