CELEX: 62019CN0212
Language: en
Date: 2019-03-06 00:00:00
Title: Case C-212/19: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Conseil d’État (France) lodged on 6 March 2019 — Ministre de l’Agriculture et de l’Alimentation v Compagnie des pêches de Saint-Malo

13.5.2019   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 164/37
            
         
      Request for a preliminary ruling from the Conseil d’État (France) lodged on 6 March 2019 — Ministre de l’Agriculture et de l’Alimentation v Compagnie des pêches de Saint-Malo
      (Case C-212/19)
      (2019/C 164/39)
      Language of the case: French
      
         Referring court
      
      Conseil d’État
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      
         Appellant: Ministre de l’Agriculture et de l’Alimentation
      
         Respondent: Compagnie des pêches de Saint-Malo
      
         Questions referred
      
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Must the Commission’s decision of 14 July 2004 (1) be interpreted as declaring that only the reductions in employers’ contributions are incompatible with the common market, on the ground that the reduction in employees’ contributions do not benefit the undertakings and therefore cannot fall within the scope of Article 107 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, or as also declaring the reductions in employees’ contributions to be incompatible?
               
            
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                  In the event that the Court finds that the Commission’s decision is to be interpreted as also declaring the reductions in employees’ contributions to be incompatible, must the undertaking be regarded as having received the full amount of those reductions or only a part thereof? In the latter case, how is that part to be assessed? Is the Member State required to order recovery from the employees concerned of the part of the aid from which they benefited?
               
            
         (1)  Commission Decision of 14 July 2004 concerning certain aid measures applied by France to assist fish farmers and fishermen (2005/239/EC) (OJ 2005 L 74, p. 49).