CELEX: 62014TA0793
Language: en
Date: 2018-11-15 00:00:00
Title: Case T-793/14: Judgment of the General Court of 15 November 2018 — Tempus Energy and Tempus Energy Technology v Commission (State aid — United Kingdom capacity market — Aid scheme — Article 108(2) and (3) TFEU — Concept of doubts within the meaning of Article 4(3) or (4) of Regulation (EC) No 659/1999 — Guidelines on State aid for environmental protection and energy 2014-2020 — Decision not to raise any objections — No initiation of the formal investigation procedure — Procedural rights of interested parties)

14.1.2019   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 16/35
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 15 November 2018 — Tempus Energy and Tempus Energy Technology v Commission
      (Case T-793/14) (1)
      
      ((State aid - United Kingdom capacity market - Aid scheme - Article 108(2) and (3) TFEU - Concept of doubts within the meaning of Article 4(3) or (4) of Regulation (EC) No 659/1999 - Guidelines on State aid for environmental protection and energy 2014-2020 - Decision not to raise any objections - No initiation of the formal investigation procedure - Procedural rights of interested parties))
      (2019/C 16/43)
      Language of the case: English
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicants: Tempus Energy Ltd (Worcester, United Kingdom) and Tempus Energy Technology Ltd (Cheltenham, United Kingdom) (represented by: initially J. Derenne, J. Blockx, C. Ziegler and M. Kinsella, subsequently J. Derenne, J. Blockx and C. Ziegler, and finally J. Derenne and C. Ziegler, lawyers)
      
         Defendant: European Commission (represented by: É. Gippini Fournier, R. Sauer, K. Herrmann and P. Němečková, acting as Agents)
      
         Intervener in support of the defendant: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (represented by: initially C. Brodie and L. Christie, acting as Agents, and G. Facenna QC, subsequently S. Simmons, M. Holt, C. Brodie and S. Brandon, acting as Agents, and G. Facenna QC, subsequently M. Holt, C. Brodie, S. Brandon and D. Robertson, acting as Agents, and G. Facenna QC, and finally S. Brandon, acting as Agent)
      
         Re:
      
      Application under Article 263 TFEU for annulment of Commission Decision C(2014) 5083 final of 23 July 2014 not to raise objections to the aid scheme for the capacity market in the United Kingdom, on the ground that that scheme is compatible with the internal market pursuant to Article 107(3)(c) TFEU (State aid 2014/N-2) (OJ 2014 C 348, p. 5).
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Annuls Commission Decision C(2014) 5083 final of 23 July 2014 not to raise objections to the aid scheme for the capacity market in the United Kingdom, on the ground that that scheme is compatible with the internal market pursuant to Article 107(3)(c) TFEU (State aid 2014/N-2);
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Orders the European Commission to bear its own costs and to pay the costs incurred by Tempus Energy Ltd and Tempus Energy Technology Ltd;
               
            
                  3.
               
               
                  Orders the United Kingdom to bear its own costs.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 81, 9.3.2015.