CELEX: 62012TA0001
Language: en
Date: 2015-01-15 00:00:00
Title: Case T-1/12: Judgment of the General Court of 15 January 2015  — France v Commission (State aid — Aid for rescuing and restructuring firms in difficulty — Restructuring aid planned by the French authorities for SeaFrance SA — Capital increase and loans granted by the SNCF to SeaFrance — Decision declaring the aid to be incompatible with the internal market — Concept of State aid — Criterion of private investor — Guidelines on State aid for rescuing and restructuring firms in difficulty)

23.2.2015   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 65/29
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 15 January 2015 — France v Commission
   (Case T-1/12) (1)
   
   ((State aid - Aid for rescuing and restructuring firms in difficulty - Restructuring aid planned by the French authorities for SeaFrance SA - Capital increase and loans granted by the SNCF to SeaFrance - Decision declaring the aid to be incompatible with the internal market - Concept of State aid - Criterion of private investor - Guidelines on State aid for rescuing and restructuring firms in difficulty))
   (2015/C 065/40)
   Language of the case: French
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: French Republic (represented by: initially E. Belliard, G. de Bergues and J. Gstalter, then G. de Bergues, D. Colas and J. Bousin, Agents)
   
      Defendant: European Commission (represented by: V. Di Bucci, B. Stromsky and T. Maxian Rusche, Agents)
   
      Re:
   
   Application for annulment of Commission Decision 2012/397/EU of 24 October 2011 on State aid SA 32600 (2011/C) — France — Restructuring aid to SeaFrance SA granted by the SNCF (OJ 2012, L 195, p. 1).
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1)
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2)
            
            
               Orders the French Republic to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 80, 17.3.2012.