CELEX: 62017TA0674
Language: en
Date: 2019-09-20 00:00:00
Title: Case T-674/17: Judgment of the General Court of 20 September 2019 — Port de Bruxelles and Région de Bruxelles-Capitale v Commission (State aid — Corporate tax exemption scheme implemented by Belgium in favour of its ports — Decision declaring the aid scheme incompatible with the internal market — Concept of economic activity — Services of general economic interest — Non-economic activities — Severability — Selectivity — Article 93 TFEU and Article 106(2) TFEU)

2.12.2019   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 406/25
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 20 September 2019 — Port de Bruxelles and Région de Bruxelles-Capitale v Commission
      (Case T-674/17) (1)
      
      (State aid - Corporate tax exemption scheme implemented by Belgium in favour of its ports - Decision declaring the aid scheme incompatible with the internal market - Concept of economic activity - Services of general economic interest - Non-economic activities - Severability - Selectivity - Article 93 TFEU and Article 106(2) TFEU)
      (2019/C 406/33)
      Language of the case: French
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicants: Port de Bruxelles (Brussels, Belgium), Région de Bruxelles-Capitale (Belgium) (represented by: J. Vanden Eynde and E. Wauters, lawyers)
      
         Defendant: European Commission (represented by: B. Stromsky and S. Noë, (acting as Agents)
      
         Intervener in support of the applicants: Kingdom of Belgium (represented by: J.-C. Halleux, P. Cottin, L. Van den Broeck and C. Pochet, acting as Agents, and by A. Lepièce and H. Baeyens, lawyers
      
         Re:
      
      Application under Article 263 TFEU for annulment of Commission Decision (EU) 2017/2115 of 27 July 2017 on aid scheme SA.38393 (2016/C, ex 2015/E) implemented by Belgium — Taxation of ports in Belgium (OJ 2017 L 332, p.1).
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
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                     Dismisses the action;
                  
               
            
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                     Orders Port de Bruxelles and Région de Bruxelles-Capitale to pay, in addition to their own costs, the costs incurred by the European Commission;
                  
               
            
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                     Orders the Kingdom of Belgium to bear its own costs.
                  
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 382, 13.11.2017.