CELEX: 62020CA0584
Language: en
Date: 2021-07-15 00:00:00
Title: Joined Cases C-584/20 P and C-621/20 P: Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 15 July 2021 — European Commission v Landesbank Baden-Württemberg (C-584/20 P), Single Resolution Board v Landesbank Baden-Württemberg (C-621/20 P) (Appeal — Banking union — Single Resolution Mechanism (SRM) — Single Resolution Fund (SRF) — Calculation of the 2017 ex ante contributions — Authentication of a decision of the Single Resolution Board (SRB) — Obligation to state reasons — Confidential data — Legality of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2015/63)

30.8.2021   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 349/13
            
         
      Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 15 July 2021 — European Commission v Landesbank Baden-Württemberg (C-584/20 P), Single Resolution Board v Landesbank Baden-Württemberg (C-621/20 P)
      (Joined Cases C-584/20 P and C-621/20 P) (1)
      
      (Appeal - Banking union - Single Resolution Mechanism (SRM) - Single Resolution Fund (SRF) - Calculation of the 2017 ex ante contributions - Authentication of a decision of the Single Resolution Board (SRB) - Obligation to state reasons - Confidential data - Legality of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2015/63)
      (2021/C 349/16)
      Language of the case: German
      
         Parties
      
      
         (Case C-584/20 P)
      
      
         Appellant: European Commission (represented by: D. Triantafyllou, A. Nijenhuis, V. Di Bucci and A. Steiblytė, acting as Agents)
      
         Other parties to the proceedings: Landesbank Baden-Württemberg (represented by: H. Berger and M. Weber, Rechtsanwälte), Single Resolution Board (SRB), (represented by: K. P. Wojcik, P.A. Messina, J. Kerlin and H. Ehlers, acting as Agents, and H. G. Kamann and P. Gey, Rechtsanwälte, and F. Louis, avocat)
      
         Intervener in support of the applicant: Kingdom of Spain (represented by: J. Rodríguez de la Rúa Puig, acting as Agent)
      
         Interveners in support of the Landesbank Baden-Württemberg: Fédération bancaire française (represented by: A. Gosset-Grainville, M. Trabucchi and M. Dalon, avocats)
      
         (Case C-621/20 P)
      
      
         Appellant: Single Resolution Board (SRB) (represented by: K. P. Wojcik, P.A. Messina, J. Kerlin and H. Ehlers, acting as Agents, and H. G. Kamann and P. Gey, Rechtsanwälte, and F. Louis, avocat)
      
         Other parties to the proceedings: Landesbank Baden-Württemberg (represented by: H. Berger and M. Weber, Rechtsanwälte), European Commission (represented by: D. Triantafyllou, A. Nijenhuis, V. Di Bucci and A. Steiblytė, acting as Agents)
      
         Intervener in support of the applicant: Kingdom of Spain (represented by: J. Rodríguez de la Rúa Puig, acting as Agent)
      
         Interveners in support of the Landesbank Baden-Württemberg: Fédération bancaire française (represented by: A. Gosset Grainville, M. Trabucchi and M. Dalon, avocats)
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
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                  Sets aside the judgment of the General Court of the European Union of 23 September 2020, Landesbank Baden-Württemberg v SRB (T-411/17, EU:T:2020:435);
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Annuls the decision of the Executive Session of the Single Resolution Board of 11 April 2017 on the calculation of the 2017 ex ante contributions to the Single Resolution Fund (SRB/ES/SRF/2017/05), in so far as it concerns Landesbank Baden-Württemberg;
               
            
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                  Maintains the effects of the decision of the Executive Session of the Single Resolution Board of 11 April 2017 on the calculation of the 2017 ex ante contributions to the Single Resolution Fund (SRB/ES/SRF/2017/05), in so far as it concerns Landesbank Baden-Württemberg, until the entry into force, within a reasonable period which cannot exceed six months from the date of delivery of this judgment, of a new decision of the Single Resolution Board fixing the 2017 ex ante contribution to the Single Resolution Fund of that institution;
               
            
                  4.
               
               
                  Orders the European Commission to bear its own costs, both at first instance and on appeal;
               
            
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                  Orders the Single Resolution Board to bear its own costs, both at first instance and on appeal, and to pay the costs incurred by Landesbank Baden-Württemberg at first instance;
               
            
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                  Orders Landesbank Baden-Württemberg, Fédération bancaire française and the Kingdom of Spain each to bear their own costs relating to the appeal proceedings.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 423, 7.12.2020.
      
         OJ C 443, 21.12.2020.