CELEX: 62020TA0259
Language: en
Date: 2021-02-17 00:00:00
Title: Case T-259/20: Judgment of the General Court of 17 February 2021 — Ryanair v Commission (State aid — French air transport market — Deferral of payment of civil aviation tax and solidarity tax on airline tickets due on a monthly basis during the period from March to December 2020 in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic — Decision not to raise any objections — Aid intended to make good the damage caused by an exceptional occurrence — Free provision of services — Equal treatment — Criterion of holding a licence issued by the French authorities — Proportionality — Article 107(2)(b) TFEU — Duty to state reasons)

19.4.2021   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 138/31
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 17 February 2021 — Ryanair v Commission
      (Case T-259/20) (1)
      
      (State aid - French air transport market - Deferral of payment of civil aviation tax and solidarity tax on airline tickets due on a monthly basis during the period from March to December 2020 in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic - Decision not to raise any objections - Aid intended to make good the damage caused by an exceptional occurrence - Free provision of services - Equal treatment - Criterion of holding a licence issued by the French authorities - Proportionality - Article 107(2)(b) TFEU - Duty to state reasons)
      (2021/C 138/41)
      Language of the case: English
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Ryanair DAC (Swords, Ireland) (represented by: E. Vahida, F. C. Laprévote, S. Rating and I. G. Metaxas-Maranghidis, lawyers)
      
         Defendant: European Commission (represented by: L. Flynn, S. Noë and C. Georgieva-Kecsmar, acting as Agents)
      
         Intervener in support of the defendant: French Republic (represented by: E. de Moustier, C. Mosser, A. Daniel and P. Dodeller, acting as Agents)
      
         Re:
      
      Application under Article 263 TFEU for annulment of Commission Decision C(2020) 2097 final of 31 March 2020 on State Aid SA.56765 (2020/N) — France — Covid-19 — Deferral of the payment of airline taxes in favour of public air transport undertakings.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Dismisses the action;
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Orders Ryanair DAC to bear its own costs and to pay those of the European Commission, including the costs relating to the request for confidential treatment;
               
            
                  3.
               
               
                  Orders the French Republic to bear its own costs.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 215, 29.6.2020.