Order of the Court (Eighth Chamber) of 25 November 2008 - TEA v
   Commission

   (Case C-500/07 P)

   Appeal - Action for annulment - Time-limit for bringing proceedings -
   Starting point - Action seeking a ruling from the Court of First
   Instance on the personal scope of a Commission decision - Manifest lack
   of jurisdiction

   1.                     Actions for annulment - Time-limits - Point from
   which time starts to run -Publication or notification (Art. 230, fifth
   para., EC) (see paras 21-23)

   2.                     Procedure - Application by a natural or legal
   person for a declaration relating to the scope ratione personae of a
   Commission decision - Lack of jurisdiction of the Community judicature
   (Art. 230 et seq. EC) (see paras 32-33)

   Re:

   Appeal against the order made by the Court of First Instance (Fourth
   Chamber) on 17 September 2007 in Case T-175/07 Territorio Energia
   Ambiente SpA v Commission by which that Court dismissed an application
   for a ruling that Commission Decision 2003/193/EC of 5 June 2002 on
   State aid granted by Italy in the form of tax exemptions and subsidised
   loans to public utilities with a majority public capital holding (OJ
   2003 L 77, p. 21), did not apply to the appellant and, in the
   alternative, that the appellant did not benefit from any unlawful aid,
   and for the consequential annulment, in so far as necessary, of that
   decision.

   Operative part

   The Court:

   1.

   Dismisses the appeal;

   2.

   Orders Territorio Energia Ambiente SpA (TEA) to pay the costs.