CELEX: 62019CA0167
Language: en
Date: 2022-03-10 00:00:00
Title: Joined Cases C-167/19 P and C-171/19 P: Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of 10 March 2022 — European Commission v Freistaat Bayern and Others (Appeal — State aid — Aid in favour of the German dairy sector — Financing of milk quality tests — Article 108(2) TFUE — Decision to initiate the formal investigation procedure — Regulation (EC) No 659/1999 — Article 6(1) — Obligation for the European Commission to summarise the relevant issues of fact and law in that decision — Scope — Rights of interested parties to be involved in the administrative procedure — Breach of an essential procedural requirement — Consequences for the lawfulness of the final decision)

25.4.2022   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 171/2
            
         
      Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of 10 March 2022 — European Commission v Freistaat Bayern and Others
      (Joined Cases C-167/19 P and C-171/19 P) (1)
      
      (Appeal - State aid - Aid in favour of the German dairy sector - Financing of milk quality tests - Article 108(2) TFUE - Decision to initiate the formal investigation procedure - Regulation (EC) No 659/1999 - Article 6(1) - Obligation for the European Commission to summarise the relevant issues of fact and law in that decision - Scope - Rights of interested parties to be involved in the administrative procedure - Breach of an essential procedural requirement - Consequences for the lawfulness of the final decision)
      (2022/C 171/02)
      Language of the case: German
      
         Parties
      
      
         Appellant: European Commission (represented by: K. Herrmann, P. Němečková and T. Maxian Rusche, acting as Agents)
      
         Other parties to the proceedings: Freistaat Bayern (Germany) (represented by: U. Soltész and H. Weiß, Rechtsanwälte) (C-167/19 P), Interessengemeinschaft privater Milchverarbeiter Bayerns eV, Genossenschaftsverband Bayern eV, Verband der Bayerischen Privaten Milchwirtschaft eV (represented by: C. Bittner and N. Langhans, Rechtsanwälte) (C-171/19 P)
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1.
               
               
                  Dismisses the appeals;
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Orders the European Commission to pay the costs.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 131, 8.4.2019.