Case reference |
Legislation concerned |
Parties | Case summary | Date |
Judgment Summary |
Case-321/15 | Directive 2003/87/EC | ArcelorMittal Rodange et Schifflange SA/ LU | Question on the surrender of wrongly allocated allowances and whether allowances can be considered as property | 08.03.2017 |
Member States are entitled to claim back wrongly allocated allowances without compensation. The question of the legal status of allowances is not essential to deliver a judgment in the case at stake. |
Case description: Report from the Commission to the European Parliament and to the Council, Report on the functioning of the European carbon market, 23 November 2017 (COM(2017) 693 final, p. 42 - 44