CELEX: 62019TA0238
Language: en
Date: 2021-10-06 00:00:00
Title: Case T-238/19: Judgment of the General Court of 6 October 2021 — Wepa Hygieneprodukte and Others v Commission (State aid — Aid regime implemented by Germany for certain large electricity consumers — Exemption from network charges for the period 2012-2013 — Decision declaring the aid regime incompatible with the internal market and unlawful and ordering the recovery of the aid granted — Action for annulment — Time limit for bringing an action — Admissibility — Concept of ‘aid’ — State resources — Selectivity)

22.11.2021   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 471/42
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 6 October 2021 — Wepa Hygieneprodukte and Others v Commission
      (Case T-238/19) (1)
      
      (State aid - Aid regime implemented by Germany for certain large electricity consumers - Exemption from network charges for the period 2012-2013 - Decision declaring the aid regime incompatible with the internal market and unlawful and ordering the recovery of the aid granted - Action for annulment - Time limit for bringing an action - Admissibility - Concept of ‘aid’ - State resources - Selectivity)
      (2021/C 471/58)
      Language of the case: German
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicants: Wepa Hygieneprodukte GmbH (Arnsberg, Germany), Wepa Leuna GmbH (Leuna, Germany), Wepa Papierfabrik Sachsen GmbH (Arnsberg) (represented by: H. Janssen, A. Vallone and L. Kienzle, lawyers)
      
         Defendant: European Commission (represented by: K. Herrmann and T. Maxian Rusche, acting as Agents)
      
         Intervener in support of the applicants: Federal Republic of Germany (represented by: D. Klebs, J. Möller, R. Kanitz, S. Heimerl and S. Costanzo, acting as Agents)
      
         Re:
      
      Application under Article 263 TFEU seeking annulment of Commission Decision (EU) 2019/56 of 28 May 2018 on aid scheme SA.34045 (2013/C) (ex 2012/NN) implemented by Germany for baseload consumers under Paragraph 19 StromNEV (OJ 2019 L 14, p. 1).
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Dismisses the action;
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Orders Wepa Hygieneprodukte GmbH, Wepa Leuna GmbH and Wepa Papierfabrik Sachsen GmbH to each bear their own costs and to pay those incurred by the European Commission;
               
            
                  3.
               
               
                  Orders the Federal Republic of Germany to bear its own costs.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 213, 24.6.2019.