ORDER OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE GENERAL COURT
13 June 2012 (1)
(Partial removal from the register)
In Case T-164/12 R,
Alstom, established in Levallois Perret (France),
Alstom Holdings, established in Levallois Perret (France),
Alstom Grid SAS, established in Paris (France),
Alstom Grid AG, established in Oberentfelden (Switzerland),
represented by J. Derenne, lawyer, N. G. Heaton, P. T. Chaplin and M. Farley, Solicitors,
applicants,
v
European Commission, represented by N. Khan, A. Antoniadis and P. J.O. Van Nuffel, acting as Agents,
defendant,
APPLICATION for the suspension of the Commission’s decision of 26 January 2012 to send to the High Court of England and Wales, for the purposes of national proceedings, certain documents lodged with the Commission by the applicants (or their predecessors) in the context of competition proceedings relating to a cartel in the Gas Insulated Switch Gear sector (COMP/38.899 – Gas Insulated Switchgear (OJ 2008 C 5, p. 7)).
1 The applicants lodged an application for interim measures at the Registry of the General Court on 10 April 2012.
2 By letter lodged at the Registry of the General Court on 21 May 2012, the applicants, Alstom Holdings, Alstom Grid SAS and Alstom Grid AG informed the Court, in accordance with Article 99 of the Rules of Procedure, that they wished to discontinue proceedings and requested that the defendant should bear the costs of the applicants.
3 By letter lodged at the Registry of the Court on 29 May 2012, the defendant informed the Court that it had no objections to the partial withdrawal and requested that each party should be ordered to bear its own costs.
4 It is, therefore, appropriate to remove the names of the applicants, Alstom Holdings, Alstom Grid SAS and Alstom Grid AG, from the register. As regards the costs, it is appropriate in the context of the procedure for interim measures that these should be reserved.
On those grounds,
THE PRESIDENT OF THE GENERAL COURT
hereby orders:
1. In Case T-164/12 R, the names of the applicants, Alstom Holdings, Alstom Grid SAS and Alstom Grid AG, are removed from the register of the General Court.
2. The decision as to costs is reserved.
Luxembourg, 13 June 2012.