Order of the Court of First Instance of 4 November 2002 in Case T-90/99: Salzgitter AG v Commission of the European Communities (ECSC — State aid — Decision to initiate the procedure provided for in Article 6(5) of Decision 2496/96/ECSC — No need to adjudicate)
Date: 2003-02-22
Institutions: Court of First Instance
Subjects: European Commissioner, Germany, State aid, action for annulment (EU), aid to industry, iron and steel industry

22.2.2003

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 44/29

ORDER OF THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE

ORDER OF THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE

of 4 November 2002

of 18 November 2002

in Case T-190/99 DEP: Sniace SA v Commission of the
European Communities (1)

in Case T-90/99: Salzgitter AG v Commission of the
European Communities (1)

(ECSC — State aid — Decision to initiate the procedure
provided for in Article 6(5) of Decision 2496/96/ECSC —
No need to adjudicate)

(Taxation of costs)

(2003/C 44/57)

(Language of the case: Spanish)

(2003/C 44/56)

(Language of the case: German)

In Case T-90/99: Salzgitter AG, established in Salzgitter
(Germany), represented by J. Sedemund,
lawyer, with an
address for service in Luxembourg, against Commission of
the European Communities (Agents: D. Triantafyllou and
P. Nemitz) — application for the annulment of Commission
Decision SG (99) D/1542 of 3 March 1999 to initiate the
procedure provided for under Article 6(5) of Commission
Decision No 2496/96/ECSC of 18 December 1996 establishing
Community rules for State aid to the steel industry (OJ 1996
L 338, p. 42) with regard to aid under the German Zonal
Border Development Areas Act to Salzgitter AG, Preussag
Stahl AG and iron and steel subsidiaries of the ‘SAG — Stahl
und Technologie’ Group (OJ 1999 C 113, p. 9) — the Court
of First Instance (Fourth Chamber, Extended Composition),
composed of V. Tiili, President,
J. Pirrung, P. Mengozzi,
A.W.H. Meij and M. Vilaras, Judges; H. Jung, Registrar, made
an order on 4 November 2002, the operative part of which is
as follows:

In Case T-190/99 DEP: Sniace SA, established in Madrid,
represented by J.L. Baró Fuentes, M.A. Gómez de Liaño y
Botella and F. Rodriguez Carretero, Lawyers, against Com-
mission of the European Communities (Agents: G. Rozet and
J.L. Buendia Sierra) — application for taxation of the costs to
be paid by the defendant to the applicant following the order
of the President of the Fifth Chamber, Enlarged Composition,
of the Court of First Instance of 4 April 2001 in Case T-190/
99 Sniace v Commission — the Court of First Instance (Fifth
Chamber), composed of M.R. García-Valdecasas, President,
and P. Lindh. R.M. Moura Ramos, J.D. Cooke and H. Legal,
Judges; H. Jung, Registrar, has made an order on 18 November
2002, in which it:

Fixes the total costs to be paid by the Commission to the applicant in
Case T-199/99 at EUR 14 300.

(1) OJ C 333 of 20.11.1999.

ORDER OF THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE

of 27 November 2002

in Case T-291/01: Dessauer Versorgungs- und Verkehrsge-
sellschaft mbH and Others v Commission of the European
Communities (1)

1.

There is no longer any need to adjudicate on the application.

(Actions for failure to act — Action devoid of purpose — No
need to give judgment — Payment of costs)

2.

Each of the parties will bear its own costs.

( 1) OJ C 174 of 19.6.1999.

(2003/C 44/58)

(Language of the case: German)

In Case T-291/01: Dessauer Versorgungs- und Verkehrsge-
sellschaft mbH, a company established in Dessau, Germany,
Neubrandenburger Stadtwerke GmbH, established in Neu-
brandenburg, Germany, Stadtwerke Tübingen GmbH, estab-
lished in Tübingen, Germany, Stadtwerke Uelzen GmbH,