CELEX: E2014J0023
Language: en
Date: 2015-09-23 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court of 23 September 2015 in Case E-23/14 — Kimek Offshore AS v EFTA Surveillance Authority (Action for annulment — State aid — Failure to initiate the formal investigation procedure — Admissibility — Legal interest — Status as interested party — Doubts or serious difficulties — General measures — Aid scheme)

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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 422/6
            
         JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
   of 23 September 2015
   in Case E-23/14
   Kimek Offshore AS v EFTA Surveillance Authority
   (Action for annulment — State aid — Failure to initiate the formal investigation procedure — Admissibility — Legal interest — Status as interested party — Doubts or serious difficulties — General measures — Aid scheme)
   (2016/C 422/05)
   In Case E-23/14, Kimek Offshore AS v EFTA Surveillance Authority — APPLICATION for the annulment of EFTA Surveillance Authority Decision No 225/14/COL of 18 June 2014 on the compatibility of Norway’s regionally differentiated social security contributions scheme with the Agreement on the European Economic Area, the Court, composed of Carl Baudenbacher, President, Per Christiansen and Páll Hreinsson (Judge-Rapporteur) Judges, gave judgment on 23 September 2015, the operative part of which is as follows:
   The Court hereby:
   
               1.
            
            
               Annuls ESA Decision No 225/14/COL of 18 June 2014 on the compatibility of Norway’s regionally differentiated social security contributions scheme with the Agreement on the European Economic Area, in so far as it closed the preliminary investigation as regards section 1(4) of the Norwegian Parliament’s Decision No 1482 of 5 December 2013 on determination of the tax rates etc. under the National Insurance Act for 2014.
            
         
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               Orders ESA to bear its own costs and the costs incurred by the applicant.