Judgment of the General Court (Third Chamber, Extended Composition) of 25 September 2024. Bundesnetzagentur für Elektrizität, Gas, Telekommunikation, Post und Eisenbahnen (BNetzA) v European Union Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators.

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JUDGMENT OF THE GENERAL COURT (Third Chamber, Extended Composition)

25 September 2024 (*)

( Energy – Internal market for electricity – Capacity calculation region – Core region – Adoption by ACER of the methodology for cost sharing of redispatching and countertrading – Determination of the threshold for legitimate loop flows – Article 16(13) of Regulation (EU) 2019/943 )

In Case T‑485/21,

Bundesnetzagentur für Elektrizität, Gas, Telekommunikation, Post und Eisenbahnen (BNetzA), established in Bonn (Germany), represented by U. Karpenstein and K. Reiter, lawyers,

applicant,

supported by

Federal Republic of Germany, represented by J. Möller and N. Scheffel, acting as Agents,

intervener,

v

European Union Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER), represented by P. Martinet, Z. Vujasinovic and E. Tremmel, acting as Agents, and by P. Goffinet, L. Bersou and M. Shehu, lawyers,

defendant,

THE GENERAL COURT (Third Chamber, Extended Composition),

composed of F. Schalin, President, P. Škvařilová-Pelzl, I. Nõmm, G. Steinfatt and D. Kukovec (Rapporteur), Judges,

Registrar: I. Kurme, Administrator,

having regard to the written part of the procedure,

further to the hearings on 12 and 13 June 2023,

gives the following

Judgment

By its action under Article 263 TFEU, the applicant, the Bundesnetzagentur für Elektrizität, Gas, Telekommunikation, Post und Eisenbahnen (BNetzA), seeks the annulment of the decision of the Board of Appeal of the European Union Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER) of 28 May 2021 confirming ACER Decision No 30/2020 of 30 November 2020 on the proposal of the electricity transmission system operators (‘TSOs’) of the ‘Core’ capacity calculation region, comprising Belgium, the Czech Republic, Germany, France, Croatia, Luxembourg, Hungary, the Netherlands, Austria, Poland, Romania, Slovenia and Slovakia (‘the Core region’), for the methodology for cost sharing of redispatching and countertrading, and dismissing its appeal in Case A-001-2021 (consolidated) (‘the contested decision’).