CELEX: 62017TA0309
Language: en
Date: 2019-07-12 00:00:00
Title: Case T-309/17: Judgment of the General Court of 12 July 2019 — Optile v Commission (State aid — Aid scheme unlawfully implemented by France between 1994 and 2008 — Investment subsidies awarded by the Île-de-France region — Decision declaring the aid scheme compatible with the internal market — Concepts of ‘existing aid’ and ‘new aid’ — Article 107 TFEU — Article 108 TFEU — Article 1, (b) (i) and (v) of Regulation (EU) 2015/1589 — Limitation period — Article 17 of Regulation 2015/1589)

30.9.2019   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 328/43
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 12 July 2019 — Optile v Commission
      (Case T-309/17) (1)
      
      (State aid - Aid scheme unlawfully implemented by France between 1994 and 2008 - Investment subsidies awarded by the Île-de-France region - Decision declaring the aid scheme compatible with the internal market - Concepts of ‘existing aid’ and ‘new aid’ - Article 107 TFEU - Article 108 TFEU - Article 1, (b) (i) and (v) of Regulation (EU) 2015/1589 - Limitation period - Article 17 of Regulation 2015/1589)
      (2019/C 328/46)
      Language of the case: French
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Organisation professionnelle des transports d’Île de France (Optile) (Paris, France) (represented by: F. Thiriez and M. Dangibeaud, lawyers)
      
         Defendant: European Commission (represented by: L. Armati, C. Georgieva-Kecsmar and T. Maxian Rusche, acting as Agents)
      
         Re:
      
      Application on the basis of Article 263 TFEU seeking the annulment in part of Commission Decision (EU) 2017/1470 of 2 February 2017 on State aid schemes SA.26763 2014/C (ex 2012/NN) implemented by France in favour of bus transport undertakings in the Île-de-France Region (OJ 2017 L 209, p. 24).
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
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                     Dismisses the application;
                  
               
            
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                     Orders the Organisation professionnelle des transports d’Île de France (Optile) to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by the European Commission.
                  
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 249, 31.7.2017.