CELEX: C2007/042/03
Language: en
Date: 2007-02-24 00:00:00
Title: Case C-404/04 P: Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 11 January 2007 — Technische Glaswerke Ilmenau GmbH v Commission of the European Communities, Schott AG (formerly Schott Glas) (Appeal — State aid — Article 87(1) EC — Contractual promise of payment — Disappearance of an essential condition of the contract — New pleas and arguments — Substitution of reasons — Application for the hearing of witnesses — Test of a private creditor — Grounds of the judgment of the Court of First Instance — Determination of the amount of aid — Article 87(3)(c) EC — Right to be heard — Breach, in respect of the Member State concerned, of the rights of the defence)

24.2.2007   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 42/2
            
         Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 11 January 2007 — Technische Glaswerke Ilmenau GmbH v Commission of the European Communities, Schott AG (formerly Schott Glas)
   (Case C-404/04 P) (1)
   
   (Appeal - State aid - Article 87(1) EC - Contractual promise of payment - Disappearance of an essential condition of the contract - New pleas and arguments - Substitution of reasons - Application for the hearing of witnesses - Test of a private creditor - Grounds of the judgment of the Court of First Instance - Determination of the amount of aid - Article 87(3)(c) EC - Right to be heard - Breach, in respect of the Member State concerned, of the rights of the defence)
   (2007/C 42/03)
   Language of the case: German
   Parties
   
      Appellant: Technische Glaswerke Ilmenau GmbH (represented by: C. Arhold and N. Wimmer, Rechtsanwälte)
   
      Other party to the proceedings: Commission of the European Communities (represented by: V. Di Bucci and V. Kreuschitz, Agents), Schott AG (formerly Schott Glas) (represented by: U. Soltész, Rechtsanwalt)
   Re:
   Appeal brought against the judgment of the Court of First Instance (Fifth Chamber, Extended Composition) of 8 July 2004 in Case T-198/01 Technische Glaswerke Ilmenau v Commission dismissing the action for annulment of Commission Decision 2002/185/EC of 12 June 2001 on State aid implemented by Germany for Technische Glaswerke Ilmenau GmbH (Germany) (OJ 2002 L 62, p 30)
   Operative part of the judgment
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the appeal.
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Technische Glaswerke Ilmenau GmbH, in addition to bearing its own costs, to pay the total costs of the Commission of the European Communities related to the interlocutory proceedings and to these proceedings.
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders Technische Glaswerke Ilmenau GmbH to pay the costs incurred by Schott AG in the interlocutory proceedings.
            
         
               4.
            
            
               Orders Schott AG to bear its own costs related to these proceedings.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 273, 6.11.2004.