CELEX: 62009TO0330
Language: en
Date: 2011-02-17 00:00:00
Title: Order of the General Court (First Chamber) of 17 February 2011. # RapidEye AG v European Commission. # Action for annulment - State aid - Aid granted by the German authorities pursuant to the multi-sectoral framework on regional aid - Satellite-based geo-information services system project - Request for confirmation of the scope of a decision declaring aid to be compatible with the common market - Commission's response - Measure not open to appeal - Inadmissibility. # Case T-330/09.

Order of the General Court (First Chamber) of 17 February 2011 – RapidEye v Commission
      (Case T-330/09)
      Action for annulment – State aid – Aid granted by the German authorities pursuant to the multi-sectoral framework on regional aid – Satellite-based geo-information services system project – Request for confirmation of the scope of a decision declaring aid to be compatible with the common market – Commission’s response – Measure not open to appeal – Inadmissibility
      Actions for annulment – Actionable measures – Concept – Measures producing binding legal effects – Assessment of those effects by reference to the substance of the measure – Reply of the Commission to an application for confirmation of the scope of a decision declaring State aid compatible with
         the common market – Confirmatory decision – Not included (Arts 87 EC, 88 EC and 230 EC) (see paras 24-29, 32-37, 40, 44-47)
      
      Re:
      
         
               APPLICATION for annulment of the decision allegedly contained in the letter from the Commission of 9 June 2009, relating to
                  the aid granted to RapidEye AG by the German authorities for the creation of a satellite-based geo-information services system
                  (State Aid CP 183/2009 – Germany, RapidEye AG (ex-post monitoring MSR 1998 – N 416/2002)).
               
            Operative part
      
         
                   
               
               
                  
               
               
                  	1.The action is dismissed as inadmissible.
               
            
         
                   
               
               
                  
               
               
                  	2.RapidEye AG is ordered to pay the costs.