Judgment of the General Court of 1 February 2012 - Région wallonne v Commission

(Case T-237/09) 

(Environment - Directive 2003/87/EC - Scheme for greenhouse gas emission allowance trading - National emission allowance allocation plan for Belgium in respect of the period from 2008 to 2012 - Article 44 of Regulation (EC) No 2216/2004 - Subsequent correction - New entrant - Decision instructing the Central Administrator of the Community independent transaction log to enter a correction into the national allocation plan table)

Language of the case: French

Parties

Applicant: Région wallonne (Belgium) (represented by: J.-M. De Backer, A. Lepièce, I.-S. Brouhns and S. Engelen, lawyers)

Defendant: European Commission (represented by: E. White and O. Beynet, Agents)

Re:

Application for partial annulment of the Commission's decision of 27 March 2009 relating to the national plan for the allocation of greenhouse gas emission allowances notified by the Kingdom of Belgium for the period from 2008 to 2012, instructing the Central Administrator to enter a correction to the Belgian national allocation plan table into the Community independent transaction log.

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

Annuls the Commission's decision of 27 March 2009 instructing the Central Administrator to enter a correction to the Belgian national allocation plan table into the Community independent transaction log, in so far as it contains a refusal to instruct the Central Administrator to enter an allowance allocation correction in favour of installation No 116 named 'Arcelor-Cockerill Sambre_HF6_Seraing', as requested by the Kingdom of Belgium in its letter of 18 February 2009;

Orders the European Commission to pay the costs.

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¹ - OJ C 193, 15.8.2009.