CELEX: 62019TA0196
Language: en
Date: 2021-10-06 00:00:00
Title: Case T-196/19: Judgment of the General Court of 6 October 2021 — AZ v Commission (State aid — Aid scheme implemented by Germany for some large electricity consumers — Exemption from network charges in respect of the 2012-2013 period — Decision declaring the aid scheme incompatible with the internal market and unlawful, and ordering the recovery of the aid paid — Action for annulment — Period allowed for commencing proceedings — Admissibility — Concept of aid — State resources — Selectivity — Equal treatment — Legitimate expectations)

22.11.2021   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 471/40
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 6 October 2021 — AZ v Commission
      (Case T-196/19) (1)
      
      (State aid - Aid scheme implemented by Germany for some large electricity consumers - Exemption from network charges in respect of the 2012-2013 period - Decision declaring the aid scheme incompatible with the internal market and unlawful, and ordering the recovery of the aid paid - Action for annulment - Period allowed for commencing proceedings - Admissibility - Concept of aid - State resources - Selectivity - Equal treatment - Legitimate expectations)
      (2021/C 471/56)
      Language of the case: German
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: AZ (represented by: F. Wagner, D. Fouquet, T. Hartmann and M. Kachel, lawyers)
      
         Defendant: European Commission (represented by: T. Maxian Rusche and K. Herrmann, acting as Agents, and G. Quardt and C. von Donat, lawyers)
      
         Intervener in support of the applicant: Federal Republic of Germany (represented by: J. Möller, R. Kanitz, S. Heimerl and S. Costanzo, acting as Agents)
      
         Re:
      
      Application under Article 263 TFEU seeking annulment of Commission Decision (EU) 2019/56 of 28 May 2018 on aid scheme SA.34045 (2013/c) (ex 2012/NN) implemented by Germany for baseload consumers under Paragraph 19 StromNEV (OJ 2019 L 14, p. 1).
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Dismisses the action;
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Orders AZ to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by the European Commission;
               
            
                  3.
               
               
                  Orders the Federal Republic of Germany to bear its own costs.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 213, 24.6.2019.