CELEX: 62011TO0379(01)
Language: en
Date: 2012-06-04 00:00:00
Title: Order of the General Court (Seventh Chamber) of 4 June 2012. # Hüttenwerke Krupp Mannesmann GmbH and Others v European Commission. # Action for annulment - Environment - Directive 2003/87/EC - Allocation of free greenhouse gas emission allowances from 2013 - Commission decision determining the product benchmarks to apply for the calculation of the allocation of emission allowances - Article 263, fourth paragraph TFEU - Lack of individual concern - Regulatory act entailing implementing measures - Inadmissible. # Case T-379/11.

Order of the General Court (Seventh Chamber) of 4 June 2012 —Hüttenwerke Krupp Mannesmann and Others v Commission(Case T-379/11)
      Action for annulment — Environment — Directive 2003/87/EC — Allocation of free greenhouse gas emission allowances from 2013 — Commission decision determining the product benchmarks to apply for the calculation of the allocation of emission allowances — Article 263, fourth paragraph TFEU — Lack of individual concern — Regulatory act entailing implementing measures — Inadmissible
      1.                     Actions for annulment — Natural or legal persons — Measures of direct and individual concern to them — Individual concern —
            Criteria — Commission decision laying down transitional rules for the whole Union concerning the harmonised allocation of
            greenhouse gas emission allowances — Action by an association representing the interests of the European steelmaking industry —
            Undertakings represented not individually affected — Inadmissibility (Art. 263, fourth para., TFEU; European Parliament and
            Council Directive No 2003/87, Art. 10a) (see paras 22, 23, 26-31)
      2.                     Actions for annulment — Natural or legal persons — Meaning of ‘regulatory act’ in Article 263, fourth paragraph, TFEU — Any
            act of general scope save for legislative measures — Commission decision laying down transitional rules for the whole Union
            concerning the harmonised allocation of greenhouse gas emission allowances — Included — Act entailing implementing measures
            within the meaning of the said treaty provision (Arts 263, fourth para., TFEU, 267 TFEU and 289(1) to (3) TFEU; European Parliament
            and Council Directive No 2003/87, Arts 10a and 11(1)) (see paras 34-37, 48-50, 52)
      Re:
      
         
               APPLICATION for annulment of Commission Decision 2011/278/EU of 27 April 2011 determining transitional Union-wide rules for
                  harmonised free allocation of emission allowances pursuant to Article 10a of Directive 2003/87/EC of the European Parliament
                  and of the Council (OJ 2011 L 130, p. 1).
               
            Operative part 
      
         
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                  	The action is dismissed as inadmissible.
               
            
         
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                  	Hüttenwerke Krupp Mannesmann GmbH, Rogesa — Roheisengesellschaft Saar mbH, Salzgitter Flachstaht Gmbh, ThyssenKrupp Steel
                     Europe AG, and voestalpine Stahl GmbH are ordered to pay the costs, including those relating to the proceedings for interim
                     relief.