CELEX: 62008TB0529
Language: en
Date: 2010-04-13 00:00:00
Title: Joined Cases T-529/08 to T-531/08: Order of the General Court of 13 April 2010 — Diputación Foral de Álava and Others v Commission (Application for annulment — State aid — Tax advantages — Recovery of State aid declared unlawful — Application of compound interest scheme — Confirmatory act — Inadmissibility)

5.6.2010   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 148/30
            
         Order of the General Court of 13 April 2010 — Diputación Foral de Álava and Others v Commission
   (Joined Cases T-529/08 to T-531/08) (1)
   
   (Application for annulment - State aid - Tax advantages - Recovery of State aid declared unlawful - Application of compound interest scheme - Confirmatory act - Inadmissibility)
   2010/C 148/54
   Language of the case: Spanish
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicants: Territorio Histórico de Álava — Diputación Foral de Álava and Others (Spain) (Case T-529/08); Territorio Histórico de Guipúzcoa — Diputación Foral de Guipúzcoa (Spain) (Case T-530/08); and Territorio Histórico de Vizcaya — Diputación Foral de Vizcaya (Spain) (Case T-531/08) (represented by: I. Sáenz-Cortabarría Fernández and M. Morales Isasi, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: European Commission (represented by: C. Urraca Caviedes, acting as Agent)
   
      Re:
   
   Application for annulment of the Commission’s letter of 2 October 2008, communicating to the applicants that is necessary to apply compound interest in the context of the recovery of State aid declared unlawful by Commission Decisions 2002/820/EC, 2002/894/EC and 2003/27/EC of 11 July 2001 on the State aid scheme implemented by Spain for firms in respectively Álava, Guipúzcoa and Vizcaya in the form of a tax credit amounting to 45 % of investments (respectively, OJ 2002 L 296, p. 1, OJ 2002 L 314, p. 26, and OJ 2003 L 17, p. 1), and Commission Decisions 2002/892/EC, 2002/540/EC and 2002/806/EC of 11 July 2001 on the State aid scheme applied by Spain to certain newly established firms in respectively Álava, Guipúzcoa and Vizcaya (respectively, OJ 2002 L 314, p. 1, OJ 2002 L 174, p. 31 and OJ 2002 L 279, p. 35), which were upheld by the judgments of the General Court in Joined Cases T-227/01 to T-229/01, T-265/01, T-266/01 and T-270/01 Diputación Foral de Álava and Others v Commission [2009] ECR II-0000; and Joined Cases T-230/01 and T-267/01 to T-269/01 Diputación Foral de Álava and Others v Commission [2009] ECR II-0000.
   
      Operative part of the order
   
   
               1.
            
            
               The actions are dismissed as inadmissible.
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Territorio Histórico de Álava — Diputación Foral de Álava, Territorio Histórico de Guipúzcoa — Diputación Foral de Guipúzcoa and Territorio Histórico de Vizcaya — Diputación Foral de Vizcaya shall each bear their own costs and pay the costs incurred by the European Commission.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 32, 7.2.2009.