CELEX: 62010TA0224
Language: en
Date: 2011-10-12 00:00:00
Title: Case T-224/10: Judgment of the General Court of 12 October 2011 — Association belge des consommateurs test-achats v Commission (Competition — Concentrations — Belgian energy market — Decision declaring a merger to be compatible with the common market — Commitments given during the initial phase of the investigation — Decision refusing the partial referral of the merger investigation to the national authorities — Action for annulment — Consumer association — Interest in bringing proceedings — Failure to initiate the in-depth review procedure — Procedural rights — Inadmissibility)

26.11.2011   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 347/30
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 12 October 2011 — Association belge des consommateurs test-achats v Commission
   (Case T-224/10) (1)
   
   (Competition - Concentrations - Belgian energy market - Decision declaring a merger to be compatible with the common market - Commitments given during the initial phase of the investigation - Decision refusing the partial referral of the merger investigation to the national authorities - Action for annulment - Consumer association - Interest in bringing proceedings - Failure to initiate the in-depth review procedure - Procedural rights - Inadmissibility)
   2011/C 347/48
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Association belge des consommateurs test-achats ASBL (Brussels, Belgium) (represented by: A. Fratini and F. Filpo, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: European Commission (represented by: N. Khan, A. Antoniadis and R. Sauer, Agents)
   
      Intervener in support of the defendant: Électricité de France (EDF), (Paris, France), (represented initially by C. Lazarus, A. Amsellem and A. Fontanille, and subsequently by C. Lazarus and A. Creus Carreras, lawyers)
   
      Re:
   
   APPLICATION for annulment of Commission Decisions C(2009) 9059 and C(2009) 8954 of 12 November 2009, the former declaring a merger to be compatible with the common market (Case COMP/M.5549 — EDF/Segebel) under Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 of 20 January 2004 on the control of concentrations between undertakings (OJ 2004 L 24, p. 1), and the latter rejecting a request from the Belgian competition authorities for partial referral of the case in accordance with Article 9 of that regulation.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action as inadmissible;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the Association belge des consommateurs test-achats ASBL to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by the European Commission;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders Électricité de France (EDF) to bear its own costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 209, 31.7.2010.