CELEX: 62008CA0537
Language: en
Date: 2010-12-16 00:00:00
Title: Case C-537/08 P: Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 16 December 2010 — Kahla/Thüringen Porzellan GmbH v Freistaat Thüringen, Federal Republic of Germany, European Commission (Appeal — State aid — Commission decision finding aid to be incompatible with the common market and ordering its recovery — Principles of legal certainty and of the protection of legitimate expectations)

19.2.2011   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 55/3
            
         Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 16 December 2010 — Kahla/Thüringen Porzellan GmbH v Freistaat Thüringen, Federal Republic of Germany, European Commission
   (Case C-537/08 P) (1)
   
   (Appeal - State aid - Commission decision finding aid to be incompatible with the common market and ordering its recovery - Principles of legal certainty and of the protection of legitimate expectations)
   2011/C 55/04
   Language of the case: German
   
      Parties
   
   
      Appellant: Kahla/Thüringen Porzellan GmbH (represented by: M. Schütte, S. Zühlke and P. Werner, Rechtsanwälte)
   
      Other parties to the proceedings: Freistaat Thüringen (represented by: A. Weitbrecht and M. Núñez Müller, Rechtsanwälte), Federal Republic of Germany (represented by: M. Lumma and W. D. Plessing, acting as Agents), European Commission (represented by: V. Kreuschitz and K. Gross, acting as Agents, assisted by C. Koenig, professor)
   
      Re:
   
   Appeal brought against the judgment of the Court of First Instance (Fifth Chamber) delivered on 24 September 2008 in Case T-20/03 Kahla/Thüringen Porzellan GmbH, by which the Court of First Instance dismissed an action for the annulment of Commission Decision 2003/643/EC of 13 May 2003 on the State aid implemented by Germany for Kahla Porzellan GmbH and Kahla/Thüringen Porzellan GmbH (OJ 2003 L 227, p. 12), in so far as that decision concerns the financial assistance granted to Kahla/Thüringen Porzellan GmbH — Infringement of the principles of legal certainty and protection of legitimate expectations
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the appeal;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Kahla Thüringen Porzellan GmbH to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 44, 21.2.2009.