Reports of Cases

published in the electronic Reports of Cases (Court Reports - general)

Subject-matter

Appeal brought against the judgment of the General Court (Eighth Chamber) of 24 March 2011 in Joined Cases T-443/08 and T-455/08 Freistaat Sachsen and Others v Commission and Mitteldeutsche Flughafen and Flughafen Leipzig/Halle v Commission, by which the General Court partially dismissed an action for partial annulment of Commission Decision 2008/948/EC of 23 July 2008 on measures by Germany to assist DHL and Leipzig Halle Airport (OJ 2008 L 346, p. 31) – Applicability of the provisions of European Union law on State aid to aid granted for the construction of airport infrastructure – ‘Undertaking’ within the meaning of Article 107(1) TFEU – Temporal application of the Commission’s guidelines

Systematic classification scheme

Citations of case-law or legislation

References in grounds of judgment

• EC Treaty (Amsterdam), Article 87 -P1 : paragraphs 36, 43, 63, 64, 78, 84
• EC Treaty (Amsterdam), Article 88 : paragraphs 39, 79
• TFEU - Protocol No 3 -A36 : paragraph 83
• TFEU - Protocol No 3 -A53L1 : paragraph 83
• General Court - Rules of Procedure (1991) -A81 : paragraph 83
• Regulation 659/1999 -A01LB : paragraphs 72 - 75
• Regulation 659/1999 -A17 : paragraphs 72 - 75
• Regulation 659/1999 -A18 : paragraphs 72 - 75
• Decision 2008/948 -A01 : paragraphs 1 - 85
• Commission - Other Acts - 52005XC1209(03) : paragraph 63
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -17/91 : paragraph 79
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -364/92 : paragraph 44
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -352/98 : paragraph 74
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -76/01 : paragraph 74
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -82/01 : paragraphs 40, 44, 50, 63
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -237/04 : paragraph 79
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -487/06 : paragraph 51
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -49/07 : paragraphs 40, 50
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -113/07 : paragraph 50
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -431/07 : paragraph 68
• Court of Justice - Judgment C -280/08 : paragraph 83
• General Court - Judgment T -443/08 : paragraphs 1 - 85

Operative part

• Confirms : General Court - Judgment T -443/08

Opinion

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Dates

Date of the lodging of the application initiating proceedings

• 06/06/2011

Date of the Opinion

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Date of the hearing

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Date of delivery

19/12/2012

References

Publication in the Official Journal

Application: OJ C 252 from 27.08.2011, p.16

Judgment: OJ C 46 from 16.02.2013, p.5

Name of the parties

Mitteldeutsche Flughafen and Flughafen Leipzig-Halle v Commission

Notes on Academic Writings

1. Idot, Laurence: Construction des infrastructures aéroportuaires et notion d'entreprise. La Cour confirme que la construction d'infrastructures aéroportuaires est une activité économique qui justifie l'applicabilité du contrôle des aides d'État, Europe 2013 Février Comm. nº 2 p.42 (FR)
2. Giesberts, Ludger ; Kleve, Guido: Die Anwendbarkeit des EU-Beihilfenrechts auf Finanzierungen von Infrastrukturanlagen, Zeitschrift für Luft- und Weltraumrecht 2013 p.62-74 (DE)
3. Aubert, Michel ; Broussy, Emmanuelle ; Cassagnabère, Hervé: Chronique de jurisprudence de la CJUE. Aides d'Etat, L'actualité juridique ; droit administratif 2013 p.1163-1164 (FR)
4. Wiemer, Dirk T.: EuGH: Rechtsmittel - Staatliche Beihilfen - Begriff des Unternehmens - Wirtschaftliche Tätigkeit - Errichtung von Flughafeninfrastruktur - Start- und Landebahn, Zeitschrift für Beihilfenrecht 2013 p.27-28 (DE)
5. Grard, Loïc: Les aéroports développent des activités économiques relevant du droit des aides d'État(1), Revue trimestrielle de droit européen 2013 p.371 (FR)
6. Mehta, Jay: The Changing Face of State-Owned Infrastructure - Leipzig-Halle and Beyond, European State Aid Law Quarterly 2013 p.701-708 (EN)
7. Ferk, Petra: Državne pomoči pri financiranju javne infrastrukture, Pravna praksa 2013 nº 27 p.II-VIII (SL)
8. Wilson, Thomas: Infrastructure Financing and State Aid Post Leipzig-Halle, European State Aid Law Quarterly 2014 p.24-27 (EN)
9. Hochreiter, Monika: Die beihilferechtlichen Hürden der öffentlichen Finanzierung von Infrastruktur, Europäisches Wirtschafts- & Steuerrecht - EWS 2015 Heft 6 p.301-305 (DE)

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
  
• Appeals : dismissal on grounds of inadmissibility
  

Formation of the Court

huitième chambre (Cour)

Judge-Rapporteur

Jarašiūnas

Advocate General

Sharpston

Language(s) of the Case

• German
  

Language(s) of the Opinion

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