Case C-47/10 P: Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 27 October 2011 — Republic of Austria v Scheucher-Fleisch GmbH, Tauernfleisch Vertriebs GesmbH, Wech-Kärntner Truthahnverarbeitung GmbH, Wech-Geflügel GmbH, Johann Zsifkovics, European Commission (Appeal — State aid — Articles 87 EC and 88(2) and (3) EC — Regulation (EC) No 659/1999 — Decision not to raise any objections — Action for annulment — Pleas in law that may be relied upon in an action for annulment — Notion of ‘interested party’ — Statement of reasons for judgments — Burden of proof — Measures of organisation of procedure before the General Court — Articles 64 and 81 of the Rules of Procedure of the General Court)
Date: 2011-10-27
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: Austria, State aid, control of State aid, infringement of EU law, proof, quality label








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17.12.2011   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 370/11





Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 27 October 2011 — Republic of Austria v Scheucher-Fleisch GmbH, Tauernfleisch Vertriebs GesmbH, Wech-Kärntner Truthahnverarbeitung GmbH, Wech-Geflügel GmbH, Johann Zsifkovics, European Commission
(Case C-47/10 P) (1)

(Appeal - State aid - Articles 87 EC and 88(2) and (3) EC - Regulation (EC) No 659/1999 - Decision not to raise any objections - Action for annulment - Pleas in law that may be relied upon in an action for annulment - Notion of ‘interested party’ - Statement of reasons for judgments - Burden of proof - Measures of organisation of procedure before the General Court - Articles 64 and 81 of the Rules of Procedure of the General Court)
2011/C 370/16
Language of the case: German

Parties


Appellant: Republic of Austria (represented by: E. Riedl, Agent, Núñez Müller, J. Dammann, Rechtsanwälte)

Other parties to the proceedings: Scheucher-Fleisch GmbH, Tauernfleisch Vertriebs GmbH, Wech-Kärntner Truthahnverarbeitung GmbH, Wech-Geflügel GmbH, Johann Zsifkovics (represented by J. Hofer and T. Humer, Rechtsanwälte), European Commission (represented by V. Kreuschitz and A. Stobiecka-Kuik, Agents)

Re:

Appeal against the judgment of the Court of First Instance (Sixth Chamber) of 18 November 2009Scheucher-Fleisch and Others v Commission (T-375/04), in which the Court of First Instance annulled Commission Decision C(2004) 2037 final of 30 June 2004 in relation to State aid NN 34A/00 concerning the quality programmes and quality labels ‘AAMA Biozeichen’ and ‘AMA Gütesiegel’ in Austria (OJ 2005 C 105, p. 30) — Erroneous interpretation of the expression ‘Adirectly and individually concerned’ in the fourth paragraph of Article 263 TFEU — Infringement of Article 108(2) TFEU in that the Court of First Instance held that the Commission was obliged to initiate the procedure laid down by that provision — Infringement of the rules concerning the burden of proof — Insufficient reasons stated for the judgment under appeal — Lack of necessary inquiry measures.

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:






1.


Dismisses the main appeal and the additional appeal;










2.


Orders the Republic of Austria to pay the costs;










3.


Orders the European Commission to bear its own costs.






(1)  OJ C 80, 27.3.2010.