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Subject-matter

Appeal brought against the judgment of the General Court (Second Chamber) of 17 May 2011 in Case T-1/08 Buczek Automotive v Commission by which the General Court partially annulled Commission Decision 2008/344/EC of 23 October 2007 on State Aid C 23/06 (ex NN 35/06) which Poland has implemented for steel producer Technologie Buczek Group (OJ 2008 L 116, p. 26) – Classification as State aid of the failure to request the liquidation of the debtor undertaking – Error of law in the assessment of the Commission’s application of the hypothetical private creditor test and in the allocation of the burden of proof

Systematic classification scheme

Citations of case-law or legislation

References in grounds of judgment

• EC Treaty (Amsterdam), Article 87 -P1 : paragraph 29
• TFEU, Article 107 : paragraph 31
• TFEU, Article 107 -P1 : paragraph 46
• Decision 2008/344 : paragraphs 1 - 66
• Decision 2008/344 -A01 : paragraphs 1 - 66
• Decision 2008/344 -A03 : paragraphs 1 - 66
• Decision 2008/344 -A03P3 : paragraphs 1 - 66
• Decision 2008/344 -A04 : paragraphs 1 - 66
• Decision 2008/344 -A05 : paragraphs 1 - 66
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -19/93 : paragraph 15
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -342/96 : paragraphs 32, 46
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -6/97 : paragraph 30
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -200/97 : paragraph 30
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -256/97 : paragraphs 32, 46
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -174/99 : paragraph 15
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -164/01 : paragraph 65
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -189/02 : paragraph 65
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -525/04 : paragraph 48
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -290/07 : paragraphs 49, 50
• General Court - Judgment T -1/08 : paragraphs 1 - 66
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -124/10 : paragraphs 31 - 33, 46
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -73/11 : paragraphs 31, 32, 46 - 50, 54, 59
• Court of Justice - Order C -649/11 : paragraph 65

Operative part

• Confirms : General Court - Judgment T -1/08

Opinion

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Dates

Date of the lodging of the application initiating proceedings

• 28/07/2011

Date of the Opinion

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Date of the hearing

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Date of delivery

21/03/2013

References

Publication in the Official Journal

Application: OJ C 311 from 22.10.2011, p.19

Judgment: OJ C 156 from 01.06.2013, p.8

Name of the parties

Commission v Buczek Automotive

Notes on Academic Writings

1. Idot, Laurence: Créancier privé en économie de marché. La charge de la preuve des conditions d'application du critère du créancier privé en économie de marché pèse sur la Commission, Europe 2013 Mai Comm. nº 5 p.29 (FR)
2. Muguet-Poullennec, Gwenaël: Critère du créancier privé et contrôle juridictionnel (suites des arrêts EDF et Frucona Koice), Revue Lamy de la Concurrence : droit, économie, régulation 2013 nº 36 p.62-63 (FR)
3. Vallery, Anne ; Wiame, Hannelore: The Private Creditor Test: Anythin New under the Sun?, European State Aid Law Quarterly 2014 p.528-537 (EN)
4. Idot, Laurence: Remises fiscales dans le cadre d'un concordat et critère du créancier privé, Europe 2017 novembre nº 11 p.42 (FR)

Procedural Analysis Information

Source of the question referred for a preliminary ruling

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Subject-matter

• Competition
  
• - State aid
  

Provisions of national law referred to

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Provisions of international law referred to

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Procedure and result

• Actions for annulment
  
• Appeals : dismissal on substantive grounds
  

Formation of the Court

sixième chambre (Cour)

Judge-Rapporteur

Arabadjiev

Advocate General

Mengozzi

Language(s) of the Case

• Polish
  

Language(s) of the Opinion

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