CELEX: 62009CA0239
Language: en
Date: 2010-12-16 00:00:00
Title: Case C-239/09: Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 16 December 2010 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Landgericht Berlin (Germany)) — Seydaland Vereinigte Agrarbetriebe GmbH & Co. KG v BVVG Bodenverwertungs- und -verwaltungs GmbH (State aid — Aid granted by the Federal Republic of Germany for the acquisition of land — Programme for land privatisation and restructuring of agriculture in the new Länder in Germany)

19.2.2011   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 55/7
            
         Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 16 December 2010 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Landgericht Berlin (Germany)) — Seydaland Vereinigte Agrarbetriebe GmbH & Co. KG v BVVG Bodenverwertungs- und -verwaltungs GmbH
   (Case C-239/09) (1)
   
   (State aid - Aid granted by the Federal Republic of Germany for the acquisition of land - Programme for land privatisation and restructuring of agriculture in the new Länder in Germany)
   2011/C 55/11
   Language of the case: German
   
      Referring court
   
   Landgericht Berlin
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicant: Seydaland Vereinigte Agrarbetriebe GmbH & Co. KG
   
      Defendant: BVVG Bodenverwertungs- und -verwaltungs GmbH
   
      Re:
   
   Reference for a preliminary ruling — Landgericht Berlin — Interpretation of Article 87 EC — State aids — Privatisation of land in the new German Länder — Purchase of that land at a price, established according to national provisions providing for the determination of the market value of the land based on regional criteria, which is lower than their market value — Compatibility of those national provisions with Article 87 EC
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   Article 87 EC must be interpreted as not precluding a provision of national law laying down calculation methods for determining the value of agricultural and forestry land, offered for sale by public authorities in the context of a privatisation plan, such as those laid down in Paragraph 5(1) of the Land Purchase Order (Flächenerwerbsverordnung) of 20 December 1995, to the extent that those methods provide for the updating of the prices, where prices for such land are rising sharply, so that the price actually paid by the purchaser reflects, in so far as is possible, the market value of that land.
   
      (1)  OJ C 220, 12.09.2009