CELEX: 62017TA0100
Language: en
Date: 2018-12-11 00:00:00
Title: Case T-100/17: Judgment of the General Court of 11. December 2018 — BTB Holding Investments and Duferco Participations Holding v Commission (State aid — Steel industry — Aid granted by Belgium in favour of a number of undertakings in the iron and steel industry — Decision declaring that aid incompatible with the internal market and ordering its recovery — Obligation to state reasons — Concept of State aid — Advantage — Private investor test)

25.2.2019   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 72/23
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 11. December 2018 — BTB Holding Investments and Duferco Participations Holding v Commission
      (Case T-100/17) (1)
      
      ((State aid - Steel industry - Aid granted by Belgium in favour of a number of undertakings in the iron and steel industry - Decision declaring that aid incompatible with the internal market and ordering its recovery - Obligation to state reasons - Concept of State aid - Advantage - Private investor test))
      (2019/C 72/29)
      Language of the case: French
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicants: BTB Holding Investments SA (Luxembourg, Luxembourg) and Duferco Participations Holding SA (Luxembourg) (represented by: J.-F. Bellis, R. Luff, M. Favart and Q. Declève, lawyers)
      
         Defendant: European Commission (represented by: V. Bottka, G. Luengo and É. Gippini Fournier, acting as Agents)
      
         Intervener in support of the applicants: Foreign Strategic Investments Holding (FSIH) (Liège, Belgium) (represented by: A. Verheyden and P. Laconte, lawyers)
      
         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 BTB Holding Investments SA and Duferco Participations Holding SA to pay the costs.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 129, 24.4.2017.