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: Sodba Splošnega sodišča (deveti senat) z dne 24. oktobra 2019 (izvlečki). Autostrada Wielkopolska S.A. proti Evropski komisiji. Državne pomoči – Koncesija za cestninsko avtocesto – Zakon, ki določa oprostitev plačila cestnine za nekatera vozila – Nadomestilo, ki ga država članica dodeli koncesionarju zaradi izgube prejemkov – Virtualna cestnina – Sklep, s katerim je bila pomoč razglašena za nezdružljivo z notranjim trgom in s katerim je bilo naloženo vračilo te pomoči – Procesne pravice zainteresiranih strank – Obveznost Komisije, da je posebno pazljiva – Pojem državne pomoči – Prednost – Izboljšanje pričakovanega finančnega položaja koncesionarja – Merilo zasebnega udeleženca v tržnem gospodarstvu – Člen 107(3)(a) PDEU – Regionalna državna pomoč. Zadeva T-778/17.
ECLI identifier: ECLI:EU:T:2019:756
Applicant: Posameznik
Defendant: Evropska komisija, Institucije in organi EU
Judge-Rapporteur: Gervasoni
Type of procedure: Ničnostna tožba - neutemeljena
Complementary documents:: Communication published in the Official Journal

Abstract

24/10/2019

Title: Zadeva T-778/17: Tožba, vložena 28. novembra 2017 – Autostrada Wielkopolska /Komisija

29/01/2018