Order of the President of the General Court of 15 September 2011 - Hüttenwerke Krupp Mannesmann and Others v Commission

(Case T-379/11 R)

(Interim relief - Environment - Allocation of greenhouse gas emission allowances free of charge in accordance with Directive 2003/87/EC - Setting of the product benchmarks the subject of the Commission's decision - Application for interim measures - Admissibility - Urgency)

Language of the case: German

Parties

Applicants: Hüttenwerke Krupp Mannesmann GmbH (Duisburg, Germany); Rogesa - Roheisengesellschaft Saar mbH (Dillingen, Germany); Salzgitter Flachstahl GmbH (Salzgitter, Allemagne); ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG (Duisburg); and voestalpine Stahl GmbH (Linz, Austria) (represented by: S. Altenschmidt and C. Dittrich, lawyers)

Defendant: European Commission (represented by: G. Wilms, K. Mifsud-Bonnici and K. Herrmann, Agents)

Re:

Application to suspend the operation of Commission Decision 2011/278/EU of 27 April 2011 determining transitional Union-wide rules for harmonised free allocation of emission allowances pursuant to Article 10a of Directive 2003/87/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (OJ 2011 L 130, p. 1).

Operative part of the order

1.    The application for interim measures is dismissed.

2.    Costs are reserved.

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