CELEX: 62014TA0671
Language: en
Date: 2017-09-12 00:00:00
Title: Case T-671/14: Judgment of the General Court of 12 September 2017 — Bayerische Motoren Werke v Commission (State aid — Regional investment aid — Aid granted by Germany to BMW for a large investment project in Leipzig concerning the production of two models of electric cars (i3 and i8) — Decision declaring the aid partly compatible and partly incompatible with the internal market — Article 107(3)(c) TFEU — Article 108(2) and (3) TFEU — Incentive effect of the aid — Whether the aid is necessary)

23.10.2017   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 357/8
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 12 September 2017 — Bayerische Motoren Werke v Commission
   (Case T-671/14) (1)
   
   ((State aid - Regional investment aid - Aid granted by Germany to BMW for a large investment project in Leipzig concerning the production of two models of electric cars (i3 and i8) - Decision declaring the aid partly compatible and partly incompatible with the internal market - Article 107(3)(c) TFEU - Article 108(2) and (3) TFEU - Incentive effect of the aid - Whether the aid is necessary))
   (2017/C 357/10)
   Language of the case: German
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich, Germany) (represented by: M. Rosenthal, G. Drauz and M. Schütte, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: European Commission (represented: initially by F. Erlbacher, T. Maxian Rusche and R. Sauer, and subsequently by T. Maxian Rusche and R. Sauer, acting as Agents)
   
      Intervener in support of the applicant: Freistaat Sachsen (Germany) (represented by: T. Lübbig and K. Gaßner, lawyers)
   
      Re:
   
   Application pursuant to Article 263 TFEU for partial annulment of Commission Decision C(2014) 4531 final of 9 July 2014 on the State aid No SA.32009 (2011/C) (ex 2010/N) which the Federal Republic of Germany plans to grant to BMW for a large investment project in Leipzig.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Bayerische Motoren Werke AG to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by the European Commission;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders the Freistaat Sachsen to bear its own costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 439, 8.12.2014.