CELEX: 62013TA0140
Language: en
Date: 2014-12-09 00:00:00
Title: Case T-140/13: Judgment of the General Court of 9 December 2014  — Netherlands Maritime Technology Association v Commission (State aid — Spanish scheme of early depreciation of certain assets acquired through financial leasing — Decision finding no State aid — Formal investigation procedure not initiated — Serious difficulties — Circumstances and length of the preliminary examination — Insufficient and incomplete examination)

2.2.2015   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 34/34
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 9 December 2014 — Netherlands Maritime Technology Association v Commission
   (Case T-140/13) (1)
   
   ((State aid - Spanish scheme of early depreciation of certain assets acquired through financial leasing - Decision finding no State aid - Formal investigation procedure not initiated - Serious difficulties - Circumstances and length of the preliminary examination - Insufficient and incomplete examination))
   (2015/C 034/39)
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Netherlands Maritime Technology Association, formerly Scheepsbouw Nederland (Rotterdam, Netherlands) (represented by: K. Struckmann, lawyer, and G. Forwood, Barrister)
   
      Defendant: European Commission (represented by: M. Afonso, L. Flynn and P. Němečková, acting as Agents)
   
      Intervener in support of the defendant: Kingdom of Spain (represented by N. Díaz Abad and A. Sampol Pucurull, abogados del Estado)
   
      Re:
   
   Application for annulment of the Commission Decision of 20 November 2012 relating to State aid SA 34736 (12/N) concerning the implementation by the Kingdom of Spain of a tax scheme permitting the early depreciation of certain assets acquired through financial leasing.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1)
            
            
               Dismisses the action as being unfounded;
            
         
               2)
            
            
               Orders Netherlands Maritime Technology Association to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by the European Commission;
            
         
               3)
            
            
               Orders the Kingdom of Spain to bear its own costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 147, 25.5.2013.