CELEX: 62016CN0135
Language: en
Date: 2016-03-07 00:00:00
Title: Case C-135/16: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Verwaltungsgericht Frankfurt am Main (Germany) lodged on 7 March 2016 — Georgsmarienhütte GmbH and Others v Bundesrepublik Deutschland

13.6.2016   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 211/27
            
         
      Request for a preliminary ruling from the Verwaltungsgericht Frankfurt am Main (Germany) lodged on 7 March 2016 — Georgsmarienhütte GmbH and Others v Bundesrepublik Deutschland
      (Case C-135/16)
      (2016/C 211/34)
      Language of the case: German
      
         Referring court
      
      Verwaltungsgericht Frankfurt am Main
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      
         Applicants: Georgsmarienhütte GmbH, Stahlwerk Bous GmbH, Schmiedag GmbH, Harz Guss Zorge GmbH
      
         Defendants: Bundesrepublik Deutschland
      
         Question referred
      
      Does the European Commission Decision of 25 November 2014 (Commission Decision of 25.11.2014 on the aid scheme SA.33995 (2013/C) (ex 2013/NN) implemented by Germany for the support of renewable electricity and of energy-intensive users, C(2014)8786 final) (1) breach the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union in so far as the Commission qualifies the limitation of the EEG-surcharge as aid within the meaning of Article 107 TFEU?
      
         (1)  OJ 2015 L 250, p. 122.