CELEX: 62015TA0216
Language: en
Date: 2018-02-05 00:00:00
Title: Case T-216/15: Judgment of the General Court of 5 February 2018 — Dôvera zdravotná poist’ovňa v Commission (State aid — Health insurance bodies — Capital increase, debt repayment, subsidies and Risk Equalisation Scheme — Decision finding no State aid — Concept of State aid — Concept of undertaking and economic activity — Principle of solidarity — State supervision — Activity that is economic in nature — Competition on quality — Presence of operators seeking to make a profit — Pursuit, use and distribution of profits — Error of law — Error of assessment)

19.3.2018   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 104/25
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 5 February 2018 — Dôvera zdravotná poist’ovňa v Commission
   (Case T-216/15) (1)
   
   ((State aid - Health insurance bodies - Capital increase, debt repayment, subsidies and Risk Equalisation Scheme - Decision finding no State aid - Concept of State aid - Concept of undertaking and economic activity - Principle of solidarity - State supervision - Activity that is economic in nature - Competition on quality - Presence of operators seeking to make a profit - Pursuit, use and distribution of profits - Error of law - Error of assessment))
   (2018/C 104/32)
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Dôvera zdravotná poist’ovňa, a.s. (Bratislava, Slovakia) (represented by: O. Brouwer and A. Pliego Selie, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: European Commission (represented by: P.–J. Loewenthal and L. Armati, acting as Agents)
   
      Intervener in support of the applicant: Union zdravotná poist’ovňa a.s. (Bratislava) (represented by: initially E. Pijnacker Hordijk and A. ter Haar, and subsequently A. ter Haar, lawyers)
   
      Intervener in support of the defendant: Slovak Republic (represented by: B. Ricziová, acting as Agent)
   
      Re:
   
   Application pursuant to Article 263 TFEU for annulment of Commission Decision (EU) 2015/248 of 15 October 2014 on the measures SA.23008 (2013/C) (ex 2013/NN) granted by the Slovak Republic to Spoločná zdravotná poisťovňa, a.s. (SZP) and Všeobecná zdravotná poisťovňa, a.s. (VšZP) (OJ 2015 L 41, p. 25).
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Annuls Commission Decision (EU) 2015/248 of 15 October 2014 on the measures SA.23008 (2013/C) (ex 2013/NN) implemented by the Slovak Republic for Spoločná zdravotná poisťovňa, a.s. (SZP) and Všeobecná zdravotná poisťovňa, a.s. (VšZP);
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the European Commission to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by Dôvera zdravotná poist’ovňa, a.s. and by Union zdravotná poist’ovňa a.s.;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders the Republic of Slovakia to bear its own costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 262, 10.8.2015.