CELEX: 62000TB0264
Language: en
Date: 2012-07-12 00:00:00
Title: Case T-264/00: Order of the General Court of 12 July 2012 — Compagnia Generale delle Acque v Commission (Annulment action — State aid — Reductions in social security contributions for undertakings in Venice and Chioggia — Commission decision declaring the aid scheme incompatible with the common market and imposing the recovery of the aid paid — Action partially inadmissible and partially manifestly devoid of any basis in law)

25.8.2012   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 258/21
            
         Order of the General Court of 12 July 2012 — Compagnia Generale delle Acque v Commission
   (Case T-264/00) (1)
   
   (Annulment action - State aid - Reductions in social security contributions for undertakings in Venice and Chioggia - Commission decision declaring the aid scheme incompatible with the common market and imposing the recovery of the aid paid - Action partially inadmissible and partially manifestly devoid of any basis in law)
   2012/C 258/38
   Language of the case: Italian
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Compagnia Generale delle Acque SpA (Venice, Italy) (represented by: A. Biagnini, P. Petinelli and A. Bortoluzzi, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: European Commission (represented by: V. Di Bucci, Agent and A. Dal Ferro, lawyer)
   
      Intervener in support of the applicant: Italian Republic (represented initially by U. Leanza, then I. Braguglia, then R. Adam, and finally by I. Bruni, Agents, and G. Aiello and P. Gentili, avvocati dello Stato)
   
      Re:
   
   Application for annulment of Commission Decision 2000/394/EC of 25 November 1999 on aid to firms in Venice and Chioggia by way of relief from social security contributions under Laws No 30/1997 and 206/1995 (OJ 2000 L 150, p. 50).
   
      Operative part of the order
   
   
               1.
            
            
               The objection of inadmissibility raised by the European Commission relates to the substance of the case.
            
         
               2.
            
            
               The action is dismissed as being partially manifestly inadmissible and partially manifestly devoid of any basis in law.
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Compagnia Generale delle Acque SpA is ordered to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by the Commission.
            
         
               4.
            
            
               The Italian Republic is ordered to bear its own costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 355, 9.12.2000.