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22.1.2005 |
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Official Journal of the European Union |
C 19/20 |
JUDGMENT OF THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE
of 18 November 2004
in Case T-176/01: Ferriere Nord SpA v Commission of the European Communities (1)
(State aid - Community guidelines on State aid for environmental protection - Steel undertaking - Products coming under the EC Treaty - Approved aid scheme - New aid - Initiation of the formal procedure - Time-limits - Rights of the defence - Legitimate expectation - Statement of reasons - Applicability ratione temporis of the Community guidelines - Environmental objective of the investment)
(2005/C 19/43)
Language of the case: Italian
In Case T-176/01: Ferriere Nord SpA, established in Osoppo (Italy), represented by W. Viscardini Donà and G. Donà, lawyers, supported by Italian Republic (Agents: initially U. Leanza, acting as Agent, and subsequently I. Braguglia and M. Fiorilli, avvocati dello Stato, with an address for service in Luxembourg), against Commission of the European Communities (Agents: V. Kreuschitz and V. Di Bucci, with an address for service in Luxembourg) – application for, first, annulment of Commission Decision 2001/829/EC, ECSC of 28 March 2001 on the State aid which Italy is planning to grant to Ferriere Nord SpA (OJ 2001 L 310, p. 22) and, second, compensation for the harm allegedly sustained by the applicant following the adoption of that decision – the Court of First Instance (Fourth Chamber, Extended Composition), composed of H. Legal, President, V. Tiili, A.W.H. Meij, M. Vilaras and N.J. Forwood, Judges; J. Palacio González, Principal Administrator, for the Registrar, has given a judgment on 18 November 2004, in which it:
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Dismisses the action; |
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Orders the applicant to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by the Commission; |
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Orders the Italian Republic to bear its own costs. |