Case T-482/21: Judgment of the General Court of 25 September 2024 – TenneT TSO and TenneT TSO v ACER (Energy – Internal market for electricity – Capacity calculation region – Core region – Adoption by ACER of the methodology for cost sharing of redispatching and countertrading – Obligation to state reasons – Determination of the threshold for legitimate loop flows – Article 16(13) of Regulation (EU) 2019/943)
Date: 2024-09-25
Institutions: General Court
Subjects: EU Member State, energy cooperation, energy grid, energy law, energy market, energy transport, single market, transmission network








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C/2024/6648


11.11.2024






Judgment of the General Court of 25 September 2024 – TenneT TSO and TenneT TSO v ACER


(Case T-482/21)
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(Energy - Internal market for electricity - Capacity calculation region - Core region - Adoption by ACER of the methodology for cost sharing of redispatching and countertrading - Obligation to state reasons - Determination of the threshold for legitimate loop flows - Article 16(13) of Regulation (EU) 2019/943)
(C/2024/6648)
Language of the case: English

Parties


Applicants: TenneT TSO GmbH (Bayreuth, Germany), TenneT TSO BV (Arnhem, Netherlands) (represented by: D. Uwer, J. Meinzenbach, P. Rieger, R. Klein and S. Westphal, lawyers)

Defendant: European Union Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (represented by: P. Martinet, E. Tremmel and Z. Vujasinovic, acting as Agents, and by P. Goffinet, L. Bersou and M. Shehu, lawyers)

Intervener in support of the applicants: Federal Republic of Germany (represented by: J. Möller and N. Scheffel, acting as Agents)

Re:

By their action under Article 263 TFEU, the applicants seek the annulment of the decision of the Board of Appeal of the European Union Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER) of 28 May 2021 confirming ACER Decision No 30/2020 of 30 November 2020 on the proposal of the electricity transmission system operators of the ‘Core’ capacity calculation region, comprising Belgium, the Czech Republic, Germany, France, Croatia, Luxembourg, Hungary, the Netherlands, Austria, Poland, Romania, Slovenia and Slovakia, for the methodology for cost sharing of redispatching and countertrading, and dismissing their appeal in Case A-001-2021 (consolidated).

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:






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Annuls the decision of the Board of Appeal of the European Union Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER) of 28 May 2021 in Case A-001-2021 (consolidated), in so far as it confirms ACER Decision No 30/2020 of 30 November 2020 on the proposal of the electricity transmission system operators of the ‘Core’ capacity calculation region, comprising Belgium, the Czech Republic, Germany, France, Croatia, Luxembourg, Hungary, the Netherlands, Austria, Poland, Romania, Slovenia and Slovakia, for the methodology for cost sharing of redispatching and countertrading, and dismisses the applicants’ appeal in that case;










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Orders ACER to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by TenneT TSO GmbH and TenneT TSO BV;










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Orders the Federal Republic of Germany to bear its own costs.






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            OJ C 382, 20.9.2021.


ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2024/6648/oj
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