CELEX: 62011TA0488
Language: en
Date: 2014-06-12 00:00:00
Title: Case T-488/11: Judgment of the General Court of 12 June 2014  — Sarc v Commission (State aid — Software licence agreement — Decision finding no State aid — Actions for annulment — Competitive position not substantially affected — Inadmissibility — Procedural rights of the interested parties — Admissibility — Failure to initiate formal investigation procedure — No serious difficulties — Advantage)

28.7.2014   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 245/9
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 12 June 2014 — Sarc v Commission
   (Case T-488/11) (1)
   
   ((State aid - Software licence agreement - Decision finding no State aid - Actions for annulment - Competitive position not substantially affected - Inadmissibility - Procedural rights of the interested parties - Admissibility - Failure to initiate formal investigation procedure - No serious difficulties - Advantage))
   2014/C 245/11
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Scheepsbouwkundig Advies- en Rekencentrum (Sarc) BV (Bussum, Netherlands) (represented by: H. Speyart and R. Bolhaar, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: European Commission (represented by: H. van Vliet, K. Talabér-Ritz and S. Noë, acting as Agents)
   
      Interveners in support of the defendant: Kingdom of the Netherlands (represented initially by C. Wissels, M. Noort and B. Koopman, and subsequently by C. Wissels, M. Noort, J. Langer and M. Bulterman, acting as Agents); and Technische Universiteit Delft (Delft, Netherlands) (represented by: R. van den Tweel and P. Huurnink, lawyers).
   
      Re:
   
   Application for the annulment of Commission Decision C(2011) 642 final of 10 May 2011 relating to the State Aid Proceedings NN 68/2010 — Netherlands, declaring after the preliminary examination stage that the licence agreement for the use of a software source code concluded between Technische Universiteit Delft and Delftship BV does not constitute State aid
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Scheepsbouwkundig Advies- en Rekencentrum (Sarc) BV to bear its own costs and pay those incurred by the European Commission and by the Technische Universiteit Delft;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders the Kingdom of the Netherlands to bear its own costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 331, 12.11.2011.