CELEX: 62013CA0271
Language: en
Date: 2014-03-20 00:00:00
Title: Case C-271/13 P: Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 20 March 2014  — Rousse Industry v European Commission (Appeal  — State aid  — Aid granted by the Republic of Bulgaria in the form of debt write-off  — Commission decision declaring that aid incompatible with the internal market and ordering its recovery  — Concept of ‘new aid’   — Duty to state reasons)

12.5.2014   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 142/8
            
         Judgment of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 20 March 2014 — Rousse Industry v European Commission
   (Case C-271/13 P) (1)
   
   ((Appeal - State aid - Aid granted by the Republic of Bulgaria in the form of debt write-off - Commission decision declaring that aid incompatible with the internal market and ordering its recovery - Concept of ‘new aid’ - Duty to state reasons))
   2014/C 142/09
   Language of the case: Bulgarian
   
      Parties
   
   
      Appellant: Rousse Industry (represented by: A Angelov and S Panov, advokati)
   
      Other party to the proceedings: European Commission (represented by: C. Urraca Caviedes and D. Stefanov, Agents)
   
      Re:
   
   Appeal brought against the judgment of 20 March 2013 in Case T-489/11 Rousse Industry v Commission, by which the General Court (Fourth Chamber) dismissed the action brought by Rousse Industry for the annulment in part of Commission Decision 2012/706/EU of 13 July 2011 on the State aid SA.28903 (C 12/2010) (ex N 389/2009) implemented by Bulgaria in favour of Rousse Industry (OJ 2012 L 320, p. 27) — State aid in the form of debt write-off — Decision declaring that aid incompatible with the internal market and ordering its recovery — Infringement of procedural rules adversely affecting the rights of the applicant — Infringement of EU law by the General Court.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the appeal.
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Rousse Industry AD to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 207, 20.7.2013.