CELEX: 62019TA0233
Language: en
Date: 2021-10-06 00:00:00
Title: Joined Cases T-233/19 and T-234/19: Judgment of the General Court of 6 October 2021 — Infineon Technologies Dresden and Infineon Technologies v Commission (State aid — Aid scheme implemented by Germany for some large electricity consumers — Exemption from network charges in respect of the 2012-2013 period — Decision declaring the aid scheme incompatible with the internal market and unlawful, and ordering the recovery of the aid paid — Action for annulment — Period allowed for commencing proceedings — Admissibility — Concept of aid — State resources)

22.11.2021   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 471/41
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 6 October 2021 — Infineon Technologies Dresden and Infineon Technologies v Commission
      (Joined Cases T-233/19 and T-234/19) (1)
      
      (State aid - Aid scheme implemented by Germany for some large electricity consumers - Exemption from network charges in respect of the 2012-2013 period - Decision declaring the aid scheme incompatible with the internal market and unlawful, and ordering the recovery of the aid paid - Action for annulment - Period allowed for commencing proceedings - Admissibility - Concept of aid - State resources)
      (2021/C 471/57)
      Language of the case: German
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant in Case T-233/19: Infineon Technologies Dresden GmbH & Co. KG (Dresden, Germany) (represented by: L. Assmann and M. Peiffer, lawyers)
      
         Applicant in Case T-234/19: Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany) (represented by: L. Assmann and M. Peiffer, lawyers)
      
         Defendant: European Commission (represented by: T. Maxian Rusche and K. Herrmann, acting as Agents)
      
         Intervener in support of the applicants: Federal Republic of Germany (represented by: D. Klebs, J. Möller, R. Kanitz, S. Heimerl and S. Costanzo, acting as Agents)
      
         Re:
      
      Application under Article 263 TFEU seeking annulment of Commission Decision (EU) 2019/56 of 28 May 2018 on aid scheme SA.34045 (2013/c) (ex 2012/NN) implemented by Germany for baseload consumers under Paragraph 19 StromNEV (OJ 2019 L 14, p. 1).
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Dismisses the actions;
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Orders Infineon Technologies Dresden GmbH & Co. KG and Infineon Technologies AG to bear their own costs and to pay those incurred by the European Commission;
               
            
                  3.
               
               
                  Orders the Federal Republic of Germany to bear its own costs.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 213, 24.6.2019.