CELEX: 61999TO0258
Language: en
Date: 2005-09-20 00:00:00
Title: Order of the Court of First Instance (Second Chamber, extended composition) of 20 September 2005. # Makro Cash & Carry Nederland BV v Commission of the European Communities. # State aid - Commission notice on the de minimis rule for State aid - Service stations - Risk of cumulation of aid - Aid covered by the notice - Interest in bringing proceedings. # Case T-258/99.

Order of the Court of First Instance (Second Chamber, Extended Composition) of 20 September 2005 − Makro Cash & Carry Nederland
            v Commission
      (Case T-258/99)
      State aid – Commission notice on the de minimis rule for State aid – Service stations – Risk of cumulation of aid – Aid covered by the notice – Interest in bringing proceedings
      Actions for annulment – Interest in bringing proceedings – Need for a vested and current interest – Commission decision holding aid to be incompatible with the common market and ordering its abolition – Recipient relieved of obligation to repay by the application of the de minimis rule (Art. 230 EC) (see paras 35-40)
      Re: 
      
         
               ACTION for the annulment of Commission Decision 1999/705/EC of 20 July 1999 on the State aid implemented by the Netherlands
                  for 633 Dutch service stations located near the German border (OJ 1999 L 280, p. 87)
               
            Operative part
      The Court:
      
         
                  1.
               
               
                  
               
               
                  Dismisses the action as inadmissible; 
               
            
         
                  2.
               
               
                  
               
               
                  Orders the applicant to bear the costs.