CELEX: 62008TA0443
Language: en
Date: 2011-03-24 00:00:00
Title: Joined Cases T-443/08 and T-455/08: Judgment of the General Court of 24 March 2011 — Freistaat Sachsen and Others v Commission (State aid — Aid for Leipzig/Halle Airport — Funding of investments relating to the construction of the new southern runway — Decision declaring aid compatible with the common market — Actions for annulment — No interest in bringing proceedings — Inadmissibility — Concept of ‘undertaking’ — Concept of ‘economic activity’ — Airport infrastructure)

14.5.2011   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 145/24
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 24 March 2011 — Freistaat Sachsen and Others v Commission
   (Joined Cases T-443/08 and T-455/08) (1)
   
   (State aid - Aid for Leipzig/Halle Airport - Funding of investments relating to the construction of the new southern runway - Decision declaring aid compatible with the common market - Actions for annulment - No interest in bringing proceedings - Inadmissibility - Concept of ‘undertaking’ - Concept of ‘economic activity’ - Airport infrastructure)
   2011/C 145/38
   Language of the case: German
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicants: Freistaat Sachsen (Germany) and Land Sachsen-Anhalt (Germany) (represented by U. Soltész, lawyer) (Case T-443/08); Mitteldeutsche Flughafen AG (Leipzig, Germany) and Flughafen Leipzig/Halle GmbH) (Leipzig) (represented by: M. Núñez-Müller, lawyer) (Case T-455/08)
   
      Defendant: European Commission (represented by: K. Gross, B. Martenczuk and E. Righini, Agents)
   
      Interveners in support of the applicants: Federal Republic of Germany (represented by M. Lumma and B. Klein, Agents); and Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutscher Verkehrsflughäfen eV (ADV) (represented by L. Giesberts, lawyer)
   
      Re:
   
   Application for partial annulment of Commission Decision 2008/948/EC of 23 July 2008 on measures by Germany to assist DHL and Leipzig/Halle Airport (OJ 2008 L 346, p. 1).
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Joins Cases T-443/08 and T-455/08 for the purposes of judgment;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Dismisses the action in Case T-443/08 as inadmissible;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Annuls Article 1 of Commission Decision 2008/948/EC of 23 July 2008 on measures by Germany to assist DHL and Leipzig/Halle Airport in so far as it fixes at EUR 350 million the amount of State aid which the Federal Republic of Germany intends to grant to Leipzig/Halle Airport for the construction of a new southern runway and related airport infrastructure;
            
         
               4.
            
            
               Dismisses the remainder of the action in Case T-455/08;
            
         
               5.
            
            
               Orders Freistaat Sachsen and Land Sachsen-Anhalt to bear their own costs and to pay the European Commission’s costs in Case T-443/08;
            
         
               6.
            
            
               Orders Mitteldeutsche Flughafen AG and Flughafen Leipzig/Halle GmbH to bear their own costs;
            
         
               7.
            
            
               Orders the Commission bear its own costs in Case T-455/08;
            
         
               8.
            
            
               Orders the Federal Republic of Germany and Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutscher Verkehrsflughäfen eV (ADV) to bear their own costs in Cases T-443/08 and T-455/08.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 237, 20.12.2008.