CELEX: 62013TA0515
Language: en
Date: 2015-12-17 00:00:00
Title: Joined Cases T-515/13 and T-719/13: Judgment of the General Court of 17 December 2015 — Spain v Commission (State aid — Shipbuilding — Tax provisions applicable to certain agreements for the financing and acquisition of vessels — Decision declaring the aid partly incompatible with the internal market and ordering its recovery in part — Action for annulment — Individual concern — Admissibility — Advantage — Selective nature — Effect on trade between Member States — Adverse effect on competition — Obligation to state reasons)

15.2.2016   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 59/16
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 17 December 2015 — Spain v Commission
   (Joined Cases T-515/13 and T-719/13) (1)
   
   ((State aid - Shipbuilding - Tax provisions applicable to certain agreements for the financing and acquisition of vessels - Decision declaring the aid partly incompatible with the internal market and ordering its recovery in part - Action for annulment - Individual concern - Admissibility - Advantage - Selective nature - Effect on trade between Member States - Adverse effect on competition - Obligation to state reasons))
   (2016/C 059/16)
   Language of the cases: Spanish
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicants: Kingdom of Spain (represented by: initially, N. Díaz Abad and, subsequently, M. Sampol Pucurull, abogados del Estado) (Case T-515/13); Lico Leasing, SA (Madrid, Spain) and Pequeños y Medianos Astilleros Sociedad de Reconversión, SA (Madrid) (represented by: M. Merola and A. Sánchez, lawyers) (Case T-719/13)
   
      Defendant: European Commission (represented by: V. Di Bucci, M. Afonso, É. Gippini Fournier and P. Němečková, acting as Agents)
   
      Re:
   
   Application for annulment of Commission Decision 2014/200/EU of 17 July 2013 on the aid scheme SA.21233 C/11 (ex NN/11, ex CP 137/06) implemented by Spain — Tax scheme applicable to certain finance lease agreements, also known as the ‘Spanish Tax Lease System’ (OJ 2014 L 114, p. 1).
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Annuls Commission Decision 2014/200/EU of 17 July 2013, on the aid scheme SA.21233 C/11 (ex NN/11, ex CP 137/06) implemented by Spain — Tax scheme applicable to certain finance lease agreements, also known as the ‘Spanish Tax Lease System’;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the European Commission to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by the Kingdom of Spain, Lico Leasing, SA and Pequeños y Medianos Astilleros Sociedad de Reconversión, SA.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 336, 16.11.2013.