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Order of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 11 March 2020 — Telecom Italia
(Case C‑338/19) (
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(Reference for a preliminary ruling — Article 99 Rules of Procedure of the Court of Justice — State aid — Article 108 TFEU — Regulation (EC) No 659/1999 — Recovery of aid by the Member State of its own motion — Regulation (EC) No 794/2004 — Applicable interest rate)
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State aid — Planned aid — Notifying the Commission — Decision of the Commission not to raise an objection — Implementation of aid in accordance with the planned aid notified — Recovery of aid by the Member State of its own initiative and according to the stipulations of the planned aid notified — Applicability of the rules laid down by Regulation No 659/1999 in cases of misuse of aid —None
(Art. 108(3) TFEU; Council Regulation No 659/1999, Art. 16)
(see paras 20-27)
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State aid — Planned aid — Notifying the Commission — Decision of the Commission not to raise an objection — Implementation of aid in accordance with the planned aid notified — Recovery of aid by the Member State of its own initiative and according to the stipulations of the planned aid notified — Determination of the interest rate under national law — Conditions — Compliance with the principle of effectiveness — Consequences
(Art. 108(3) TFEU; Commission Regulation No 794/2004, Art. 9)
(see paras 28-31, operative part)
Operative part
The interest rate set out in Article 9(1) and (2) of Commission Regulation (EC) No 794/2004 of 21 April 2004 implementing Council Regulation (EC) No 659/1999 laying down detailed rules for the application of Article [108 TFEU], as amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 271/2008 of 30 January 2008, is not intended to apply when a national authority recovers State aid of its own motion.
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)	OJ C 312, 16.9.2019.