CELEX: 62002TA0266
Language: en
Date: 2008-07-01 00:00:00
Title: Case T-266/02: Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 1 July 2008 — Deutsche Post v Commission (State aid — Measures implemented by the German authorities for Deutsche Post AG — Decision declaring the aid incompatible with the common market and ordering its recovery — Service of general economic interest — Compensation for additional costs generated by a policy of selling below cost in the door-to-door parcel delivery sector — No advantage)

15.8.2008   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 209/39
            
         Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 1 July 2008 — Deutsche Post v Commission
   (Case T-266/02) (1)
   
   (State aid - Measures implemented by the German authorities for Deutsche Post AG - Decision declaring the aid incompatible with the common market and ordering its recovery - Service of general economic interest - Compensation for additional costs generated by a policy of selling below cost in the door-to-door parcel delivery sector - No advantage)
   (2008/C 209/66)
   Language of the case: German
   Parties
   
      Applicant: Deutsche Post AG (Bonn, Germany) (represented by: J. Sedemund and T. Lübbig, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: Commission of the European Communities (represented by: V. Kreuschitz and J. Flett, Agents)
   
      Intervener in support of the applicant: Federal Republic of Germany (represented by: W.-D. Plessing and M. Lumma, Agents)
   
      Intervener in support of the defendant: Bundesverband Internationaler Express- und Kurierdienste eV (BIEK) (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) (represented by: F. Mitzkus, T. Wambach and R. Wojtek, lawyers); and UPS Europe NV/SA (Brussels, Belgium) (represented by: initially by T. Ottervanger and A. Bijleveld, and subsequently by T. Ottervanger, lawyers)
   Re:
   Action for annulment of Commission Decision 2002/753/EC of 19 June 2002 on measures implemented by the Federal Republic of Germany for Deutsche Post AG (OJ 2002 L 247, p. 27).
   Operative part of the judgment
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Annuls Commission Decision 2002/753/EC of 19 June 2002 on measures implemented by the Federal Republic of Germany for Deutsche Post AG;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the Commission to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by Deutsche Post;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders the Federal Republic of Germany, the Bundesverband Internationaler Express- und Kurierdienste eV (BIEK) and UPS Europe NV/SA to bear their own costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 274, 9.11.2002.