CELEX: 62014CN0060
Language: en
Date: 2014-02-06 00:00:00
Title: Case C-60/14: Action brought on 6 February 2014 — European Commission v Hellenic Republic

29.3.2014   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 93/21
            
         Action brought on 6 February 2014 — European Commission v Hellenic Republic
   (Case C-60/14)
   2014/C 93/34
   Language of the case: Greek
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: European Commission (represented by: B. Stromsky and Ι. Zerbas, acting as Agents)
   
      Defendant: Hellenic Republic
   
      Form of order sought
   
   The applicant claims that the Court should:
   
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               Declare that the Hellenic Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations under the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union and Articles 2, 3 and 4 of the Decision (1) of the European Commission of 24 May 2011, since it has not taken within the prescribed time-limit all the measures necessary for the recovery of unlawful State aid from the Casinos of Mont Parnès, Corfu and Thessaloniki, and, in any event, since it has not fully informed the Commission of the exact amount to be recovered (principal and interest) from all the beneficiaries of the unlawful State aid and of the other measures which it took in accordance with Article 4 of the Decision;
            
         
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               order the Hellenic Republic to pay the costs.
            
         
      Pleas in law and main arguments
   
   
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               The Hellenic Republic is obliged to have recovered the unlawful State aid by 25 September 2011.
            
         
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               The Hellenic Republic is obliged to have informed the Commission of the action which it has undertaken in order to recover the unlawful State aid, and the total amount to be recovered, by 25 July 2011.
            
         
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               The Hellenic Republic has not fulfilled any of the above obligations within the prescribed time-limits.
            
         
      (1)  Decision of 24 May 2011 on State aid to certain Greek casinos C-16/10 implemented by the Hellenic Republic (OJ 2011 L 285, pp 25-45)