CELEX: 62000TA0308
Language: en
Date: 2013-01-22 00:00:00
Title: Case T-308/00 RENV: Judgment of the General Court of 22 January 2013 — Salzgitter AG v European Commission (State aid — Steel industry — Tax incentives for the development of the border zone between the former German Democratic Republic and the former Czechoslovak Socialist Republic — Non-notified aid — Decision declaring the aid incompatible with the common market — Recovery — Delay — Legal certainty — Calculation of the aid to be repaid — Aid falling within the scope of the ECSC Treaty — Investments for the protection of the environment — Discount rate)

2.3.2013   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 63/17
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 22 January 2013 — Salzgitter AG v European Commission
   (Case T-308/00 RENV) (1)
   
   (State aid - Steel industry - Tax incentives for the development of the border zone between the former German Democratic Republic and the former Czechoslovak Socialist Republic - Non-notified aid - Decision declaring the aid incompatible with the common market - Recovery - Delay - Legal certainty - Calculation of the aid to be repaid - Aid falling within the scope of the ECSC Treaty - Investments for the protection of the environment - Discount rate)
   2013/C 63/32
   Language of the case: German
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Salzgitter AG (Salzgitter, Germany) (represented by: J. Sedemund and T. Lübbig, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: European Commission (represented by: initially by V. Kreuschitz and M. Niejahr, and subsequently by V. Kreuschitz and T. Maxian Rusche, Agents)
   
      Intervener in support of the applicant: Federal Republic of Germany (represented by: M. Lumma and A. Wiedmann, Agents, assisted by U. Karpenstein, lawyer)
   
      Re:
   
   Application for annulment of Commission Decision 2000/797/ECSC of 28 June 2000 on State aid granted by the Federal Republic of Germany to Salzgitter AG, Preussag Stahl AG and the group’s steel-industry subsidiaries, now known as Salzgitter AG — Stahl und Technologie (SAG) (OJ 2000 L 323, p. 5).
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Salzgitter AG to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by the European Commission, both before the General Court and before the Court of Justice;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders the Federal Republic of Germany to bear its own costs both before the General Court and before the Court of Justice.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 335, 25.11.2000.