CELEX: 62002TA0210
Language: en
Date: 2012-03-07 00:00:00
Title: Case T-210/02 RENV: Judgment of the General Court of 7 March 2012 — British Aggregates v Commission (State aid — Environmental tax on aggregates in the United Kingdom — Commission decision not to raise objections — Advantage — Selective nature)

21.4.2012   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 118/21
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 7 March 2012 — British Aggregates v Commission
   (Case T-210/02 RENV) (1)
   
   (State aid - Environmental tax on aggregates in the United Kingdom - Commission decision not to raise objections - Advantage - Selective nature)
   2012/C 118/33
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: British Aggregates Association (Lanark, United Kingdom) (represented by: C. Pouncey, J. Coombes, Solicitors, and L. Van den Hende, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: European Commission (represented by: M. Afonso, J. Flett and B. Martenczuk, Agents)
   
      Intervener in support of the defendant: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (represented initially by: T. Harris, and subsequently by S. Ossowski, acting as Agents, and by M. Hall and G. Facenna, Barristers)
   
      Re:
   
   Application for partial annulment of Commission Decision C(2002) 1478 final of 24 April 2002 on State aid file N 863/01 — United Kingdom/Aggregates Levy.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Annuls Commission Decision C(2002) 1478 final of 24 April 2002 on State aid file N 863/01 — United Kingdom/Aggregates Levy, save as regards the exemption for Northern Ireland;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the European Commission to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by the British Aggregates Association before the Court of Justice and the General Court;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to bear its own costs incurred before the Court of Justice and the General Court.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 219, 14.9.2002.