CELEX: 62016TA0254
Language: en
Date: 2017-11-28 00:00:00
Title: Case T-254/16: Judgment of the General Court of 28 November 2017 — Steel Invest & Finance (Luxembourg) v Commission (State aid — Iron and steel industry — Aid granted by Belgium in favour of several undertakings in the iron and steel industry — Decision declaring the aid incompatible with the internal market and ordering its recovery — Obligation to state reasons — Concept of State aid — Advantage — Private investor test)

22.1.2018   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 22/35
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 28 November 2017 — Steel Invest & Finance (Luxembourg) v Commission
   (Case T-254/16) (1)
   
   ((State aid - Iron and steel industry - Aid granted by Belgium in favour of several undertakings in the iron and steel industry - Decision declaring the aid incompatible with the internal market and ordering its recovery - Obligation to state reasons - Concept of State aid - Advantage - Private investor test))
   (2018/C 022/47)
   Language of the case: French
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Steel Invest & Finance (Luxembourg) SA (Strassen, Luxembourg) (represented by: E. van den Broucke, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: European Commission (represented by: initially, É. Gippini Fournier and K. Herrmann, and, subsequently, É. Gippini Fournier, V. Bottka and G. Luengo, acting as Agents)
   
      Re:
   
   Application pursuant to Article 263 TFEU and seeking partial annulment of Commission Decision (EU) 2016/2041 of 20 January 2016 on State aid SA.33926 2013/C (ex 2013/NN, 2011/CP) granted by Belgium to Duferco (OJ 2016 L 314, p. 22).
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Steel Invest & Finance (Luxembourg) SA to bear its own costs;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders the European Commission to bear its own costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 251, 11.7.2016.