CELEX: 62011CA0184
Language: en
Date: 2014-05-13 00:00:00
Title: Case C-184/11: Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 13 May 2014  — European Commission v Kingdom of Spain (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Judgment of the Court finding a failure to fulfil obligations — Non-implementation — Article 260 TFEU — State aid — Recovery — Unlawful aid scheme incompatible with the internal market — Individual aid granted under that scheme — Pecuniary penalty)

7.7.2014   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 212/2
            
         Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 13 May 2014 — European Commission v Kingdom of Spain
   (Case C-184/11) (1)
   
   ((Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - Judgment of the Court finding a failure to fulfil obligations - Non-implementation - Article 260 TFEU - State aid - Recovery - Unlawful aid scheme incompatible with the internal market - Individual aid granted under that scheme - Pecuniary penalty))
   2014/C 212/02
   Language of the case: Spanish
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: European Commission (represented by: C. Urraca Caviedes and B. Stromsky, Agents)
   
      Defendant: Kingdom of Spain (represented by: N. Díaz Abad, Agent)
   
      Re:
   
   Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — Article 260 TFEU — Failure to comply with the judgment of the Court of 14 December 2006 in Joined Cases C-485/03 to C-490/03 Commission v Spain ([2006] ECR I-11887) — Application to impose a penalty payment
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Declares that, by failing to take, by the date on which the period prescribed in the reasoned opinion issued by the Commission on 26 June 2008 expired, all the measures necessary to comply with the judgment in Joined Cases C-485/03 to C-490/03 Commission v Spain EU:C:2006:777, the Kingdom of Spain has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 260(1) TFEU;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the Kingdom of Spain to pay to the European Commission, into the ‘European Union own resources’ account, a lump sum of EUR 30 million;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders the Kingdom of Spain to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 186, 25.6.2011.