CELEX: C2005/182/19
Language: en
Date: 2005-07-23 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 12 May 2005 in Case C-415/03: Commission of the European Communities v Hellenic Republic (State aid — Obligation to recover — Absolute impossibility of implementation — Absence)

23.7.2005   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 182/10
            
         
      JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
   
   (Second Chamber)
   of 12 May 2005
   in Case C-415/03: Commission of the European Communities v Hellenic Republic (1)
   
   (State aid - Obligation to recover - Absolute impossibility of implementation - Absence)
   (2005/C 182/19)
   Language of the case: Greek
   In Case C-415/03 Commission of the European Communities (Agents: D. Triantafyllou and J. Buendía Sierra) v Hellenic Republic (Agents: A. Samoni-Rantou, P. Mylonopoulos, F. Spathopoulos and P. Anestis) — action under Article 88(2) EC for failure to fulfil obligations, brought on 25 September 2003 — the Court (Second Chamber), composed of C.W.A. Timmermans, President of the Chamber, R. Silva de Lapuerta (Rapporteur), R. Schintgen, G. Arestis and J. Klučka, Judges; L.A. Geelhoed, Advocate General; M. Ferreira, Principal Administrator, for the Registrar, gave a judgment on 12 May 2005, in which it:
   
               1.
            
            
               Declares that, by failing to take within the prescribed period all the measures necessary for repayment of the aid found to be unlawful and incompatible with the common market — except that relating to the contributions to the national social security institution —, in accordance with Article 3 of Commission Decision 2003/372/EC of 11 December 2002 on aid granted by Greece to Olympic Airways, the Hellenic Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations under that article;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the Hellenic Republic to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 289 of 29.11.2003.