CELEX: 62017CA0654
Language: en
Date: 2019-07-29 00:00:00
Title: Case C-654/17 P: Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 29 July 2019 — Bayerische Motoren Werke AG v European Commission, Freistaat Sachsen (Appeal — State aid — Regional investment aid — Aid for a large investment project — Aid partly incompatible with the internal market — Article 107(3) TFEU — Whether the aid is necessary — Article 108(3) TFEU — Regulation (EC) No 800/2008 — Aid exceeding the individual notification threshold — Notification — Scope of the block exemption — Cross-appeal — Whether an intervention before the General Court of the European Union may proceed — Admissibility)

23.9.2019   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 319/11
            
         
      Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 29 July 2019 — Bayerische Motoren Werke AG v European Commission, Freistaat Sachsen
      (Case C-654/17 P) (1)
      
      (Appeal - State aid - Regional investment aid - Aid for a large investment project - Aid partly incompatible with the internal market - Article 107(3) TFEU - Whether the aid is necessary - Article 108(3) TFEU - Regulation (EC) No 800/2008 - Aid exceeding the individual notification threshold - Notification - Scope of the block exemption - Cross-appeal - Whether an intervention before the General Court of the European Union may proceed - Admissibility)
      (2019/C 319/10)
      Language of the case: German
      
         Parties
      
      
         Appellant: Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (represented by: M. Rosenthal, G. Drauz and M. Schütte, Rechtsanwälte)
      
         Other parties to the proceedings: European Commission (represented by: F. Erlbacher, A. Bouchagiar and T. Maxian Rusche, Agents), Freistaat Sachsen (represented by: T. Lübbig, Rechtsanwalt)
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
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                  Dismisses the main appeal and the cross-appeal;
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Orders Bayerische Motoren Werke AG to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by the European Commission in respect of the main appeal;
               
            
                  3.
               
               
                  Orders Freistaat Sachsen to bear its own costs in respect of the main appeal;
               
            
                  4.
               
               
                  Orders the European Commission to bear its own costs and to pay those of Bayerische Motoren Werke AG and of Freistaat Sachsen in respect of the cross-appeal.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 94, 12.3.2018.