CELEX: 62018TA0745
Language: en
Date: 2021-10-06 00:00:00
Title: Case T-745/18: Judgment of the General Court of 6 October 2021 — Covestro Deutschland v Commission (State aid — Aid scheme implemented by Germany in favour of certain large electricity consumers — Exemption from network charges for the period 2012 — 2013 — Decision declaring the aid scheme incompatible with the internal market and unlawful and ordering recovery of the aid granted — Action for annulment — Time limit for bringing an action — Admissibility — Definition of aid — State resources — Equal treatment — Legitimate expectations)

22.11.2021   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 471/39
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 6 October 2021 — Covestro Deutschland v Commission
      (Case T-745/18) (1)
      
      (State aid - Aid scheme implemented by Germany in favour of certain large electricity consumers - Exemption from network charges for the period 2012 — 2013 - Decision declaring the aid scheme incompatible with the internal market and unlawful and ordering recovery of the aid granted - Action for annulment - Time limit for bringing an action - Admissibility - Definition of aid - State resources - Equal treatment - Legitimate expectations)
      (2021/C 471/54)
      Language of the case: German
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Covestro Deutschland AG (Leverkusen, Germany) (represented by: M. Küper, J. Otter, C. Anger and M. Goldberg, lawyers)
      
         Defendant: European Commission (represented by: T. Maxian Rusche and K. Herrmann, acting as Agents)
      
         Intervener in support of the applicant: Federal Republic of Germany (represented by: 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 of 7 May 2015 on the State aid SA.34045 (2013/C) (ex 2012/NN) implemented by Germany to baseload consumers under Paragraph 19 StromNEV (OJ 2019 L 14, p. 1).
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      
                  1.
               
               
                  The application is dismissed;
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Covestro Deutschland AG is ordered to bear its own costs and those incurred by the European Commission;
               
            
                  3.
               
               
                  The Federal Republic of Germany is ordered to bear its own costs.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 82 of 4.3.2019.