28.4.2007   

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 96/30


Judgment of the Tribunal of First Instance of 29 March 2007 — Département du Loiret v Commission

(Case T-369/00) (1)

(State aid - Land sale price - Decision ordering the recovery of aid incompatible with the common market - Present-day value of the aid - Compound interest - Statement of reasons)

(2007/C 96/64)

Language of the case: French

Parties

Applicant: Département du Loiret (France) (represented by: A. Carnelutti, lawyer)

Defendant: Commission of the European Communities (represented by: G. Rozet and J. Flett, Agents)

Intervener in support of the applicant: Scott SA (Saint-Cloud (France), (represented by: Sir Jeremy Lever QC, J. Gardner and G. Peretz, Barristers and R. Griffith and M. Papadakis, Solicitors)

Re:

Partial annulument of Commission Decision 2002/14/EC of 12 July 2000 on the State aid granted by France to Scott Paper SA/Kimberly-Clark (OJ 2002 L 12, p. 1).

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

1.

Annuls Commission Decision 2002/14/EC of 12 July 2000 on the State aid granted by France to Scott Paper SA/Kimberly-Clark in so far as it concerns the aid granted in the form of a preferential price for the property referred to in Article 1;

2.

Orders the Commission to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by the applicant and by Scott SA.


(1)  OJ C 61, 24.2.2001.