CELEX: 62017TA0754
Language: en
Date: 2019-04-30 00:00:00
Title: Case T-754/17: Judgment of the General Court of 30 April 2019 — Chambre de commerce et d’industrie métropolitaine Bretagne-Ouest (port de Brest) v Commission (State aid — General corporate tax exemption scheme implemented by France in favour of its ports — Decision declaring the aid scheme incompatible with the internal market — Existing aid — Concept of economic activity — Services of general interest — Principle of sound administration — Duty to state reasons — Error of assessment)

1.7.2019   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 220/36
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 30 April 2019 — Chambre de commerce et d’industrie métropolitaine Bretagne-Ouest (port de Brest) v Commission
      (Case T-754/17) (1)
      
      (State aid - General corporate tax exemption scheme implemented by France in favour of its ports - Decision declaring the aid scheme incompatible with the internal market - Existing aid - Concept of economic activity - Services of general interest - Principle of sound administration - Duty to state reasons - Error of assessment)
      (2019/C 220/46)
      Language of the case: French
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Chambre de commerce et d’industrie métropolitaine Bretagne-Ouest (port de Brest) (Brest, France) (represented by: J. Vanden Eynde and E. Wauters, lawyers)
      
         Defendant: European Commission (represented by: B. Stromsky and S. Noë, acting as Agents)
      
         Re:
      
      Action under Article 263 TFEU for annulment of Commission Decision (EU) 2017/2116 of 27 July 2017 on aid scheme SA.38398 (2016/C, ex 2015/E) implemented by France — Taxation of ports in France (OJ 2017, L 332, p. 24).
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
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                     Dismisses the action;
                  
               
            
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                     Orders the chambre de commerce et d’industrie métropolitaine Bretagne-Ouest (port de Brest) to pay the costs.
                  
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 42, 5.2.2018.