CELEX: 62006TA0036
Language: en
Date: 2010-03-03 00:00:00
Title: Case T-36/06: Judgment of the General Court of 3 March 2010 — Bundesverband deutscher Banken v Commission (State aid — Transfer of public assets to Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen Girozentrale — Decision finding that the notified measure does not constitute aid — Private investor test — Obligation to state the reasons on which the decision is based — Serious difficulties)

17.4.2010   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 100/37
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 3 March 2010 — Bundesverband deutscher Banken v Commission
   (Case T-36/06) (1)
   
   (State aid - Transfer of public assets to Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen Girozentrale - Decision finding that the notified measure does not constitute aid - Private investor test - Obligation to state the reasons on which the decision is based - Serious difficulties)
   2010/C 100/56
   Language of the case: German
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Bundesverband deutscher Banken eV (Berlin, Germany) (represented by: H.-J. Niemeyer and K.-S. Scholz, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: European Commission (represented by: N. Khan and T. Scharf, Agents)
   
      Interveners in support of the defendant: Land Hessen (Germany) (represented initially by H.-J. Freund and M. Holzhäuser, and subsequently by H.-J. Freund and S. Lehr, lawyers); and Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen Girozentrale (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) (represented by H.-J. Freund, lawyer)
   
      Re:
   
   Application for annulment of Commission Decision C(2005) 3232 final of 6 September 2005 relating to the transfer of the Hessischer Investitionsfonds (Hessian Investment Fund) as a silent partnership contribution to Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen Girozentrale
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the Bundesverband deutscher Banken eV to bear its own costs and to pay those of the European Commission, the Land Hessen and Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen Girozentrale.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 96, 22.4.2006.