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Order of the General Court (Fourth Chamber) of 17 May 2019.
Deutsche Lufthansa AG v European Commission.
Action for annulment — State aid — Measures implemented by Germany in favour of Frankfurt Hahn airport — Decision declaring the aid compatible in part with the internal market — Decision finding that there is no State aid — Indirect aid — No individual concern — Inadmissibility.
Case T-764/15.

Court reports – general – 'Information on unpublished decisions' section

Order of the General Court (Fourth Chamber) of 17 May 2019 –
Deutsche Lufthansa v Commission

(Case T‑764/15)

(Action for annulment — State aid — Measures implemented by Germany in favour of Frankfurt Hahn airport — Decision declaring the aid compatible in part with the internal market — Decision finding that there is no State aid — Indirect aid — No individual concern — Inadmissibility)

1. 

Judicial proceedings — Objection of inadmissibility — Decision to join the application for a separate ruling on the objection of inadmissibility to the substance — Action dismissed by reasoned order as inadmissible — Lawfulness

(Rules of Procedure of the General Court, Art. 130(6))

(see paras 37, 38)

2. 

Judicial proceedings — Intervention — Admissibility criteria — Interest in the result of the case — Meaning — Need for a direct and existing interest — Proceedings regarding the legality of a Commission decision on State aid — Direct, existing interest of the infra-State body which contributed to the measures concerned by the decision

(Statute of the Court of Justice, Arts 40, second para. and 53, first para.)

(see paras 40-45)

3. 

Judicial proceedings — Production of evidence — Time limit — Production of new evidence in observations on an objective of inadmissibility — Lawfulness

(Rules of Procedure of the General Court, Art. 85(1))

(see para. 48)

4. 

Judicial proceedings — Production of evidence — Time limit — Evidence lodged out of time — Conditions — Amplification of evidence previously presented — Lawfulness

(Rules of Procedure of the General Court, Art. 85(3))

(see paras 51-53)

5. 

Judicial proceedings — Production of evidence — Time limit — Evidence lodged out of time — Conditions — Evidence concerning the admissibility of an action for annulment — Production of information postdating the bringing of the action — Information confirming the applicant’s standing — Lawfulness

(Rules of Procedure of the General Court, Art. 85(3))

(see paras 70-75)

6. 

Action for annulment — Natural or legal persons — Measures of direct and individual concern to them — Individual concern — Criteria — Commission Decision on State aid adopted following the formal investigation procedure — Action brought by a party concerned within the meaning of the second paragraph of Article 108 TFUE — Characteristic insufficient for a finding of capacity to bring an action

(Arts 108(2) and (3) and 263, fourth para. TFEU)

(see paras 88-93, 100, 110)

7. 

Action for annulment — Natural or legal persons — Measures of direct and individual concern to them — Individual concern — Criteria — Commission decision considering certain aid measures compatible with the internal market and finding other measures not to be aid — Action brought by a competing undertaking of the recipient undertaking which participated in the administrative procedure — Competing undertaking unable to justify its position in the market at issue being sufficiently concerned — Inadmissibility

(Art. 263, fourth para. TFEU)

(see paras 111-144)

8. 

Action for annulment — Natural or legal persons — Concept of regulatory act within the meaning of the fourth paragraph of Article 263 TFUE — Any act of general scope other than legislative acts — Commission Decision on individual aid — Not included

(Art. 263, fourth para. TFEU)

(see paras 148-150)

9. 

Judicial proceedings — Costs — Recoverable costs — Avoidable costs provoked by a party and incurred by the Court — Repayment — Conditions

(Rules of Procedure of the General Court, Art. 139(a))

(see paras 155, 156)

Re:

Action under Article 263 TFEU for the annulment of Commission Decision (EU) 2016/788 of 1 October 2014 on the State aid SA.32833 (11/C) (ex 11/NN) implemented by Germany concerning the financing arrangements for Frankfurt Hahn airport put into place in 2009 to 2011 (OJ 2016, L 134, p. 1).

Operative part

1. 

The action is dismissed.

2. 

Deutsche Lufthansa AG shall bear its own costs and pay those of the European Commission and of the Land Rheinland-Pfalz.

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