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(Case T-626/20) (*)
(State aid - Biogas market - Tax exemptions compensating for additional production costs - Decisions not to raise objections - Action for annulment - Interest in bringing proceedings - Admissibility - Failure to initiate the formal investigation procedure - Serious difficulties - Article 108(2) and (3) TFEU - Article 4(3) and (4) of Regulation (EU) 2015/1589 - Guidelines on State aid for environmental protection and energy 2014-2020 - Cumulation of aid - Aid granted by several Member States - Imported biogas - Principle of non-discrimination - Article 110 TFEU)
(2023/C 83/18)
Language of the case: German
Applicant: Landwärme GmbH (Munich, Germany) (represented by: J. Bonhage and M. Frank, lawyers)
Defendant: European Commission (represented by: K. Blanck, A. Bouchagiar and P. Němečková, acting as Agents)
Intervener in support of the defendant: Kingdom of Sweden (represented by: O. Simonsson, C. Meyer-Seitz, A. Runeskjöld, M. Salborn Hodgson, H. Shev, H. Eklinder and R. Shahsavan Eriksson, acting as Agents)
By its action under Article 263 TFEU, the applicant seeks the annulment, first, of Commission Decision C(2020) 4489 final of 29 June 2020 on State aid SA.56125 (2020/N) — Sweden — Prolongation and modification of scheme SA.49893 (2018/N) — Tax exemption for non-food based biogas and bio-propane in heat generation, and, second, Commission Decision C(2020) 4487 final of 29 June 2020 on State aid SA.56908 (2020/N) — Sweden — Prolongation and modification of biogas scheme for motor fuel in Sweden.
The Court:
1.Annuls Commission Decision C(2020) 4489 final of 29 June 2020 on State aid SA.56125 (2020/N) — Sweden — Prolongation and modification of scheme SA.49893 (2018/N) — Tax exemption for non-food based biogas and bio-propane in heat generation;
2.Annuls Commission Decision C(2020) 4487 final of 29 June 2020 on State aid SA.56908 (2020/N) — Sweden — Prolongation and modification of biogas scheme for motor fuel in Sweden;
3.Orders the European Commission to bear its own costs and pay those incurred by Landwärme GmbH;
4.Orders the Kingdom of Sweden to bear its own costs.
(*) Language of the case: German.
(1) OJ C 414, 30.11.2020.