CELEX: C2006/281/48
Language: en
Date: 2006-11-18 00:00:00
Title: Case T-210/02: Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 13 September 2006 — British Aggregates v Commission (State aid — Environmental tax on aggregates in the United Kingdom — Commission Decision not to raise objections — Action for annulment — Admissibility — Person individually concerned — Selective character — Obligation to state adequate reasons — Diligent and impartial examination)

18.11.2006   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 281/29
            
         Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 13 September 2006 — British Aggregates v Commission
   (Case T-210/02) (1)
   
   (State aid - Environmental tax on aggregates in the United Kingdom - Commission Decision not to raise objections - Action for annulment - Admissibility - Person individually concerned - Selective character - Obligation to state adequate reasons - Diligent and impartial examination)
   (2006/C 281/48)
   Language of the case: English
   Parties
   
      Applicant: British Aggregates Association (Lanark, United Kingdom) (represented by C. Pouncey, Solicitor, and L. Van Den Hende, lawyer)
   
      Defendant(s): Commission of the European Communities (represented by J. Flett and S. Meany, agents)
   
      Interveners in support of the defendant: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (represented initially by P. Ormond, and subsequently by T. Harris and R. Caudwell, acting as Agents, assisted initially by J. Stratford and M. Hall, Barristers, and subsequently by M. Hall)
   Re:
   Partial annulment of Commission Decision C (2002) 1478 final of 24 April 2002 on State aid file N 863/01 — United Kingdom/Aggregates Levy
   Operative part of the judgment
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the applicant to bear its own costs and to pay those of the Commission;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders the intervener to bear its own costs
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 219, 14.9.2002