Case T-260/00: Order of the General Court of 12 December 2012 — Cooperativa San Marco fra Lavoratori della Piccola Pesca and Others v Commission (Action for annulment — State aid — Reductions in social security contributions for undertakings in Venice and Chioggia — Decision declaring the aid scheme incompatible with the common market and imposing the recovery of the aid paid — Action in part manifestly inadmissible and in part manifestly lacking any foundation in law)
Date: 2012-12-12
Institutions: General Court
Subjects: Italy, State aid, Veneto, control of State aid, infringement of EU law, single market, social-security contribution, type of business








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9.2.2013   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 38/22





Order of the General Court of 12 December 2012 — Cooperativa San Marco fra Lavoratori della Piccola Pesca and Others v Commission
(Case T-260/00) (1)

(Action for annulment - State aid - Reductions in social security contributions for undertakings in Venice and Chioggia - Decision declaring the aid scheme incompatible with the common market and imposing the recovery of the aid paid - Action in part manifestly inadmissible and in part manifestly lacking any foundation in law)
2013/C 38/39
Language of the case: Italian

Parties


Applicants: Cooperativa San Marco fra Lavoratori della Piccola Pesca — Burano Soc. coop. rl (Venice, Italy); Cooperativa Coopesca — Organizzazione tra Produttori e Lavoratori della Pesca — Chioggia Soc. coop. rl (Chioggia, Italy); Cooperativa tra i Lavoratori della Piccola Pesca di Pellestrina Soc. coop. rl (Venice); Cooperativa Pescatori di San Pietro in Volta Soc. coop. rl (Venice); Murazzo — Piccola Società Cooperativa rl (Chioggia); RAM — Società Cooperativa fra Lavoratori della Pesca, Raccoglitori ed Allevatori di Molluschi (Chioggia); Confcooperative — Unione Provinciale di Venezia (Mestre, Italy); and Comitato ‘Venezia Vuole Vivere’ (Marghera, Italy) (represented by: A. Vianello, lawyer)

Defendant: European Commission (represented by: V. Di Bucci, Agent, and by A. Dal Ferro, lawyer)

Intervening party in support of the applicants: The Italian Republic (represented: initially by U. Leanza, then by I. Braguglia, then by R. Adam, and finally by I. Bruni, Agents, and by G. Aiello and P. Gentili, avvocati dello Stato)

Re:

Application for annulment of Commission Decision 2000/394/EC of 25 November 1999 on aid to firms in Venice and Chioggia by way of relief from social security contributions under Laws Nos 30/1997 and 206/1995 (OJ 2000, L 150, p. 50).

Operative part of the order







1.


The objection of inadmissibility raised by the European Commission is joined to the substance of the case.










2.


The action is dismissed as being in part manifestly inadmissible and in part manifestly lacking any foundation in law.










3.


Cooperativa San Marco fra Lavoratori della Piccola Pesca — Burano Soc. coop. rl, Cooperativa Coopesca — Organizzazione tra Produttori e Lavoratori della Pesca — Chioggia Soc. coop. rl, Cooperativa tra i Lavoratori della Piccola Pesca di Pellestrina Soc. coop. rl, Cooperativa Pescatori di San Pietro in Volta Soc. coop. rl, Murazzo — Piccola Società Cooperativa rl, RAM — Società Cooperativa fra Lavoratori della Pesca, Raccoglitori ed Allevatori di Molluschi, Confcooperative — Unione Provinciale di Venezia et Comitato ‘Venezia Vuole Vivere’ are ordered to bear their own costs and to pay those incurred by the Commission.










4.


The Italian Republic is ordered to bear its own costs.






(1)  OJ C 355, 9.12.2000.