CELEX: 62009CA0194
Language: en
Date: 2011-07-21 00:00:00
Title: Case C-194/09 P: Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 21 July 2011 — Alcoa Trasformazioni Srl v European Commission (Appeal — State aid — Preferential electricity tariff — Finding that there is no aid — Measure amended and extended — Decision to initiate the procedure under Article 88(2) EC — Existing or new aid — Regulation (EC) No 659/1999 — Article 1(b)(v) — Obligation to state reasons — Principles of legal certainty and the protection of legitimate expectations)

10.9.2011   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 269/3
            
         Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 21 July 2011 — Alcoa Trasformazioni Srl v European Commission
   (Case C-194/09 P) (1)
   
   (Appeal - State aid - Preferential electricity tariff - Finding that there is no aid - Measure amended and extended - Decision to initiate the procedure under Article 88(2) EC - Existing or new aid - Regulation (EC) No 659/1999 - Article 1(b)(v) - Obligation to state reasons - Principles of legal certainty and the protection of legitimate expectations)
   2011/C 269/03
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Appellant: Alcoa Trasformazioni Srl (represented by: M. Siragusa, avvocato, T. Müller-Ibold and T. Graf, Rechtsanwälte, and F. Salerno, avocat)
   
      Other party to the proceedings: European Commission (represented by: N. Khan, Agent)
   
      Re:
   
   Appeal brought against the judgment of the Court of First Instance (First Chamber) of 25 March 2009 in Case T-332/06 Alcoa Trasformazioni Srl v Commission of the European Communities, by which that court dismissed the action seeking annulment of the Commission’s decision of 19 July 2006 to initiate the procedure laid down in Article 88(2) of the EC Treaty with regard to the extension of the preferential electricity tariff regimes granted to some energy intensive industries in Italy (State Aid C 36/06 (ex NN 38/06)), in so far as it concerns the electricity tariff for the two plants producing aluminium owned by the applicant in Fusina (Veneto) and Portovesme (Sardinia)
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the appeal;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Alcoa Trasformazioni Srl to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 193, 15.8.2009.