CELEX: 62012TA0295
Language: en
Date: 2014-07-16 00:00:00
Title: Case T-295/12: Judgment of the General Court of 16 July 2014  — Germany v Commission (State aid — Animal carcass and slaughter waste disposal services — Maintaining epidemic reserve capacity — Decision declaring aid to be incompatible with the internal market — Advantage — Service of general economic interest — Compensation relating to a public service obligation — Effect on trade between Member States and distortion of competition — Need for aid — Subsidiarity — Duty to state reasons)

1.9.2014   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 292/35
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 16 July 2014 — Germany v Commission
   (Case T-295/12) (1)
   
   ((State aid - Animal carcass and slaughter waste disposal services - Maintaining epidemic reserve capacity - Decision declaring aid to be incompatible with the internal market - Advantage - Service of general economic interest - Compensation relating to a public service obligation - Effect on trade between Member States and distortion of competition - Need for aid - Subsidiarity - Duty to state reasons))
   2014/C 292/42
   Language of the case: German
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Federal Republic of Germany (represented by: T. Henze and J. Möller, Agents, assisted by T. Lübbig and M. Klasse, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: European Commission (represented by: C. Egerer and T. Maxian Rusche, Agents)
   
      Re:
   
   Action for annulment of Commission Decision 2012/485/EU of 25 April 2012 on State aid SA.25051 (C 19/10) (ex NN 23/10) granted by Germany to the Zweckverband Tierkörperbeseitigung in Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland, Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis and Landkreis Limburg-Weilburg (OJ 2012 L 236, p. 1).
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the Federal Republic of Germany to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 273, 8.9.2012.