CELEX: E2004J0005
Language: en
Date: 2005-07-21
Title: Judgment of the Court of  21 July 2005  in Joined Cases E-5/04, E-6/04 and E-7/04 Fesil and Finnfjord, PIL and others, and The Kingdom of Norway v EFTA Surveillance Authority  (State aid — Exemptions from energy tax for the manufacturing and mining industries — Admissibility — Selectivity — Effect on trade and distortion of competition — Existing aid and new aid — Recovery — Legal certainty — Legitimate expectations — Proportionality)

23.2.2006   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 45/14
            
         
      JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
   
   of 21 July 2005
   in Joined Cases E-5/04, E-6/04 and E-7/04 Fesil and Finnfjord, PIL and others, and The Kingdom of Norway v EFTA Surveillance Authority
   
      (State aid — Exemptions from energy tax for the manufacturing and mining industries — Admissibility — Selectivity — Effect on trade and distortion of competition — Existing aid and new aid — Recovery — Legal certainty — Legitimate expectations — Proportionality)
   
   (2006/C 45/10)
   In Joined Cases E-5/04, E-6/04 and E-7/04, Fesil and Finnfjord, PIL and others, and The Kingdom of Norway v EFTA Surveillance Authority — APPLICATION for the partial annulment of Decision 148/04/COL of 30 June 2004 concerning environmental tax measures in Norway, the Court, composed of Carl Baudenbacher, President and Judge-Rapporteur, Per Tresselt and Thorgeir Örlygsson, Judges, gave judgment on 21 July 2005, the operative part of which is as follows:
   
               1.
            
            
               Joins Cases E-5/04, E-6/04 and E-7/04 for the purposes of the judgment;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Dismisses the applications;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders the applicants to pay the costs of the proceedings.