Case T-524/22: Judgment of the General Court of 26 November 2025 – MeSoFa v Commission and SRB (Economic and monetary union – Banking union – Single resolution mechanism for credit institutions and certain investment firms (SRM) – Resolution procedure applicable where an entity is failing or is likely to fail – Adoption by the SRB of a resolution scheme in respect of Sberbank – Action for annulment – Interest in bringing proceedings – Admissibility – Right to be heard – Effective judicial protection – Obligation to state reasons – Articles 18 and 20 of Regulation (EU) No 806/2014)
Date: 2025-11-26
Institutions: General Court
Subjects: EU banking union, bank, bank resolution, company in difficulties








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C/2026/318


26.1.2026






Judgment of the General Court of 26 November 2025 – MeSoFa v Commission and SRB


(Case T-524/22)
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(Economic and monetary union - Banking union - Single resolution mechanism for credit institutions and certain investment firms (SRM) - Resolution procedure applicable where an entity is failing or is likely to fail - Adoption by the SRB of a resolution scheme in respect of Sberbank - Action for annulment - Interest in bringing proceedings - Admissibility - Right to be heard - Effective judicial protection - Obligation to state reasons - Articles 18 and 20 of Regulation (EU) No 806/2014)
(C/2026/318)
Language of the case: English

Parties


Applicant: MeSoFa Vermögensverwaltungs AG, formerly Sber Vermögensverwaltungs AG, initially Sberbank Europe AG (Vienna, Austria) (represented by: M. Fellner and P. Blaschke, lawyers)

Defendants: European Commission (represented by: D. Triantafyllou and P. Messina, acting as Agents), Single Resolution Board (represented by: H. Ehlers, L. Forestier and J. Rius Riu, acting as Agents, and by B. Meyring and S. Ianc, lawyers)

Interveners in support of the defendants: Republic of Croatia (represented by: G. Vidović Mesarek, acting as Agent), European Parliament (represented by J. Etienne and M. Menegatti, acting as Agents), Council of the European Union (represented by: A. Westerhof Löfflerová, J. Haunold Dumeunier and J. Bauerschmidt, acting as Agents), European Central Bank (represented by: A. Lefterov, G. Marafioti and E. Yoo, acting as Agents)

Re:

By its action under Article 263 TFEU, the applicant seeks the annulment, first, of Decision SRB/EES/2022/21 of the Single Resolution Board (SRB) of 1 March 2022, relating to the adoption of a resolution scheme for Sberbank d.d. and, second, of Commission Decision (EU) 2022/948 of 1 March 2022 endorsing the abovementioned resolution scheme (OJ 2022 L 164, p. 65).

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:






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Withdraws from the file the confidential versions of Sberbank Europe AG’s email of 26 February 2022 and Sberbank d.d.’s letter of 26 February 2022, which were produced by the Single Resolution Board (SRB) in response to the Court’s orders of 8 April 2025 and 25 February 2025, respectively;










2.


Dismisses the action;










3.


Orders MeSoFa Vermögensverwaltungs AG, formerly Sber Vermögensverwaltungs AG, initially Sberbank Europe AG, to bear its own costs and pay those incurred by the European Commission and the SRB;










4.


Orders the Republic of Croatia, the European Parliament, the Council of the European Union and the European Central Bank (ECB) to bear their own costs.






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            OJ C 432, 14.11.2022.


ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2026/318/oj
ISSN 1977-091X (electronic edition)