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2012-6 E.C.R. 1 (2012)

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    VRw                             Reports of Cases




                                        Case T-381/11

        Europaischer  Wirtschaftsverband der Eisen- und Stahlindustrie (Eurofer) ASBL
                                              V
                                    European Commission


 (Action for annulment - Environment -  Directive 2003/87/EC - Free allocation of greenhouse gas
 emission allowances from 2013 onwards - Commission decision establishing product benchmarks to
 be  applied in calculating the allocation of emission allowances - Fourth paragraph of Article 263
 TFEU -  No individual concern - Regulatory act entailing implementing measures - Inadmissibility)


                                    Summary  of the Order

1.  Action for annulment - Natural or legal persons - Measures of direct and individual concern to
    them  -  Commission  decision determining transitional Union-wide rules for harmonised free
    allocation of emission allowances - Action brought  by an  association which represents the
    interests of the European steel manufacturing industry - Admissibility - Conditions

    (Art. 263, fourth para., TFEU; European Parliament and Council Directive 2003/87, Art. 10a)

2.  Action for annulment - Natural or legal persons - Measures of direct and individual concern to
    them  -   Individual concern -   Criteria -  Commission   decision determining transitional
    Union-wide  rules for harmonised free allocation of emission allowances - Action brought by an
    association which represents the interests of the European steel manufacturing industry -
    Absence of individual concern to the undertakings represented - Inadmissibility

    (Art. 263, fourth para., TFEU; European Parliament and Council Directive 2003/87, Art. 10a)

3.  Action for annulment - Natural or legal persons - Meaning of 'regulatory act'for the purposes of
    the fourth paragraph of Article 263 TFEU - All acts of general application apart from legislative
    acts -  Commission   decision determining transitional Union-wide rules for harmonised free
    allocation of emission allowances - Inclusion - Act entailing implementing measures within the
    meaning  of that provision of the treaty

    (Arts 263, fourth para., TFEU, 267 TFEU  and  289(1) to (3), TFEL; Directive 2003/87 of the
    European Parliament and of the Council, Arts 10a and 11(1))

1. An association which represents the interests of the European steel manufacturing industry is, as a
rule, entitled to bring an action for annulment against a Commission decision determining transitional
Union-wide  rules for harmonised free allocation of emission allowances pursuant to Article 10a of
Directive 2003/87 establishing a scheme for greenhouse gas emission allowance trading within the
Community   only if the undertakings which it represents or some of those undertakings themselves
have standing or if it can prove an interest of its own.

                                                                                 (see para. 18)


ECLJ:EU:T:2012:2731


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