CELEX: 62018TA0757
Language: en
Date: 2022-01-19 00:00:00
Title: Case T-757/18: Judgment of the General Court of 19 January 2022 — Koinopraxia Touristiki Loutrakiou v Commission (State aid — Greek casinos — System providing for a levy of 80 % on admission fees of different amounts — Differentiation between public and private casinos — Complaint — Decision declaring the aid incompatible with the internal market and unlawful and ordering its recovery — Annulment of the decision by a decision of the General Court — Decision finding no State aid — Action for annulment — Challengeable act — Admissibility — Rights of the defence)

14.3.2022   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 119/31
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 19 January 2022 — Koinopraxia Touristiki Loutrakiou v Commission
      (Case T-757/18) (1)
      
      (State aid - Greek casinos - System providing for a levy of 80 % on admission fees of different amounts - Differentiation between public and private casinos - Complaint - Decision declaring the aid incompatible with the internal market and unlawful and ordering its recovery - Annulment of the decision by a decision of the General Court - Decision finding no State aid - Action for annulment - Challengeable act - Admissibility - Rights of the defence)
      (2022/C 119/41)
      Language of the case: English
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Koinopraxia Touristiki Loutrakiou AE OTA — Loutraki AE — Klab Otel Loutraki Kazino Touristikes kai Xenodocheiakes Epicheiriseis AE (Loutraki, Greece) (represented by: S. Pappas and A. Pappas, lawyers)
      
         Defendant: European Commission (represented by: A. Bouchagiar and P.-J. Loewenthal, acting as Agents)
      
         Interveners in support of the defendant: Regency Entertainment Psychagogiki kai Touristiki AE (Maroussi, Greece), Elliniko Kazino Parnithas AE (Maroussi) (represented by: N. Niejahr, B. Hoorelbeke, I. Drillerakis and E. Rantos, lawyers)
      
         Re:
      
      Application pursuant to Article 263 TFEU seeking annulment of Commission Decision (EU) 2018/1575 of 9 August 2018 on the measures to certain Greek casinos SA.28973 — C 16/2010 (ex NN 22/2010, ex CP 318/2009) implemented by Greece (OJ 2018 L 262, p. 61).
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Dismisses the action;
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Orders Koinopraxia Touristiki Loutrakiou AE OTA — Loutraki AE — Klab Otel Loutraki Kazino Touristikes kai Xenodocheiakes Epicheiriseis AE to pay the costs.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 72, 25.2.2019.