CELEX: 62018CA0505
Language: en
Date: 2019-06-13 00:00:00
Title: Case C-505/18: Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 13 June 2019 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Conseil d'État — France) — Copebi SCA v Établissement national des produits de l'agriculture et de la mer (FranceAgriMer) (Reference for a preliminary ruling — State aid — Decision 2009/402/EC — Contingency plans in the fruit and vegetable sector implemented by the French Republic — Finding that the aid is incompatible — Recovery order — Scope of the decision — Economic agricultural committees)

5.8.2019   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 263/20
            
         
      Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 13 June 2019 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Conseil d'État — France) — Copebi SCA v Établissement national des produits de l'agriculture et de la mer (FranceAgriMer)
      (Case C-505/18) (1)
      
      (Reference for a preliminary ruling - State aid - Decision 2009/402/EC - Contingency plans in the fruit and vegetable sector implemented by the French Republic - Finding that the aid is incompatible - Recovery order - Scope of the decision - Economic agricultural committees)
      (2019/C 263/25)
      Language of the case: French
      
         Referring court
      
      Conseil d'État
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      
         Appellant: Copebi SCA
      
         Respondent: Etablissement national des produits de l'agriculture et de la mer (FranceAgriMer)
      
         Other party: Ministre de l’Agriculture et de l’Alimentation
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      Commission Decision 2009/402/EC of 28 January 2009 on the ‘contingency plans’ in the fruit and vegetable sector implemented by France must be interpreted as covering aid paid by the Office national interprofessionnel des fruits, des légumes et de l’horticulture (ONIFLHOR) (National Fruit, Vegetables and Horticulture Trade Board) to the comité économique bigarreau industrie (CEBI) (Economic Committee for the Whiteheart Cherry Industry) and allocated to producers of whiteheart cherries for industrial uses by the producer groups which are members of that committee, even though first, the CEBI is not one of the eight economic agricultural committees referred to in that decision and, second, that aid, unlike the financing mechanism described in that decision, was financed only by subsidies from ONIFLHOR and not also by voluntary contributions from producers.
      
         (1)  OJ C 364, 8.10.2018.