CELEX: 62015TB0161
Language: en
Date: 2021-02-22 00:00:00
Title: Case T-161/15: Order of the General Court of 22 February 2022 — Brinkmann (Steel Trading) and Others v Commission and ECB (Action for damages — Economic and monetary policy — Stability support programme for Cyprus — Memorandum of Understanding of 26 April 2013 on Specific Economic Policy Conditionality concluded between Cyprus and the European Stability Mechanism — Jurisdiction of the General Court — Sufficiently serious breach of a rule of law intended to confer rights on individuals — Equal treatment — Principle of proportionality — Action manifestly lacking any foundation in law)

25.4.2022   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 171/36
            
         
      Order of the General Court of 22 February 2022 — Brinkmann (Steel Trading) and Others v Commission and ECB
      (Case T-161/15) (1)
      
      (Action for damages - Economic and monetary policy - Stability support programme for Cyprus - Memorandum of Understanding of 26 April 2013 on Specific Economic Policy Conditionality concluded between Cyprus and the European Stability Mechanism - Jurisdiction of the General Court - Sufficiently serious breach of a rule of law intended to confer rights on individuals - Equal treatment - Principle of proportionality - Action manifestly lacking any foundation in law)
      (2022/C 171/47)
      Language of the case: English
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicants: Brinkmann (Steel Trading) Ltd (London, United Kingdom) and the 18 other applicants whose names appear in the annex to the order (represented by: R. Nowinski, lawyer)
      
         Defendants: European Commission (represented by: J.-P. Keppenne, M. Konstantinidis and S. Delaude, acting as Agents), European Central Bank (represented by: K. Laurinavičius and M. Szablewska, acting as Agents, and by H.-G. Kamann, lawyer)
      
         Re:
      
      Application under Article 268 TFEU seeking compensation for the damage allegedly suffered by the applicants as a result of the decision of the Commission and the ECB to subject to certain conditions the grant of a financial assistance facility to the Republic of Cyprus.
      
         Operative part of the order
      
      
                  1.
               
               
                  The action is dismissed.
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Brinkmann (Steel Trading) Ltd and the other applicants whose names are set out in the annex shall pay, in addition to their own costs, those incurred by the European Commission and by the European Central Bank (ECB).
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 294, 7.9.2015.