CELEX: 62007TA0102
Language: en
Date: 2010-03-03 00:00:00
Title: Joined Cases T-102/07 and T-120/07: Judgment of the General Court of 3 March 2010 — Freistaat Sachsen and Others v Commission (State aid — Aid granted by Germany in the form of a participation and loan guarantees — Decision declaring aid incompatible with the common market — General aid scheme approved by the Commission — Concept of a firm in difficulty — Guidelines on State aid for rescuing and restructuring firms in difficulty — Amount of aid — 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 100/37
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 3 March 2010 — Freistaat Sachsen and Others v Commission
   (Joined Cases T-102/07 and T-120/07) (1)
   
   (State aid - Aid granted by Germany in the form of a participation and loan guarantees - Decision declaring aid incompatible with the common market - General aid scheme approved by the Commission - Concept of a firm in difficulty - Guidelines on State aid for rescuing and restructuring firms in difficulty - Amount of aid - Obligation to state the reasons on which the decision is based)
   2010/C 100/57
   Language of the case: German
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicants: Freistaat Sachsen (Germany) (represented by: C. von Donat and G. Quardt, lawyers) (Case T-102/07), MB Immobilien Verwaltungs GmbH (Neukirch, Germany) (represented initially by: G. Brüggen, and subsequently by A. Seidl, K. Lengert and W. Sommer, lawyers) and MB System GmbH & Co. KG, (Nordhausen, Germany) (represented by: G. Brüggen, lawyer) (Case T-120/07)
   
      Defendant: European Commission (represented by: K. Gross and T. Scharf, Agents)
   
      Re:
   
   Application for annulment of Commission Decision 2007/492/EC of 24 January 2007 on the State aid C 38/2005 (ex NN 52/2004) implemented by Germany for the Biria Group (OJ 2007 L 183, p. 27)
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Annuls Commission Decision 2007/492/EC of 24 January 2007 on the State aid C 38/2005 (ex NN 52/2004) implemented by Germany for the Biria Group.
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the Commission to pay the costs, including those relating to the interim proceedings in Case T-120/07.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 129, 9.6.2007.