CELEX: 62007TO0125
Language: en
Date: 2009-03-25 00:00:00
Title: Order of the Court of First Instance (Fifth Chamber) of 25 March 2009. # Scientific and Technological Committee of AGH University of Science and Technology and Others v Commission of the European Communities. # Proceedings for failure to act - Technologies for subterranean storage of carbon dioxide - Commission's failure to adopt a position - Inadmissbility. # Case T-125/07.

Order of the Court of First Instance (Fifth Chamber) of 25 March 2009 – Scientific and Technological Committee of AGH and
            Others v Commission
      (Case T-125/07)
      Proceedings for failure to act – Technologies for subterranean storage of carbon dioxide – Commission’s failure to adopt a position – Inadmissibility
      Actions for failure to act – Natural or legal persons – Actionable omissions – Failure of the Commission to adopt a position on the problem of the risks linked to subterranean storage of carbon dioxide
         and its escape (Art. 232, third para., EC) (see paras 22-30)
      
      Re: 
      
         
               ACTION for a declaration that the Commission unlawfully failed to act by: (1) failing to adopt a position concerning the risks
                  for the population of the European Union from the subterranean storage of carbon dioxide and its escape from geological formations
                  towards the earth’s surface; and (2) failing to take effective measures for the protection of the population and the environment.
               
            Operative part: 
      
         
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                  	The action is dismissed.
               
            
         
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                  	The Scientific and Technological Committee of AGH University of Science and Technology, the Europejskie Stowarzyszenie Ochrony
                     Środowiska, the Przedsiębiorstwo Usług Geologiczno – Wiertniczych Chemkop-Geowiert sp. z o.o., the Stowarzyszenie Obrony Środowiska,
                     the Fundacja Partnerstwo dla Środowiska, the Niezależne Forum Ochrony Biosfery Ziemi, Mr Jan Adamczyk and Mr Emanuel Lipartowski
                     are ordered to pay the costs.