CELEX: 62016TA0791
Language: en
Date: 2019-05-22 00:00:00
Title: Case T-791/16: Judgment of the General Court of 22 May 2019 — Real Madrid Club de Fútbol v Commission (State aid — Aid granted by the Spanish authorities to a professional football club — Settlement aimed atcompensating for a failure to carry out a land transfer initially agreed between a city council and a football club — Football club overcompensated — Decision declaring the aid incompatible with the internal market — Advantage)

8.7.2019   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 230/27
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 22 May 2019 — Real Madrid Club de Fútbol v Commission
      (Case T-791/16) (1)
      
      (State aid - Aid granted by the Spanish authorities to a professional football club - Settlement aimed atcompensating for a failure to carry out a land transfer initially agreed between a city council and a football club - Football club overcompensated - Decision declaring the aid incompatible with the internal market - Advantage)
      (2019/C 230/33)
      Language of the case: Spanish
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: Real Madrid Club de Fútbol (Madrid, Spain) (represented by: J. Pérez-Bustamante Köster and F. Löwhagen, lawyers)
      
         Defendant: European Commission (represented by: P.-J. Loewenthal, G. Luengo and P. Němečková, acting as Agents)
      
         Re:
      
      Application under Article 263 TFEU seeking the annulment of Commission Decision (EU) 2016/2393 of 4 July 2016 on the State aid SA.33754 (2013/C) (ex 2013/NN) implemented by Spain for Real Madrid CF (OJ 2016 L 358, p. 3).
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
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                     Annuls Commission Decision (EU) 2016/2393 of 4 July 2016 on the State aid SA.33754 (2013/C) (ex 2013/NN) implemented by Spain for Real Madrid CF;
                  
               
            
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                     Declares that the European Commission is to bear its own costs and orders it to pay the costs incurred by Real Madrid Club de Fútbol.
                  
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 243, 4.7.2016.