CELEX: C2005/205/33
Language: en
Date: 2005-08-20 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 15 June 2005 in Case T-349/03 Corsica Ferries France SAS v Commission of the European Communities (State aid — Action for annulment — Restructuring aid — Decision declaring the aid compatible with the common market — Commission guidelines — Duty to give statement of reasons — Compliance with the conditions — Minimal character of the aid)

20.8.2005   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 205/19
            
         
      JUDGMENT OF THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE
   
   of 15 June 2005
   in Case T-349/03 Corsica Ferries France SAS v Commission of the European Communities (1)
   
   (State aid - Action for annulment - Restructuring aid - Decision declaring the aid compatible with the common market - Commission guidelines - Duty to give statement of reasons - Compliance with the conditions - Minimal character of the aid)
   (2005/C 205/33)
   Language of the case: French
   In Case T-349/03: Corsica Ferries France SAS, established in Bastia (France), represented by S. Rodrigues and C. Scapel, lawyers, with an address for service in Luxembourg, against Commission of the European Communities (Agents: C. Giolito and H. van Vliet, with an address for service in Luxembourg), supported by the French Republic (Agents: G. de Bergues and S. Ramet, with an address for service in Luxembourg) and by Société nationale maritime Corse Meditérranée (SNCM) SA, established in Marseille (France), initially represented by H. Tassey, then by O. d'Ormesson and A. Bouin, lawyers — action for annulment of Commission Decision 2004/166/EC of 9 July 2003 on aid which France intends to grant for the restructuring of the Société Nationale Maritime Corse-Méditerranée (SNCM) (OJ 2004 L 61, p. 13) — the Court of First Instance (Third Chamber), composed of M. Jaeger, President, V. Tiili and O. Czúcz, Judges; I. Natsinas, Administrator, for the Registrar, gave a judgment on 15 June 2005, in which it:
   
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               Annuls Commission Decision 2004/166/EC of 9 July 2003 on aid which France intends to grant for the restructuring of the Société Nationale Maritime Corse-Méditerranée (SNCM);
            
         
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               Orders the Commission to pay the applicant's costs and to bear its own costs.
            
         
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               Orders the French Republic and SNCM to bear their own costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 7 of 10. 01. 2004