CELEX: C2006/178/01
Language: en
Date: 2006-07-29 00:00:00
Title: Joined Cases C-442/03 P and C-471/03 P: Judgement of the Court (Third Chamber) of  1 June 2006  — P&O European Ferries (Vizcaya) SA v Diputación Foral de Vizcaya, Commission of the European Communities (State aid — Appeals — Actions for annulment — Decision terminating a review procedure initiated under Article 88(2) EC — Concept of State aid — Force of res judicata — Aid which may be declared compatible with the common market — Social aid — Conditions)

29.7.2006   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 178/1
            
         Judgement of the Court (Third Chamber) of 1 June 2006 — P&O European Ferries (Vizcaya) SA v Diputación Foral de Vizcaya, Commission of the European Communities
   (Joined Cases C-442/03 P and C-471/03 P) (1)
   
   (State aid - Appeals - Actions for annulment - Decision terminating a review procedure initiated under Article 88(2) EC - Concept of State aid - Force of res judicata - Aid which may be declared compatible with the common market - Social aid - Conditions)
   (2006/C 178/01)
   Languages of the case: English and Spanish
   Parties
   
      Appellant (in Case C-442/03 P): P&O European Ferries (Vizcaya) SA (represented by: J. Lever QC, J. Ellison, solicitor, and M. Pickford, barrister, assisted by E. Bourtzalas, abogado)
   
      Appellant (in Case C-471/03 P): Diputación Foral de Vizcaya (represented by: I. Sáenz-Cortabarría Fernández, M. Morales Isasi and J. Forguera Crespo, abogados)
   
      Other party to the proceedings: Commission of the European Communities (represented by: N. Khan and J. Buendía Sierra, Agents)
   Re:
   Appeals against the judgment of the Court of First Instance (First Chamber, Extended Composition) of 5 August 2003 in Joined Cases T-116/01 and T-118/01 P&O European Ferries (Vizcaya) and Diputación Foral de Vizcaya v Commission dismissing an application seeking the annulment of Article 2 of Commission Decision 2001/247/EC of 29 November 2000 on the aid scheme implemented by Spain in favour of the shipping company Ferries Golfo de Vizcaya SA, now P&O European Ferries (Vizcaya) SA, and ordering the repayment of the aid held to be incompatible with the common market
   Operative part of the judgment
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the appeals;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders P&O Ferries (Vizcaya) SA and the Diputación Foral de Vizcaya to pay the costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 7, 10.1.2004 and OJ C 21, 24.1.2004.