CELEX: 62011CO0200
Language: en
Date: 2012-03-22 00:00:00
Title: Order of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 22 March 2012. # Italian Republic v European Commission. # Appeal - Article 119 of the Rules of Procedure - State aid - Incompatibility with the common market - Commission decision - Action for annulment - Regulation (EC) No 659/1999 - Article 1(c ) - Alteration of existing aid - Regulation (EC) No 794/2004 - Article 4(1) - Temporary defensive mechanism for shipbuilding. # Case C-200/11 P.

Order of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 22 March 2012 —Italy v Commission(Case C‑200/11 P)
      Appeal — Article 119 of the Rules of Procedure — State aid — Incompatibility with the common market — Commission decision — Action for annulment — Regulation (EC) No 659/1999 — Article 1(c) — Alteration of existing aid — Regulation (EC) No 794/2004 — Article 4(1) — Temporary defensive mechanism for shipbuilding
      1.                     State aid — Commission decision finding a national measure compatible with Article 87(1) EC — Determining the scope of the
            decision — Account taken not only of the wording of the decision, but also of the content notified (Art. 87(1) EC) (see para.
            27)
      2.                     State aid — Existing aid and new aid — Measure amending an existing aid scheme — Treated as new aid (Council Regulation No
            659/1999, Art. 1(c)); Commission Regulation No 794/2004, Art. 4(1)) (see paras 30, 31)
      3.                     State aid — Planned aid — Examination by the Commission — Application of the rules of substantive law in force when the Commission
            took its decision (Art. 88(3) EC; Council Regulation No 1177/2002, Art. 5) (see paras 37-39, 43)
      4.                     State aid — Planned aid — Notifying the Commission — Scope of the obligation — Necessary for notification to include estimates
            of the total amounts of the aid planned on account of their impact on that aid (Art. 88(3), EC; Council Regulation No 1177/2002)
            (see paras 47-49)
      5.                     Appeals — Setting out in the application of the pleas in law and legal arguments — Plea in law not clear enough — Whether
            inadmissible (Art. 256 TFEU; Statute of the Court of Justice, Art. 58, first para.; Rules of Procedure of the Court of Justice,
            Art. 112(1)(c)) (see paras 52-54)
      6.                     State aid — Commission decision finding a national measure compatible with Article 87(1) EC — No legitimate expectations in
            the case of alteration to the aid scheme going beyond the bounds of the authorisation decision (Art. 87(1) EC) (see paras
            65-68)
      7.                     Union law — Principles — Equal treatment — Meaning — Unequal treatment as a result of the temporal limitation of authorisation
            to grant State aid in a given sector of the market — Whether objectively justified (Council Regulation No 1177/2002, Art.
            5) (see paras 74-76)
      Re: 
      
         Appeal against the judgment of the General Court (Eighth Chamber) of 3 February 2011 in Case T‑3/09 
               Italy
                v 
               Commission
               , by which the General Court dismissed an application for annulment of Commission Decision 2010/38/EC of 21 October 2008 on
                  State aid C 20/08 (ex N 62/08) which Italy is planning to implement through a modification of scheme N 59/04 concerning a
                  temporary defensive mechanism for shipbuilding (OJ 2010 L 17, p. 50).
               
            Operative part 
      
         
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                  	The appeal is dismissed.
               
            
         
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                  	The Italian Republic is ordered to pay the costs.