Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 13 January 2005 in Case C-175/02: Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Hoge Raad der Nederlanden in F.J. Pape v Minister van Landbouw, Natuurbeheer en Visserij (State aid — Article 93(3) of the EC Treaty (now Article 88(3) EC) — Planned aid — Prohibition on the implementation of planned measures before the Commission's final decision — Tax partly earmarked for financing the aid measure — Tax imposed before approval of the aid)
Date: 2005-03-05
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: EU law, aid system, financing of aid, interpretation of the law, tax

C 57/4

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

5.3.2005

JUDGMENT OF THE COURT

JUDGMENT OF THE COURT

(First Chamber)

(Second Chamber)

of 13 January 2005

of 20 January 2005

in Case C-175/02: Reference for a preliminary ruling from
the Hoge Raad der Nederlanden in F.J. Pape v Minister van
Landbouw, Natuurbeheer en Visserij (1)

in Case C-225/02 (reference for a preliminary ruling by the
Juzgado de lo Social no 3 de Orense): Rosa García Blanco v
Instituto Nacional de la Seguridad Social (INSS), Tesorería
General de la Seguridad Social (TGSS) (1)

(State aid — Article 93(3) of the EC Treaty (now Article
88(3) EC) — Planned aid — Prohibition on the implementa-
tion of planned measures before the Commission's final deci-
sion — Tax partly earmarked for financing the aid measure
— Tax imposed before approval of the aid)

(Social security of migrant workers — Old age — Unemploy-
ment — Minimum periods of insurance — Periods of insur-
ance taken into account for calculating the amount of bene-
fits but not for acquiring the right to those benefits —
Periods of unemployment — Aggregation)

(2005/C 57/06)

(2005/C 57/07)

(Language of the case: Dutch)

(Language of the case: Spanish)

In Case C-175/02: reference for a preliminary ruling under
Article 234 EC from the Hoge Raad der Nederlanden (Nether-
lands), made by decision of 8 March 2002, received at the
Court on 13 May 2002, in the proceedings between F.J. Pape
and Minister van Landbouw, Natuurbeheer en Visserij – the
Court: (First Chamber) composed of P. Jann, President of the
Chamber, A. Rosas, K. Lenaerts, S. von Bahr and K. Schiemann
(Rapporteur), Judges; L.A. Geelhoed, Advocate General; M.-F.
Contet, Principal Administrator, for the Registrar, gave a judg-
ment on 13 January 2005, in which it ruled:

In Case C-225/02: reference for a preliminary ruling under
Article 234 EC from the Juzgado de lo Social no 3 de Orense
(Spain), made by decision of 30 March 2002, received at the
Court on 17 June 2002,
in the proceedings between Rosa
García Blanco and Instituto Nacional de la Seguridad Social
(INSS), Tesorería General de la Seguridad Social (TGSS) – the
Court (Second Chamber), composed of C.W.A. Timmermans,
President of the Chamber, R. Silva de Lapuerta, R. Schintgen
(Rapporteur), P. Kūris and G. Arestis, Judges; J. Kokott, Advo-
cate General, M. Múgica Arzamendi, Principal Administrator,
for the Registrar, has given a judgment on 20 January 2005, in
which it has ruled:

The prohibition on implementation laid down in the last sentence of
Article 93(3) of the EC Treaty (now the last sentence of Article 88(3)
EC) cannot apply to a tax if that tax, or a certain part of the revenue
from it, is not hypothecated to the financing of an aid measure.

There is no need to reply to the reference for a preliminary ruling in
Case C-225/02.

(1) OJ C 169 of 13.07.2002.

(1) OJ C 191 of 10.08.2002