CELEX: 62016TA0417
Language: en
Date: 2019-09-12 00:00:00
Title: Case T-417/16: Judgment of the General Court of 12 September 2019 — Achemos Grupė and Achema v Commission (State aid — Aid to Klaipėdos Nafta for the construction and management of an LNG terminal at the Klaipėda Seaport — Decision declaring the aid compatible with the internal market — Article 106(2) TFEU — Article 107(3)(c) TFEU — Decision not to raise any objections — Security of supply — Service of general economic interest)

25.11.2019   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 399/39
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 12 September 2019 — Achemos Grupė and Achema v Commission
      (Case T-417/16) (1)
      
      (State aid - Aid to Klaipėdos Nafta for the construction and management of an LNG terminal at the Klaipėda Seaport - Decision declaring the aid compatible with the internal market - Article 106(2) TFEU - Article 107(3)(c) TFEU - Decision not to raise any objections - Security of supply - Service of general economic interest)
      (2019/C 399/46)
      Language of the case: English
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicants: Achemos Grupė UAB (Vilnius, Lithuania) and Achema AB (Jonava, Lithuania) (represented initially by R. Martens and C. Maczkovics, and subsequently by R. Martens and V. Ostrovskis, lawyers)
      
         Defendant: European Commission (represented by: É. Gippini Fournier, N. Kuplewatzky and L. Armati, acting as Agents)
      
         Interveners in support of the defendant: Republic of Lithuania (represented initially by D. Kriaučiūnas and R. Dzikovič, and subsequently by R. Dzikovič, acting as Agents), Klaipėdos Nafta AB (Klaipėda, Lithuania) (represented by: K. Kačerauskas and V. Vaitkutė Pavan, lawyers)
      
         Re:
      
      Application pursuant to Article 263 TFEU for annulment of Commission Decision C(2013) 7884 final of 20 November 2013, whereby State aid SA.36740 (2013/NN) granted by Lithuania to Klaipėdos Nafta was declared compatible with the internal market (OJ 2016, C 161, p. 1).
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
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                     Dismisses the action;
                  
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  
                     Orders Achemos Grupė UAB and Achema AB to bear their own costs and to pay those incurred by the European Commission;
                  
               
            
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                     Orders the Republic of Lithuania and Klaipėdos Nafta AB to bear their own costs.
                  
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 371, 10.10.2016.