62024TO0045_INF
Order of the General Court (Seventh Chamber) of 25 February 2025 –ePURE and Pannonia Bio v Parliament and Council
(Case T‑45/24)
(Action for annulment – Energy – Regulation (EU) 2023/2405 – Obligation placed on aviation fuel suppliers to ensure that all aviation fuel made available to aircraft operators at each EU airport contains the minimum shares of sustainable aviation fuels – Lack of individual concern – Inadmissibility)
Action for annulment – Natural or legal persons – Measures of direct and individual concern to them – Individual concern – Criteria – Regulation laying down harmonised rules on the uptake and supply of sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) – Regulation requiring aviation fuel suppliers to make available to aircraft operators at Union airports fuel that must contain a minimum share of SAF – Exclusion of feed and food crop-based biofuels and biofuels produced from intermediate crops – Action brought by a producer and supplier in the Union of renewable ethanol produced from crops, waste and residues – Not individually concerned – Action brought by an association predominantly made up of members that produce and supply renewable ethanol in the Union – Not individually concerned – Inadmissibility
(Art. 263, fourth para., TFEU; European Parliament and Council Regulation 2023/2405, Arts 3(8)(c) and 4(1), (4) and (5), and Annex I)
(see paragraphs 25-30, 35-46, 67-80)
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 European Commission, Renewable Fuels Association, Growth Energy, U. S. Grains Council and LanzaJet.
3.
ePURE, de Europese Producenten Unie van Hernieuwbare Ethanol, and Pannonia Bio Zrt. shall bear their own costs and pay those incurred by the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union, with the exception of those relating to the applications to intervene.
4.
The Parliament, the Council and the applicants for leave to intervene referred to in point 2 of this operative part shall each bear their own costs relating to the applications to intervene.