CELEX: 62019TA0300
Language: en
Date: 2021-04-14 00:00:00
Title: Case T-300/19: Judgment of the General Court of 14 April 2021 — Achema and Lifosa v Commission (State aid — Market in electricity generated from renewable energy sources — Operating aid — Decision declaring the aid scheme compatible with the internal market at the end of the preliminary examination stage — Article 107(3)(c) TFEU — Infringement of procedural rights — 2008 Guidelines on State aid for environmental protection — 2014 Guidelines on State aid for environmental protection and energy 2014-2020 — Article 30 TFEU — Article 110 TFEU — Body of consistent evidence)

21.6.2021   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 242/24
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 14 April 2021 — Achema and Lifosa v Commission
      (Case T-300/19) (1)
      
      (State aid - Market in electricity generated from renewable energy sources - Operating aid - Decision declaring the aid scheme compatible with the internal market at the end of the preliminary examination stage - Article 107(3)(c) TFEU - Infringement of procedural rights - 2008 Guidelines on State aid for environmental protection - 2014 Guidelines on State aid for environmental protection and energy 2014-2020 - Article 30 TFEU - Article 110 TFEU - Body of consistent evidence)
      (2021/C 242/31)
      Language of the case: English
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicants: Achema AB (Jonava, Lithuania), Lifosa AB (Kedainiai, Lithuania) (represented by: E. Righini and N. Solárová, lawyers)
      
         Defendant: European Commission (represented by: K. Herrmann and P. Němečková, acting as Agents)
      
         Intervener in support of the defendant: Republic of Lithuania (represented by: K. Dieninis and R. Dzikovič, acting as Agents)
      
         Re:
      
      Application under Article 263 TFEU for annulment of Commission Decision C(2018) 9209 final of 8 January 2019 on State aid SA.45765 (2018/NN), concerning an aid scheme implemented by the Republic of Lithuania in support of producers of electricity from renewable energy sources (OJ 2019 C 61, p. 1).
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Annuls Commission Decision C(2018) 9209 final of 8 January 2019 on State aid SA.45765 (2018/NN), concerning an aid scheme implemented by the Republic of Lithuania in support of producers of electricity from renewable energy sources;
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Orders the European Commission to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by Achema AB and Lifosa AB;
               
            
                  3.
               
               
                  Orders the Republic of Lithuania to bear its own costs.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 238, 15.7.2019.