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Den franske regering anførte, at den anfægtede beslutning udgjorde en tilsidesættelse af proportionalitetsprincippet, dels fordi der i beslutningen hverken tages hensyn til de omstruktureringsomkostninger, CBSF har afholdt, eller til den kendsgerning, at CBSF uden en finansiel sanering ville være blevet afviklet med store tab for kreditorerne og samfundet til følge, dels fordi den af Kommissionen krævede tilbagesøgning ikke står i noget rimeligt forhold til de indgreb i konkurrencen, som Kommissionen mener at have konstateret.
The French Government claimed that the contested decision breached the general principle of proportionality because it took no account of the restructuring costs borne by CBSF or of the fact that, had it not been for its recovery, CBSF would have been put into liquidation, with grave consequences for both creditors and the Community as a whole, and also because the repayment of aid which was sought would have been out of all proportion to any distorting affect on competition.
Som tidligere nævnt kunne den støtte, der var blevet ydet, ikke anses som et tiltag til en virkelig om strukturering af CBSF, idet virksomheden blot havde moderniseret produktionsanlæggene uden herved at gøre indgribende ændringer.
As was stated earlier, the aid granted could not be considered to constitute a substantive restructuring of CBSF, as that undertaking had limited itself to modernizing its production plant, without introducing any fundamental changes.
Og når henses til oplysningerne i beslutningen om personale- og kapacitetsnedskæringer, havde Kommissionen retmæssigt kunnet nå til det resultat, at støtten ikke var omstruktureringsinvestering, og den kunne undlade i beslutningen at tage hensyn til omkostningerne ved den påståede omstrukturering.
In view of the information in the decision relating to reductions in the work force and in capacity, the Commission was justified in taking the view that the aid was not investment intended for restructuring and was entitled in its decision to take no account of the costs of the alleged restructuring.
Domstolen fastslog endelig, at det stod fast, at ud af syvogtyve produktionsanlæg med en samlet arbejdsstyrke på 4730 - der var blevet overdraget til uafhængige virksomheder - var tretten produktionsanlæg, med et personale på 3153 ansatte, dvs. 66,66% af det samlede antal overførte ansatte, blevet lukket, og deres tekstilproduktion definitivt indstillet.
- 8 workforce of 3 153 persons or 66.66% of the total number of jobs transferred, had been shut down, and textile production there had been permanently discontinued.
Efter Kommissionens opfattelse måtte den støtte, der var ydet for at lette disse tretten overførsler anses for at være blevet ophævet.
The Commission took the view that the aid paid to facilitate those 13 transfers could not be recovered.
Kommissionen krævede følgelig kun tilbagebetaling af ca. 33% af den samlede støtte, og overholdt herved proportionalitetsprincippet.
As it had therefore requested repayment of only approximately 33% of the total aid, the Commission had, in the opinion of the Court, respected the principle of proportionality.
Det hedder i domskonklusionen:
The Court held:
Generaladvokat F.G. Jacobs fremsatte forslag til afgørelse den 4. oktober 1989
Advocate General F.G. Jacobs delivered his Opinion at the sitting on 4 October 1989
Han foreslog Domstolen at frifinde Kommissionen og at pålægge Den Franske Republik at betale sagens omkostninger, herunder de omkostninger, der er afholdt af Det Forenede Kongerige.
He concluded as follows: "In my opinion the application should be dismissed and the French Republic should be ordered to bear the costs, including the costs of the United Kingdom".
"Statsstøtte - støtte til smør til fremstilling af konditorvarer - licitation - Kommissionens beslutning om nedsættelse af støtten - annullationssØgsmål" (Anden Afdeling)
As part of the above-mentioned invitation to tender, the applicant undertakings, manufacturers of pastry products, submitted to the French intervention agency on 23 September 1988 tenders for a total amount of 200 tonnes of butter, with aid of FF 1 334.44 per 100 kg.
Ved stævning, indgivet til Domstolen den 2. december 1988, anlagde de nævnte selskaber sag med påstand om annullation af Kommissionens beslutning af 30. september 1988 for licitation nr. 8 i forbindelse med den løbende licitation i henhold til Kommissionens forordning nr. 570/88 om salg af smør til nedsat pris og ydelse af støtte for smør og koncentreret smør til fremstilling af konditorvarer, konsumis og andre levnedsmidler.
By decision of 30 September 1988, published in the Official Journal of the European Communities, Series C, the Commission fixed the maximum amount of aid for Tender No. 8 at 154 ECU per 100 kg, or FF 1 151.28 per 100 kg.
I forbindelse med den særlige licitation afgav de sagsøgende selskaber, der fremstiller konditorvarer, den 23. september 1988 tilbud til det franske interventionsorgan om køb af ialt 200 tons smør med støtte på 1334,44 ffr. for 100 kg.
By letters dated 3 October 1988, the French intervention agency notified the applicant undertakings that their tenders had been rejected on the ground that their applications for aid had exceeded the maximum amount laid down by the Commission on 30 September 1988.
Ved beslutning af 30. september 1988 offentliggjort i De Europæiske Fællesskabers Tidende, serie C, fastsatte Kommissionen den maksimale støtte ved licitation nr. 8 til 154 ECU/100 kg, dvs. 1.151,28 ffr./100 kg.
In their first submission, the applicant undertakings claimed that the contested decision failed to satisfy the requirement to state reasons contained in Article 190 of the EEC Treaty because, on the one hand, it did not mention the fact that it was taken after consultation with the Management Committee and on the other because it failed to give any reasons for the reduction in the maximum amount of aid in comparison with earlier invitations to tender.
Ved skrivelser af 3. oktober 1988 meddelte det franske interventionsorgan de sagsøgende selskaber afslag pi deres tilbud under henvisning til, at deres støtteanmodninger havde oversteget det maksimum, som Kommissionen havde fastsat den 30. september 1988.
In that connexion, the Court noted that the first part of the submission by the applicant undertakings concerned the failure to mention the consultation with the Management Committee in the published version of the Commission decision in the Official Journal, Series C.
For det første gjorde sagsøgerne gældende, at den anfægtede beslutning ikke opfyldte begrundelsespligten i henhold til EØF-Traktatens artikel 190, dels fordi den ikke angav, at den var blevet truffet efter høring af forvaltningskomitéen, dels ikke angav, hvilke årsager der var for at nedsætte den maksimale støtte i forhold til de tidligere licitationer.
Under the provisions of a Commission notice, that published version did not include the full Commission decision, but solely the information which was necessary to inform the economic operators concerned of the results of the invitation to tender in question, since the full Commission decision was notified to the Member States and took effect by virtue of that notification.
Hertil udtalte Domstolen, at det første anbringende vedrørte det forhold, at der i offentliggørelsen af Kommissionens beslutning i De Europæiske Fællesskabers Tidende, serie C, ikke var nogen henvisning til, at forvaltningskomitéen var blevet hørt.
It appeared from the documents before the Court that that decision, as notified to the permanent representation for France, expressly mentioned the consultation with the Management Committee.
Domstolen udtalte videre, at i overensstemmelse med en meddelelse fra Kommissionen var beslutningen ikke blevet offentliggjort in extenso, men alene med de oplysninger, der er nødvendige for at informere de erhvervsdrivende om resultatet af den pågældende licitation, da Kommissionens beslutning bliver meddelt medlemsstaterne i dens fulde ordlyd og træder i kraft på tidspunktet for meddelelsen.
Regarding the second part of the submission, the Court first of all found that the contested decision was taken in the light of provisions designed to reduce butter stocks. In particular, the fixing of minimum
Faktisk udgør fastsættelsen af mindstesalgspriserne for smør og den maksimale støtte til smør og koncentreret smør i medfør af forordning nr. 570/88 en ensartet procedure, der gentages ca. hver fjortende dag, og i den forbindelse træffes beslutningerne på grundlag af udtrykkelige kriterier i en forordning, der i øvrigt er fuldtud bekendt for de berørte erhvervsgrupper, og beslutningerne adskiller sig ikke meget fra hinanden, hverken med hensyn til vedtageIsesmåden eller med hensyn til indholdet.
- 10 prices for the sale of butter and of maximum amounts of aid for butter and concentrated butter, under Regulation No. 570/88, was a uniform procedure which was repeated approximately every two weeks, 1n which decisions were taken on the basis of straightforward criteria contained in legal provisions with which the operators concerned were in any case perfectly well acquainted and which did not differ appreciably from one another either in respect of the method of their adoption or their content.
Domstolen understregede også, at ændringer af mindstesalgsprisen og det maksimale støttebeløb er forbundet med ordningen i forordning nr. 570/88.
The Court also emphasized that the alteration in the minimum sale price and in the maximum amount of aid was a feature inherent to the system established by Regulation No. 570/88.
De beslutninger, der træffes løbende i forbindelse med de særlige licitationer, skal gøre det muligt smidigt at tilpasse ordningen til sådanne faktiske om stændigheder, som EF ikke har indflydelse på, idet Kommissionen først træffer disse, efter at have modtaget de indgivne tilbud, under hensyntagen til lagrenes størrelse og markedsprisen på smør.
Successive decisions taken in connexion with individual invitations to tender were designed to enable a flexible response to be made to actual conditions over which the authority of the Community had no influence, as the Commission made its decision after receiving all tenders submitted for an individual invitation to tender, by taking into account the level of available stocks and the price of market butter.
I sagen var det i øvrigt ikke blevet bestridt, at smørlagrene fra udgangen af 1986 var formindsket betragteligt.
In the present case, it was also not disputed that the stocks of butter had been considerably reduced after the end of 1986.
På baggrund heraf fandt Domstolen, at den anfægtede beslutnings henvisning til gældende bestemmelser om fastsættelse af den maksimale støtte til smør opfyldte begrundelseskravet i EØF-Traktatens artikel 190, og at ændringen af støttebeløbet i forhold til tidligere licitationer ikke krævede en særlig begrundelse.
In those circumstances, the reference in the contested decision to the legal bases applicable to the fixing of the maximum level of aid for butter did satisfy the requirement to state reasons contained in Article 190 of the EEC Treaty and the change in the amount of aid in comparison with earlier invitations to tender did not require to be specifically explained.
De sagsøgende selskaber gjorde endvidere gældende, at den anfægtede beslutning ikke tog hensyn til proportionalitetsprincippet, for så vidt som den i strid med målsætningerne for EØF-Traktatens artikel 39 og forordning nr. 570/88 brutalt og uforudseeligt har bevirket en omkostningsstigning for smør i størrelsesordenen 55% siden begyndelsen af 1988.
The applicant undertakings then went on to claim that the contested decision had infringed the principle of proportionality in as much as it had formally approved, in a sudden and unforeseeable manner, an increase in the price of butter since the beginning of 1988 in the order of 55%, contrary to the objectives of Article 39 of the EEC Treaty and of Regulation No. 570/88.
Domstolen udtalte, at det fremgår af anden betragtning til forordning nr. 570/88, at dens formål var at fremme salget og anvendelsen af smør ved at forbedre markedssituationen for smør i Fællesskabet, som var karakteriseret ved store lagre, der var umulige at afsætte på normale vilkår.
It followed from the second recital in the preamble to Regulation No. 570/88 that the objective of those rules was to promote the disposal and use of butter, in order to remedy the situation in the butter market within the Community, the main feature of which was the existence of large stocks which it was impossible to dispose of under normal conditions.
Det fremgik imidlertid af det af Kommissionen fremlagte talmateriale, der ikke er blevet bestridt af de sagsøgende selskaber, at smørlagrene i Fællesskabet var formindsket betragteligt i løbet af 1988, og at prisen på smør og koncentreret smør havde haft en konstant stigning, der modsvarede nedgangen i lagrene.
The statistics supplied by the Commission and which were not disputed by the applicant undertakings showed that Community butter stocks had been reduced appreciably during 1988 and that, in correlation to that reduction
Desuden kan nedsættelsen af den maksimale støtte på ingen måde betragtes som brutal og uforudseelig.
Moreover, the reduction in the maximum level of aid could in no way be described as sudden and unforeseeable.
Dels var støttens størrelse faldet kontinuerligt siden licitation nr. 5 (august 1988), dels havde nedsættelsen hver gang andraget mellem 1 og 5 ECU/100 kg smør.
The level of aid had been dropping constantly since Individual Tender No. 5 (August 1988), and the reduction on each occasion had been between 1 and 5 ECU per 100 kg of butter.
I øvrigt udgjorde støtten til opkøb af smør på markedet stadig efter nedsættelserne 50% af interventionsprisen, hvorfor de sagsøgende selskaber ikke blev påført et tab, men alene kunne drage mindre fordel af den meget favorable ordning, som forordning nr. 570/88 havde indført.
Even following those reductions, aid for the purchase of market butter had still represented 50% of its intervention price, with the result that the applicant undertakings were not placed at a disadvantage, but rather obtained a reduced advantage under the very favourable system established by Regulation No. 570/88.
De sagsøgende selskaber gjorde endvidere gældende, at den anfægtede beslutning havde tilsidesat princippet om den berettigede forventning ved brutalt og uforudseeligt at vende op og ned på en tidligere fast praksis, som havde været bestemmende for deres produktion.
The applicant undertakings went on to claim that the contested decision had infringed the principle of respect for legitimate expectations by reversing, in a sudden and unforeseeable manner, a previously consistent practice which had determined their production policy.
Hertil bemærkede Domstolen indledningsvis, at ifølge fast praksis kan de erhvervsdrivende ikke have nogen berettiget forventning om opretholdelse af en bestående situation, som Fællesskabets institutioner kan ændre ved beslutninger truffet inden for rammerne af deres skøn.
In that regard, the Court first pointed out that, in accordance with its own decided case-law, economic operators were not entitled to rely on the maintenance of an existing situation which could be altered at the discretion of the Community Institutions.
Det følger heraf, at de erhvervsdrivende ikke kan påberåbe sig en velerhvervet ret til bevarelse af en fordel, som for denne virksomhed er et resultat af indførelsen af den fælles markedsordning, og som de har haft fordel af på et givet tidspunkt.
It therefore followed that economic operators could not rely on any acquired right to the continuation of an advantage which resulted to them from the introduction of the common organization of the markets and from which they had benefited at a specific period.
Tilpasningen af støttens størrelse til markedssituationen er forbundet med ordningen i forordning nr. 570/88, og de sagsøgende selskaber har ikke krav på opretholdelse af fordele, under påberåbelse af en velerhvervet ret, som de i en periode har draget fordel af som følge af en ordning, der var indført for at fremme salget af overskudssmør.
The adaptation of the aid level to market conditions was central to the system established under Regulation No. 570/88 and the applicant undertakings could not claim, as an acquired right, that the advantages which they had enjoyed for a certain period under the system set up to facilitate the disposal of surplus butter should be retained.
Dette er så meget mere tilfældet i denne sag, hvor støtteordningen er blevet opretholdt, og alene støttebeløbet er blevet ændret.
That was all the more valid in the present case, where the
Domstolen fandt det endvidere vigtigt at understrege, at i betragtning af lagrenes formindskelse siden udgangen af 1986 burde de sagsøgende selskaber, som fornuftige og velunderrettede erhvervsdrivende, have forudset det gradvise fald i salgsprisen på smør og den tilsvarende nedsættelse af støtten, som uundgåeligt følger af lagrenes formindskelse.
The Court also considered it necessary to point out that, in view of the fact that stocks had been constantly falling since the end of 1986, the applicant undertakings, as prudent and competent economic operators, ought to have foreseen the progressive increase in the selling price of butter and the correlative reduction in the level of aid which inevitably resulted from the diminution of stocks.
Selskaberne kan derfor ikke have en berettiget forventning om opretholdelse af støttebeløbet.
For that reason, the Court held, they could not be entitled to rely on any legitimate expectation that the level of aid would be maintained.
De sagsøgende selskaber gjorde endelig gældende, at den anfægtede beslutning havde tilsidesat princippet om ikke-forskelsbehandling, idet den franske lovgivning, til forskel fra de øvrige medlemsstaters, stiller krav om, at der kun må indgå smør i produkter, som markedsføres under betegnelsen "au beurre", og idet de - som virksomheder med hjemsted i Frankrig - kun er blevet informeret om de franske smørlagres størrelse og ikke rettidigt har kunnet opkøbe smør til nedsat pris i de Øvrige medlemsstater, hvilke de dér etablerede virksomheder havde gjort.
The applicant undertakings finally claimed that the contested decision had breached the principle of non-discrimination in as much as under French legislation, unlike the position in other Member States, only butter could be used in the manufacture of products described as "au beurre", and as undertakings established in France they received information concerning stocks of butter in France alone and were unable, in contrast to undertakings in other Member States, to obtain supplies of cheap butter in good time in other Member States.
Med hensyn til det første klagepunkt konstaterede Domstolen blot, at de fran­ske småkagefabrikanters særlige situation ikke kan tilskrives den anfægtede beslutning, men følger af de afvigelser, der er mellem medlemsstaternes lovkrav til betegnelser ved markedsføring af levnedsmidler, hvilke EF­retten ikke er til hinder for.
Concerning the first part of that submission, the Court considered it sufficient to point out that the special position of French butter biscuit manufacturers could not be attributed to the contested decision, but was the result of differences in the legislation of Member States dealing with specifications on the description of foodstuffs which were not precluded by Community law.
Domstolen bemærkede, for så vidt angår det andet anbringende, at artikel 13 og 15 i forordning nr. 570/88 pålægger alle interventionsorganerne i licitations­bekendtgørelsen at angive de mængder smør, der udbydes til salg fra hvert lager og stille den forskriftsmæssigt ajourførte og offentliggjorte liste over lagrene til rådighed for interesserede.
With regard to the second part of that submission, the Court pointed out that Articles 13 and 15 of Regulation No. 570/88 required all intervention agencies to indicate, in the notices of invitation to tender, the quantity of butter for sale in each store and to make available to prospective tenderers the list of stores, regularly updated and published.
Herefter havde de sagsøgende selskaber haft mulighed for at informere sig hos interventionsorganerne i de øvrige medlemsstater om omfanget af de smØrlagre, der var til rådighed, og havde i givet fald dér kunnet opkøbe lagersmør.
In those circumstances, the applicant undertakings had the opportunity to obtain information from the intervention agencies in other Member States concerning the level of available butter stocks, in order to obtain supplies of storage butter, if such a need arose.
Domskonklusionen lød således:
The Court held:
De sagsøgende selskaber betaler sagens omkostninger in solidum."
The applicant undertakings shall be jointly and severally liable for the costs. "
Generaladvokat Carl Otto Lenz fremsatte forslag til afgørelse den 10. januar τνητ.
Advocate General Carl Otto Lenz delivered his Opinion at the sitting on 10 January 1990.
Han foreslog Domstolen at træffe følgende afgørelse:
He proposed that the Court should rule as follows:
Sagsøgerne betaler sagens omkostninger".
The applicants should be ordered to pay the costs. "
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