Case T-136/05: Judgment of the Court of First Instance (Fifth Chamber) of 20 September 2007 — EARL Salvat père & fils and others v Commission (State aid — Wine-production conversion measures — Decision declaring aid partly compatible and partly incompatible with the common market — Action for annulment — Admissibility — Obligation to State reasons — Assessment in light of Article 87(1) EC)
Date: 2007-11-10
Institutions: Court of First Instance
Subjects: European Commission, France, State aid, action for annulment (EU), advertising, control of State aid, set-aside, viticulture

10.11.2007

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 269/47

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

1. Dismisses the action;

2. Orders the applicant to pay the costs.

(1) OJ C 57, 5.3.2005.

Judgment of the Court of First Instance (Fifth Chamber) of
20 September 2007 — EARL Salvat père & fils and others
v Commission

(Case T-136/05) (1)

(State aid — Wine-production conversion measures — Deci-
sion declaring aid partly compatible and partly incompatible
with the common market — Action for annulment — Admis-
sibility — Obligation to State reasons — Assessment in light
of Article 87(1) EC)

(2007/C 269/83)

Language of the case: French

Parties

Applicants: EARL Salvat père & fils (Saint-Paul-de-Fenouillet,
France); Comité interprofessionnel des vins doux naturels and
vins de liqueur à appellations contrôlées (CIVDN) (Perpignan,
France); and Comité national des interprofessions des vins à
appellation d'origine (CNIV) (Paris, France) (represented by: H.
Calvet and O.Billard, lawyers)

Defendant: Commission of the European Communities (repre-
sented by: C. Giolito and A. Stobiecka-Kuik, agents)

Intervener in support of the applicants: French Republic (represented
by G. de Bergues, agent)

Re:

Judgment of the Court of First Instance (Third Chamber)
2007 — Fachvereinigung
of

September

20

Mineralfaserindustrie v Commission

(Case T-254/05) (1)

(State Aid — Measures to promote the use of insulation mate-
rial from renewable raw materials — Decision declaring aid
compatible with the common market — Preliminary examina-
tion — Action for annulment — Professional association —
Meaning of ‘party concerned’ in Article 88(2) EC — Pleas in
law on validity of decision — Inadmissibility)

(2007/C 269/84)

Language of the case: German

Parties

Applicant: Fachvereinigung Mineralfaserindustrie eV Deutsche
Gruppe der Eurima — European Insulation Manufacturers Asso-
(represented by: T.
ciation (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Schmidt -Kötters, D. Uwer and K. Najork)

Defendant: Commission of the European Communities (repre-
sented by: V. Kreuschitz)

in support of

Intervener
the defendant: Federal Republic of
Germany (represented by M. Lumma and C. Schulze-Bahr,
agents)

Re:

Action for annulment of Commission Decision C(2005) 379 of
11 February 2005 relating to State Aid N 260b/2004 (Germany
— Prolongation of the scheme to promote the use of insulation
material from renewable raw materials)

Action for annulment of Article 1(1) and (3) of Decision
2007/253/EC of the Commission of 19 January 2005 on the
Rivesaltes plan and CIVDN parafiscal charges operated by France
(OJ 2007 L 112, p. 1).

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

1. Dismisses the action;

2. Orders the applicants to pay the costs;

3. Orders the French Republic to bear its own costs.

1. Dismisses the action as inadmissible;

2. Orders Fachvereinigung Mineralfaserindustrie eV Deutsche Gruppe
der Eurima — European Insulation Manufacturers Association to
bear its own costs and to pay the costs of the Commission;

3. Orders the Federal Republic of Germany to bear its own costs.

(1) OJ C 132 of 28.5.2005.

(1) OJ C 229 of 17.9.2005.