CELEX: 62013TA0631
Language: en
Date: 2014-09-26 00:00:00
Title: Case T-631/13: Judgment of the General Court of 26 September 2014 — Raffinerie Heide v Commission (Environment — Directive 2003/87/EC — Scheme for greenhouse gas emission allowance trading — Transitional rules for harmonised free allocation of emission allowances from 2013 — Decision 2011/278/EU — National implementation measures presented by Germany — Clause relating to extremely difficult cases — Freedom to conduct a business — Right to property — Proportionality)

10.11.2014   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 395/49
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 26 September 2014 — Raffinerie Heide v Commission
      (Case T-631/13) (1)
      
      ((Environment - Directive 2003/87/EC - Scheme for greenhouse gas emission allowance trading - Transitional rules for harmonised free allocation of emission allowances from 2013 - Decision 2011/278/EU - National implementation measures presented by Germany - Clause relating to extremely difficult cases - Freedom to conduct a business - Right to property - Proportionality))
      (2014/C 395/61)
      Language of the case: German
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Raffinerie Heide GmbH (Hemmingstedt, Germany) (represented by: U. Karpenstein, lawyer)
      
         Defendant: European Commission (represented by: E. White, C. Hermes and K. Herrmann, acting as Agents)
      
         Re:
      
      Application for annulment of Commission Decision 2013/448/EU of 5 September 2013 concerning national implementation measures for the transitional free allocation of greenhouse gas emission allowances in accordance with Article 11(3) of Directive 2003/87/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (OJ 2013 L 240, p. 27) in so far as Article 1(1) thereof, read in conjunction with Annex I, Point A thereto, rejects the inscription of the installation with the identification code DE000000000000010 on the list of installations provided for in Article 11(1) of Directive 2003/87/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 October 2003 establishing a scheme for greenhouse gas emission allowance trading within the Community and amending Council Directive 96/61/EC (OJ 2003 L 275, p. 32), and the preliminary total annual amounts of emission allowances to be allocated for free to that installation
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Dismisses the action;
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Orders Raffinerie Heide GmbH to pay the costs.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 31, 1.2.2014.