CELEX: 62016TA0160
Language: en
Date: 2018-05-31 00:00:00
Title: Case T-160/16: Judgment of the General Court of 31 May 2018 — Groningen Seaports and Others v Commission (State aid — Corporate tax exemption granted by the Netherlands to six Dutch public seaports — Decision declaring the aid scheme incompatible with the internal market — Obligation to state reasons — Equal treatment)

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 ---documentbreak--- C2492018EN2120120180531EN0026212222Judgment of the General Court of 31 May 2018 — Groningen Seaports and Others v Commission
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   ‛(State aid — Corporate tax exemption granted by the Netherlands to six Dutch public seaports — Decision declaring the aid scheme incompatible with the internal market — Obligation to state reasons — Equal treatment)’2018/C 249/26Language of the case: Dutch
      Parties
   
   
      Applicants: Groningen Seaports NV (Delfzijl, Netherlands) and the 5 other applicants whose names appear in the annex to the judgment (represented initially by E. Pijnacker Hordijk and I. Kieft, and subsequently by A. Kleinhout and C. Zois, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: European Commission (represented by: initially by S. Noë, B. Stromsky and J.-F. Brakeland, and subsequently by S. Noë and B. Stromsky, acting as Agents)
   
      Intervener in support of the applicants: Kingdom of the Netherlands (represented by: J. Langer and M. Bulterman, acting as Agents)
   
      Re:
   
   APPLICATION under Article 263 TFEU for annulment of Commission Decision (EU) 2016/634 of 21 January 2016 on aid measure SA.25338 (2014/C) (ex E 3/2008 and ex CP 115/2004) implemented by the Netherlands — Corporate tax exemption for public undertakings (OJ 2016 L 113, p. 148).
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
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            Grants Havenbedrijf Moerdijk NV leave to replace Havenschap Moerdijk as applicant;
         
      
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            Dismisses the action;
         
      
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            Orders Groningen Seaports NV and the other applicants whose names appear in the annex to bear their own costs and to pay the costs incurred by the European Commission;
         
      
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            Orders the Kingdom of the Netherlands to bear its own costs.
         
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      )	OJ C 200, 6.6.2016.