CELEX: 62018TB0674
Language: en
Date: 2019-07-11 00:00:00
Title: Case T-674/18: Order of the General Court of 11 July 2019 — Vattenfall Europe Nuclear Energy v Commission (Action for annulment — State aid — 16th Law amending the Law on Nuclear Energy (Atomgesetz) — Implementation of a judgment of the Bundesverfassungsgericht (German Federal Constitutional Court) — Companies operating nuclear power stations — Cessation of operation — Financial compensation for the amounts of electricity not generated — Letter from the Commission — No requirement for formal notification under Article 108(3) TFEU — Act not open to challenge — Inadmissibility)

30.9.2019   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 328/55
            
         
      Order of the General Court of 11 July 2019 — Vattenfall Europe Nuclear Energy v Commission
      (Case T-674/18) (1)
      
      (Action for annulment - State aid - 16th Law amending the Law on Nuclear Energy (Atomgesetz) - Implementation of a judgment of the Bundesverfassungsgericht (German Federal Constitutional Court) - Companies operating nuclear power stations - Cessation of operation - Financial compensation for the amounts of electricity not generated - Letter from the Commission - No requirement for formal notification under Article 108(3) TFEU - Act not open to challenge - Inadmissibility)
      (2019/C 328/63)
      Language of the case: German
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Vattenfall Europe Nuclear Energy GmbH (Hamburg, Germany) (represented by: U. Karpenstein and R. Sangi, lawyers)
      
         Defendant: European Commission (represented by: B. Stromsky and K. Herrmann, acting as Agents)
      
         Re:
      
      Action under Article 263 TFEU seeking annulment of the decision allegedly contained in the Commission’s letter of 4 July 2018, signed by the Commission’s Deputy Director-General for Competition and addressed to the Federal Republic of Germany.
      
         Operative part of the order
      
      
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                     The action is dismissed as inadmissible.
                  
               
            
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                     There is no longer any need to adjudicate on the application of the Federal Republic of Germany for leave to intervene.
                  
               
            
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                     Vattenfall Europe Nuclear Energy GmbH shall bear its own costs and pay those incurred by the European Commission.
                  
               
            
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                     The Federal Republic of Germany, Vattenfall Europe Nuclear Energy and the Commission shall each bear their own respective costs relating to the application for leave to intervene.
                  
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 25, 21.1.2019.