CELEX: 62018TA0739
Language: en
Date: 2020-05-28 00:00:00
Title: Case T-739/18: Judgment of the General Court of 28 May 2020 — Darment v Commission (Environment — Fluorinated greenhouse gases — Regulation (EU) No 517/2014 — Placing of hydrofluorocarbons on the market — Decision finding that an undertaking exceeded the quota allocated to it and imposing on it a penalty — Correction of the electronic registry for quotas — Transfer of quota — Authorisation to use a quota — Principle of good administration)

13.7.2020   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 230/30
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 28 May 2020 — Darment v Commission
      (Case T-739/18) (1)
      
      (Environment - Fluorinated greenhouse gases - Regulation (EU) No 517/2014 - Placing of hydrofluorocarbons on the market - Decision finding that an undertaking exceeded the quota allocated to it and imposing on it a penalty - Correction of the electronic registry for quotas - Transfer of quota - Authorisation to use a quota - Principle of good administration)
      (2020/C 230/37)
      Language of the case: English
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Darment Oy (Helsinki, Finland) (represented by: C. Ginter, lawyer)
      
         Defendant: European Commission (represented by: J.-F. Brakeland, A.C. Becker and M. Jauregui Gomez, acting as Agents)
      
         Re:
      
      Application based on Article 263 TFEU and seeking the annulment of the Commission decision of 16 October 2018 finding that the applicant exceeded in 2017 its quota for the placing of hydrofluorocarbons on the market and imposing on it a penalty consisting in the reduction of its quota for the next quota allocation period by 31 370 tonnes of CO2 equivalent.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Annuls the European Commission decision of 16 October 2018 finding that Darment Oy exceeded in 2017 its quota for the placing of hydrofluorocarbons on the market and imposing on it a penalty consisting in the reduction of its quota for the next quota allocation period by 31 370 tonnes of CO2 equivalent;
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Orders the Commission to pay the costs.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 72, 25.2.2019.