Judgment of the General Court of 6 September 2013 – Globula v Commission

(Case T-465/11)

(Internal market in natural gas – Directive 2003/55/EC – Obligation on natural gas undertakings to organise a system of negotiated third party access to gas storage facilities – Decision of the Czech authorities granting the applicant a temporary exemption for its future underground gas storage facilities in Dambořice – Commission decision ordering the Czech Republic to withdraw the exemption decision – Time at which Directive 2003/55 takes effect)Language of the case: EnglishPartiesApplicant: Globula a.s. (Hodonín, Czech Republic) (represented by: M. Petite, D. Paemen, A. Tomtsis, D. Koláček and P. Zákoucký, lawyers)Defendant: European Commission (represented by: O. Beynet and T. Scharf, Agents)Intervener in support of the applicants: Czech Republic (represented by: M. Smolek, J. Očková and T. Mü

Republic to withdraw the exemp

tion dec

ision – Time at which Directive 2003/55 takes effect)Language of the case: EnglishPartiesApplicant: Globula a.s. (Hodonín, Czech Republ

ic) (represented by: M. Petite, D. Paemen, A. Tomtsis, D. Koláček and P. Zákoucký

, lawyers)Defendant: European Commission (represented by: O. Beynet and T. Scharf, Agents)Intervener in support of

the

applicants: Czech Republic (represented by: M. Smolek, J. Očková and T. Müller, Agents)Re:Application for the annulment of Commission Decision C(2011) 4509 of 27 June 2011 on the exemption of an Underground Gas Storage Facility in Dambořice from the internal market rules on third party access.Operative part of the judgmentThe Court:Annuls Decision C (2011) 4509 of the Commission of 27 June 2011 on the exemption of an Underground Gas Storage Facility in Dambořice from the internal market rules on third party access;Orders the European Commission to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by Globula a.s.;Orders the Czech Republic to bear its own costs.