CELEX: 62020CA0524
Language: en
Date: 2021-12-21 00:00:00
Title: Case C-524/20: Judgment of the Court (Tenth Chamber) of 21 December 2021 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Městský soud v Praze — Czech Republic) — Vítkovice Steel a.s. v Ministerstvo životního prostředí (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Scheme for greenhouse gas emission allowance trading — Directive 2003/87/EC — Article 11(3) — Decision 2011/278/EU — Article 3(b) and Article 10(2)(a) — Product benchmark sub-installation — Decision 2013/448/EU — Validity — Installation using a basic oxygen furnace — Hot metal — Input from a third-party installation — Refusal to allocate emission allowances — Admissibility — Failure by the applicant in the main proceedings to bring an action for annulment)

21.2.2022   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 84/19
            
         
      Judgment of the Court (Tenth Chamber) of 21 December 2021 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Městský soud v Praze — Czech Republic) — Vítkovice Steel a.s. v Ministerstvo životního prostředí
      (Case C-524/20) (1)
      
      (Reference for a preliminary ruling - Scheme for greenhouse gas emission allowance trading - Directive 2003/87/EC - Article 11(3) - Decision 2011/278/EU - Article 3(b) and Article 10(2)(a) - Product benchmark sub-installation - Decision 2013/448/EU - Validity - Installation using a basic oxygen furnace - Hot metal - Input from a third-party installation - Refusal to allocate emission allowances - Admissibility - Failure by the applicant in the main proceedings to bring an action for annulment)
      (2022/C 84/22)
      Language of the case: Czech
      
         Referring court
      
      Městský soud v Praze
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      
         Applicant: Vítkovice Steel a.s.
      
         Defendant: Ministerstvo životního prostředí
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      Article 1(1) and the third subparagraph of Article 1(2) of Commission Decision 2013/448/EU of 5 September 2013 concerning national implementation measures for the transitional free allocation of greenhouse gas emission allowances in accordance with Article 11(3) of Directive 2003/87/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council must be interpreted as not permitting the free allocation to the installation at issue in the main proceedings of allowances based on the ‘hot metal’ product benchmark, on the basis of a new application from the Czech Republic, even if double counting of emissions and double allocation of allowances are excluded.
      
         (1)  OJ C 443, 21.12.2020.