CELEX: 62009TB0176
Language: en
Date: 2011-05-24 00:00:00
Title: Case T-176/09: Order of the General Court of 24 May 2011 — Government of Gibraltar v Commission (Action for annulment — Directive 92/43/EEC — Conservation of natural habitats and of wild fauna and flora — Decision 2009/95/EC — List of sites of Community importance for the Mediterranean biogeographical region — Inclusion in the site of Community importance called ‘Estrecho oriental’ of an area of the territorial waters of Gibraltar and of an area of the high seas — Partial annulment — Non-severability — Inadmissibility)

16.7.2011   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 211/24
            
         Order of the General Court of 24 May 2011 — Government of Gibraltar v Commission
   (Case T-176/09) (1)
   
   (Action for annulment - Directive 92/43/EEC - Conservation of natural habitats and of wild fauna and flora - Decision 2009/95/EC - List of sites of Community importance for the Mediterranean biogeographical region - Inclusion in the site of Community importance called ‘Estrecho oriental’ of an area of the territorial waters of Gibraltar and of an area of the high seas - Partial annulment - Non-severability - Inadmissibility)
   2011/C 211/52
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Government of Gibraltar (represented by: D. Vaughan and M. Llamas, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: European Commission (represented by: S. Boelaert and D. Recchia, Agents)
   
      Intervener in support of the applicant: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (represented by E. Jenkinson and S. Ossowski, Agents, and by D. Wyatt QC and M. Wood, Barrister)
   
      Intervener in support of the defendant: Kingdom of Spain (represented by N. Díaz Abad and M. Muñoz Pérez, Agents
   
      Re:
   
   APPLICATION for partial annulment of Commission Decision 2009/95/EC of 12 December 2008 adopting, pursuant to Council Directive 92/43/EEC, a second updated list of sites of Community importance for the Mediterranean biogeographical region (OJ 2009 L 43, p. 393), to the extent that it extends the site called ‘Estrecho oriental’ (ES6120032) to the territorial waters of Gibraltar (both within and outside Site UKGIB0002) and to an area of the high seas
   
      Operative part of the order
   
   
               1.
            
            
               The action is dismissed as inadmissible.
            
         
               2.
            
            
               The Government of Gibraltar shall bear its own costs and pay those incurred by the European Commission.
            
         
               3.
            
            
               The Kingdom of Spain and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland shall bear their own costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 153, 4.7.2009.