CELEX: 62018TA0218
Language: en
Date: 2021-05-19 00:00:00
Title: Case T-218/18: Judgment of the General Court of 19 May 2021 — Deutsche Lufthansa v Commission (State aid — Aviation sector — Operational aid granted by Germany to Frankfurt-Hahn airport — Decision not to raise objections — Action for annulment — Status as an interested party — Safeguard of procedural rights — Admissibility — Guidelines on aid in the aviation sector — Doubts as to the compatibility of the aid with the internal market — Article 4(4) of Regulation (EU) 2015/1589 — Serious difficulties)

5.7.2021   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 263/14
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 19 May 2021 — Deutsche Lufthansa v Commission
      (Case T-218/18) (1)
      
      (State aid - Aviation sector - Operational aid granted by Germany to Frankfurt-Hahn airport - Decision not to raise objections - Action for annulment - Status as an interested party - Safeguard of procedural rights - Admissibility - Guidelines on aid in the aviation sector - Doubts as to the compatibility of the aid with the internal market - Article 4(4) of Regulation (EU) 2015/1589 - Serious difficulties)
      (2021/C 263/19)
      Language of the case: German
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Deutsche Lufthansa AG (Cologne, Germany) (represented by: A. Martin-Ehlers, lawyer)
      
         Defendant: European Commission (represented by: K. Herrmann, T. Maxian Rusche and S. Noë, acting as Agents)
      
         Interveners in support of the defendant: Federal Republic of Germany (represented by: J. Möller, R. Kanitz, S. Heimerl and S. Costanzo, acting as Agents), Land Rheinland-Pfalz (Germany) (represented by: R. van der Hout and C. Wagner, lawyers)
      
         Re:
      
      Application under Article 263 TFEU seeking annulment of Commission Decision C(2017) 5289 final of 31 July 2017, on State aid SA.47969 (2017/N) implemented by Germany concerning operating aid granted to Frankfurt-Hahn airport.
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Annuls Commission Decision C(2017) 5289 final of 31 July 2017, on State aid SA.47969 (2017/N) implemented by Germany concerning operating aid granted to Frankfurt-Hahn airport;
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Orders the European Commission to pay its own costs and bear those incurred by Deutsche Lufthansa AG;
               
            
                  3.
               
               
                  Orders the Federal Republic of Germany and the Land Rheinland-Pfalz to bear their own costs.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 190, 4.6.2018.