Information;Order — ECLI:EU:T:2020:6
Date: 2020-01-21
Language of the case: English
Court formation: First Chamber
Subject matter: Telecommunications
Procedure: Action for annulment - inadmissible
Origin: Germany

Order of the General Court (First Chamber) of 21 January 2020 – Deutsche Telekom v Parliament and Council (Case T‑161/19) (Action for annulment — Internal market for electronic communications — Retail price charged to consumers for regulated intra-EU communications — Regulation (EU) 2018/1971 — Legislative act — Applicant not individually concerned — Inadmissibility) 1. Action for annulment — Natural or legal persons — Concept of regulatory act within the meaning of the fourth paragraph of Article 263 TFEU — Any act of general scope other than legislative acts — Regulation instituting price caps for regulated intra-EU communications — Regulation adopted in accordance with the ordinary legislative procedure — Precluded (Arts 114, 263, fourth para., 289(1) and (3) and 294 TFEU; European Parliament and Council Regulation 2018/1971) (see paras 16-22) 2. Action for annulment — Natural or legal persons — Measures of direct and individual concern to them — Person individually affected by a measure general in character — Conditions (Art. 263, fourth para. TFEU) (see paras 32-34) 3. Action for annulment — Natural or legal persons — Measures of direct and individual concern to them — Individual concern — Criteria — Regulation instituting price caps for regulated intra-EU communications — Action brought by a provider of regulated intra-EU communications — Not individually concerned — Inadmissibility (Art. 263, fourth para. TFEU; European Parliament and Council Regulation No 2018/1971) (see paras 41-50, 52) 4. Action for annulment — Natural or legal persons — Measures of direct and individual concern to them — Conditions cumulative in nature — Inadmissibility of the action where just one of those conditions not met (Art. 263, fourth para. TFEU) (see para. 51) Re: Application on the basis of Article 263 TFEU for the partial annulment of Regulation (EU) 2018/1971 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 2018 establishing the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC) and the Agency for Support for BEREC (BEREC Office), amending Regulation (EU) 2015/2120 and repealing Regulation (EC) No 1211/2009 (OJ 2018 L 321, p. 1). Operative part 1. The action is dismissed as inadmissible. 2. There is no longer any need to adjudicate on the applications to intervene of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the European Commission. 3. Deutsche Telekom AG shall bear its own costs and shall pay the costs incurred by the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union, with the exception of those relating to the applications to intervene. 4. Deutsche Telekom, the Parliament, the Council, the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Commission shall each bear their own respective costs relating to the applications to intervene.