CELEX: E2014P0023
Language: en
Date: 2014-12-01 00:00:00
Title: Action brought on 1 December 2014 by Kimek Offshore AS against the EFTA Surveillance Authority (Case E-23/14)

5.2.2015   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 39/4
            
         Action brought on 1 December 2014 by Kimek Offshore AS against the EFTA Surveillance Authority
   (Case E-23/14)
   (2015/C 39/04)
   An action against the EFTA Surveillance Authority was brought before the EFTA Court on 1 December 2014 by Kimek Offshore AS, represented by Bjørnar Alterskjær, advokat, and Robert Lund, advokat, ALT Law Firm, Fridtjof Nansens plass 6, N-0160 Oslo, Norway.
   The applicant requests the EFTA Court:
   
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               To annul the EFTA Surveillance Authority’s Decision No 225/14/COL of 18 June 2014 on regionally differentiated social security contributions 2014-2020;
            
         
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               To order the EFTA Surveillance Authority to bear the costs of the proceedings.
            
         
      Legal and factual background and pleas in law adduced in support:
   
   
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               The applicant, Kimek Offshore, is part of the Kimek Group. Kimek Offshore is a service company in the oil and gas business and hires out mainly welders, pipe welders, mechanics and engineers. Its administration and management is located in Kirkenes, Norway.
            
         
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               The case concerns an application for annulment of a decision by the EFTA Surveillance Authority approving regional aid in Norway for the period 2014-2020.
            
         The applicant claims that the EFTA Surveillance Authority has:
   
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               breached its obligation to open the formal investigation procedure provided for in Article 1(2) of Part I of Protocol 3 and Article 6(1) in Section II of Protocol 3 to the Surveillance and Court Agreement (SCA) (Article 4(4) of Section II of Protocol 3 SCA);
            
         
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               breached its obligation to state the reasons on which a decision is made with regard to rules on social security taxation pertaining to the hiring of workers, according to Article 16 SCA.