ORDER OF THE GENERAL COURT (Ninth Chamber)
9 February 2024 (*)
(Procedure – Taxation of costs – No need to adjudicate)
In Case T‑200/18 DEP,
Fersher Developments LTD, established in Nicosia (Cyprus),
Vladimir Lisin, residing in Lipetsk (Russia),
represented by R. Nowinski, lawyer,
applicants,
v
European Commission,
and
European Central Bank (ECB), represented by G. Várhelyi and A. Koutsoukou, acting as Agents, and by H.-G. Kamann, lawyer,
defendants,
THE GENERAL COURT (Ninth Chamber),
composed of L. Truchot, President, H. Kanninen (Rapporteur) and R. Frendo, Judges,
Registrar: V. Di Bucci,
having regard to the written part of the procedure,
makes the following
Order
1 By its application based on Article 170 of the Rules of Procedure of the General Court, the European Central Bank (ECB) asks the Court to fix at EUR 12 781.22 the amount of recoverable costs to be paid by the applicants, Fersher Developments LTD and Mr Vladimir Lisin, in respect of the costs which it incurred in the proceedings in Case T‑200/18 and in the present proceedings for taxation of costs.
2 By letter lodged at the Court Registry on 7 November 2023, the second applicant, Mr Lisin, submitted an application for a declaration that there was no need to adjudicate on the ground that the application for taxation of costs had become devoid of purpose. He stated that he had paid all the costs incurred by the ECB in the main proceedings.
3 By letter lodged at the Court Registry on 30 November 2023, the second applicant stated that he had also paid EUR 1 250 in respect of costs incurred by the ECB in the present proceedings for taxation of costs.
4 By letter lodged at the Court Registry on 8 December 2023, the ECB confirmed that it had received the agreed payments from the second applicant and stated that it considered that its application for taxation of costs had become devoid of purpose.
5 Under Article 130 of the Rules of Procedure, it is sufficient in the present case to find that, having regard to the agreement reached on the payment of costs, this application for taxation of costs has become devoid of purpose. It follows that there is no longer any need to adjudicate on that application.
On those grounds,
THE GENERAL COURT (Ninth Chamber)
hereby orders:
There is no longer any need to adjudicate on the application for taxation of costs.
Luxembourg, 9 February 2024.