Case T-348/04: Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 15 April 2008 — SIDE v Commission (State aid — Export aid in the book sector — Failure to give prior notification — Article 87(3)(d) EC — Temporal scope of Community law — Method of calculating the amount of the aid)
Date: 2008-04-15
Institutions: Court of First Instance
Subjects: European Commission, France, State aid, action for annulment (EU), book trade, commission agent, control of State aid, export

24.5.2008

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 128/31

3. Orders the Commission to bear two fifths of its own costs and also

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

to pay two fifths of the costs incurred by Cestas.

(1) OJ C 217, 28.8.2004.

(1) OJ C 262, 23.10.2004.

Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 15 April 2008
— SIDE v Commission

(Case T-348/04) (1)

(State aid — Export aid in the book sector — Failure to give
prior notification — Article 87(3)(d) EC — Temporal scope of
Community law — Method of calculating the amount of
the aid)

(2008/C 128/66)

Language of the case: French

Parties

Applicant: Société internationale de diffusion and d'édition SA
(SIDE) (Vitry-sur-Seine, France) (represented by: N. Coutrelis and
V. Giacobbo, lawyers)

Defendant: Commission of the European Communities (repre-
sented by: J.-P. Keppenne, Agent)

Intervener in support of the defendant: French Republic (represented
by: G. de Bergues and S. Ramet initially and, subsequently, by G.
de Bergues and A.-L. Vendrolini, Agents)

Re:

APPLICATION for annulment of the last sentence of Article 1
of Commission Decision 2005/262/EC of 20 April 2004 on the
aid implemented by France in favour of the Coopérative d'expor-
tation du livre français (CELF) (OJ 2005 L 85, p. 27).

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 9 April 2008 —
Greece v Commission

(Case T-364/04) (1)

(EAGGF — Guarantee Section — Expenditure excluded from
Community financing — Products processed from fruit and
vegetables — Animal premiums — Period of 24 months)

(2008/C 128/67)

Language of the case: Greek

Parties

Applicant: Hellenic Republic (represented by:
E. Svolopoulou, Agents)

I. Chalkias and

Defendant: Commission of the European Communities (repre-
initially, and
sented by: M. Condou-Durande and L. Visaggio,
M. Condou-Durande and H. Tserepa-Lacombe, Agents, and
N. Korogiannakis, lawyer, subsequently)

Re:

of Commission Decision

Annulment
2004/561/EC of
16 July 2004 excluding from Community financing certain
expenditure incurred by the Member States under the Guarantee
Section of the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee
Fund (EAGGF) (OJ 2004 L 250, p. 21) inasmuch as it excludes
certain expenditure by the Hellenic Republic in the sectors of
products processed from fruit and vegetables and animal
premiums.

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

1. Dismisses the action;

2. Orders the Hellenic Republic to pay the costs.

1. Annuls the last sentence of Article 1 of the Commission's Decision
of 20 April 2004 on the aid implemented by France in favour of
the Coopérative d'exportation du livre français (CELF).

(1) OJ C 314, 18.12.2004.

2. Orders the Commission to bear its own costs and those of the

Société internationale de diffusion et d'édition SA (SIDE).