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Document 62020TO0726

    Order of the General Court (Fifth Chamber) of 29 November 2021.
    Grupa Azoty S.A. and Others v European Commission.
    Action for annulment – State aid – Guidelines on certain State aid measures in the context of the system for greenhouse gas emission allowance trading post-2021 – Eligible sectors – Exclusion of the fertiliser manufacturing sector – Lack of direct concern – Inadmissibility.
    Case T-726/20.

    Court reports – general

    ECLI identifier: ECLI:EU:T:2021:884

     Order of the General Court (Fifth Chamber) of 29 November 2021 –
    Grupa Azoty and Others v Commission

    (Case T‑726/20)

    (Action for annulment – State aid – Guidelines on certain State aid measures in the context of the system for greenhouse gas emission allowance trading post-2021 – Eligible sectors – Exclusion of the fertiliser manufacturing sector – Lack of direct concern – Inadmissibility)

    Action for annulment – Natural or legal persons – Measures of direct and individual concern to them – Whether directly concerned – Criteria – Guidelines on certain State aid in the context of the greenhouse gas emission allowance trading system, including limitation of eligible sectors – Actions brought by companies in a non-eligible sector – Not directly concerned – Inadmissibility

    (Art. 263, fourth para., TFEU; Commission Notice 2020/C 317/04)

    (see paras 26, 28-44, 47-50)

    Operative part

    1. 

    The action is dismissed as inadmissible.

    2. 

    There is no longer any need to adjudicate on the application to intervene submitted by the EFTA Surveillance Authority.

    3. 

    Grupa Azoty S.A., Azomureș S.A. and Lipasmata Kavalas LTD Ypokatastima Allodapis shall bear their own costs and pay those incurred by the European Commission.

    4. 

    The EFTA Surveillance Authority shall bear the costs relating to its application to intervene.

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