CELEX: 62021TN0133
Language: en
Date: 2021-03-01 00:00:00
Title: Case T-133/21: Action brought on 1 March 2021 — QK v ECB

10.5.2021   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 182/59
            
         
      Action brought on 1 March 2021 — QK v ECB
      (Case T-133/21)
      (2021/C 182/80)
      Language of the case: Latvian
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: QK (represented by: A. Bērziņš, lawyer)
      
         Defendant: European Central Bank (ECB)
      
         Form of order sought
      
      The applicant claims that the General Court should:
      
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                  find the application admissible and examine the substance of the case;
               
            
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                  order the ECB to pay the applicant EUR 15 583 195 in compensation for the losses sustained;
               
            
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                  order the ECB to pay all the applicant’s costs;
               
            
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                  require the ECB to pay all the costs arising from the present proceedings.
               
            
         Pleas in law and main arguments
      
      Relying on Article 268 TFEU and the third paragraph of Article 340 TFEU, the applicant has raised a single plea in law. In that plea the applicant submits that, by adopting on 3 March 2016 the allegedly unfounded decision to withdraw the operating licence of Trasta Komercbanka AS, (1) a bank partly owned by the applicant, the ECB was responsible for the loss in the value of the applicant’s shares in that bank.
      
         (1)  European Central Bank (ECB) Decision ECB/SSM/2016 — 529900WIP0INFDAWTJ81/1 WOANCA-2016-0005 of 3 March 2016 on the withdrawal of the licence (authorisation) of Trasta Komercbanka, replaced by Decision ECB/SSM/2016 — 529900WIPOINFDAWTJ81/2 of 11 July 2016, which is the subject of an application for annulment lodged with the General Court in Case T-698/16, Trasta Komercbanka and Others v ECB, in which proceedings are pending (OJ 2016 C 441, p. 29; corrigendum in OJ 2017 C 6, p. 57).