CELEX: C2004/118/12
Language: en
Date: 2004-04-30 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 29 April 2004 in Case C-91/01: Italian Republic v Commission of the European Communities (State aid — Recommendation concerning the definition of small and medium-sized enterprises — Guidelines for State aid to small and medium-sized enterprises — Independence criterion — Protection of legitimate expectations — Legal certainty)

30.4.2004   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 118/7
            
         
      JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
   
   (Fifth Chamber)
   of 29 April 2004
   in Case C-91/01: Italian Republic v Commission of the European Communities (1)
   
   (State aid - Recommendation concerning the definition of small and medium-sized enterprises - Guidelines for State aid to small and medium-sized enterprises - Independence criterion - Protection of legitimate expectations - Legal certainty)
   (2004/C 118/12)
   Language of the case: Italian
   In Case C-91/01: Italian Republic (Agent: I. Braguglia, assisted by D. Del Gaizo), with an address for service in Luxembourg v Commission of the European Communities (Agents: V. Di Bucci and J. M. Flett), with an address for service in Luxembourg — application for annulment of Commission Decision 2001/779/EC of 15 November 2000 on the State aid which Italy is planning to grant to Solar Tech Srl (OJ 2001 L 292, p. 45), in so far as it did not allow the application to that aid of the bonus of 15 % gross grant equivalent provided for for small and medium-sized enterprises — the Court (Fifth Chamber), composed of: C. W. A. Timmermans, acting for the President of the Fifth Chamber, A. Rosas and S. von Bahr (Rapporteur), Judges; Advocate General: F. G. Jacobs; Registrar: M. Múgica Arzamendi, Principal Administrator, has given a judgment on 29 April 2004, in which it:
   
               1)
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2)
            
            
               Orders the Italian Republic to pay the costs
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 118, 21.4.2001.