CELEX: 62012TA0385
Language: en
Date: 2015-02-26 00:00:00
Title: Case T-385/12: Judgment of the General Court of 26 February 2015  — Orange v Commission (State aid — Pensions — Aid for the reform of the arrangements for financing the retirement pensions of civil servants working for France Télécom — Reduction of the compensation to be paid to the State by France Télécom — Decision declaring the aid compatible with the internal market under certain conditions — Advantage — Selective nature — Adverse effect on competition — Rights of the defence)

13.4.2015   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 118/25
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 26 February 2015 — Orange v Commission
   (Case T-385/12) (1)
   
   ((State aid - Pensions - Aid for the reform of the arrangements for financing the retirement pensions of civil servants working for France Télécom - Reduction of the compensation to be paid to the State by France Télécom - Decision declaring the aid compatible with the internal market under certain conditions - Advantage - Selective nature - Adverse effect on competition - Rights of the defence))
   (2015/C 118/32)
   Language of the case: French
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Orange, formerly France Télécom (Paris, France) (represented by: S. Hautbourg and S. Cochard-Quesson, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: European Commission (represented by: L. Flynn, D. Grespan and B. Stromsky, Agents)
   
      Re:
   
   Application for annulment of Commission Decision 2012/540/EU of 20 December 2011 on State aid C 25/08 (ex NN 23/08) reform of the arrangements for financing the retirement pensions of civil servants working for France Télécom implemented by the French Republic in favour of France Télécom (OJ 2012, L 279, p. 1).
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1)
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2)
            
            
               Orders Orange to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by the European Commission.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 311, 13.10.2012.