CELEX: 62011TA0512
Language: en
Date: 2014-11-25 00:00:00
Title: Case T-512/11: Judgment of the General Court of 25 November 2014 — Ryanair v Commission (State aid — Aviation sector — Irish air travel tax — Exemption for transit and transfer passengers — Decision finding no State aid — Failure to open the formal investigation procedure — Serious difficulties — Procedural rights of parties concerned)

19.1.2015   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 16/31
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 25 November 2014 — Ryanair v Commission
      (Case T-512/11) (1)
      
      (State aid - Aviation sector - Irish air travel tax - Exemption for transit and transfer passengers - Decision finding no State aid - Failure to open the formal investigation procedure - Serious difficulties - Procedural rights of parties concerned)
      (2015/C 016/49)
      Language of the case: English
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Ryanair Ltd (Dublin, Ireland) (represented by: E. Vahida and I.-G. Metaxas-Maragkidis, lawyers)
      
         Defendant: European Commission (represented by: L. Flynn, D. Grespan and T. Maxian Rusche, acting as Agents)
      
         Interveners in support of the defendant: Federal Republic of Germany (represented by: T. Henze and K. Petersen, acting as Agents); and Ireland (represented by: E. Creedon, A. Joyce and E. Mc Phillips, acting as Agents, assisted by E. Regan SC)
      
         Re:
      
      Application for annulment in part of Commission Decision C(2011) 4932 final of 13 July 2011 in so far as it finds that the non-application of the Irish air travel tax to transit and transfer passengers does not constitute State aid within the meaning of Article 107(1) TFEU (State aid SA.29064 (2011C ex 2011/NN)).
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1)
               
               
                  Annuls Commission Decision C(2011) 4932 final of 13 July 2011 in so far as it finds that the non-application of the Irish air travel tax to transit and transfer passengers does not constitute State aid within the meaning of Article 107(1) TFEU (State aid SA.29064 (2011C ex 2011/NN));
               
            
                  2)
               
               
                  Orders the European Commission to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by Ryanair Ltd;
               
            
                  3)
               
               
                  Orders the Federal Republic of Germany and Ireland to bear their own costs.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 347, 26.11.2011.