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9.2.2013 |
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Official Journal of the European Union |
C 38/22 |
Order of the General Court of 12 December 2012 — Cooperativa San Marco fra Lavoratori della Piccola Pesca and Others v Commission
(Case T-260/00) (1)
(Action for annulment - State aid - Reductions in social security contributions for undertakings in Venice and Chioggia - Decision declaring the aid scheme incompatible with the common market and imposing the recovery of the aid paid - Action in part manifestly inadmissible and in part manifestly lacking any foundation in law)
2013/C 38/39
Language of the case: Italian
Parties
Applicants: Cooperativa San Marco fra Lavoratori della Piccola Pesca — Burano Soc. coop. rl (Venice, Italy); Cooperativa Coopesca — Organizzazione tra Produttori e Lavoratori della Pesca — Chioggia Soc. coop. rl (Chioggia, Italy); Cooperativa tra i Lavoratori della Piccola Pesca di Pellestrina Soc. coop. rl (Venice); Cooperativa Pescatori di San Pietro in Volta Soc. coop. rl (Venice); Murazzo — Piccola Società Cooperativa rl (Chioggia); RAM — Società Cooperativa fra Lavoratori della Pesca, Raccoglitori ed Allevatori di Molluschi (Chioggia); Confcooperative — Unione Provinciale di Venezia (Mestre, Italy); and Comitato ‘Venezia Vuole Vivere’ (Marghera, Italy) (represented by: A. Vianello, lawyer)
Defendant: European Commission (represented by: V. Di Bucci, Agent, and by A. Dal Ferro, lawyer)
Intervening party in support of the applicants: The Italian Republic (represented: initially by U. Leanza, then by I. Braguglia, then by R. Adam, and finally by I. Bruni, Agents, and by G. Aiello and P. Gentili, avvocati dello Stato)
Re:
Application for annulment of Commission Decision 2000/394/EC of 25 November 1999 on aid to firms in Venice and Chioggia by way of relief from social security contributions under Laws Nos 30/1997 and 206/1995 (OJ 2000, L 150, p. 50).
Operative part of the order
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The objection of inadmissibility raised by the European Commission is joined to the substance of the case. |
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The action is dismissed as being in part manifestly inadmissible and in part manifestly lacking any foundation in law. |
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Cooperativa San Marco fra Lavoratori della Piccola Pesca — Burano Soc. coop. rl, Cooperativa Coopesca — Organizzazione tra Produttori e Lavoratori della Pesca — Chioggia Soc. coop. rl, Cooperativa tra i Lavoratori della Piccola Pesca di Pellestrina Soc. coop. rl, Cooperativa Pescatori di San Pietro in Volta Soc. coop. rl, Murazzo — Piccola Società Cooperativa rl, RAM — Società Cooperativa fra Lavoratori della Pesca, Raccoglitori ed Allevatori di Molluschi, Confcooperative — Unione Provinciale di Venezia et Comitato ‘Venezia Vuole Vivere’ are ordered to bear their own costs and to pay those incurred by the Commission. |
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The Italian Republic is ordered to bear its own costs. |