CELEX: 62019CA0212
Language: en
Date: 2020-09-17 00:00:00
Title: Case C-212/19: Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 17 September 2020 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Conseil d’État — France) — Ministre de l’Agriculture et de l’Alimentation v Compagnie des pêches de Saint-Malo (Reference for a preliminary ruling — State aid — Concept — Wreck of the oil tanker Erika — Aid scheme for aquaculture and fisheries undertakings — Decision declaring the aid scheme partly incompatible with the common market and ordering the recovery of the aid paid out — Assessment of validity — Examination of the Court’s own motion — Admissibility — Failure to bring an action for annulment by the defendant in the main proceedings — Reduction in social security contributions — Employees’ contributions — Advantage — Question of who is liable for repayment)

7.12.2020   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 423/7
            
         
      Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 17 September 2020 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Conseil d’État — France) — Ministre de l’Agriculture et de l’Alimentation v Compagnie des pêches de Saint-Malo
      (Case C-212/19) (1)
      
      (Reference for a preliminary ruling - State aid - Concept - Wreck of the oil tanker Erika - Aid scheme for aquaculture and fisheries undertakings - Decision declaring the aid scheme partly incompatible with the common market and ordering the recovery of the aid paid out - Assessment of validity - Examination of the Court’s own motion - Admissibility - Failure to bring an action for annulment by the defendant in the main proceedings - Reduction in social security contributions - Employees’ contributions - Advantage - Question of who is liable for repayment)
      (2020/C 423/09)
      Language of the case: French
      
         Referring court
      
      Conseil d’État
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      
         Applicant: Ministre de l’Agriculture et de l’Alimentation
      
         Defendant: Compagnie des pêches de Saint-Malo
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      Commission Decision 2005/239/EC of 14 July 2004 concerning certain aid measures applied by France to assist fish farmers and fishermen is invalid in so far as it classifies the reduction in employees’ contributions granted by the French Republic to fishermen for the period from 15 April to 15 October 2000 as State aid incompatible with the common market.
      
         (1)  OJ C 164, 13.5.2019.