CELEX: 62010TO0344
Language: en
Date: 2012-05-04 00:00:00
Title: Order of the General Court (Sixth Chamber) of 4 May 2012. # UPS Europe NV/SA and United Parcel Service Deutschland Inc. & Co. OHG v European Commission. # State aid - Absence of a decision to close the procedure provided for by Article 88(2) EC - Action for failure to act - Locus standi - Admissibility. # Case T-344/10.

Order of the General Court (Sixth Chamber) of 4 May 2012 —UPS Europe and United Parcel Service Deutschland v Commission(Case T‑344/10)
      State aid — No decision to close the procedure under Article 88(2) EC — Action for failure to act — Locus standi — Admissibility
      Actions for failure to act — Natural or legal persons — Measures of direct and individual concern to them — Commission not terminating a formal investigation procedure on aid — Right of a competitor undertaking to bring an action — Condition — Market position significantly affected (Art. 88(2) EC; Arts 263, fourth para., TFEU and 265, third para., TFEU) (see paras 34,
         35, 42-44, 47-50, 55, 59, 60)
      
      Re: 
      
         
               ACTION for failure to act, seeking a declaration that the Commission unlawfully failed to take a decision, within a reasonable
                  period, in the procedure under Article 88(2) EC, initiated on 12 September 2007, concerning State aid granted by the German
                  authorities to Deutsche Post AG (aid C 36/07 (ex NN 25/07)).
               
            Operative part 
      
         
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                  	The action is dismissed as inadmissible.
               
            
         
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                  	UPS Europe NV/SA and United Parcel Service Deutschland Inc. & Co. OHG are ordered to bear their own costs and pay those incurred
                     by the European Commission.
                  
               
            
         
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                  	Deutsche Post AG is ordered to bear its own costs.