Order of the Court of First Instance (Fourth Chamber) of 18 September 2006 – Wirtschaftskammer Kärnten and best connect Ampere Strompool v Commission

(Case T-350/03)

Action for annulment – Competition – Decision declaring a concentration to be compatible with the common market – Legal persons – Acts of individual concern to them – Inadmissibility

Actions for annulment – Natural or legal persons – Measures of direct and individual concern to them – Decision finding a concentration compatible with the common market (Art. 230, fourth para., EC; Council Regulation No 4064/89, Arts 4(3) and 11(1)) (see paras 24-33, 43-63)

Re:

APPLICATION for annulment of Commission Decision 2004/271/EC of 11 June 2003 declaring a concentration to be compatible with the common market and the EEA Agreement (Case COMP/M.2947 – Verbund/EnergieAllianz) (OJ 2004 L 92, p. 91).

Operative part

The Court:

Dismisses the action as inadmissible;

Orders the applicants to bear their own costs and jointly and severally the costs incurred by the Commission and by the interveners Österreichische Elektrizitätswirtschafts-AG, EVN AG, Wien Energie GmbH, Energie AG Oberösterreich, Burgenländische Elektrizitätswirtschafts-AG and Linz AG für Energie, Telekommunikation, Verkehr und Kommunale Dienste;

Orders the intervener Ampere AG to bear its own costs.