CELEX: 62015TA0263(01)
Language: en
Date: 2021-12-21 00:00:00
Title: Case T-263/15 RENV: Judgment of the General Court of 21 December 2021 — Gmina Miasto Gdynia and Port Lotniczy Gdynia Kosakowo v Commission (State aid — Airport infrastructure — Public funding by the municipalities of Gdynia and Kosakowo for setting up the Gdynia-Kosakowo Airport — Decision declaring the aid incompatible with the internal market and ordering its recovery — Advantage — Market economy operator principle — Effect on trade between Member States — Adverse effect on competition — Recovery — Withdrawal of a decision — Failure to re-open the formal investigation procedure — Procedural rights of the interested parties — Rights of the defence — Obligation to state reasons)

28.2.2022   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 95/21
            
         
      Judgment of the General Court of 21 December 2021 — Gmina Miasto Gdynia and Port Lotniczy Gdynia Kosakowo v Commission
      (Case T-263/15 RENV) (1)
      
      (State aid - Airport infrastructure - Public funding by the municipalities of Gdynia and Kosakowo for setting up the Gdynia-Kosakowo Airport - Decision declaring the aid incompatible with the internal market and ordering its recovery - Advantage - Market economy operator principle - Effect on trade between Member States - Adverse effect on competition - Recovery - Withdrawal of a decision - Failure to re-open the formal investigation procedure - Procedural rights of the interested parties - Rights of the defence - Obligation to state reasons)
      (2022/C 95/27)
      Language of the case: Polish
      
         Parties
      
      
         Applicants: Gmina Miasto Gdynia (Poland), Port Lotniczy Gdynia Kosakowo sp. z o.o. (Gdynia, Poland) (represented by: T. Koncewicz, M. Le Berre, K. Gruszecka-Spychała and P. Rosiak, lawyers)
      
         Defendant: European Commission (represented by: K. Herrmann, D. Recchia and S. Noë, acting as Agents)
      
         Intervener in support of the applicants: Republic of Poland (represented by: B. Majczyna, M. Rzotkiewicz and S. Żyrek, acting as Agents)
      
         Re:
      
      Action brought under Article 263 TFEU and seeking the annulment of Articles 2 to 5 Commission Decision (EU) 2015/1586 of 26 February 2015 on measure SA.35388 (13/C) (ex 13/NN and ex 12/N) — Poland — Setting up the Gdynia-Kosakowo Airport (OJ 2015 L 250, p. 165).
      
         Operative part of the judgment
      
      The Court:
      
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                  Dismisses the action;
               
            
                  2.
               
               
                  Orders Gmina Miasto Gdynia and Port Lotniczy Gdynia Kosakowo sp. z o.o. to bear their own costs and to pay those incurred by the European Commission before the Court of Justice in Case C-56/18 P and before the General Court in Cases T-263/15 and T-263 RENV;
               
            
                  3.
               
               
                  Orders the Republic of Poland to bear its own costs.
               
            
         (1)  OJ C 254, 3.8.2015.