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Order of the General Court (Seventh Chamber) of 16 December 2011.#Stichting Woonpunt and Others v European Commission.#State aid – Scheme of aid granted by the Netherlands to housing corporations – Existing aid – Decision accepting Member State’s commitments – Decision declaring new aid compatible – Action for annulment – Not individually concerned – No interest in bringing proceedings – Inadmissibility.#Case T-203/10.
Order of the General Court (Seventh Chamber) of 16 December 2011.
Stichting Woonpunt and Others v European Commission.
State aid – Scheme of aid granted by the Netherlands to housing corporations – Existing aid – Decision accepting Member State’s commitments – Decision declaring new aid compatible – Action for annulment – Not individually concerned – No interest in bringing proceedings – Inadmissibility.
Case T-203/10.
Order of the General Court (Seventh Chamber) of 16 December 2011.
Stichting Woonpunt and Others v European Commission.
State aid – Scheme of aid granted by the Netherlands to housing corporations – Existing aid – Decision accepting Member State’s commitments – Decision declaring new aid compatible – Action for annulment – Not individually concerned – No interest in bringing proceedings – Inadmissibility.
Case T-203/10.
European Court Reports 2011 II-00462*
ECLI identifier: ECLI:EU:T:2011:766
Order of the General Court (Seventh Chamber) of 16 December 2011 – Stichting Woonpunt and Others v Commission
(Case T-203/10)
State aid – Scheme of aid granted by the Netherlands to housing corporations – Existing aid – Decision accepting Member State’s commitments – Decision declaring new aid compatible – Action for annulment – Not individually concerned – No interest in bringing proceedings – Inadmissibility
1. Actions for annulment – Natural or legal persons – Measures of direct and individual concern to them – Commission decision declaring modifications to an existing aid scheme concerning the general system of financing housing corporations compatible with the internal market – Access to the aid scheme opened on the basis of objective criteria and without limitation as to the number of potential beneficiaries – Action of a company eligible for that scheme – Inadmissibility (Art. 263, fourth para., TFEU) (see paras 25-26, 28-30, 34-35, 42)
2. Actions for annulment – Natural or legal persons – Interest in bringing proceedings – Action by a potential beneficiary company of duly notified State aid brought against the Commission decision declaring it incompatible with the internal market under certain restrictive conditions – Beneficiaries of new aid not able to invoke unfavourable legal effects in relation to a previous situation – Inadmissibility (Art. 263, fourth para., TFEU) (see paras 55, 58)
Re:
APPLICATION for annulment of Commission Decision C(2009) 9963 final of 15 December 2009 relating to State aid E 2/2005 and N 642/2009 (Netherlands) – Existing and special project aid to housing corporations. |
Operative part
1. |
The action is dismissed as inadmissible. |
2. |
There is no need to adjudicate on the applications for leave to intervene of Vesteda Groep BV and the Netherlands Vereniging van Institutionele Beleggers in Vastgoed. |
3. |
Stichting Woonpunt, Stichting Com.wonen, Woningstichting Haag Wonen and Stichting Woonbedrijf SWS.Hhvl are ordered to bear their own costs and pay those incurred by the European Commission. |
4. |
Vesteda Groep and the Netherlands Vereniging van Institutionele Beleggers in Vastgoed, applicants for leave to intervene, are ordered to bear their own costs. |