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I dommen i sagen DSG mod Kommissionen, der omhandlede sporgsmälet om annullation af en kommissionsbeslutning, der erklrerede en statsststte uforenelig med traktaten og krrevede den tilbagebetalt, henviste Retten til
After noting that, on completion of the preliminary stage of the procedure, the Commission had adopted a decision in favour of the measures complainedof by SIC, the Court examined whether the assessments upon which the Commissionhad relied presented serious difficulties justifying initiation of the formalexamination procedure.
Domstolens praksis, hvoraf det folger, at den private investor, hvis adfrerd den offentlige investors dispositioner med et skonomiskpolitisk sigte skal sammenlignes med, ikke nodvendigvis er en almindelig investor, som anbringer sin kapital med henblik pä en mere eller mindre kortsigtet forrentning, men i det mindste skal vere et privat holdingselskab eller en privat koncern af virksomheder, som folger en global eller sektorbestemt strukturpolitik, og adferden skal v & re ledet af mere langsigtede rentabilitetsudsigter.
With regard to the grants paid each year to RTP by the Portuguese State, the Court pointed out that, according to the decision itself, they resulted in the recipient being given a financial advantaEe , adeterminingcriterion of the conceptof aid. As to the possible effect of that advantage on the conditions of competition, it was pointed out that RTP was a public operator in the advertisingmarket and therefore in direct competition with other television operators.Consequently, the Court found that the Commission's assessment that State aidwas not involved was, at the least, capable of raising serious difficulties requiringinitiation of the formal procedure.
Retten fandt pä grundlag af denne praksis, at sagsogeren ikke i sagen havde godtgjort, at Kommissionen havde anlagt en äbenbart urigtig vurdering, da den fandt, at en privat investor ikke ville have ydet län, som de omtvistede,pä grund af den modtagende virksomheds finansielle situation, dens investeringsbehov og situationenpä markedet for de pägeldende produkter.
Those measures had been presented as intended to offset the additional cost of thepublic service obligations assumedby RTP, but the Court pointed out that thatcircumstance has no bearing on the classification of a measure as State aid.
(dom af 12.12.2000, Alitalia mod Kommissionen) pä grund uf .n mangelfuld begrundelse og äbenbarturigtige vurderinger. Retten skulle i denne sag vurdere, om Kommissionen med rette kunne konkludere,at en kapitaltilfsrsel pä 2 750 mia. italienskelire fra IRI udgiorde statss tqttei traktatens artikel 92, stk. 1's forstand.
As regards the other measures complainedof (tax exemptions, payment facilities,rescheduling of the debt owed by RTP to the Portuguese social security authorityand waiver of interest and of corresponding sums for late payment), the Courtfound that, according to the documents in the file, the Commission was likewiseconfronted with serious difficulties of assessment at the end of the preliminaryexamination.
I den forbindelse forkastede Retten for det fsrste sagssgerens argument om, at denne investering opfyldte kriteriet vedrsrende den private investor, fordi private investorer deltog i dens kapital.
The Court also found that the düration of the preliminary examination,approximately three years, far exceeded the period normally required for apreliminary examination.
Retten vurderede säledes, at et kapitalindskud med offentlige midler mä anses for at opfflde kriteriet vedrsrende den private investor og for ikke at indebrereydelse af statsstotte, stotte, bl'a. hvis dette indskud sker sidelsbende med et betydeligt indskud af kapital fra en privat investor pä tilsvarende vilkär, hvilket ikke var titfeldet i sagen.
That, in conjunction with the other findings made,confirmed that there were serious difficulties of assessment requiring the secondstage, of the examination procedure to be initiated in order to allow interestedthird parties to submit their observations.
For det andet fastslog Retten, at Kommissionen ikke havde givet en tilstrekkelig begrundelse for, at den minimumsforrentning,som en investor, der handler efter markedsprincipperne,ville betinge sig for at indskyde en sädan kapital, var 30% p.a.
In its decision concerning aid allegedly granted by France to SFMl-Chronopost, which was adopted after a formal examination procedure, the
Som folge af , at Kommissionen ikke i den anfegtede beslutning forklarede,hvorfor den fandt det nsdvendigt at anvende den sanlmeminimumsforrentning minimumsforrentning pä 30% pä IRI's investering,som den havde anvendt i Iberia-beslutningen,blev der pä dette punkt fastsläet en mangelfuldbegrundelse. begrundelse.
Theapplicants, companies competing with SFMl-Chronopost in the express courierservices market, had drawn attention to that assistance in a complaint made to the Commission.
For det tredje fastslog Retten, at Kommissionen ikke i den anfegtedebeslutning havde foretaget en ny vurdering af minimumsforrentningenog det interne afkast pä grundlag af den sidste udgave af sagsogerensomstruktureringsplan, hvilket den burde have gjort for at kunne foretage enrigtig bedsrnrnelse af, om IRI's investering opfyldte kriteriet vedrsrende den privateinvestor. investor.
In its judgment in Case T-613197 Ufex and Others v Commission,cited above, the Court found in their favour and annulled the Commissiondecision.
I flere efterfolgende kendelser, hvor de faktiske omstendigheder lä meget tetpä de omstrendigheder, der udgjorde grundlaget for kendelsen i sagen Artegodan mod Kommissionen fulgte Rettens prresident det sammerrsonnement (kendelse af 19.10.2000, sag T-141l00 R, I-aboratoirespharmaceutiques Trenkermod Kommissionen (appelsag:C-459100 P(R)), af31 .
It found that the Commission should have examined whether the fullcosts paid by SFMl-Chronopost to La Postefor the provision of logistical andcommercial assistance took account of the factors which an undertaking actingunder normal market conditions would have had to take into consideration whenfixing the remuneration for the servicesprovided.
10.2000 i de forenede sager T-76100 R, Farmaceutici m.fl. mod Kommissionen (appelsag: C-474100 P(R)), sag T-83/00 R-I, Hänseler mod Kommissionen (appelsag C-475100 P(R)), sag T-83/00 R-II, Schuck mod Kommissionen (appelsag C-476100P(R)), sag, T-85/00 R, Laboratörios
The Court held that, since the Commission did not carry out that check, it based its decision on amisinterpretation of Article 92 of the Treaty.
Samling af Afgorelse
.Obligation to recover aid
- En statslig foranstaltnings specificitet,dvs. dens selektivekarakter, blevomtalt af Retten i dom af 29. september 2000, CETM mod Kommissionen (sag T-55199, endnu ikke trykt i Samling af Afgarelser).
In several cases the Court developed the case-law according to which undertakingsto which aid has been granted cannot, in principle, entertain legitimateexpectations as to its legality unless it has been granted in compliance with theprocedure laid down by Article 93 of the Treaty.
For at en foranstaltnings selektive karakter kan antages at foreligge, skal detundersoges, om den pägreldende foranstaltning indebrerer fordele alene forvisse virksomheder eller visse erhvervssektorer.
With regard to the question whether recipients of unlawful aid are able to pleadexceptional circumstances which could have formed the basis of legitimateexpectations on their part that the aid was lawful, the Court held in EPAC v Commission, cited above, that, even if the applicant had pleaded suchcircumstances in order to opposerecovery of the aid, it would have been for anational court before which such a case was brought to assess the materialcircumstances.
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On the same question, the Court found, however, in subsequentjudgments - Alzetta and Others v Commission and CETM v Commission, bothcited above - that such circumstances were not present, while pointing out in CETM v Commission that that assessment was made irrespectiveof whether or not
vedrorende den spanske ordning for ststte til indksb af erhvervskoretojer, forsä vidt som beslutningen kendte visse stotteforanstaltninger ulovlige oguforenelige med frellesmarkedet, efterprovede Retten foranstaltningensspecificitet.
the recipients of unlawful aid are entitled to plead such circumstances before the Community judicature.
Retten bemrerkede i den sammenh & ng,at den omstrendighed, aten ststteforanstaltning ikke er rettet mod en eller flere bestemteststtemodtagere, som er afgrrensetpä forhänd, men at den er betinget af enrrekke objektive kriterier, i henhold til hvilke ststten kan ydes inden forrafirmerne af en pä forhänd fastsatrammebevilling til fordel for et ubestemtantal stettemodtagere, der ikke er individualiseret pä forhänd, ikke i sig selvgiver grundlag for at afuise,at foranstaltningen er selektiv og derved udgor enstatsststte efter traktatens artikel 92, stk. 1.
In CETM v Commission, the Court also held that the total length of theadministrative procedure for examination of the State measures, assessed bydistinguishing the duration of the preliminary examination procedure(approximately one year) and that of the formal procedure (approximately twoyears), was not so exceptional as to provide a basis for a legitimate expectationon the part of the undertakings that the aid granted to them was lawful.
I sagen blev en foranstaltning,hvor de omfattede brugere af erhvervskoretojer alene kunne vaere - og faktiskkun var - fysiske personer, smä og mellemstore virksomheder, lokale ogregionale offentlige virksomheder og lokale offentlige servicevirksomheder(med undtagelse af de ovrige brugere af sädanne typer koretojer, nemlig stsrrevirksomheder) anset for at v & re selektiv og dermed specifik i traktatensartikel92, stk. 1's forstand.
Council; in Medici Grimm v Council, cited above; in Starway v Council, citedabove; and of 29 September 2000 in CaseT-87 198 InternationalPotash Companyv Council).
b) Sondring mellem ny stotte og eksisterende stotte
Two Council regulations were partially annulled (in Medici Grimm v Council andrn Starway v Counci[).
De ordninger for skonomisk stotte til lokalevejgodstransportvirksomheder, derblev indfsrt ved love vedtaget af regionen Frioul-Vdnötie Juliennes (Italien) i1981 og 1985, var ikke blevet anmeldt til Kommissionen.
By its application, the company Medici Grimm asked the Court to review thelegality of a Council regulation adopted on completion of a procedure for theinterim review of antidumping measures, amending a regulation imposing adefinitive antidumping duty on imports of leather handbagsoriginating in the People's Republic of China ("the initial regulation").
Kommissionenbestemte i en beslutning, der blev vedtaget i 1997, at den til virksomheder, derudfsrte internationalvejtransport, ydede stotte, og den til virksomheder, derudelukkende var beskeftigetmed lokal, regional eller national transport, efterden 1. juti 1990 ydede stotte, var uforenelig med frellesmarkedet, og trafbestemmelse om ststtenstilbagebetaling. tilbagebetaling.
It was found in thecontested regulation that there had been no dumping as regards transactionsbetween the applicant and Lucci Creation, a company based in Hong Kong,during the investigation period preceding the adoption of the initial regulation.The applicant submitted that the contested regulation was unlawful in that the Council had not granted reimbursement of the antidumping duties paid by itbefore the contested regulation was adopted. The Court found in its favour.
Transportvirksomhederne gjorde i deres sager med pästand om annullation afbeslutningen navnlig geldende, at ststte til lokal, regional eller nationaltransport skulle kvalificeres som eksisterende ststte, idet den blev indfsrt vedlove, der blev vedtaget fsr liberaliseringen af de pägreldende sektor, hvorforststten ikke var omfattet af anmeldelsespligten.
The review procedure initiated by the Commission was intended to enableundertakings which had not participated in the antidumping proceeding to obtainindividual treatment on the basis of their export prices.
Derfor skulle Retten afgorcsporgsmälet om, hvorvidt ststte ydet inden for rammerne af en ststteordning,der blev indfsrt fsr markedet blev äbnet fuldstrendigt for konkurrence, efterdatoen for denne liberalisering skulle betragtes som ny ststte eller someksisterende ststte.
To do that, the sameinvestigation period was adopted as for the initial investigation. The Court heldthat, where the institutions find that one of the factors on the basis of which thedefinitive antidumping duties were imposed is missing, it is not possible to
I dom af 15. juni 2000, Alzetta m.ft. mod Kommissionen 20 fastslog Retten,at det ikke kun er stotteordninger, der blev indfsrt inden traktatensikrafttreden eller, for den pägeldende medlemsstat tilträdte De Europeiske Fallesskaber, og ststteordninger, der lovligt er blevet iverksat underiagttagelse af de i traktatens artikel 93, stk. 3, fastsatte krav, der ereksisterende ststteordninger, men ogsä de ordninger, der er indfsrt pä etmarked, der oprindeligt var lukket for konkurrence.
consider that the conditions laid down in Article I of Regulation (EC) No 384/96 23were satisfied at the time when the original regulation was adopted and that thetrade protection measures were therefore necessary.
Säledes var denomhandlede ststteordning ikke ved dens indfsrelse omfattet afanvendelsesomrädet for traktatens artikel 92, stk. 1, idet denne bestemmelseunder hensyn til dens betingelser om pävirkning af samhandelen mellemmedlemsstaterne og folgevirkninger pä konkurrencen kun kan anses for atfinde anvendelse pä erhvervsgrene, der er äbne for konkurrence.Liberaliseringen, som de kompetente myndigheder i den pägrldendemedlemsstat ikke er ansvarlige for, kan ikke anses for at udgore en vesentligrendring af ststteordningen,som skal anmeldes i medfsr af traktatens artikel93, stk. 3.
In those circumstances, theinstitutions are bound to abide by all the consequences flowing from their choiceof investigation period for the review in question and, where they find that theperson concerned did not engagein dumping during that period, they must givethat finding retroactive effect.
Den er derimod afgorende for, om traktatens bestemmelser omstatsststte inden for visse srerlige erhvervsgrene, säsom transportsektoren, deroprindeligt var lukket for konkurrence, kan anvendes.
Failure to follow this approach would result in theunjust enrichmentof the Community at the applicant'sexpense. expense.
Da international vejgodstransport var blevet äbnet for konkurrence i 1969,skulle de ststteordninger, der inden for denne sektor var blevet indfsrt i 1981og 1985, anses for at v & re nye stotteordninger, der som sädanne var omfattetaf anmeldelsespligten i traktatens artikel 93, stk. 3.
The case of Starway v Council raised, in particular, the question whether, in thecontext of an investigation concerning the circumvention of anti-dumpingmeasures, the Community institutions may request importers, in the interests ofadministrative efficiency, to produce certificates of origin in order to prove theaccuracy of the information given in their customs declarations, with a view toensuring that the objective of Article 13 of Regulation No 384196,namely tothwart circumvention, is attained. The Court's answer was essentially in theaffirmative.
For sä vidt som cabotagemarkedet fsrst blev liberaliseretfra den 1. juli 1990skulle de i 1981 og 1985 indfsrte stotteordninger betragtes som eksisterendeordninger og ikke som nye stotteordninger, hvilket ifalge Retten betyder, atststte til virksomheder, der udelukkende udfsrte denne type transport, kunkunne gores til genstand for en beslutning med virkning for fremtiden om, atststten var uforenelig med fellesmarkedet.
The Court also annulled on the ground of misinterpretationof Regulation No384196 a Commission decision refusing to regard an association, the Bureau Eur o p de n des Unions de Consommateurs(BEUC), as an interested party withinthemeaning of that regulation in an antidumping proceeding because the latterconcerned a product not commonly sold at retail level (BEUC v Commissioncited above).
I henhold til bestemmelserne itraktatens artikel 93, stk. 1 og 2, og i overensstemmelse medretssikkerhedsprincippet var Kommissionen som led i sin lsbendekontrol medeksisterende ststteordninger kun befojet til at trreffe afgorelse om ophrevelseeller rendring af ststteforanstaltningen inden for den frist, den havde fastsat.En eksisterende ststteordning kunne säledes lovligt gennemfores,sä lrenge Kommissionen ikke havde fastsläet, at den var uforenelig med frellesmarkedet.
The Court found, first of all, that the Commission was right to interpret Regulation No 384196in the light of the GATT Antidumping Code of 1994.However, it held that it does not follow from Article 6.11 and 6.L2 of the Antidumping Code that the Commission is entitled to interpret Regulation No
Den af Kommissionen rejste formalitetsindsigelse mod denneiag blev forkastet ved dom af 15.6.1999, sag T-288197,Regione autonoma Friuli-Venezia Giulia mod Kommissionen (Sml. I, s. 1871).
Council Regulation (EC) No 384/96 of 22December 1995 on protection against dumpedimports from countries not members of the European Community (OJ 1996 L 56, p. 1).
Den anfegtede beslutning blev derfor annulleret, for sä vidt som Kommissionenerklrerededen ststte, der blevydet efter den 1.juli1990 tilfordel for transportvirksomheder,der udelukkendevirkede pä nationalt,regionaltellerlokaltplan, ulovlig, og bestemtea,t stottenskulletilbagebetales.
It also held that the Commission does not have grounds for automaticallyexcluding consumer organisations from the circle of interested parties withinthemeaning of Articles 5(10), 6(7) and 2I of Regulation No 384196by applying ageneral criterion such as the distinction between products sold at the retail leveland other products, without giving them an opportunity to show their interest inthe products in question.
2.2.IJndtagelser fra princippet om forbud
Association of the overseas countries and territories
- Med hensyn til de undtagelser, der er fastsat i EF-traktatens artikel 92, stk.1, henvises til dom af 16. marts 2000, sagT-72198, Astilleros hmacona mod Kommissionen (Sml.
The application of Council Decision 9Il482lEEC on the association of theoverseas countries and territories (OCTs) with the European Economic Community, amended at mid-term by Decision 971803, is the source of asignificant body of litigation before the Court relating both to the validity of themid-term amendment decision and to safeguard measures adopted by the Commission under Article 109 of Decision 911482 in respect of imports of riceand sugar.
II, s. 1683).I denne dom efterprovede Retten lovlighedenaf en kommissionsbeslutning, der fastslog, at betingelserne for anvendelse afen undtagelse - fastsat i direktiv 90l684lBgF 2t fra forbuddet moddriftsststte inden for skibsbygningsindustrien ikke var opfyldt. Inden forrarlmerne af den retslige provelse, som fik Retten til at frifinde Kommissionen, tog Retten i forbindelse med sin afgorelse af, at det nrevntedirektivs artikel 4, stk. 3, mä fortolkes sn & vert, hensyn til det endelige mälmed og sammenhengen i og formuleringen af denne bestemmelse, hvorefterprincippet om gradvis nedsettelseaf det nye ststtebelsb,kan fraviges, närskibene ikke byggesinden for tre är.
In a case concluded in 2000 (Netherlands Antilles v Commission, cited above), the Court granted an application brought by the Netherlands Antilles for annulmentof a Commission regulation introducing specific measures in respect of importsof rice originating in the OCTs and of a second.regulation founded on thatregulation.
Endvidere fastslog Retten i dom af 13. juni 2000, EPAC mod Kommissionen,at Kommissionen ikke havde foretaget en urigtig retsanvendelse ved at antage,at de i EF's rammebestemmelser for statsststte til redning og omstruktureringaf kriseramte virksomheder (EFT 1994,C 368, s. 12) indeholdte kriterier ikkevar opfyldt, og at den til fordel for EPAC stillede statsgaranti ikke kunne ansesfor en redningsslatle, der var forenelig med frellesmarkedet.
Antillean Rice Mills and Others v Commission U9991 ECR l-769, by notestablishing the existence of a causatlink between application of Decision 911482 and the emergenee"of'"disturbances of the Community market.
Rädets direktiv 90l684lEgF af 21.12.1990om ststte til skibsbygningsindustrien (EFTL 380,s.27). s.27).
In the field of agricultural policy in the broad sense, application of the legislationconcerning the common organisation of the market in bananas again gave rise toseveral judgments.
Direktiv gzl\IlEgF af I9.I0.I992 om harmonisering af punktafgiftsstrukturen formineralolier(EFTL316, s. 12).
In CaseT-251197 T. Port v Commission (udgment of 28 March 2000) and Case T2 52 197 Anton Dürbeck v Commission (udgment of 19 September2000; under
Retten fastslog derfor, at Kommissionen havde tilsidesatdirektiv g}l8l og overskredetde befojelser, den er tillagt i henhold tiltraktatens artikel 93, stk. 3.
Since there was a danger of thatchangeover resulting in disturbances in the internal market, Article 30 allowed the Commission to take specific transitional measures considered necessary in orderto overcomedifficulties encountered by traders following the establishment of thecommon organisation of the market but originating in the state of national marketsprior to the entry into force of Regulation No 404/93.
Folgelig tilkommer det sävel Kommissionen i forbindelse medbedsmmelsen af en anmeldt statsststte som Frellesskabets retsinstanser, forhvilke et annullationssogsmäl er indbragt, at sikre overholdelsen af grrensernefor enhver kontekstuelog rimelig fortolkning af begreber, der forekommer ifrellesskabsretten.
In CaseT-251197 , the Commission had considered that the circumstances pleadedby T. Port did not amount to a case of excessivehardship such as to justify a special grant of import licences,in particular because the contracts for the supplyof bananas could not be taken into account since they were concluded after
- Ved den ovennevnte dom af 10. maj 2000, SIC mod Kommissionenannullerede Retten Kommissionens beslutning vedrorende foranstaltninger tilfordel for RTP (Radiotelevisäo Portuguesa), der driver de offentligeportugisiske tv-kanaler.
In Case T-252197, the Commission had adopted a decision granting in part therequest for additional import licences made by Anton Dürbeck.
Finansieringen af sidstnaevnte blev ikke udelukkendeopnäet ved indtegter fra reklame udsendt pä denskanaler, men ogsä fra ärligttildelte statstilskud for dets bidrag til public service-forpligtelsen'
In its applicationfor annulment of the decision, that company submitted that the transitionalmeasures adopted by the Commission pursuant to Article 30 of RegulationNo 404/93 were insufficient to enable it to overcome the excessive hardship.
Sagen var anlagt af et portugisiskerhvervsselskab, som siden 1992 har drevet en af de vigtigste private f,ernsynskanaleri Portugal, SIC (Sociedade Independente de Comunicagäo).SIC, der udelukkende er reklamefinansieret, indbragte i to omgange(i 1993 og i 1996)klager til Kommissionen over definansielle tilskud, der blev betalt til RTP, sävel som over andreforanstaltninger til fordel for RTP, idet SIC vurderede, at der var tale omstatsstotte, der fordrejede konkurrencen. SIC giorde geldende, at disse r33r33
Finally, in Camar and Tico v Commission and Council, cited above, where oneof the actions was founded on Article I75 of the EC Treaty (now Article 232EC), the Court found that the Commission had unlawfully failed to adopt, on thebasisof Article 30 of Regulation No 404193,the measures necessary to enable theapplicant to overcomeits supply difficulties.
Det erdenne kvalifikation af foranstaltningerne,og navnlig undladelsenaf at indlededen i traktatens artikel 93, stk. 2, fastsatte formelle undersogelsesprocedure,som sagsogeren bestred ved Retten.
The case-law on trade marks was developed by a numberofjudgments concerningassessment of the conditions for registration of a Community mark laid down by Regulation (EC) No 40/94. 25