Orders nº T-564/18 of Tribunal General de la Unión Europea, February 06, 2020

• Resolution Date: February 06, 2020
• Issuing Organization: Tribunal General de la Unión Europea
• Decision Number: T-564/18

(Removal from the register)

In Case T-564/18,

Ernests Bernis, residing in Jurmala (Latvia),

Oļegs Fiļs, residing in Jurmala,

OF Holding SIA, established in Riga (Latvia),

Cassandra Holding Company SIA, established in Jurmala,

represented by O. Behrends, lawyer,

applicants,

v

European Central Bank, represented by E. Koupepidou and G. Marafioti, acting as Agents, and by J. Rodríguez Cárcamo, lawyer,

defendant,

APPLICATION under Article 263 TFEU for the annulment of Decision ECB-SSM-2018-LVABL-2 WOANCA-2018-00007 of the European Central Bank of 11 July 2018, withdrawing the licence of the credit institution ABLV Bank.

1 By letter lodged at the Court Registry on 5 December 2019, the applicants informed the Court, in accordance with Article 125 of the Rules of Procedure of the General Court, that they wished to discontinue proceedings and requested, pursuant to Article 136(2) of the Rules of Procedure, that the defendant be ordered to pay the costs.

2 By letter lodged at the Court Registry on 9 January 2020, the defendant informed the Court that it had no observations on the discontinuance of the proceedings and requested that the applicants shall bear their own costs and those incurred by the defendant.

3 Article 136(1) and (2) of the Rules of Procedure provides that a party who discontinues or withdraws from proceedings is to be ordered to pay the costs if they have been applied for in the other party’s observations on the discontinuance. However, at the request of the party who discontinues or withdraws from proceedings, the costs are to be borne by the other party if this appears justified by the conduct of that party.

4 The applicants argue that the defendant adopted an extreme view in Joined Cases C-663/17 P, C-665/17 P and C-669/17 P European Central Bank (ECB) and Others v Trasta Komercbanka and Others (judgment of the Court of Justice...