Key legal question
Whether the appellants had standing to challenge the Federal Administrative Court judgment
Extracted holding
They lacked standing because the lower-court judgment affected only the legal relationship between swissgrid and the appealing network owners below, not the appellants' own legally protected interests.
Extracted reasoning
The contested judgment could only have effects within the dispute actually before the Federal Administrative Court. Since the appellants had not appealed the ElCom decision and their legal situation remained governed by the final ElCom decision, they were neither formally nor materially affected by the lower-court judgment.