ORDER OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE FOURTH CHAMBER OF THE GENERAL COURT
8 May 2015(1)
(Removal from the register)
In Case T-93/13,
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, represented initially by E. Jenkinson and S. Behzadi-Spencer, acting as Agents, assisted by C. Beal Kieron QC, and subsequently by E. Jenkinson, S. Behzadi‑Spencer and M. Holt, acting as Agents, assisted by C. Beal Kieron, and lastly by M. Holt and V. Kaye, acting as Agents, assisted by C. Beal Kieron,
applicant,
supported by
Kingdom of Sweden, represented by A. Falk, C. Meyer-Seitz, C. Stege, S. Johannesson, U. Persson and H. Karlsson, acting as Agents,
intervener,
v
European Central Bank, represented initially by P. Papapaschalis and A. Sáinz de Vicuña Barroso, acting as Agents, and subsequently by P. Papapaschalis and A. Sáinz de Vicuña Barroso, assisted by F. Subiotto Romano QC, F.-C. Laprévote, lawyer, and P. M. Stuart, Barrister, and lastly by P. Papapaschalis and P. Senkovic, acting as Agents, assisted by F. Subiotto Romano, F.-C. Laprévote and P. M. Stuart,
defendant,
APPLICATION for annulment, first, of Decision ECB/2012/31 of the European Central Bank of 11 December 2012, amending Decision ECB/2007/7 concerning the terms and conditions of Target2-ECB (OJ 2013 L 13, p. 8) and, second, of Guideline ECB/2012/27 of the European Central Bank of 5 December 2012 on a Trans-European Automated Real-time Gross settlement Express Transfer system (Target2) (OJ 2013 L 30, p.1).
1 By letter lodged at the Registry of the General Court on 29 March 2015, the applicant informed the Court, in accordance with Article 99 of the Rules of Procedure, that it wished to discontinue proceedings. It sought no order as to costs.
2 By letter lodged at the Registry of the Court on 31 March 2015, the defendant informed the Court that it fully concurred with the applicant’s request, and it would agree to bear its own costs, provided other parties in the case also bear their own costs.
3 The intervener, the Kingdom of Sweden, did not submit observations on the application for discontinuance.
4 Under the first subparagraph of Article 87(4) of the Rules of Procedure, the Member States which intervened in the proceedings are to bear their own costs.
5 The third subparagraph of Article 87(5) of the Rules of Procedure provides that, where proceedings are discontinued and costs are not applied for, the parties are to bear their own costs.
6 The case will therefore be removed from the register and, in the absence of any claim in that regard, the parties ordered to bear their own costs.
On those grounds,
THE PRESIDENT OF THE FOURTH CHAMBER OF THE GENERAL COURT
hereby orders:
1. Case T-93/13 is removed from the register of the General Court.
2. Each party shall bear its own costs.
Luxembourg, 8 May 2015.