CELEX: 62005TA0163
Language: en
Date: 2010-03-03 00:00:00
Title: Case T-163/05: Judgment of the General Court of 3 March 2010 — Bundesverband deutscher Banken v Commission (State aid — Transfer of public assets to Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen Girozentrale — Decision declaring the aid to be, in part, incompatible with the common market and ordering its recovery — Private investor test — Obligation to state the reasons on which the decision is based)

17.4.2010   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 100/36
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 3 March 2010 — Bundesverband deutscher Banken v Commission
   (Case T-163/05) (1)
   
   (State aid - Transfer of public assets to Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen Girozentrale - Decision declaring the aid to be, in part, incompatible with the common market and ordering its recovery - Private investor test - Obligation to state the reasons on which the decision is based)
   2010/C 100/54
   Language of the case: German
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Bundesverband deutscher Banken eV (Berlin, Germany) (represented by: H.-J. Niemeyer, K.-S. Scholz and J.-O. Lenschow, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: European Commission (represented by: N. Khan and T. Scharf, Agents)
   
      Interveners in support of the defendant: Federal Republic of Germany (represented by M. Lumma and C. Schulze-Bahr, acting as Agents, and by J. Witting, lawyer); Land Hessen (Germany) (represented initially by H.-J. Freund and M. Holzhäuser, and subsequently by H.-J. Freund and S. Lehr, lawyers); and Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen Girozentrale (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) (represented by H.-J. Freund, lawyer)
   
      Re:
   
   Application for annulment of Commission Decision 2006/742/EC of 20 October 2004 on aid granted by Germany [to] Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen — Girozentrale (OJ 2006 L 307, p. 159)
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Orders the documents produced by the Bundesverband deutscher Banken eV at Annexes 9 and 10 to the reply to be removed from the file;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Dismisses the application;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders the Bundesverband deutscher Banken to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by the European Commission, the Land Hessen and Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen Girozentrale;
            
         
               4.
            
            
               Orders the Federal Republic of Germany to bear its own costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 155, 25.6.2005.