Information;Judgment — ECLI:EU:T:2022:13
Date: 2022-01-19
Language of the case: English
Court formation: Sixth Chamber
Subject matter: State aids;Competition
Procedure: Action for annulment - unfounded
Origin: Greece

Judgment of the General Court of 19 January 2022 – Koinopraxia Touristiki Loutrakiou v Commission (Case T-757/18) 1 (State aid – Greek casinos – System providing for a levy of 80% on admission fees of different amounts – Differentiation between public and private casinos – Complaint – Decision declaring the aid incompatible with the internal market and unlawful and ordering its recovery – Annulment of the decision by a decision of the General Court – Decision finding no State aid – Action for annulment – Challengeable act – Admissibility – Rights of the defence) Language of the case: English Parties Applicant: Koinopraxia Touristiki Loutrakiou AE OTA – Loutraki AE – Klab Otel Loutraki Kazino Touristikes kai Xenodocheiakes Epicheiriseis AE (Loutraki, Greece) (represented by: S. Pappas and A. Pappas, lawyers) Defendant: European Commission (represented by: A. Bouchagiar and P.-J. Loewenthal, acting as Agents) Interveners in support of the defendant: Regency Entertainment Psychagogiki kai Touristiki AE (Maroussi, Greece), Elliniko Kazino Parnithas AE (Maroussi) (represented by: N. Niejahr, B. Hoorelbeke, I. Drillerakis and E. Rantos, lawyers) Re: Application pursuant to Article 263 TFEU seeking annulment of Commission Decision (EU) 2018/1575 of 9 August 2018 on the measures to certain Greek casinos SA.28973 – C 16/2010 (ex NN 22/2010, ex CP 318/2009) implemented by Greece (OJ 2018 L 262, p. 61). Operative part of the judgment The Court: Dismisses the action; Orders Koinopraxia Touristiki Loutrakiou AE OTA – Loutraki AE – Klab Otel Loutraki Kazino Touristikes kai Xenodocheiakes Epicheiriseis AE to pay the costs. ____________ 1 OJ C 72, 25.2.2019.