CELEX: 62018TA0328
Language: en
Date: 2021-09-08 00:00:00
Title: Case T-328/18: Judgment of the General Court of 8 September 2021 — Naturgy Energy Group v Commission (State aid — Environmental incentive adopted by Spain in favour of coal-fired power plants — Decision to initiate the procedure laid down by Article 108(2) TFEU — Obligation to state reasons — Manifest error of assessment — Selective nature)

18.10.2021   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 422/10
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 8 September 2021 — Naturgy Energy Group v Commission
      (Case T-328/18) (1)
      
      (State aid - Environmental incentive adopted by Spain in favour of coal-fired power plants - Decision to initiate the procedure laid down by Article 108(2) TFEU - Obligation to state reasons - Manifest error of assessment - Selective nature)
      (2021/C 422/13)
      Language of the case: Spanish
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Naturgy Energy Group, SA, formerly Gas Natural SDG, SA (Madrid, Spain) (represented by: F. González Díaz and J. Blanco Carol, lawyers)
      
         Defendant: European Commission (represented by: P. Němečková and D. Recchia, acting as Agents)
      
         Interveners in support of the applicant: EDP España, SA (Oviedo, Spain) (represented by: J. Buendía Sierra and A. Lamadrid de Pablo, lawyers), Viesgo Producción, SL, successor in title to Viesgo Generación, SL (Santander, Spain) (represented by: F. Plasencia Sánchez, L. Ques Mena and L. de Pedro Martín, lawyers)
      
         Re:
      
      APPLICATION under Article 263 TFEU for annulment of Commission Decision C(2017) 7733 final of 27 November 2017, concerning State Aid SA.47912 (2017/NN) — Environmental incentive adopted by Spain in favour of coal-fired power plants, initiating the formal investigation procedure laid down by Article 108(2) TFEU.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Dismisses the action;
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Orders Naturgy Energy Group, SA to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by the European Commission;
               
            
                  3.
               
               
                  Orders Viesgo Producción, SL and EDP España, SA to bear their own costs.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 268, 30.7.2018.