Order — ECLI:EU:C:2017:751
Date: 2017-10-11
Language of the case: Hungarian
Court formation: Vice-President
Subject matter: State aids;Competition
Procedure: Action for annulment;Appeal - decision unnecessary;Application for interim measures
Origin: Hungary

Order of the Vice-President of the Court of 11 October 2017 — Hungary v Commission (Case C‑204/17 P(R)) (Appeal — Order for interim measures — State aid — Hungarian tax on advertisement turnover — Progressive nature of the tax rate — Limitation of the possibility to deduct losses carried forward to companies which did not make a profit in 2013 — Decision of the European Commission declaring the aid incompatible with the internal market and ordering its recovery — Application to suspend the operation of that decision — Urgency — No need to adjudicate) 1. Application for interim measures — Suspension of operation of a measure — Request which has become devoid of purpose — No need to adjudicate (Art. 278 TFEU; Rules of Procedure of the Court of Justice, Arts 149 and 190(1)) (see paras 14, 15) 2. Appeal — Interest in bringing proceedings — Condition — Appeal capable of procuring an advantage for the party bringing it (Statute of the Court of Justice, Annex I, Art. 9) (see para. 19) Operative part 1. There is no need to rule on the appeal. 2. Hungary is ordered to bear, in addition to its own costs, those incurred by the European Commission in these appeal proceedings.