CELEX: 62015TA0554
Language: en
Date: 2018-04-25 00:00:00
Title: Joined Cases T-554/15 and T-555/15: Judgment of the General Court of 25 April 2018 — Hungary v Commission (State aid — Aid granted under the Hungarian Law No XCIV of 2014 on the health contribution of tobacco companies — Aid resulting from a 2014 amendment to the Hungarian Food Chain Act 2008 and the official control thereof — Taxes with progressive annual turnover rates — Decision to open the procedure provided for in Article 108(2) TFEU — Simultaneous adoption of a suspension injunction — Action for annulment — Severable nature of the suspension order — Interest in bringing proceedings — Admissibility — Obligation to state reasons — Proportionality — Equal treatment — Rights of the defence — Principle of loyal cooperation — Article 11(1) of Regulation (EC) No 659/1999)

201805250641897342018/C 200/355542015TC20020180611EN01ENINFO_JUDICIAL20180425292911Joined Cases T-554/15 and T-555/15: Judgment of the General Court of 25 April 2018 — Hungary v Commission (State aid — Aid granted under the Hungarian Law No XCIV of 2014 on the health contribution of tobacco companies — Aid resulting from a 2014 amendment to the Hungarian Food Chain Act 2008 and the official control thereof — Taxes with progressive annual turnover rates — Decision to open the procedure provided for in Article 108(2) TFEU — Simultaneous adoption of a suspension injunction — Action for annulment — Severable nature of the suspension order — Interest in bringing proceedings — Admissibility — Obligation to state reasons — Proportionality — Equal treatment — Rights of the defence — Principle of loyal cooperation — Article 11(1) of Regulation (EC) No 659/1999)
 ---documentbreak--- C2002018EN2910120180425EN0035291291Judgment of the General Court of 25 April 2018 — Hungary v Commission
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   ‛(State aid — Aid granted under the Hungarian Law No XCIV of 2014 on the health contribution of tobacco companies — Aid resulting from a 2014 amendment to the Hungarian Food Chain Act 2008 and the official control thereof — Taxes with progressive annual turnover rates — Decision to open the procedure provided for in Article 108(2) TFEU — Simultaneous adoption of a suspension injunction — Action for annulment — Severable nature of the suspension order — Interest in bringing proceedings — Admissibility — Obligation to state reasons — Proportionality — Equal treatment — Rights of the defence — Principle of loyal cooperation — Article 11(1) of Regulation (EC) No 659/1999)’2018/C 200/35Language of the case: French
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Hungary (represented by: M. Fehér and G. Koós, acting as Agents)
   
      Defendant: European Commission (represented by: L. Flynn, P.-J. Loewenthal and K. Talabér-Ritz, acting as Agents)
   
      Re:
   
   Application based on Article 263 TFEU and seeking the annulment, in part, of, first, Commission decision C(2015) 4805 final of 15 July 2015 on State aid SA.41187 (2015/NN) — Hungary — Health contribution of tobacco industry businesses (OJ 2015 C 277, p. 24), and, second, of Commission decision C(2015) 4808 final of 15 July 2015 on State aid SA. 40018 (2015/C) (ex 2014/NN) — Amendment of the Hungarian food chain inspection fee (OJ 2015 C 277, p. 12).
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
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            Dismisses the actions;
         
      
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            Orders Hungary to pay the costs.
         
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      )	OJ C 398, 30.11.2015.