Case T-778/17

Court of Justice

Status: Closed

Case on which the appeal is based: 62017TJ0778

DECISION

Title: Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 11 November 2021. Autostrada Wielkopolska S.A. v European Commission and Republic of Poland. Appeal – State aid – Toll-motorway concession – Law providing for an exemption from tolls for certain vehicles – Compensation granted to the concession holder by the Member State for loss of revenue – Shadow toll – Compensation found by the European Commission to be excessive and to include State aid – Commission decision declaring that aid incompatible with the internal market and ordering its recovery – Procedural rights of the aid beneficiary – Commission’s obligation to exercise particular vigilance – Concept of ‘State aid’ – Advantage – Improvement of the concession holder’s expected financial situation – Criterion of the private operator in a market economy – Distortion of the evidence – Breach of the obligation to state reasons – Misreading of the decision at issue – Substitution of grounds – Reversal of the burden of proof – Breach of the principle of primacy of EU law – Judicial review to be conducted by the General Court – Requirements and limits. Case C-933/19 P.
ECLI identifier: ECLI:EU:C:2021:905
Applicant: Individual
Defendant: European Commission, EU institutions and bodies
Judge-Rapporteur: Arabadjiev
Type of procedure: Action for annulment,Appeal - unfounded

11/11/2021

Title: Presuda Općeg suda (deveto vijeće) od 24. listopada 2019. (Ulomci). Autostrada Wielkopolska S.A. protiv Europske komisije. Državne potpore – Koncesija autoceste s naplatom cestarine – Zakon kojim se predviđa izuzimanje određenih vozila od plaćanja cestarine – Naknada koju je država članica dodijelila koncesionaru zbog gubitka prihoda – Virtualna cestarina – Odluka kojom se potpora proglašava nespojivom s unutarnjim tržištem te kojom se nalaže njezin povrat – Postupovna prava zainteresiranih stranaka – Komisijina obveza posebnog opreza – Pojam državne potpore – Prednost – Poboljšanje očekivane koncesionarove financijske situacije – Kriterij privatnog subjekta u tržišnom gospodarstvu – Članak 107. stavak 3. točka (a) UFEU‑a – Regionalna državna potpora. Predmet T-778/17.
ECLI identifier: ECLI:EU:T:2019:756
Applicant: Građanin
Defendant: Europska komisija, Institucije i tijela EU-a
Judge-Rapporteur: Gervasoni
Type of procedure: Tužba za poništenje - odbijanje zbog neosnovanosti
Complementary documents:: Communication published in the Official Journal

Abstract

24/10/2019

Title: Predmet T-778/17: Tužba podnesena 28. studenoga 2017. – Autostrada Wielkopolska protiv Komisije

29/01/2018