CELEX: C2002/131/28
Language: en
Date: 2002-06-01 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 30 January 2002 in Case T-35/99: Keller SpA and Keller Meccanica SpA v Commission of the European Communities (State aid — Undertakings active in the field of producing railway rolling stock — Undertakings in special administration — Aid for the regions of Sicily and Sardinia — Subsidised loans — Pre-existing or new aid — Scope of the decisions approving the schemes in question — Aid for the rescue or restructuring of undertakings in difficulties Commission guidelines — Article 92 of the EC Treaty (now Article 87 EC) — Obligation to state reasons)

1.6.2002                 EN                      Official Journal of the European Communities                                        C 131/15
                                                           COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE
    JUDGMENT OF THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE                                     JUDGMENT OF THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE
                        of 6 December 2001                                                           of 30 January 2002
in Case T-44/98: Emesa Sugar (Free Zone) NV v Com-
           mission of the European Communities (1)                          in Case T-35/99: Keller SpA and Keller Meccanica SpA v
                                                                                   Commission of the European Communities (1)
(Association arrangements for overseas countries and terri-
tories — Sugar imports — Refusal of import licence —                        (State aid — Undertakings active in the field of producing
Action for annulment — Plea of illegality — Decision 97/                    railway rolling stock — Undertakings in special adminis-
803/EC — Irreversible nature of the experience acquired —                   tration — Aid for the regions of Sicily and Sardinia —
Principle of proportionality — Legal certainty — Regulation                 Subsidised loans — Pre-existing or new aid — Scope of the
                          (EC) No 2553/97)                                  decisions approving the schemes in question — Aid for
                                                                            the rescue or restructuring of undertakings in difficulties
                                                                            Commission guidelines — Article 92 of the EC Treaty (now
                           (2002/C 131/27)                                           Article 87 EC) — Obligation to state reasons)
                     (Language of the case: Dutch)
                                                                                                       (2002/C 131/28)
                                                                                                 (Language of the case: Italian)
In Case T-44/98: Emesa Sugar (Free Zone) NV, established in
Oranjestad (Aruba), represented by G. van der Wal, lawyer,
with an address for service in Luxembourg, against Com-
mission of the European Communities (Agents: P.J. Kuijper
and T. van Rijn), supported by Council of the European Union                In Case T-35/99 Keller SpA, established at Palermo (Italy)
(Agents: J. Huber and G. Houttuin), Kingdom of Spain (Agents:               and Keller Meccanica SpA, established at Villacidro (Italy),
M. López-Monis Gallego and R. Silva de Lapuerta), French                   represented by D. Corapi, V. Cappucelli and M. Merola,
Republic (Agent: K. Rispal-Bellanger), and United Kingdom of                lawyers, with an address for service in Luxembourg, supported
Great Britain and Northern Ireland (Agent: R. Magrill) —                    by Italian Republic (Agents: V. Leanza and O. Fiumara), against
application for annulment of the Commission’s decision of                   Commission of the European Communities (Agents: initially
23 December 1997 (VI/51329), addressed to the Hoofdpro-                     G. Rozet and A. Aresu, subsequently G. Rozet and V. Di Bucci):
ductschap voor Akkerbouwproducten, rejecting an application                 — application for annulment of Commission decision 1999/
for an import licence for 3 010 tonnes of sugar, submitted                  195/EC of 1 July 1998 on aid granted and to be granted by
pursuant to Commission Regulation No 2553/97 of                             Italy to Keller SpA and Keller Meccanica SpA (OJ 1999 L 63,
17 December 1997 on rules for issuing import licences for                   p. 55) — the Court of First Instance (Second Chamber,
certain products covered by CN codes 1701, 1702, 1703 and                   Extended Composition), composed of: A.W.H. Meij, President,
1704 and qualifying as ACP/OCT originating products (OJ                     and K. Lenaerts, M. Jaeger, J. Pirrung and M. Vilaras, Judges;
1997 L 349, p. 26), — the Court of First Instance (Third                    H. Jung, Registrar, has given a judgment on 30 January 2002
Chamber), composed of J. Azizi, President, K. Lenaerts and                  in which it:
M. Jaeger, Judges; J. Plingers, Administrator, for the Registrar,
has given a judgment on 6 December 2001, in which it:
                                                                            1.    Dismisses the application.
(1) Dismisses the action;
                                                                            2.    Orders the applicants to bear their own costs and, jointly and
(2) Orders the applicant to bear its own costs and in addition to                 severally, to pay the Commission’s costs.
      pay the costs incurred by the Commission, including those
      relating to the proceedings for interim relief;
                                                                            3.    Orders the intervener to bear its own costs.
(3) Orders the interveners to bear their own costs.
                                                                            (1) OJ C 121 of 1.5. 1999.
(1) OJ C 151 of 16.5.1998.