CELEX: 62003TA0020
Language: en
Date: 2008-09-24 00:00:00
Title: Case T-20/03: Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 24 September 2008 — Kahla/Thüringen Porzellan v Commission (State aid — Existing aid or new aid — Firm in difficulty — Principle of legal certainty — Principle of the protection of legitimate expectations — Private investor test — Compatibility with the common market — Conditions)

8.11.2008   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 285/33
            
         Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 24 September 2008 — Kahla/Thüringen Porzellan v Commission
   (Case T-20/03) (1)
   
   (State aid - Existing aid or new aid - Firm in difficulty - Principle of legal certainty - Principle of the protection of legitimate expectations - Private investor test - Compatibility with the common market - Conditions)
   (2008/C 285/58)
   Language of the case: German
   Parties
   
      Applicant: Kahla/Thüringen Porzellan GmbH (Kahla, Germany) (represented by: M. Schütte and S. Zühlke, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: Commission of the European Communities (represented by: V. Kreuschitz and V. Di Bucci, Agents, assisted by C. Koenig, professor)
   
      Interveners in support of the applicant: Freistaat Thüringen (Germany) (represented by: initially by A. Weitbrecht and A. van Ysendyck, and subsequently by A. Weitbrecht and M. Núñez-Müller, lawyers); and Federal Republic of Germany (represented by: W.D. Plessing and M. Lumma, Agents)
   Re:
   APPLICATION for annulment of Commission Decision 2003/643/EC of 13 May 2003 on the State aid implemented by Germany for Kahla Porzellan GmbH and Kahla/Thüringen Porzellan GmbH (OJ 2003 L 227, p. 12), in so far as that decision concerns the financial assistance granted to Kahla/Thüringen Porzellan GmbH.
   Operative part of the judgment
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Kahla/Thüringen Porzellan GmbH to bear its own costs and to pay a third of the costs incurred by the Commission, and the Commission to bear two thirds of its own costs;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders the Land of Thuringia and the Federal Republic of Germany to bear theirown costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 70, 22.3.2003.