Information;Order — ECLI:EU:T:2025:498
Date: 2025-05-14
Language of the case: German
Court formation: Eighth Chamber, Extended Composition
Procedure: Action for annulment - successful
Origin: Germany

Order of the General Court of 14 May 2025 – Deutsche Kreditbank v SRB (2020 ex ante contributions) (Case T-419/20) 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 2020 ex ante contributions – Article 70(2) of Regulation (EU) No 806/2014 – Action manifestly well founded – Limitation of the temporal effects of the order) Language of the case: German Parties Applicant: Deutsche Kreditbank AG (Berlin, Germany) (represented by: H. Berger and M. Weber, lawyers) Defendant: Single Resolution Board (represented by: T. Wittenberg and D. Ceran, acting as Agents, and by H.-G. Kamann, V. Wettner and F. Louis, 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 annulment of Decision SRB/ES/2022/80 of the Single Resolution Board (SRB) of 7 December 2022, withdrawing Decision SRB/ES/2020/24 of the SRB of 15 April 2020, on the calculation of the 2020 ex ante contributions to the Single Resolution Fund (SRF), in so far as it concerns the institutions mentioned in Annex I to this Decision, and recalculating the 2020 ex ante contributions to the SRF of these institutions, to the extent that it concerns the applicant. Operative part of the order Decision SRB/ES/2022/80 of the Single Resolution Board (SRB) of 7 December 2022 on the calculation of the 2020 ex ante contributions to the Single Resolution Fund (SRF) is annulled in so far as it concerns Deutsche Kreditbank AG. The effects of Decision SRB/ES/2022/80 in so far as it concerns Deutsche Kreditbank are maintained until the SRB has taken the measures necessary to implement the present order, which must occur within a reasonable period that cannot exceed six months from the day on which the present order becomes final. The SRB shall bear its own costs and pay those incurred by Deutsche Kreditbank. The European Commission shall bear its own costs. ____________ 1 OJ C 279, 24.8.2020.