CELEX: 62011TA0538
Language: en
Date: 2015-03-25 00:00:00
Title: Case T-538/11: Judgment of the General Court of 25 March 2015 — Belgium v Commission (State aid — Public health — Aid granted to finance screening tests for transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSE) in bovine animals — Decision declaring aid to be partly compatible and partly incompatible with the internal market — Action for annulment — Adversely affecting act — Admissibility — Notion of advantage — Notion of selectivity)

11.5.2015   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 155/22
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 25 March 2015 — Belgium v Commission
   (Case T-538/11) (1)
   
   ((State aid - Public health - Aid granted to finance screening tests for transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSE) in bovine animals - Decision declaring aid to be partly compatible and partly incompatible with the internal market - Action for annulment - Adversely affecting act - Admissibility - Notion of advantage - Notion of selectivity))
   (2015/C 155/24)
   Language of the case: Dutch
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Kingdom of Belgium (represented by: C. Pochet and J.-C. Halleux, acting as Agents, assisted by L. Van den Hende, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: European Commission (represented initially by H. van Vliet and S. Thomas, and subsequently by H. van Vliet and S. Noë, acting as Agents)
   
      Re:
   
   Application for partial annulment of Commission Decision 2011/678/EU of 27 July 2011 concerning the State aid for financing screening of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSE) in bovine animals implemented by Belgium (State aid C 44/08 (ex NN 45/04)) (OJ 2011 L 274, p. 36).
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the Kingdom of Belgium to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 347, 26.11.2011.