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Document 62019TO0280(01)

Order of the President of the General Court of 12 July 2019.
Highgate Capital Management LLP v European Commission.
Action for annulment — State aid — Complaint — Act not open to challenge — Inadmissibility.
Case T-280/19 R.

 Order of the General Court (Ninth Chamber) of 23 March 2020 –
Highgate Capital Management v Commission

(Case T‑280/19)

(Action for annulment — State aid — Complaint — Act not open to challenge — Inadmissibility)

1. 

Action for annulment — Acts open to challenge — Concept — Measures producing binding legal effects — Assessment by reference to objective criteria — Contested measures adopted by the Commission in a context unrelated to the administrative procedure relating to the applicant’s complaint, since those acts merely constitute opinions or views which are not binding on that institution — Excluded — Inadmissiblity

(Art. 263 TFEU)

(see paras 42-44, 47, 48, 50, 56)

2. 

Action for annulment — Acts open to challenge — Concept — Measures producing binding legal effects — Possibility of disregarding that condition by invoking the right to effective judicial protection — None

(Arts 263(4) TFEU; Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, Art. 47 and 52(7))

(see para. 54)

Re:

Application under Article 263 TFEU for annulment of the Commission’s decision rejecting a complaint relating to unlawful State aid granted to Eurobank Ergasias SA through the acquisition of Piraeus Bank Bulgaria (SA.53105), allegedly contained in the letter of 8 March 2019 from the Commission’s Directorate-General for Competition and in the public statement of 20 March 2019 of the Commissioner responsible for competition.

Operative part

1. 

The action is dismissed as being inadmissible.

2. 

There is no need to rule on the application to intervene of the Hellenic Financial Stability Fund.

3. 

Highgate Capital Management LLP shall pay the costs, including those relating to the proceedings for interim measures, with the exception of those relating to the application to intervene.

4. 

The Hellenic Financial Stability Fund shall bear its own costs relating to the application to intervene.
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