CELEX: 62012CA0527
Language: en
Date: 2014-09-11 00:00:00
Title: Case C-527/12: Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 11 September 2014  — European Commission v Federal Republic of Germany (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — State aid incompatible with the internal market — Obligation to recover — Article 108(2) TFEU — Regulation (EC) No 659/1999 — Article 14(3) — Commission decision — Measures to be taken by the Member States)

17.11.2014   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 409/5
            
         Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 11 September 2014 — European Commission v Federal Republic of Germany
   (Case C-527/12) (1)
   
   ((Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - State aid incompatible with the internal market - Obligation to recover - Article 108(2) TFEU - Regulation (EC) No 659/1999 - Article 14(3) - Commission decision - Measures to be taken by the Member States))
   2014/C 409/06
   Language of the case: German
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: European Commission (represented by: T. Maxian Rusche and F. Erlbacher, acting as Agents)
   
      Defendant: Federal Republic of Germany (represented by: T. Henze and K. Petersen, acting as Agents)
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
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               Declares that, by failing to take all necessary measures to recover from the beneficiary the State aid which was the subject of Commission Decision 2011/471/EU of 14 December 2010 on State aid granted by Germany to the Biria group (C 38/05 (ex NN 52/04)), the Federal Republic of Germany has failed to fulfil its obligations under Article 108(2) TFEU, Article 14(3) of Council Regulation (EC) No 659/1999 of 22 March 1999 laying down detailed rules for the application of [Article 108 TFEU], and Articles 1 to 3 of that decision;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the Federal Republic of Germany to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 26, 26.1.2013.