CELEX: 62007TJ0070
Language: en
Date: 2008-11-12
Title: Judgment of the Court of First Instance (Eighth Chamber) of 12 November 2008. # Cantieri Navali Termoli SpA v Commission of the European Communities. # State aid - Shipbuilding - Operating aid linked to contracts for ships - Application for extension of ship delivery limit under Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 1540/98 - Causal link between the exceptional event and the delay. # Case T-70/07.

Judgment of the Court of First Instance (Eighth Chamber) of 12 November 2008 – Cantieri Navali Termoli v Commission
      (Case T-70/07)
      State aid – Shipbuilding – Operating aid linked to contracts for ships – Application for extension of ship delivery limit under Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 1540/98 – Causal link between the exceptional event and the delay
      1.                     Actions for annulment – Grounds – Lack of or inadequate statement of reasons – Distinguished from manifest error of assessment
            (Art. 253 EC) (see para. 37)
      2.                     State aid – Not allowed – Exceptions – Shipbuilding aid (Council Regulation No 1540/98, Art. 3(2)) (see paras 53-58)
      Re: 
      
         
               ACTION for annulment of Commission Decision 2006/948/EC of 4 July 2006 on State aid which Italy plans to implement for Cantieri
                  Navali Termoli SpA (OJ 2006 L 383, p. 53).
               
            Operative part:
      The Court: 
      
         
                  1.
               
               
                  
               
               
                  	Dismisses the action;
               
            
         
                  2.
               
               
                  
               
               
                  	Orders Cantieri Navali Termoli SpA to pay the costs.