CELEX: 62017TA0291
Language: en
Date: 2019-07-12 00:00:00
Title: Case T-291/17: Judgment of the General Court of 12 July 2019 — Transdev and Others v Commission (State aid — State aid scheme implemented by France between 1994 and 2008 — Investment subsidies granted by the Île-de-France Region — Decision declaring the aid scheme compatible with the internal market — Concepts of ‘existing aid’ and ‘new aid’ — Article 107 TFEU — Article 108 TFEU — Article 1(b)(i) and (v) of Regulation (EU) 2015/1589 — Limitation period — Article 17 of Regulation 2015/1589 — Obligation to state reasons)

30.9.2019   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 328/41
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 12 July 2019 — Transdev and Others v Commission
      (Case T-291/17) (1)
      
      (State aid - State aid scheme implemented by France between 1994 and 2008 - Investment subsidies granted by the Île-de-France Region - Decision declaring the aid scheme compatible with the internal market - Concepts of ‘existing aid’ and ‘new aid’ - Article 107 TFEU - Article 108 TFEU - Article 1(b)(i) and (v) of Regulation (EU) 2015/1589 - Limitation period - Article 17 of Regulation 2015/1589 - Obligation to state reasons)
      (2019/C 328/44)
      Language of the case: French
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicants: Transdev (Issy-les-Moulineaux, France), Transdev Île de France (Issy-les-Moulineaux), Transports rapides automobiles (TRA) (Villepinte, France) (represented by: F. Salat-Baroux, lawyer)
      
         Defendant: European Commission (represented by: L. Armati, C. Georgieva-Kecsmar and T. Maxian Rusche, acting as Agents)
      
         Re:
      
      Application on the basis of Article 263 TFEU seeking the annulment in part of Commission Decision (EU) 2017/1470 of 2 February 2017, on State aid schemes SA.26763 2014/C (ex 2012/NN) implemented by France in favour of bus transport undertakings in the Île-de-France Region (OJ 2017 L 209, p. 24).
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
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                     Dismisses the application.
                  
               
            
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                     Orders Transdev, Transdev Île de France and Transports rapides automobiles (TRA) to bear their own costs and to pay those incurred by the European Commission.
                  
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 231, 17.7.2017.