CELEX: 62015TA0138
Language: en
Date: 2017-09-28 00:00:00
Title: Case T-138/15: Judgment of the General Court of 28 September 2017 — Aanbestedingskalender and Others v Commission (State aid — Financing measures granted by the Netherlands authorities for the creation and introduction of the TenderNed electronic procurement platform — Decision finding no State aid — Non-economic services of general interest)

13.11.2017   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 382/37
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 28 September 2017 — Aanbestedingskalender and Others v Commission
   (Case T-138/15) (1)
   
   ((State aid - Financing measures granted by the Netherlands authorities for the creation and introduction of the TenderNed electronic procurement platform - Decision finding no State aid - Non-economic services of general interest))
   (2017/C 382/44)
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicants: Aanbestedingskalender BV (Ede, Netherlands), Negometrix BV (Amsterdam, Netherlands), CTM Solution BV (Breukelen, Netherlands), Stillpoint Applications BV (Amsterdam), Huisinga Beheer BV (Amsterdam), (represented by: C. Dekker and L. Fiorilli, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: European Commission (represented by: P.-J. Loewenthal and K. Herrmann, acting as Agents)
   
      Interveners in support of the defendant: Kingdom of the Netherlands (represented by M. Bulterman, B. Koopman and M. Noort, acting as Agents) and Slovak Republic, (represented by B. Ricziová, acting as Agent)
   
      Re:
   
   Action pursuant to Article 263 TFEU seeking the annulment of Commission Decision C(2014) 9548 final of 18 December 2014 on State aid SA.34646 (2014/NN) (ex 2012/CP) — The Netherlands E-procurement platform TenderNed.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Aanbestedingskalender BV, Negometrix BV, CTM Solution BV, Stillpoint Applications BV and Huisinga Beheer BV to pay the costs;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Republic of Slovakia to bear their own costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 198, 15.6.2015.