CELEX: 62003TA0030
Language: en
Date: 2011-09-27 00:00:00
Title: Case T-30/03 RENV: Judgment of the General Court of 27 September 2011 — 3F v Commission (State aid — Fiscal aid granted by the Danish authorities — Seafarers employed on board vessels registered in the Danish International Register — Commission decision not to raise objections — Action for annulment — Serious difficulties)

12.11.2011   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 331/15
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 27 September 2011 — 3F v Commission
   (Case T-30/03 RENV) (1)
   
   (State aid - Fiscal aid granted by the Danish authorities - Seafarers employed on board vessels registered in the Danish International Register - Commission decision not to raise objections - Action for annulment - Serious difficulties)
   2011/C 331/25
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: 3F, formerly Specialarbejderforbundet i Danmark (SID) (Copenhagen, Denmark) (represented by: P. Bentley QC and A. Worsøe, lawyer, and subsequently by Mr. Bentley and P. Torbøl, lawyer)
   
      Defendant: European Commission (represented by: H. van Vliet and N. Khan, acting as Agents)
   
      Intervening party on behalf of the defendant: Kingdom of Denmark (represented by V. Pasternak Jørgensen and C. Vang, acting as Agents)
   
      Re:
   
   APPLICATION for annulment of Commission Decision C(2002) 4370 final of 13 November 2002 not to raise objections to the Danish fiscal measures applicable to seafarers employed on board vessels registered in the Danish International Register.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders 3F, formerly Specialarbejderforbundet i Danmark (SID), to bear its own costs and pay the costs incurred by the European Commission before the Court of Justice and the General Court;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders the Kingdom of Denmark to bear its own costs incurred before the Court of Justice and the General Court.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 70, 22.3.2003.