CELEX: 62012CA0533
Language: en
Date: 2014-09-04 00:00:00
Title: Joined Cases C-533/12 P and C-536/12 P: Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 4 September 2014 — Société nationale maritime Corse-Méditerranée (SNCM) SA v Corsica Ferries France SAS, European Commission, French Republic (C-533/12 P), French Republic v Corsica Ferries France SAS, European Commission, Société nationale maritime Corse-Méditerranée (SNCM) SA (C-536/12 P) (Appeals — Restructuring aid — European Commission’s margin of assessment — Scope of review by the General Court of the European Union — Market economy private investor test — Requirement for a sectoral and geographical analysis — Sufficiently well-established practice — Long-term economic rationale — Making of additional redundancy payments)

10.11.2014   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 395/6
            
         
      Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 4 September 2014 — Société nationale maritime Corse-Méditerranée (SNCM) SA v Corsica Ferries France SAS, European Commission, French Republic (C-533/12 P), French Republic v Corsica Ferries France SAS, European Commission, Société nationale maritime Corse-Méditerranée (SNCM) SA (C-536/12 P)
      (Joined Cases C-533/12 P and C-536/12 P) (1)
      
      ((Appeals - Restructuring aid - European Commission’s margin of assessment - Scope of review by the General Court of the European Union - Market economy private investor test - Requirement for a sectoral and geographical analysis - Sufficiently well-established practice - Long-term economic rationale - Making of additional redundancy payments))
      (2014/C 395/07)
      Language of the case: French
      
         Parties
      
      (Case C-533/12 P)
      
         Appellant: Société nationale maritime Corse-Méditerranée (SNCM) SA (represented by: A. Winckler and F.-C. Laprévote, avocats)
      
         Other parties to the proceedings: Corsica Ferries France SAS (represented by: S. Rodrigues and C. Bernard-Glanz, avocats), European Commission, French Republic (represented by: G. de Bergues, N. Rouam and J. Rossi, acting as Agents)
      (Case C-536/12 P)
      
         Appellant: French Republic (represented by: G. de Bergues, D. Colas, N. Rouam and J. Rossi, acting as Agents)
      
         Other parties to the proceedings: Corsica Ferries France SAS (represented by: S. Rodrigues and C. Bernard-Glanz, avocats), European Commission, Société nationale maritime Corse-Méditerranée (SNCM) SA (represented by: A. Winckler and F.-C. Laprévote, avocats)
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
                  1)
               
               
                  Dismisses the appeals;
               
            
                  2)
               
               
                  Orders Société nationale maritime Corse-Méditérrannée (SNCM) SA and the French Republic to bear their own costs and to pay those incurred by Corsica Ferries France SAS in equal shares.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 32, 2.2.2013.