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Case T-333/17: Judgment of the General Court of 24 October 2019 — Austrian Power Grid and Vorarlberger Übertragungsnetz v ACER (Energy — Decision of the Board of Appeal of ACER — Determination of the capacity calculation regions — Action for annulment — Interest in bringing proceedings — Inadmissible in part — Regulation (EU) 2015/1222 — ACER’s competence)

OJ C 432, 23.12.2019, p. 36–36 (BG, ES, CS, DA, DE, ET, EL, EN, FR, HR, IT, LV, LT, HU, MT, NL, PL, PT, RO, SK, SL, FI, SV)

23.12.2019   

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 432/36


Judgment of the General Court of 24 October 2019 — Austrian Power Grid and Vorarlberger Übertragungsnetz v ACER

(Case T-333/17) (1)

(Energy - Decision of the Board of Appeal of ACER - Determination of the capacity calculation regions - Action for annulment - Interest in bringing proceedings - Inadmissible in part - Regulation (EU) 2015/1222 - ACER’s competence)

(2019/C 432/40)

Language of the case: English

Parties

Applicants: Austrian Power Grid AG (Vienna, Austria) and Vorarlberger Übertragungsnetz GmbH (Bregenz, Austria) (represented by: H. Kristoferitsch and S. Huber, lawyers)

Defendant: Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER) (represented by: P. Martinet and E. Tremmel, acting as Agents)

Intervener in support of the applicants: Verbund AG (Vienna) (represented by: S. Polster, lawyer)

Interveners in support of the defendant: Czech Republic (represented by: M. Smolek, J. Vláčil and T. Müller, acting as Agents), Republic of Poland (represented by: B. Majczyna, acting as Agent), Polskie Sieci Elektroenergetyczne S.A. (Konstancin-Jeziorna, Poland) (represented by: M. Szambelańczyk, lawyer)

Re:

Action under Article 263 TFEU seeking annulment of Decision A-001-2017 (consolidated) of the Board of Appeal of ACER of 17 March 2017 dismissing the appeals brought against Decision No 6/2016 issued by ACER regarding the determination of capacity calculation regions.

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

1.

Annuls Decision A-001-2017 (consolidated) of the Board of Appeal of the Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER) of 17 March 2017 dismissing the appeals against Decision No 6/2016 issued by ACER regarding the determination of capacity calculation regions in so far as it dismisses the appeals brought by Austrian Power Grid AG and by Vorarlberger Übertragungsnetz GmbH;

2.

Dismisses the action as to the remainder;

3.

Declares that ACER is to bear its own costs and orders it to pay one quarter of the costs incurred by Austrian Power Grid and by Vorarlberger Übertragungsnetz;

4.

Declares that Austrian Power Grid and Vorarlberger Übertragungsnetz are to bear three quarters of their own costs;

5.

Declares that the Czech Republic, the Republic of Poland, Verbund AG and Polskie Sieci Elektroenergetyczne S.A. are to bear their own costs.


(1)  OJ C 249, 31.7.2017.


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