CELEX: 62009CA0176
Language: en
Date: 2011-05-12 00:00:00
Title: Case C-176/09: Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 12 May 2011 — Grand Duchy of Luxembourg v European Parliament and Council of the European Union (Action for annulment — Directive 2009/12/EC — Airport charges — Scope — Airports whose annual traffic is over 5 million passenger movements per year and those with the highest passenger movements in each Member State — Validity — Principles of equal treatment, proportionality and subsidiarity)

9.7.2011   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 204/6
            
         Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) of 12 May 2011 — Grand Duchy of Luxembourg v European Parliament and Council of the European Union
   (Case C-176/09) (1)
   
   (Action for annulment - Directive 2009/12/EC - Airport charges - Scope - Airports whose annual traffic is over 5 million passenger movements per year and those with the highest passenger movements in each Member State - Validity - Principles of equal treatment, proportionality and subsidiarity)
   2011/C 204/11
   Language of the case: French
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (represented by: C. Schiltz, acting as Agent, and by P. Kinsch, avocat)
   
      Intervener in support of the applicant: Slovak Republic (represented by: B. Ricziová, acting as Agent)
   
      Defendants: European Parliament (represented by: A. Troupiotis and A. Neergaard, acting as Agents), Council of the European Union (represented by: E. Karlsson and M. Moore, acting as Agents)
   
      Intervener in support of the defendant: European Commission (represented by: K. Simonsson and C. Vrignon, acting as Agents)
   
      Re:
   
   Action for annulment — Annulment of the end of Article 1(2) of Directive 2009/12/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 2009 on airport charges (OJ 2009 L 70, p. 11) — Application of the directive to airports with the highest passenger movement in each Member State — Luxembourg-Findel airport — Breach of the principles of equal treatment, subsidiarity and proportionality
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg to pay the costs;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders the Slovak Republic and the European Commission to bear their own costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 180, 1.8.2009.