CELEX: 62015TA0121
Language: en
Date: 2019-09-24 00:00:00
Title: Case T-121/15: Judgment of the General Court of 24 September 2019 — Fortischem v Commission (State aid — Chemical industry — Decision declaring the aid incompatible with the internal market — Concept of State aid — State resources — Advantage — Recovery — Economic continuity — Principle of sound administration — Obligation to state reasons)

16.12.2019   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 423/31
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 24 September 2019 — Fortischem v Commission
      (Case T-121/15) (1)
      
      (State aid - Chemical industry - Decision declaring the aid incompatible with the internal market - Concept of State aid - State resources - Advantage - Recovery - Economic continuity - Principle of sound administration - Obligation to state reasons)
      (2019/C 423/38)
      Language of the case: English
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Fortischem a.s. (Nováky, Slovakia) (represented by: C. Arhold, P. Hodál and M. Staroň, lawyers)
      
         Defendant: European Commission (represented by: L. Armati and G. Conte, acting as Agents)
      
         Intervener in support of the defendant: AlzChem AG (Trostberg, Germany) (represented initially by P. Alexiadis, Solicitor, A. Borsos and I. Georgiopoulos, lawyers, and subsequently by P. Alexiadis, A. Borsos and V. Dolka, lawyers)
      
         Re:
      
      Action under Article 263 TFEU seeking annulment of Articles 1 and 3 to 5 of Commission Decision (EU) 2015/1826 of 15 October 2014 on the State aid SA.33797 — (2013/C) (ex 2013/NN) (ex 2011/CP) implemented by Slovakia for NCHZ (OJ 2015 L 269, p. 71).
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
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                     Dismisses the action;
                  
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  
                     Orders Fortischem a.s. to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by the European Commission;
                  
               
            
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                     Orders AlzChem AG to bear its own costs.
                  
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 178, 1.6.2015.