CELEX: 62005TJ0254
Language: en
Date: 2007-09-20 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court of First Instance (Third Chamber) of 20 September 2007. # Fachvereinigung Mineralfaserindustrie eV Deutsche Gruppe der Eurima - European Insulation Manufacturers Association v Commission of the European Communities. # State Aid - Measures to promote the use of insulation material from renewable raw materials - Decision declaring aid compatible with the common market - Preliminary examination - Action for annulment - Professional association - Meaning of ‘party concerned’ in Article 88(2) EC - Pleas in law on validity of decision - Inadmissibility. # Case T-254/05.

Judgment of the Court of First Instance (Third Chamber) of 20 September 2007 – Fachvereinigung Mineralfaserindustrie v Commission
      (Case T-254/05)
      State Aid – Measures to promote the use of insulation material from renewable raw materials – Decision declaring aid compatible with the common market – Preliminary examination – Action for annulment – Professional association – Meaning of ‘party concerned’ in Article 88(2) EC – Pleas in law on validity of decision – Inadmissibility
      1.                     Actions for annulment – Natural or legal persons – Measures of direct and individual concern to them – Commission decision
            finding aid compatible with the common market without opening the formal investigation procedure (Arts 88(2) and (3) EC and
            230, fourth para., EC) (see paras 30-36, 47)
      2.                     Actions for annulment – Pleas in law – Interpretation by the court – Limits (Art. 230 EC) (see para. 48)
      Re: 
      
         
               ACTION for annulment of Commission Decision C(2005) 379 of 11 February 2005 relating to State Aid N 260b/2004 (Germany – Prolongation
                  of the scheme to promote the use of insulation material from renewable raw materials).
               
            Operative part 
      The Court:
      
         
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                  	Dismisses the application as inadmissible;
               
            
         
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                  	Orders Fachvereinigung Mineralfaserindustrie eV Deutsche Gruppe der Eurima – European Insulation Manufacturers Association
                     to bear its own costs and to pay the costs of the Commission;
                  
               
            
         
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                  	Orders the Federal Republic of Germany to bear its own costs.