CELEX: 62009TA0179
Language: en
Date: 2014-04-30 00:00:00
Title: Case T-179/09: Judgment of the General Court of 30 April 2014  — Dunamenti Erőmű v Commission (State aid — Aid awarded by the Hungarian authorities to certain electricity generators — Power purchase agreements concluded between a public undertaking and certain electricity generators — Decision declaring the State aid incompatible with the common market and ordering its recovery — Concept of State aid — Advantage — New aid — Operating aid — Legitimate expectations — Legal certainty)

24.6.2014   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 194/19
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 30 April 2014 — Dunamenti Erőmű v Commission
   (Case T-179/09) (1)
   
   ((State aid - Aid awarded by the Hungarian authorities to certain electricity generators - Power purchase agreements concluded between a public undertaking and certain electricity generators - Decision declaring the State aid incompatible with the common market and ordering its recovery - Concept of State aid - Advantage - New aid - Operating aid - Legitimate expectations - Legal certainty))
   2014/C 194/24
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Dunamenti Erőmű Zrt. (Százhalombatta, Hungary) (represented by: initially J. Lever QC, A. Nourry, R. Griffith and S. Spence, Solicitors, and subsequently J. Philippe and F.-H. Boret, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: European Commission (represented by: L. Flynn and K. Talabér-Ritz, Agents)
   
      Re:
   
   Application for, in essence, the annulment of Commission Decision 2009/609/EC of 4 June 2008 on the State aid C 41/05 awarded by Hungary through Power Purchase Agreements (OJ 2009 L 225, p. 53) and, in the alternative, the annulment of Articles 2 and 5 of that decision.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Dunamenti Erőmű Zrt. to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by the European Commission.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 167, 18.7.2009.