CELEX: 62020TA0643
Language: en
Date: 2021-05-19 00:00:00
Title: Case T-643/20: Judgment of the General Court of 19 May 2021 — Ryanair v Commission (KLM; Covid-19) (State aid — Netherlands — State guarantee for loans and subordinated loan by the State to KLM amid the COVID-19 pandemic — Temporary Framework for State aid measures — Decision not to raise any objections — Decision declaring the aid compatible with the internal market — Aid granted previously to another company in the same group of companies — Duty to state reasons — Maintenance of the effects of the decision)

5.7.2021   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 263/22
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 19 May 2021 — Ryanair v Commission (KLM; Covid-19)
      (Case T-643/20) (1)
      
      (State aid - Netherlands - State guarantee for loans and subordinated loan by the State to KLM amid the COVID-19 pandemic - Temporary Framework for State aid measures - Decision not to raise any objections - Decision declaring the aid compatible with the internal market - Aid granted previously to another company in the same group of companies - Duty to state reasons - Maintenance of the effects of the decision)
      (2021/C 263/30)
      Language of the case: English
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Ryanair DAC (Swords, Ireland) (represented by: F.C. Laprévote, V. Blanc, E. Vahida, S. Rating and I.G. Metaxas-Maranghidis, lawyers)
      
         Defendant: European Commission (represented by: L. Flynn, S. Noë and C. Georgieva, acting as Agents)
      
         Interveners in support of the defendant: French Republic (represented by: E. de Moustier and P. Dodeller, acting as Agents), Kingdom of the Netherlands (represented by: J. Langer, acting as Agent, and by I. Rooms, lawyer), Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij NV (Amstelveen, Netherlands) (represented by: K. Schillemans, H. Vanderveen and P. Huizing, lawyers)
      
         Re:
      
      Application under Article 263 TFEU for annulment of Commission Decision C(2020) 4871 final of 13 July 2020 on State Aid SA.57116 (2020/N) — The Netherlands — COVID-19: State loan guarantee and State loan for KLM.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Annuls Commission Decision C(2020) 4871 final of 13 July 2020 on State aid SA.57116 (2020/N) — The Netherlands — COVID-19: State loan guarantee and State loan for KLM;
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Orders the effects of the annulment of that decision to be suspended pending the adoption of a new decision by the European Commission under Article 108 TFEU; those effects are to be suspended for a period not exceeding two months from the date of delivery of this judgment if the Commission decides to adopt such a new decision under Article 108(3) TFEU, and for a reasonable further period if the Commission decides to initiate the procedure under Article 108(2) TFEU;
               
            
                  3.
               
               
                  Orders the Commission to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by Ryanair DAC;
               
            
                  4.
               
               
                  Orders the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the French Republic and Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij NV to bear their own respective costs.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 423, 7.12.2020.