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Document 62008TB0529
Joined Cases T-529/08 to T-531/08: Order of the General Court of 13 April 2010 — Diputación Foral de Álava and Others v Commission (Application for annulment — State aid — Tax advantages — Recovery of State aid declared unlawful — Application of compound interest scheme — Confirmatory act — Inadmissibility)
Joined Cases T-529/08 to T-531/08: Order of the General Court of 13 April 2010 — Diputación Foral de Álava and Others v Commission (Application for annulment — State aid — Tax advantages — Recovery of State aid declared unlawful — Application of compound interest scheme — Confirmatory act — Inadmissibility)
Joined Cases T-529/08 to T-531/08: Order of the General Court of 13 April 2010 — Diputación Foral de Álava and Others v Commission (Application for annulment — State aid — Tax advantages — Recovery of State aid declared unlawful — Application of compound interest scheme — Confirmatory act — Inadmissibility)
OJ C 148, 5.6.2010, p. 30–31
(BG, ES, CS, DA, DE, ET, EL, EN, FR, IT, LV, LT, HU, MT, NL, PL, PT, RO, SK, SL, FI, SV)
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5.6.2010 |
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Official Journal of the European Union |
C 148/30 |
Order of the General Court of 13 April 2010 — Diputación Foral de Álava and Others v Commission
(Joined Cases T-529/08 to T-531/08) (1)
(Application for annulment - State aid - Tax advantages - Recovery of State aid declared unlawful - Application of compound interest scheme - Confirmatory act - Inadmissibility)
2010/C 148/54
Language of the case: Spanish
Parties
Applicants: Territorio Histórico de Álava — Diputación Foral de Álava and Others (Spain) (Case T-529/08); Territorio Histórico de Guipúzcoa — Diputación Foral de Guipúzcoa (Spain) (Case T-530/08); and Territorio Histórico de Vizcaya — Diputación Foral de Vizcaya (Spain) (Case T-531/08) (represented by: I. Sáenz-Cortabarría Fernández and M. Morales Isasi, lawyers)
Defendant: European Commission (represented by: C. Urraca Caviedes, acting as Agent)
Re:
Application for annulment of the Commission’s letter of 2 October 2008, communicating to the applicants that is necessary to apply compound interest in the context of the recovery of State aid declared unlawful by Commission Decisions 2002/820/EC, 2002/894/EC and 2003/27/EC of 11 July 2001 on the State aid scheme implemented by Spain for firms in respectively Álava, Guipúzcoa and Vizcaya in the form of a tax credit amounting to 45 % of investments (respectively, OJ 2002 L 296, p. 1, OJ 2002 L 314, p. 26, and OJ 2003 L 17, p. 1), and Commission Decisions 2002/892/EC, 2002/540/EC and 2002/806/EC of 11 July 2001 on the State aid scheme applied by Spain to certain newly established firms in respectively Álava, Guipúzcoa and Vizcaya (respectively, OJ 2002 L 314, p. 1, OJ 2002 L 174, p. 31 and OJ 2002 L 279, p. 35), which were upheld by the judgments of the General Court in Joined Cases T-227/01 to T-229/01, T-265/01, T-266/01 and T-270/01 Diputación Foral de Álava and Others v Commission [2009] ECR II-0000; and Joined Cases T-230/01 and T-267/01 to T-269/01 Diputación Foral de Álava and Others v Commission [2009] ECR II-0000.
Operative part of the order
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The actions are dismissed as inadmissible. |
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Territorio Histórico de Álava — Diputación Foral de Álava, Territorio Histórico de Guipúzcoa — Diputación Foral de Guipúzcoa and Territorio Histórico de Vizcaya — Diputación Foral de Vizcaya shall each bear their own costs and pay the costs incurred by the European Commission. |