CELEX: 62011CO0167
Language: en
Date: 2012-03-22 00:00:00
Title: Order of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 22 March 2012. # Cantiere navale De Poli SpA v European Commission. # Appeal - Article 119 of the Rules of Procedure - State aid - Incompatibility with the common market - Commission Decision - Alteration to existing aid - Regulation (EC) No 794/2004 - Regulation (EC) No 1177/2002 - Temporary defensive mechanism for shipbuilding. # Case C-167/11 P.

Order of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 22 March 2012 —Cantiere navale De Poli v Commission(Case C‑167/11 P)
      Appeal — Article 119 of the Rules of Procedure — State aid — Incompatibility with the common market — Commission decision — Alteration to existing aid — Regulation (EC) No 794/2004 — Regulation (EC) No 1177/2002 — Temporary defensive mechanism for shipbuilding
      1.                     State aid — Planned aid — Notifying the Commission — Member States’ discretion concerning the date of notification — In the
            case of a temporary defensive mechanism, notification necessary before the regulation authorising the grant of aid expires
            (Art. 88(3) EC; Council Regulation No 1177/2002, Art. 5) (see paras 31, 32)
      2.                     Appeals — Pleas in law — Plea raised against a ground of the judgment not necessary to support the operative part — Plea ineffective
            (see para. 43)
      3.                     State aid — Planned aid — Examination by the Commission — Application of the rules of substantive law in force when the Commission
            took its decision (Art. 88(3) EC; Council Regulation No 1177/2002, Art. 5) (see paras 51-53)
      4.                     Union law — Principles — Equal treatment — Meaning — Unequal treatment as a result of the temporal limitation of authorisation
            to grant State aid in a given sector of the market — Whether objectively justified (Council Regulation No 1177/2002, Art.
            5) (see paras 74-76)
      5.                     State aid — Commission decision finding a national measure compatible with Article 87(1) EC — No legitimate expectations in
            the case of alteration to the aid scheme going beyond the bounds of the authorisation decision (Art. 87(1) EC) (see paras
            85-87)
      6.                     Appeals — Setting out in the application of the pleas in law and legal arguments — Plea plainly not intended to challenge
            the judgment — Inadmissibility (Art. 256 TFEU; Statute of the Court of Justice, Art. 58, first para.; Rules of Procedure of
            the Court of Justice, Art. 112(1)(c)) (see paras 99, 100, 115)
      Re: 
      
         Appeal brought against the judgment of the General Court (Eighth Chamber) of 3 February 2011 in Case T‑584/08 
               Cantieri Navale De Poli
                v 
               Commission
               , by which the Court dismissed the action for annulment of Commission Decision 2010/38/EC of 21 October 2008 on State aid
                  C‑20/08 (ex N 62/08) which Italy is planning to implement through a modification of scheme N 59/04 concerning a temporary
                  defensive mechanism for shipbuilding (OJ 2010 L 17, p. 50).
               
            Operative part 
      
         
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                  	The appeal is dismissed.
               
            
         
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                  	Cantiere navale De Poli SpA is ordered to pay the costs.
               
            
         
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                  	The Italian Republic is ordered to bear its own costs.