CELEX: C2002/180/01
Language: en
Date: 2002-07-27 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 13 June 2002 in Case C-382/99: Kingdom of the Netherlands v Commission of the European Communities (State aid — Commission notice on the de minimis rule for State aid — Service stations — Excise duties — Likelihood of overlapping aid — Legitimate expectations — Principle of legal certainty — Obligation to state reasons)

27.7.2002               EN                           Official Journal of the European Communities                                         C 180/1
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                                                     COURT OF JUSTICE
                                                               COURT OF JUSTICE
                 JUDGMENT OF THE COURT                                       of: S. von Bahr, President of the Fourth Chamber, acting as
                                                                             President of the Fifth Chamber, D.A.O. Edward and M. Wathe-
                                                                             let, Judges; P. Léger, Advocate General; H.A. Rühl, Principal
                          (Fifth Chamber)                                    Administrator, for the Registrar, gave a judgment on 13 June
                                                                             2002, in which it:
                          of 13 June 2002                                    1.    dismisses the application;
                                                                             2.    orders the Kingdom of the Netherlands to pay the costs.
in Case C-382/99: Kingdom of the Netherlands v Com-
          mission of the European Communities (1)
                                                                             (1) OJ C 47 of 19.2.2000.
(State aid — Commission notice on the de minimis rule for
State aid — Service stations — Excise duties — Likelihood
of overlapping aid — Legitimate expectations — Principle
       of legal certainty — Obligation to state reasons)
                                                                                              JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
                          (2002/C 180/01)                                                             (Sixth Chamber)
                    (Language of the case: Dutch)                                                      of 13 June 2002
                                                                             In Joined Cases C-430/99 and C-431/99 (Reference for a
(Provisional translation; the definitive translation will be published       preliminary ruling from the Raad van State): Inspecteur
                   in the European Court Reports)                            van de Belastingdienst Douane, Rotterdam district v Sea-
                                                                             Land Service Inc. (C-430/99), Nedlloyd Lijnen BV (C-431/
                                                                                                             99) (1)
                                                                             (Maritime transport — Freedom to provide services — Vessel
In Case C-382/99: Kingdom of the Netherlands (Agents:                                              traffic services system)
M. Fierstra) v Commission of the European Communities
(Agent: G. Rozet and H. M. H. Speyart, assisted by J. C. M. van                                        (2002/C 180/02)
der Beek, and L. Hancher) — application for partial annulment
of Commission’s decision 1999/705/EC of 20 July 1999                                             (Language of the case: Dutch)
concerning State aid granted by the Netherlands with regard
to 633 Netherlands petrol stations in the region bordering
Germany (OJ 1999 L 280, p. 87), in so far as it finds that the               (Provisional translation; the definitive translation will be published
subsidies granted to certain categories of service station                                      in the European Court Reports)
are incompatible with the common market and with the
functioning of the Agreement on the European Economic Area
of 2 May 1992 (OJ 1994 L 1, p. 3) and orders recovery of the                 In Joined Cases C-430/99 and C-431/99: Reference to the
aid already granted — the Court (Fifth Chamber), composed                    Court under Article 234 EC by the Raad van State, Netherlands,