Judgment of the General Court of 24 April 2012 - Samskip Multimodal Container Logistics v Commission
(Case T-166/10)
(Action for annulment - Decision awarding Community financial assistance to improve the environmental performance of the freight transport system - Marco Polo II programme - Termination of the grant agreement and definitive abandonment of the project - No longer any interest in bringing proceedings - No need to adjudicate)
Language of the case: English
Parties
Applicant: Samskip Multimodal Container Logistics BV ('s-Gravenzande, Netherlands) (represented by: K. Platteau, Y. Maasdam and P. Broers, lawyers)
Defendant: European Commission (represented by: K. Simonsson, Agent, assisted by J. Grayston and P. Gjørtler, lawyers)
Re:
APPLICATION for annulment of Commission Decision C(2010) 580 of 27 January 2010 on the financial assistance for proposals for actions submitted in the 2009 selection procedure in the European Union programme 'improving the environmental performance of the freight transport system' (the Marco Polo II programme), in so far as it selects Proposal TREN/B4/SUB/01-2009 MP-II/6 concerning the G2G@2XL project for funding in the amount of EUR 2 190 539.
Operative part of the judgment
The Court:
Declares that there is no longer any need to adjudicate on the present action;
Orders the European Commission to bear four fifths of the costs of Samskip Multimodal Container Logistics BV and four fifths of its own costs;
Orders Samskip Multimodal Container Logistics to bear one fifth of the Commission's costs and one fifth of its own costs.
____________1 - OJ C 209, 31.7.2010.