CELEX: 62016CA0481
Language: en
Date: 2017-11-09 00:00:00
Title: Case C-481/16: Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 9 November 2017 — European Commission v Hellenic Republic (Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations — State aid — Aid declared unlawful and incompatible with the internal market — Obligation to recover — Obligation to provide information — Non-implementation — Pleas in defence — Absolute impossibility of implementation)

8.1.2018   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 5/12
            
         Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 9 November 2017 — European Commission v Hellenic Republic
   (Case C-481/16) (1)
   
   ((Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations - State aid - Aid declared unlawful and incompatible with the internal market - Obligation to recover - Obligation to provide information - Non-implementation - Pleas in defence - Absolute impossibility of implementation))
   (2018/C 005/15)
   Language of the case: Greek
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: European Commission (represented by: A. Bouchagiar and B. Stromsky, acting as Agents)
   
      Defendant: Hellenic Republic (represented by: K. Boskovits and V. Karra, acting as Agents)
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Declares that, by failing to take within the prescribed period all the measures necessary to ensure implementation of Commission Decision 2014/539/EU of 27 March 2014 on State aid SA.34572 (13/C ex 13/NN) implemented by Greece for Larco General Mining & Metallurgical Company SA, and by failing to inform the European Commission of the measures taken pursuant to that decision, the Hellenic Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations under Articles 3 to 5 of that decision and the FEU Treaty;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the Hellenic Republic to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 383, 17.10.2016