CELEX: 62014TA0103
Language: en
Date: 2016-03-16 00:00:00
Title: Case T-103/14: Judgment of the General Court of 16 March 2016 — Frucona Košice v Commission (State aid — Excise duties — Partial remission of a tax debt in the context of an arrangement — Decision declaring the aid to be incompatible with the internal market and ordering its recovery — Rights of the defence — Procedural rights of the interested parties — Private creditor test — Burden of proof)

2.5.2016   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 156/34
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 16 March 2016 — Frucona Košice v Commission
   (Case T-103/14) (1)
   
   ((State aid - Excise duties - Partial remission of a tax debt in the context of an arrangement - Decision declaring the aid to be incompatible with the internal market and ordering its recovery - Rights of the defence - Procedural rights of the interested parties - Private creditor test - Burden of proof))
   (2016/C 156/44)
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Frucona Košice a.s. (Košice, Slovakia) (represented by: K. Lasok QC, B. Hartnett, Barrister, O. Geiss, lawyer, and J. Holmes, Barrister)
   
      Defendant: European Commission (represented by: L. Armati, P.-J. Loewenthal and K. Walkerová, acting as Agents)
   
      Re:
   
   Application for annulment of Commission Decision 2014/342/EU of 16 October 2013 on State aid No SA.18211 (C 25/2005) (ex NN 21/2005) granted by the Slovak Republic for Frucona Košice a.s. (OJ 2014 L 176, p. 38).
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Annuls Commission Decision 2014/342/EU of 16 October 2013 on State aid No SA.18211 (C 25/2005) (ex NN 21/2005) granted by the Slovak Republic for Frucona Košice a.s.;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the Commission to bear, in addition to its own costs, the costs incurred by Frucona Košice, including those incurred in connection with the proceedings for interim measures.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 112, 14.4.2014.