CELEX: C2005/019/43
Language: en
Date: 2005-01-22 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 18 November 2004 in Case T-176/01: Ferriere Nord SpA v Commission of the European Communities (State aid — Community guidelines on State aid for environmental protection — Steel undertaking — Products coming under the EC Treaty — Approved aid scheme — New aid — Initiation of the formal procedure — Time-limits — Rights of the defence — Legitimate expectation — Statement of reasons — Applicability ratione temporis of the Community guidelines — Environmental objective of the investment)

22.1.2005   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 19/20
            
         
      JUDGMENT OF THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE
   
   of 18 November 2004
   in Case T-176/01: Ferriere Nord SpA v Commission of the European Communities (1)
   
   (State aid - Community guidelines on State aid for environmental protection - Steel undertaking - Products coming under the EC Treaty - Approved aid scheme - New aid - Initiation of the formal procedure - Time-limits - Rights of the defence - Legitimate expectation - Statement of reasons - Applicability ratione temporis of the Community guidelines - Environmental objective of the investment)
   (2005/C 19/43)
   Language of the case: Italian
   In Case T-176/01: Ferriere Nord SpA, established in Osoppo (Italy), represented by W. Viscardini Donà and G. Donà, lawyers, supported by Italian Republic (Agents: initially U. Leanza, acting as Agent, and subsequently I. Braguglia and M. Fiorilli, avvocati dello Stato, with an address for service in Luxembourg), against Commission of the European Communities (Agents: V. Kreuschitz and V. Di Bucci, with an address for service in Luxembourg) – application for, first, annulment of Commission Decision 2001/829/EC, ECSC of 28 March 2001 on the State aid which Italy is planning to grant to Ferriere Nord SpA (OJ 2001 L 310, p. 22) and, second, compensation for the harm allegedly sustained by the applicant following the adoption of that decision – the Court of First Instance (Fourth Chamber, Extended Composition), composed of H. Legal, President, V. Tiili, A.W.H. Meij, M. Vilaras and N.J. Forwood, Judges; J. Palacio González, Principal Administrator, for the Registrar, has given a judgment on 18 November 2004, in which it:
   
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               Dismisses the action;
            
         
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               Orders the applicant to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by the Commission;
            
         
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               Orders the Italian Republic to bear its own costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 289 of 13.10.2001.