Order of the President of the General Court of 17 February 2011 - Comunidad Autónoma de Galicia v Commission

(Case T-520/10 R)

(Interim measures - State aid - Compensation for additional production costs of certain electricity power plants arising from a public service obligation to produce certain volumes of electricity from indigenous coal implemented by a 'preferential dispatch mechanism' in their favour - Decision not to raise objections - Application for suspension of operation - Prima facie case - No urgency - Balance of interests)

Language of the case: Spanish

Parties

Applicant: Comunidad Autónoma de Galicia (Santiago de Compostela, Spain) (represented by: S. Martínez Lage, H. Brokelmann and A. Rincón García Loygorri, lawyers)

Defendant: European Commission (represented by: E. Gippini Fournier and C. Urraca Caviedes, Agents)

Re:

Application for interim measures seeking, in essence, an order that the operation of Commission Decision C (2010) 4499 of 29 September 2010 concerning State aid N 178/2010 notified by the Kingdom of Spain in the form of a public service compensation linked to a preferential dispatch mechanism for indigenous coal power plants be suspended

Operative part of the order

1.    Hidroeléctrica del Cantábrico, SA, and the Federación Nacional de Empresarios de Minas de Carbón are granted leave to intervene in support of the form of order sought by the European Commission.

2.    Copies of all the procedural documents shall be served by the Registrar on the parties referred to in paragraph 1 above.

3.    The application for interim measures is dismissed.

4.    The costs are reserved.

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