CELEX: 62020TB0092
Language: en
Date: 2021-02-11 00:00:00
Title: Case T-92/20: Order of the General Court of 11 February 2021 — Fryč v Commission (Non-contractual liability — State aid — Block exemption regulations — Aid programme granted by the Czech authorities in favour of certain undertakings — Commission decision approving that programme — Action for annulment dismissed as being out of time — Damage allegedly caused by acts of the Commission and the EU Courts — Limitation period — Action in part manifestly inadmissible — Causal link — Action in part manifestly unfounded in law)

19.4.2021   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 138/32
            
         
      Order of the General Court of 11 February 2021 — Fryč v Commission
      (Case T-92/20) (1)
      
      (Non-contractual liability - State aid - Block exemption regulations - Aid programme granted by the Czech authorities in favour of certain undertakings - Commission decision approving that programme - Action for annulment dismissed as being out of time - Damage allegedly caused by acts of the Commission and the EU Courts - Limitation period - Action in part manifestly inadmissible - Causal link - Action in part manifestly unfounded in law)
      (2021/C 138/43)
      Language of the case: Czech
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Petr Fryč (Pardubice, Czech Republic) (represented by: Š. Oharková, lawyer)
      
         Defendant: European Commission (represented by: G. Braga da Cruz, C. Georgieva-Kecsmar and K. Walkerová, acting as Agents)
      
         Re:
      
      Application under Article 268 TFEU seeking compensation for the damage allegedly suffered by the applicant as a result of, first, the adoption of Commission Regulation (EC) No 800/2008 of 6 August 2008 declaring certain categories of aid compatible with the common market in application of Articles 87 and 88 of the Treaty (General block exemption Regulation) (OJ 2008 L 214, p. 3), second, the adoption by the Commission of the decision of 3 December 2007 and the failure to publish that decision, third, the shortcomings in the Commission’s handling of the complaints lodged by the applicant between 2016 and 2018 and, fourth, the orders of 5 September 2019, Fryč v Commission (C 230/19 P, not published, EU:C:2019:685), and 15 January 2019, Fryč v Commission (T-513/18, not published, EU:T:2019:22).
      
         Operative part of the order
      
      
                  1.
               
               
                  The action is dismissed.
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  There is no longer any need to adjudicate on the application for leave to intervene by the Czech Republic.
               
            
                  3.
               
               
                  Mr Petr Fryč shall bear his own costs and pay the costs incurred by the European Commission, with the exception of those relating to the application for leave to intervene.
               
            
                  4.
               
               
                  Mr Petr Fryč and the Commission shall each bear their own costs relating to the application for leave to intervene.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 161, 11.5.2020.