Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 29 April 2004 in Case C-278/00: Hellenic Republic v Commission of the European Communities (State aid — Settlement by the State of debts incurred by agricultural cooperatives)
Date: 2004-04-30
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: European Commission, Greece, State aid, action for annulment (EU), agricultural cooperative, debt, redemption

C 118/4

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

30.4.2004

1. Commission Decision 2000/567/EC of 11 April 2000 on State
aid granted by Germany to System Microelectronic Innovation
GmbH of Frankfurt an der Oder (Brandenburg) is annulled in so
far as it orders the recovery of the aid granted to System Mikroe-
lektronik Innovation GmbH from other undertakings and of the
aid granted to Silicium Mikroelektronik Integration GmbH from
other undertakings.

2. The remainder of the application is dismissed.

3. The Federal Republic of Germany and the Commission of the

European Communities are each to bear their own costs.

(1) OJ C 273 of 23.9.2000.

JUDGMENT OF THE COURT

(Fifth Chamber)

of 29 April 2004

JUDGMENT OF THE COURT

(Sixth Chamber)

of 29 April 2004

in Case C-298/00 P: Italian Republic v Commission of the
European Communities and Impresa Edo Collorigh and
Others (1)

(Appeal — State aid — Transport of goods by road — Effect
on trade between Member States and distortion of competi-
tion — Existing aid or new aid — Principles of reasonable-
ness and of the protection of legitimate expectations — State-
ment of reasons)

(2004/C 118/08)

(Language of the case: Italian)

in Case C-278/00: Hellenic Republic v Commission of the
European Communities (1)

(Provisional translation; the definitive translation will be published in
the European Court Reports)

(State aid — Settlement by the State of debts incurred by
agricultural cooperatives)

(2004/C 118/07)

(Language of the case: Greek)

(Provisional translation; the definitive translation will be published in
the European Court Reports)

In Case C-278/00: Hellenic Republic (Agents: I. Chalkias and C.
Tsiavou), with an address for service in Luxembourg, against
Commission of the European Communities (Agents: J. Flett and
D. Triantafyllou), with an address for service in Luxembourg –
action seeking the
annulment of Commission Decision
2002/458/EC of 1 March 2002 on the aid schemes imple-
mented by Greece in favour of the settlement of debts by the
agricultural cooperatives in 1992 and 1994, including the aids
for the reorganisation of
the dairy cooperative AGNO (OJ
2002 L 159, p. 1), or in the alternative the annulment of
Article 2 of
(Fifth Chamber),
composed of: P.
Jann, acting for the President of the Fifth
Chamber, C.W.A Timmermans and S. von Bahr (Rapporteur),
Judges; L.A. Geelhoed, Advocate General; L. Hewlett, Principal
Administrator, for the Registrar, has given a judgment on 29
April 2004, in which it:

that decision – the Court

Italian Republic (Agents:

the European Communities

In Case C-298/00 P:
I. Braguglia,
assisted by G. Aiello), with an address for service in Luxem-
bourg — appeal against the judgment of the Court of First
(Fourth Chamber,
Instance of
Extended Composition) in Joined Cases T-298/97, T-312/97, T-
313/97, T-315/97, T-600/97 to T-607/97, T-1/98, T-3/98 to
T-6/98 and T-23/98 Alzetta and Others v Commission [2000]
ECR II-2319, seeking to have that judgment set aside, the other
parties to the proceedings being: Commission of the European
Communities (Agent: V. Di Bucci), with an address for service
in Luxembourg, Impresa Edo Collorigh and Others (Lawyer: V.
Cinque), Mauro Alzetta and Others, Masotti Srl and Others,
Impresa Anna Maria Baldo and Others, SUTES SpA and Others,
Ditta Pietro Stagno and Others, Ditta Carlo Fabris & C. Snc,
Ditta Franco D'Odorico, Ditta Fiorindo Birri, Ditta Maria Cecilia
Framalicco, Autotrasporti Claudio Di Viola & C. Snc and
Impresa Amedeo Musso — the Court
(Sixth Chamber),
composed of: V. Skouris acting for the President of the Sixth
Chamber, J. N. Cunha Rodrigues, J.-P. Puissochet, R. Schintgen
and F. Macken (Rapporteur),
Judges; S. Alber, Advocate
General; M.-F. Contet, Principal Administrator, for the Regis-
trar, has given a judgment on 29 April 2004, in which it:

1. Dismissed the appeal and the interlocutory appeal.

1. Dismisses the action;

2. Orders the Hellenic Republic to pay the costs.

2. Ordered the Italian Republic, Impresa Edo Collorigh and Others
and the Commission of the European Communities to pay their
own costs.

(1) OJ C 259 of 9.9.2000.

(1) OJ C 285, 7.10.2000.