CELEX: 62018TA0008
Language: en
Date: 2020-05-13 00:00:00
Title: Case T-8/18: Judgment of the General Court of 13 May 2020 — easyJet Airline v Commission (State aid — Aviation sector — Aid granted by Italy in favour of Sardinian airports — Decision declaring the aid partly compatible and partly incompatible with the internal market — Imputability to the State — Beneficiaries — Advantage for co-contracting airlines — Market economy operator principle — Effect on trade between Member States — Adverse effect on competition — Recovery — Legitimate expectations — Obligation to state reasons)

29.6.2020   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 215/27
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 13 May 2020 — easyJet Airline v Commission
      (Case T-8/18) (1)
      
      (State aid - Aviation sector - Aid granted by Italy in favour of Sardinian airports - Decision declaring the aid partly compatible and partly incompatible with the internal market - Imputability to the State - Beneficiaries - Advantage for co-contracting airlines - Market economy operator principle - Effect on trade between Member States - Adverse effect on competition - Recovery - Legitimate expectations - Obligation to state reasons)
      (2020/C 215/32)
      Language of the case: English
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: easyJet Airline Co. Ltd (Luton, United Kingdom) (represented by: P. Willis, Solicitor, and J. Rivas Andrés, lawyer)
      
         Defendant: European Commission (represented by: L. Armati and S. Noë, acting as Agents)
      
         Re:
      
      Application under Article 263 TFEU for the annulment of Commission Decision (EU) 2017/1861 of 29 July 2016 on State aid SA 33983 (2013/C) (ex 2012/NN) (ex 2011/N) — Italy — Compensation to Sardinian airports for public service obligations (SGEI) (OJ 2017 L 268, p. 1).
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Dismisses the action;
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Orders easyJet Airline Co. Ltd to pay the costs.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 94, 12.3.2018.