CELEX: 62004TA0222
Language: en
Date: 2009-06-11 00:00:00
Title: Case T-222/04: Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 11 June 2009 — Italy v Commission (State aid — Scheme of aid granted by the Italian authorities to certain public utilities in the form of tax exemptions and loans at preferential rates — Decision declaring the aid incompatible with the common market — Existing aid or new aid — Article 86(2) EC)

1.8.2009   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 180/41
            
         Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 11 June 2009 — Italy v Commission
   (Case T-222/04) (1)
   
   (State aid - Scheme of aid granted by the Italian authorities to certain public utilities in the form of tax exemptions and loans at preferential rates - Decision declaring the aid incompatible with the common market - Existing aid or new aid - Article 86(2) EC)
   2009/C 180/75
   Language of the case: Italian
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Italian Republic (represented: initially, by I. Braguglia and, subsequently, by R. Adam and I. Bruni, Agents, and M. Fiorilli, avvocato dello Stato)
   
      Defendant: Commission of the European Communities (represented by: V. Di Bucci, Agent)
   
      Re:
   
   Application for annulment of Article 2 of Commission Decision 2003/193/EC of 5 June 2002 on State aid granted by Italy in the form of tax exemptions and subsidised loans to public utilities with a majority public capital holding (OJ 2003 L 77, p. 21).
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders the Italian Republic to pay its own costs as well as those incurred by the Commission.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 233, 28.9.2002 (formerly Case C-290/02).