CELEX: 62019TA0680
Language: en
Date: 2021-07-07 00:00:00
Title: Case T-680/19: Judgment of the General Court of 7 July 2021 — Irish Wind Farmers’ Association and Others v Commission (State aid — Energy sector — Irish legislation on business property taxation — Method for calculating the amount of the tax owed by fossil fuel electricity producers — Complaint from wind farm operators — Decision finding that there is no State aid — Failure to initiate the formal investigation procedure — Serious difficulties — Procedural rights of the interested parties)

23.8.2021   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 338/19
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 7 July 2021 — Irish Wind Farmers’ Association and Others v Commission
      (Case T-680/19) (1)
      
      (State aid - Energy sector - Irish legislation on business property taxation - Method for calculating the amount of the tax owed by fossil fuel electricity producers - Complaint from wind farm operators - Decision finding that there is no State aid - Failure to initiate the formal investigation procedure - Serious difficulties - Procedural rights of the interested parties)
      (2021/C 338/23)
      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 (represented by: K. Herrmann and S. Noë, acting as Agents)
      
         Re:
      
      Application under Article 263 TFEU for annulment of Commission Decision C(2019) 5257 final of 9 July 2019 on State aid SA.44671 (2019/NN) — Ireland.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Dismisses the action;
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Orders each party to bear its own costs.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 423, 16.12.2019.