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Document 62009CJ0318

    Presuda Suda (šesto vijeće) od 21. prosinca 2011.
    A2A SpA, ranije ASM Brescia SpA protiv Europske komisije.
    Žalba - Tužba za poništenje - Dopuštenost - Članak 87. UEZ-a - Članak 88. UEZ-a - Članak 10. UEZ-a.
    Predmet C-318/09 P.

    ECLI identifier: ECLI:EU:C:2011:856

    Date of document:
    21/12/2011
    Date lodged:
    10/08/2009
    Author:
    Sud
    Country or organisation from which the request originates:
    Italija
    Form:
    Presuda
    Authentic language:
    talijanski
    Type of procedure:
    Žalba - odbijanje zbog neosnovanosti, Žalba - odbacivanje zbog nedopuštenostii, Tužba za poništenje
    Judge-Rapporteur:
    Arabadjiev
    Advocate General:
    Sharpston
    Treaty:
    Ugovor o funkcioniranju Europske unije
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    Notes relating to the decision:
    • 1. Chérot, Jean-Yves: Récupération : La CJUE examine le cas particulier de l’étendue de l’obligation de motivation de l’ordre de récupération dans une décision statuant sur un régime général d’aide (A2A c/ Commission ; ACEA c/ Commission), Concurrences : revue des droits de la concurrence 2012 nº 1 p.169-170
    • 2. Idot, Laurence: Recevabilité des recours contre des régimes d'aides, Europe 2012 Février Comm. nº 2 p.33





    Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 21 December 2011 – A2A, formerly ASM Brescia v Commission

    (Case C-318/09 P)

    Appeal – State aid – Aid granted to public utilities – Tax exemptions – Decision declaring the aid scheme incompatible with the common market – Action for annulment – Admissibility – Locus standi – Legal interest in bringing proceedings – Article 87 EC – Concept of ‘aid’ – Article 88 EC – Concept of ‘new aid’ – Article 10 EC – Duty to cooperate in good faith – Regulation (EC) No 659/1999 – Articles 1 and 14 – Lawfulness of a recovery order – Principle of legal certainty – Duty to state reasons

    1.                     Actions for annulment – Natural or legal persons – Measures of direct and individual concern to them – Commission decision prohibiting a sectoral aid scheme – Action brought by an undertaking having received individual aid granted under that scheme and that must be recovered – Admissibility (Art. 230, fourth para., EC) (see paras 55-60)

    2.                     Actions for annulment – Legal interest in bringing proceedings – Condition – Action capable of procuring an advantage for the party bringing it – Commission decision on the recovery of State aid (see paras 68-70)

    3.                     Appeals – Pleas in law – Inadequate statement of reasons – Reliance by the Court of First Instance on implied reasoning – Whether permissible – Conditions (Art. 225 EC; Statute of the Court of Justice, Arts 36 and 53, first para.) (see para. 97)

    4.                     Appeals – Pleas in law – Mistaken assessment of the facts – Inadmissibility – Review by the Court of the assessment of the facts and evidence – Possible only where the clear sense of the evidence has been distorted (Art. 225 EC; Statute of the Court of Justice, Art. 58, first para.) (see paras 103-105)

    5.                     Appeals – Pleas in law – Plea directed against a ground of the judgment not necessary in order to support the operative part – Plea in law ineffective (see para. 109)

    6.                     Appeals – Pleas in law – Distortion of national law relied on as evidence – Admissibility (Art. 225 EC; Statute of the Court of Justice, Art. 51, first para.) (see para. 125)

    7.                     Appeals – Pleas in law – Plea submitted for the first time in the context of the appeal – Inadmissibility (Rules of Procedure of the Court of Justice, Arts 42(2) and 118) (see para. 131)

    Re:

    Appeal brought against the judgment of the Court of First Instance (Eighth Chamber, Extended Composition) of 11 June 2009 in Case T‑189/03 ASM Brescia v Commission by which that court dismissed the action brought for annulment of Articles 2 and 3 of Commission Decision 2003/193/EC of 5 June 2002 on State aid granted by Italy in the form of tax exemptions and subsidised loans to public utilities with a majority public capital holding (OJ 2003 L 77, p. 21).

    Operative part

    The Court:

    1.

    Dismisses the main appeal and the cross-appeal;

    2.

    Orders A2A SpA to pay the costs of the main appeal;

    3.

    Orders the European Commission to pay the costs of the cross-appeal.

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