CELEX: 62019TA0047
Language: en
Date: 2021-06-09 00:00:00
Title: Case T-47/19: Judgment of the General Court of 9 June 2021 — Dansk Erhverv v Commission (State aid — Sale of canned beverages in border shops in Germany to foreign residents — Exemption from the deposit on condition that the beverages purchased are consumed outside Germany — Complaint — Decision by the Commission not to raise objections — Action for annulment — Locus standi — Admissibility — Conditions for initiating a formal investigation procedure — Error of law — Serious difficulties — Concept of ‘State aid’ — State resources — Non-imposition of a fine)

26.7.2021   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 297/31
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 9 June 2021 — Dansk Erhverv v Commission
      (Case T-47/19) (1)
      
      (State aid - Sale of canned beverages in border shops in Germany to foreign residents - Exemption from the deposit on condition that the beverages purchased are consumed outside Germany - Complaint - Decision by the Commission not to raise objections - Action for annulment - Locus standi - Admissibility - Conditions for initiating a formal investigation procedure - Error of law - Serious difficulties - Concept of ‘State aid’ - State resources - Non-imposition of a fine)
      (2021/C 297/36)
      Language of the case: English
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Dansk Erhverv (Copenhagen, Denmark) (represented by: T. Mygind and H. Peytz, lawyers)
      
         Defendant: European Commission (represented by: B. Stromsky and T. Maxian Rusche, acting as Agents)
      
         Intervener in support of the applicant: Danmarks Naturfredningsforening (Copenhagen) (represented by: T. Mygind and H. Peytz, lawyers)
      
         Intervener in support of the defendant: Federal Republic of Germany (represented by: J. Möller, R. Kanitz, S. Heimerl and S. Costanzo, acting as Agents), Interessengemeinschaft der Grenzhändler (IGG) (Flensburg, Germany) (represented by: M. Bauer and F. von Hammerstein, lawyers)
      
         Re:
      
      Application under Article 263 TFEU for the annulment of Commission Decision C(2018) 6315 final of 4 October 2018 concerning State Aid SA.44865 (2016/FC) — Germany — Alleged State aid to German beverage border shops.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Annuls Commission Decision C(2018) 6315 final of 4 October 2018 concerning State aid SA.44865 (2016/FC) — Germany — Alleged State aid to German beverage border shops;
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Orders the European Commission to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by Dansk Erhverv and Danmarks Naturfredningsforening;
               
            
                  3.
               
               
                  Orders the Federal Republic of Germany and Interessengemeinschaft der Grenzhändler (IGG) to bear their own costs.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 103, 18.3.2019.