CELEX: 62011TA0251
Language: en
Date: 2014-12-11 00:00:00
Title: Case T-251/11: Judgment of the General Court of 11 December 2014  — Austria v Commission (State aid — Electricity — Aid for energy-intensive businesses — Austrian Green Electricity Act — Decision declaring the aid incompatible with the internal market — Concept of State aid — State resources — State imputability — Selective nature — General Block Exemption Regulation — Misuse of power — Equal treatment)

9.2.2015   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 46/42
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 11 December 2014 — Austria v Commission
   (Case T-251/11) (1)
   
   ((State aid - Electricity - Aid for energy-intensive businesses - Austrian Green Electricity Act - Decision declaring the aid incompatible with the internal market - Concept of State aid - State resources - State imputability - Selective nature - General Block Exemption Regulation - Misuse of power - Equal treatment))
   (2015/C 046/50)
   Language of the case: German
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Republic of Austria (represented by: C. Pesendorfer, J. Bauer, acting as Agents, assisted by T. Rabl, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: European Commission (represented initially by: V. Kreuschitz and T. Maxian Rusche, then by T. Maxian Rusche and R. Sauer, acting as Agents)
   
      Intervener in support of the applicant: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (represented initially by: S. Behzadi-Spencer and S. Ossowski, then by S. Behzadi-Spencer and L. Christie, acting as Agents)
   
      Re:
   
   Application for annulment of Commission Decision 2011/528/EU of 8 March 2011 on State Aid C-24/09 (ex N 446/08) — State aid for energy-intensive businesses under the Green Electricity Act in Austria (OJ 2011 L 235, p. 42).
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the Republic of Austria to pay the costs;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to bear its own costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 232, 6.8.2011.