CELEX: 62009TA0115
Language: en
Date: 2012-02-14 00:00:00
Title: Joined Cases T-115/09 and T-116/09: Judgment of the General Court of (Fourth Chamber) of 14 February 2012 — Electrolux and Whirlpool v Commission (State aid — Restructuring aid for a manufacturer of large home appliances notified by the French Republic — Decision declaring the aid compatible with the common market subject to conditions — Manifest errors of assessment — Guidelines on State aid for rescuing and restructuring firms in difficulty)

24.3.2012   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 89/21
            
         Judgment of the General Court of (Fourth Chamber) of 14 February 2012 — Electrolux and Whirlpool v Commission
   (Joined Cases T-115/09 and T-116/09) (1)
   
   (State aid - Restructuring aid for a manufacturer of large home appliances notified by the French Republic - Decision declaring the aid compatible with the common market subject to conditions - Manifest errors of assessment - Guidelines on State aid for rescuing and restructuring firms in difficulty)
   2012/C 89/33
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicants: Electrolux AB (Stockholm, Sweden) (represented by: F. Wijckmans and H. Burez, lawyers) (Case T-115/09); and Whirlpool Europe BV (Breda, Netherlands) (represented: initially by F. Tuytschaever and B. Bellen, and subsequently by H. Burez and F. Wijckmans, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: European Commission (represented by: L. Flynn and C. Giolito, Agents)
   
      Interveners in support of the defendant: French Republic (represented: initially by G. de Bergues and A.-L. Vendrolini, and subsequently by G. de Bergues and J. Gstalter, Agents); Fagor France SA (Rueil-Malmaison, France) (represented by J. Derenne and A. Müller-Rappard, lawyers)
   
      Re:
   
   Annulment of the Commission Decision of 21 October 2008 on State aid C 44/2007 (ex N 460/2007) which France is planning to implement for FagorBrandt (OJ 2009 L 160, p. 11.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Annuls Commission Decision 2009/485/EC of 21 October 2008 on State aid No C 44/07 (ex N 460/07) which France is planning to implement for FagorBrandt;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the European Commission to bear its own costs and to pay those of Electrolux AB and Whirlpool Europe BV;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders the French Republic and Fagor France SA to bear their own costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 113, 16.5.2009.