Order of the General Court (Fifth Chamber) of 16 May 2013 — BytyOKD v Commission

(Case T‑559/11)

Action for annulment — State aid — Sale by the Czech Republic of its minority shareholding in the company OKD as part of a privatisation — Decision finding no State aid — Professional association — No individual concern — Concept of party concerned — Inadmissibility

1.                     Judicial proceedings — No obligation on the General Court to commence the oral procedure before ruling on an objection of inadmissibility (Rules of Procedure of the General Court, Art. 114(1), (3) and (4)) (see para. 17)

2.                     Actions for annulment — Natural or legal persons — Measures of direct and individual concern to them — Commission decision finding no State aid in respect of a national measure without opening the formal investigation procedure — Person concerned for the purposes of Article 108(2) TFEU — Tenants’ association — Conditions — Action by an association constituted by a category of persons not themselves individually concerned — Inadmissibility (Arts 108(2) TFEU and 263, fourth para., TFEU; Council Regulation No 659/1999) (see paras 20-31, 38, 45, 46)

Re:

ACTION for annulment of Commission Decision C(2011) 4927 final of 13 July 2011 concerning the sale to Karbon Invest a.s. of the minority shareholding of the Czech State in OKD a.s. and declaring that that sale did not constitute State aid (State aid No SA.25076 (2011/NN) (OJ 2011 C 225, p. 1).

Operative part

1. The action is dismissed as inadmissible.

2. Sdružení nájemníků BytyOKD.cz is ordered to pay the costs.

3. There is no need to adjudicate on the application for leave to intervene of RPG Industries Limited.