CELEX: 62009CA0369
Language: en
Date: 2011-03-24 00:00:00
Title: Case C-369/09 P: Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 24 March 2011 — ISD Polska sp. z o.o., Industrial Union of Donbass Corp., ISD Polska sp. z o.o. (formerly Majątek Hutniczy sp. z o.o.) v European Commission (Appeals — State aid — Commission decision — Finding that aid is incompatible with the common market — Order for recovery of aid — Principles of legal certainty and non-retroactivity — Principle of the protection of legitimate expectations — Determination of the ‘appropriateness’ of the interest rate applicable to the recovery of aid)

21.5.2011   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 152/5
            
         Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 24 March 2011 — ISD Polska sp. z o.o., Industrial Union of Donbass Corp., ISD Polska sp. z o.o. (formerly Majątek Hutniczy sp. z o.o.) v European Commission
   (Case C-369/09 P) (1)
   
   (Appeals - State aid - Commission decision - Finding that aid is incompatible with the common market - Order for recovery of aid - Principles of legal certainty and non-retroactivity - Principle of the protection of legitimate expectations - Determination of the ‘appropriateness’ of the interest rate applicable to the recovery of aid)
   2011/C 152/07
   Language of the case: French
   
      Parties
   
   
      Appellants: ISD Polska sp. z o.o., Industrial Union of Donbass Corp., ISD Polska sp. z o.o. (formerly Majątek Hutniczy sp. z o.o.) (represented by: C. Rapin and E. Van den Haute, lawyers)
   
      Other party to the proceedings: European Commission (represented by: E. Gippini Fournier and A. Stobiecka-Kuik, Agents)
   
      Re:
   
   Appeal against the judgment of the Court of First Instance (Eighth Chamber) of 1 July 2009 in Joined Cases T-273/06 and T-297/06 ISD Polska and Others v Commission dismissing the appellants’ actions seeking the partial annulment of Commission Decision 2006/937/EC of 5 July 2005 on State aid C-20/04 in favour of Huta Częstochowa SA (OJ 2006 L 366, p. 1) in so far as it declared certain aid incompatible with the common market and ordered the Republic of Poland to recover the aid — Principles of legal certainty and the non-retroactivity of Community acts — Principle of the protection of legitimate expectations — Determination of the ‘appropriate’ nature of the interest rate applicable to the recovery of aid found to be incompatible with the common market
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the appeal.
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders ISD Polska sp. z o.o. and Industrial Union of Donbass Corp. to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 312, 19.12.2009.