CELEX: 62017TA0578
Language: en
Date: 2019-06-20 00:00:00
Title: Case T-578/17: Judgment of the General Court of 20 June 2019 — a&o hostel and hotel Berlin v Commission (State aid — Operating aid — Youth hostel in Berlin — Rent-free use of a publicly owned property — Decision declaring the potential aid compatible with the internal market — Article 107(3)(c) TFEU — Serious difficulties)

2.9.2019   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 295/21
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 20 June 2019 — a&o hostel and hotel Berlin v Commission
      (Case T-578/17) (1)
      
      (State aid - Operating aid - Youth hostel in Berlin - Rent-free use of a publicly owned property - Decision declaring the potential aid compatible with the internal market - Article 107(3)(c) TFEU - Serious difficulties)
      (2019/C 295/27)
      Language of the case: German
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicant: a&o hostel and hotel Berlin GmbH, successor in title to A & O Hotel and Hostel Friedrichshain GmbH (Berlin, Germany) (represented by: S. Heise and M. Lindner, lawyers)
      
         Defendant: European Commission (represented by: K. Blanck, A Bouchagiar and T. Maxian Rusche, acting as Agents)
      
         Intervener in support of the defendant: Federal Republic of Germany (represented initially by T. Henze and R. Kanitz, acting as Agents, and subsequently by R. Kanitz, acting as Agent, and K. Dingemann, lawyer)
      
         Re:
      
      Application under Article 263 TFEU seeking the annulment of Commission Decision C(2017) 3220 final of 29 May 2017 on State aid SA.43145 (2016/FC) — Germany, concerning the allegedly unlawful non-fiscal State aid granted to Jugendherberge Berlin Ostkreuz gGmbH, a summary of which was published in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJ 2017 C 193, p. 1).
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
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                     Annuls Commission Decision C(2017) 3220 final of 29 May 2017 on State aid SA.43145 (2016/FC) — Germany, concerning the allegedly unlawful non-fiscal State aid granted to Jugendherberge Berlin Ostkreuz gGmbH;
                  
               
            
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                     Orders the European Commission to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by a&o hostel and hotel Berlin GmbH;
                  
               
            
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                     Orders the Federal Republic of Germany to bear its own costs.
                  
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 338, 9.10.2017.