CELEX: 62008TA0001
Language: en
Date: 2011-05-12 00:00:00
Title: Case T-1/08: Judgment of the General Court of 17 May 2011 — Buczek Autmotive v Commission (State aid — Restructuring of the Polish steel industry — Recovery of public debts — Decision declaring the aid incompatible with the common market and ordering its recovery — Action for annulment — Interest in bringing proceedings — Admissibility — Concept of State aid — Private investor criterion)

25.6.2011   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 186/18
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 17 May 2011 — Buczek Autmotive v Commission
   (Case T-1/08) (1)
   
   (State aid - Restructuring of the Polish steel industry - Recovery of public debts - Decision declaring the aid incompatible with the common market and ordering its recovery - Action for annulment - Interest in bringing proceedings - Admissibility - Concept of State aid - Private investor criterion)
   2011/C 186/32
   Language of the case: Polish
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Buczek Automotive sp. z o.o. (Sosnowiec, Poland) (represented by: initially T. Gackowski, then D. Szlachetko-Reiter and lastly J. Jurczyk, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: European Commission (represented by: initially K. Gross, M. Kaduczak, A. Stobiecka-Kuik and K. Herrmann, then A. Stobiecka-Kuik, K. Herrmann and T. Maxian Rusche, Agents)
   
      Intervener in support of the applicant: Republic of Poland, (represented by: M. Niechciala, then M. Krasnodębska-Tomkiel and M. Rzotkiewicz, Agents)
   
      Re:
   
   Partial annulment of Commission Decision 2008/344/EC of 23 October 2007 on State Aid C 23/06 (ex NN 35/06) which Poland has implemented for steel producer Technologie Buczek Group (OJ 2008 L 116, p. 26).
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Annuls Article 1 of Commission Decision 2008/344/EC of 23 October 2007 on State Aid C 23/06 (ex NN 35/06) which Poland has implemented for steel producer Technologie Buczek Group;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Annuls Article 3(1) and (3) and Articles 4 and 5 of Decision 2008/344, in so far as they relate to Buczek Automotive sp. z o.o.;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders the European Commission to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by Buczek Automotive, including those relating to the interim proceedings;
            
         
               4.
            
            
               Orders the Republic of Poland to bear its own costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 64, 8.3.2008.