CELEX: 62000TB0218
Language: en
Date: 2013-01-22 00:00:00
Title: Case T-218/00: Order of the General Court of 22 January 2013 — Cooperativa Mare Azzurro and Others v Commission (Action for annulment — State aid — Relief from social security contributions for firms in Venice and Chioggia — Decision declaring the aid scheme to be incompatible with the common market and requiring the recovery of aid paid — Action in part manifestly inadmissible and in part manifestly lacking any foundation in law)

9.3.2013   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 71/18
            
         Order of the General Court of 22 January 2013 — Cooperativa Mare Azzurro and Others v Commission
   (Case T-218/00) (1)
   
   (Action for annulment - State aid - Relief from social security contributions for firms in Venice and Chioggia - Decision declaring the aid scheme to be incompatible with the common market and requiring the recovery of aid paid - Action in part manifestly inadmissible and in part manifestly lacking any foundation in law)
   2013/C 71/28
   Language of the case: Italian
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicants: Cooperativa Mare Azzurro Soc. coop. rl (Chioggia, Italy); Cooperativa vongolari Sottomarina Lido Soc. coop. rl (Chioggia) (represented initially by: G. Boscolo, and subsequently by A. Boscolo, lawyers); and Ghezzo Giovanni & C. Snc di Ghezzo Maurizio & C. (Venice, Italy) (represented by: R. Volpe and C. Montagner, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: European Commission (represented by: V. Di Bucci, Agent, assisted by A. Dal Ferro, lawyer)
   
      Re:
   
   Application for annulment of Commission Decision 2000/394/EC of 25 November 1999 on aid to firms in Venice and Chioggia by way of relief from social security contributions under Laws Nos 30/1997 and 206/1995 (OJ 2000 L 150, p. 50).
   
      Operative part of the order
   
   
               1.
            
            
               The objection of inadmissibility raised by the European Commission is joined to the substance;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               The action is dismissed as being, in part, manifestly inadmissible and, in part, manifestly lacking any foundation in law;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Cooperativa Mare Azzurro Soc. coop. rl, Cooperativa vongolari Sottomarina Lido Soc. coop. rl and Ghezzo Giovanni & C. Snc di Ghezzo Maurizio & C. are to bear the Commission’s costs in addition to their own costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 302, 21.10.2000.