Case T-413/18: Order of the General Court of 17 January 2025 – Portigon v SRB (2018 ex ante contributions) (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 ex ante contributions for 2018 – Plea of illegality – Legal basis for Regulation (EU) No 806/2014 – Article 114 TFEU – Equal treatment – Commission’s discretion – SRB’s discretion – Duty to state reasons – Non-retroactivity – Action manifestly lacking any foundation in law)
Date: 2025-01-17
Institutions: General Court
Subjects: EU banking union, banking supervision, company in difficulties, credit institution, discretionary power, equal treatment, financing plan, fund (EU), retroactivity of a law








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C/2025/2085


14.4.2025






Order of the General Court of 17 January 2025 – Portigon v SRB


(2018 ex ante contributions)


(Case T-413/18)
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(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 ex ante contributions for 2018 - Plea of illegality - Legal basis for Regulation (EU) No 806/2014 - Article 114 TFEU - Equal treatment – Commission’s discretion – SRB’s discretion - Duty to state reasons - Non-retroactivity - Action manifestly lacking any foundation in law)
(C/2025/2085)
Language of the case: German

Parties


Applicant: Portigon AG (Düsseldorf, Germany) (represented by: D. Bliesener, V. Jungkind and C. van Kampen, lawyers)

Defendant: Single Resolution Board (represented by: D. Ceran, acting as Agent, and by B. Meyring, T. Klupsch and S. Ianc, lawyers)

Interveners in support of the defendant: European Parliament (represented by: L. Visaggio, U. Rösslein and G. Bartram, acting as Agents), Council of the European Union (represented by: I. Gurov, J. Bauerschmidt, M. Chavrier and A. Westerhof Löfflerová, acting as Agents), European Commission (represented by: D. Triantafyllou and A. Steiblytė, acting as Agents)

Re:

By its action under Article 263 TFEU, the applicant seeks the annulment of Decision SRB/ES/2022/46 of the Single Resolution Board (SRB) of 8 August 2022 withdrawing Decision SRB/ES/SRF/2018/03 of the SRB of 12 April 2018 on the 2018 ex ante contributions to the Single Resolution Fund, in so far as it concerns the institutions mentioned in Annex I thereto, and calculating the 2018 ex ante contributions of those institutions to the Single Resolution Fund, to the extent that it concerns the applicant.

Operative part of the order







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The action is dismissed.










2.


Portigon AG shall bear its own costs and shall pay those incurred by the Single Resolution Board.










3.


The European Parliament, the Council of the European Union and the European Commission shall bear their own costs.






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            OJ C 294, 20.8.2018.


ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2025/2085/oj
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