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Document 62015TO0274

Alcogroup and Alcodis v Commission

Order of the President of the General Court of 16 June 2015 —

Alcogroup and Alcodis v Commission

(Case T‑274/15 R)

‛Interim measures — Competition — Agreements, decisions and concerted practices — Market in bioethanol and ethanol — Administrative procedure — Order to submit to an inspection — Refusal to suspend the investigation — Application for interim measures — Inadmissibility’

1. 

Application for interim measures — Admissibility criteria — Interest in bringing proceedings — Damage having already occurred — Inadmissibility (Arts 278 TFEU and 279 TFEU; Rules of Procedure of the General Court, Art. 104) (see para. 16)

2. 

Application for interim measures — Suspension of operation of a measure — Admissibility criteria — Interest of the applicant in obtaining the suspension sought — Application seeking suspension of a measure already implemented — Inadmissibility (Art. 278 TFEU; Rules of Procedure of the General Court, Art. 104) (see para. 17)

3. 

Application for interim measures — Suspension of operation of a measure — Admissibility criteria — Interest of the applicant in obtaining the suspension sought — Negative administrative decision — Suspension incapable of altering the applicant’s situation — No interest — Inadmissibility (Art. 278 TFEU; Rules of Procedure of the General Court, Art. 104) (see para. 18)

4. 

Application for interim measures — Interim measures — Admissibility criteria — Application seeking measures outside the context of the main dispute — Inadmissibility (Art. 279 TFEU; Rules of Procedure of the General Court, Art. 104) (see paras 20-25)

Re:

APPLICATION for interim measures seeking, first, suspension of the implementation of decision C(2015) 1769 final of the Commission of 12 March 2015 addressed to Alcogroup and all the undertakings directly or indirectly controlled by it including Alcodis, relating to proceedings under Article 20(4) of Council Regulation (EC) No 1/2003 (AT.40244 — AQUAVIT) and its decision of8 May 2015 addressed to Alcogroup in investigations AT.A0244 — Bioethanol — and AT.A0054 — Oil and Biofuel Markets and, second, an order that the Commission suspend all investigations in proceedings AT. A0054 and AT.A0244.

Operative part

1. 

The application for interim measures is dismissed.

2. 

Costs are reserved.

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