CELEX: 62010CA0459
Language: en
Date: 2011-07-21 00:00:00
Title: Case C-459/10 P: Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 21 July 2011 — Freistaat Sachsen, Land Sachsen-Anhalt v European Commission (Appeal — State aid — Aid for a training project concerning certain jobs in the new DHL centre at Leipzig-Halle airport — Action for annulment against the decision declaring part of the aid incompatible with the common market — Examination of the need for the aid — Failure to take into account the incentive effects of the aid and its positive external effects on the choice of the site)

10.9.2011   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 269/17
            
         Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 21 July 2011 — Freistaat Sachsen, Land Sachsen-Anhalt v European Commission
   (Case C-459/10 P) (1)
   
   (Appeal - State aid - Aid for a training project concerning certain jobs in the new DHL centre at Leipzig-Halle airport - Action for annulment against the decision declaring part of the aid incompatible with the common market - Examination of the need for the aid - Failure to take into account the incentive effects of the aid and its positive external effects on the choice of the site)
   2011/C 269/28
   Language of the case: German
   
      Parties
   
   
      Appellants: Freistaat Sachsen, Land Sachsen-Anhalt (represented by: A. Rosenfeld, Rechtsanwalt)
   
      Other party to the proceedings: European Commission (represented by: B. Martenczuk, agent)
   
      Re:
   
   Appeal brought against the judgment of the General Court (Eighth Chamber) of 8 July 2010 in Case T-396/08 Freistaat Sachsen and Land Sachsen-Anhalt v Commission, by which the General Court dismissed the action seeking partial annulment of Decision 2008/878/EC of 2 July 2008 regarding the State aid which Germany intends to grant to DHL (OJ 2008 L 312, p. 31) — Aid for training — Decision declaring part of the aid incompatible with the common market — Incorrect examination of the need for the aid — Disregard of the positive external effects of the aid and of its incentive effects on the choice of the site
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismissses the appeal;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Freistaat Sachsen and Land Sachsen-Anhalt to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 317, 20.11.2010.