CELEX: 62019TN0680
Language: en
Date: 2019-09-30 00:00:00
Title: Case T-680/19: Action brought on 30 September 2019 – Irish Wind Farmers' Association and Others v Commission

16.12.2019   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 423/62
            
         
      Action brought on 30 September 2019 – Irish Wind Farmers' Association and Others v Commission
      (Case T-680/19)
      (2019/C 423/77)
      Language of the case: English
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicants: Irish Wind Farmers' Association Clg (Kilkenny, Ireland), Carrons Windfarm Ltd (Shanagolden, Ireland), Foyle Windfarm Ltd (Dublin, Ireland), Greenoge Windfarm Ltd (Bunclody, Ireland) (represented by: M. Segura Catalán and M. Clayton, lawyers)
      
         Defendant: European Commission
      
         Form of order sought
      
      The applicants claim that the Court should:
      
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                  annul Commission decision C(2019) 5257 final of 9 July 2019 - SA.44671 (2019/NN) – Ireland, concerning alleged illegal state aid granted to the fossil fuel sector in the form of reduced business rates;
               
            
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                  order the Commission to pay the costs.
               
            
         Pleas in law and main arguments
      
      In support of the action, the applicants rely on a single plea in law, to the effect that the Commission failed to open the formal investigation under Article 108(2) TFEU and Article 4(4) of the Procedural Regulation, (1) notwithstanding doubts as to the existence of state aid, thereby depriving the applicants of their procedural rights.
      
         (1)  Council Regulation (EU) 2015/1589 of 13 July 2015 laying down detailed rules for the application of Article 108 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (OJ 2015 L 248, p. 9).