CELEX: 62008TA0565
Language: en
Date: 2012-09-11 00:00:00
Title: Case T-565/08: Judgment of the General Court of 11 September 2012 — Corsica Ferries France v Commission (State aid — Maritime cabotage sector — Service of general economic interest — Private investor in a market economy test — Social policy of the Member States — Restructuring aid — Effects of a judgment annulling a decision)

10.11.2012   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 343/11
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 11 September 2012 — Corsica Ferries France v Commission
   (Case T-565/08) (1)
   
   (State aid - Maritime cabotage sector - Service of general economic interest - Private investor in a market economy test - Social policy of the Member States - Restructuring aid - Effects of a judgment annulling a decision)
   2012/C 343/14
   Language of the case: French
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Corsica Ferries France SAS (Bastia, France) (represented by: S. Rodrigues and C. Bernard-Glanz, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: European Commission (represented by: C. Giolito and B. Stromsky, acting as Agents)
   
      Interveners in support of the defendant: French Republic (represented: initially by G. de Bergues and A.-L. Vendrolini, and subsequently by G. de Bergues, N. Rouam and J. Rossi, acting as Agents) and Société nationale maritime Corse-Méditerranée (SNCM) SA (Marseilles, France) (represented by: A. Winckler and F.-C. Laprévote, lawyers)
   
      Re:
   
   Annulment of Commission Decision 2009/611/EC of 8 July 2008 concerning the measures C 58/02 (ex N 118/02) which France has implemented in favour of the Société nationale maritime Corse-Méditerranée (OJ 2009 L 225, p. 180).
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The General Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Annuls the first and third paragraphs of Article 1 of Commission Decision 2009/611/EC of 8 July 2008 concerning the measures C 58/02 (ex N 118/02) which France has implemented in favour of the Société nationale maritime Corse-Méditerranée (SNCM);
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the European Commission to bear the costs of the applicant together with its own costs;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders the French Republic and SNCM to bear their own respective costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 55, 7.3.2009.