CELEX: 62007TO0208
Language: en
Date: 2008-10-20 00:00:00
Title: Order of the Court of First Instance (Second Chamber) of 20 October 2008. # BOT Elektrownia Bełchatów S.A. and Others v Commission of the European Communities. # Action for annulment - Directive 2003/87/EC - Scheme for greenhouse gas emission allowance trading - National allocation plan in respect of emission allowances for Poland for the period from 2008 to 2012 - Decision by the Commission not to raise objections subject to certain conditions - Competence of Member States in the individual allocation of emission allowances - Lack of direct concern - Inadmissibility. # Case T-208/07.

Order of the Court of First Instance (Second Chamber) of 20 October 2008 – BOT Elektrownia Bełchatów and Others v Commission
      (Case T-208/07)
      Action for annulment – Directive 2003/87/EC – Scheme for greenhouse gas emission allowance trading – National allocation plan in respect of emission allowances for Poland for the period from 2008 to 2012 – Decision by the Commission not to raise objections subject to certain conditions – Competence of Member States in the individual allocation of emission allowances – Lack of direct concern – Inadmissibility
      Actions for annulment – Natural or legal persons – Measures of direct and individual concern to them – Whether directly concerned – Criteria (Arts 175 EC, 176 EC and 230, para. 4, EC; European Parliament and Council Directive No 2003/87, Arts 9 and 11)
         (see paras 28-55)
      
      Re: 
      
         
               APPLICATION for annulment of Commission Decision C(2007) 1295 final of 26 March 2007 concerning the national allocation plan
                  for the allocation of greenhouse gas emission allowances notified by the Republic of Poland for the period from 2008 to 2012
                  in accordance with 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).
               
            Operative part
      The Court: 
      
         
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                  	Dismisses the action as inadmissible.
               
            
         
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                  	Orders BOT Elektrownia Bełchatów S.A., BOT Elektrownia Turów S.A., BOT Elektrownia Opole S.A., Elektrownia ‘Kozienice’ S.A.,
                     Elektrownia Połaniec S.A. – Grupa Electrabel Polska, Elektrownia ‘Rybnik’ S.A., Elektrownia Skawina S.A., Elektrownia ‘Stalowa
                     Wola’ S.A., Południowy Koncern Energetyczny S.A., Zespół Elektrowni Dolna Odra S.A., Zespół Elektrowni Ostrołęka S.A. and
                     Zespół Elektrowni Pątnów-Adamów-Konin S.A. to bear their own costs and pay those incurred by the Commission.
                  
               
            
         
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                  	Orders Elektrociepłownia ‘Będzin’ S.A., Zespół Elektrociepłowni Bydgoszcz S.A., Zespół Elektrociepłowni Bytom S.A., Elektrociepłownia
                     Białystok S.A., Elektrociepłownia ‘Gorzów S.A.’, Elektrociepłownia Kalisz-Piwonice S.A., Elektrociepłownia ‘Kraków’ S.A.,
                     Dalkia Łódź S.A., Dalkia Poznań Zespół Elektrociepłowni S.A., Elektrociepłownia Tychy S.A., Zespół Elektrociepłowni Wrocławskich
                     Kogeneracja S.A., Elektrociepłownie Wybrzeże S.A., Elektrociepłownia Zabrze S.A. and Elektrociepłownia ‘Zielona Góra’ S.A.
                     to bear their own costs.