CELEX: 62012TA0242
Language: en
Date: 2015-12-17 00:00:00
Title: Case T-242/12: Judgment of the General Court of 17 December 2015 — SNCF v Commission (State aid — Aid measures implemented by France in favour of Sernam SCS — Aid measures for restructuring and recapitalising, guarantees and debt write-off by SNCF in favour of Sernam — Decision declaring the aid measures incompatible with the internal market — Misuse of aid — Recovery — Economic continuity — Private investor criterion)

15.2.2016   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 59/13
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 17 December 2015 — SNCF v Commission
   (Case T-242/12) (1)
   
   ((State aid - Aid measures implemented by France in favour of Sernam SCS - Aid measures for restructuring and recapitalising, guarantees and debt write-off by SNCF in favour of Sernam - Decision declaring the aid measures incompatible with the internal market - Misuse of aid - Recovery - Economic continuity - Private investor criterion))
   (2016/C 059/12)
   Language of the case: French
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Société nationale des chemins de fer français (SNCF) (Paris, France) (represented by: P. Beurier, O. Billard and V. Landes, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: European Commission (represented by: T. Maxian Rusche and B. Stromsky, acting as Agents)
   
      Intervener in support of the applicant: French Republic (represented by: initially D. Colas and J. Gstalter, subsequently by D. Colas and J. Rossi and finally by D. Colas and J. Bousin, acting as Agents)
   
      Intervener in support of the defendant: Mory SA, in liquidation, (Pantin, France) and Mory Team, in liquidation, (Pantin) (represented by: B. Vatier and F. Loubières, lawyers)
   
      Re:
   
   Application for annulment of Commission Decision 2012/398/EU of 9 March 2012 on State aid SA. 12522 (C 37/08) — France — Enforcing the Sernam 2 Decision (OJ 2012 L 195, p. 19).
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the application of the Société nationale des chemins de fer français (SNCF);
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders SNCF to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by the European Commission;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders the French Republic to bear its own costs;
            
         
               4.
            
            
               Orders Mory and Mory Team to bear their own costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 273, 8.9.2012.