CELEX: C2004/239/28
Language: en
Date: 2004-09-25 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 1 July 2004 in Case T-308/00: Salzgitter AG v Commission of the European Communities (State aid — Article 4(c) CS, Articles 67 CS and 95 CS — Financial intervention in favour of the undertaking Salzgitter — Border between the former German Democratic Republic and former Czechoslovak Socialist Republic — Non-notified aid — Sixth Steel Aid Code — Legal certainty)

25.9.2004   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 239/14
            
         
      JUDGMENT OF THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE
   
   of 1 July 2004
   in Case T-308/00: Salzgitter AG v Commission of the European Communities (1)
   
   (State aid - Article 4(c) CS, Articles 67 CS and 95 CS - Financial intervention in favour of the undertaking Salzgitter - Border between the former German Democratic Republic and former Czechoslovak Socialist Republic - Non-notified aid - Sixth Steel Aid Code - Legal certainty)
   (2004/C 239/28)
   Language of the case: German
   In Case T-308/00: Salzgitter AG, established in Salzgitter (Germany), represented by J. Sedemund and T. Lübbig, lawyers, with an address for service in Luxembourg, supported by the Federal Republic of Germany, (Agent: W.-D. Plessing, assisted by K. Schroeter, lawyer) against the Commission of the European Communities (Agents: K.-D. Borchardt and V. Kreuschitz) — application for an annulment of Commission Decision 2000/797/ECSC of 28 June 2000 on State aid granted by the Federal Republic of Germany to Salzgitter AG, Preussag Stahl AG and the group's steel-industry subsidiaries, now known as Salzgitter AG – Stahl und Technologie (SAG) (OJ 2000 L 323, p. 5) — the Court of First Instance (Fourth Chamber, Extended Composition), composed of V. Tiili, President, J. Pirrung, P. Mengozzi, A.W.H. Meij and M. Vilaras, Judges; Registrar: I. Natsinas, Administrator, has given a judgment on 1 July 2004, in which it:
   
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               Annuls Articles 2 and 3 of Commission Decision 2000/797/ECSC of 28 June 2000 on State aid granted by the Federal Republic of Germany to Salzgitter AG, Preussag Stahl AG and the group's steel-industry subsidiaries, now known as Salzgitter AG – Stahl und Technologie (SAG);
            
         
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               Orders the applicant to bear one-third of its costs;
            
         
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               Orders the Commission to bear its own costs and to pay two-thirds of the applicant's costs;
            
         
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               Orders the Federal Republic of Germany to bear its own costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 335 of 25.11.2000.