CELEX: 62014CN0063
Language: en
Date: 2014-02-10 00:00:00
Title: Case C-63/14: Action brought on 10 February 2014  — European Commission v French Republic

5.5.2014   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 135/22
            
         Action brought on 10 February 2014 — European Commission v French Republic
   (Case C-63/14)
   2014/C 135/26
   Language of the case: French
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: European Commission (represented by: B. Stromsky, Agent)
   
      Defendant: French Republic
   
      Form of order sought
   
   
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               declare that, by failing to take, within the prescribed periods, all the measures necessary to recover from the recipient the State aid declared illegal and incompatible with the internal market by Article 2(1) of Commission Decision 2013/435/EU of 2 May 2013 on State aid SA.22843 implemented by France in favour of Société Nationale Maritime Corse-Méditerranée and the Compagnie Méridionale de Navigation, (1) in not having annulled, within the prescribed periods, all the aid payments referred to in that Article 2(1) and in not having informed the Commission, within the prescribed period, of the measures taken to comply with that decision, the French Republic has failed to fulfil its obligations under the fourth paragraph of Article 288 TFEU and Articles 3, 4 and 5 of that decision;
            
         
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               order French Republic to pay the costs.
            
         
      Pleas in law and main arguments
   
   The time-limit within which the French Republic should have recovered the aid illegally paid to the SNCM expired four months after notification of the decision.
   
      (1)  OJ 2013 L 220, p. 20.