Order of the General Court of 13 April 2010 - Diputación Foral de Álava and Others v Commission
(Joined Cases T-529/08 to 531/08) 1 (Application for annulment - State aid - Tax advantages - Recovery of State aid declared unlawful - Application of compound interest scheme - Confirmatory act - Inadmissibility)
Language of the case: Spanish
Parties
Applicants: Territorio Histórico de Álava - Diputación Foral de Álava and Others (Spain) (Case T-529/08); Territorio Histórico de Guipúzcoa - Diputación Foral de Guipúzcoa (Spain) (Case T-530/08); and Territorio Histórico de Vizcaya - Diputación Foral de Vizcaya (Spain) (Case T-531/08) (represented by: I. Sáenz-Cortabarría Fernández and M. Morales Isasi, lawyers)
Defendant: European Commission (represented by: C. Urraca Caviedes, acting as Agent)
Re:
Application for annulment of the Commission's letter of 2 October 2008, communicating to the applicants that is necessary to apply compound interest in the context of the recovery of State aid declared unlawful by Commission Decisions 2002/820/EC, 2002/894/EC and 2003/27/EC of 11 July 2001 on the State aid scheme implemented by Spain for firms in respectively Álava, Guipúzcoa and Vizcaya in the form of a tax credit amounting to 45 % of investments (respectively, OJ 2002 L 296, p. 1, OJ 2002 L 314, p. 26, and OJ 2003 L 17, p. 1), and Commission Decisions 2002/892/EC, 2002/540/EC and 2002/806/EC of 11 July 2001 on the State aid scheme applied by Spain to certain newly established firms in respectively Álava, Guipúzcoa and Vizcaya (respectively, OJ 2002 L 314, p. 1, OJ 2002 L 174, p. 31 and OJ 2002 L 279, p. 35), which were upheld by the judgments of the General Court in Joined Cases T-227/01 to T-229/01, T-265/01, T-266/01 and T-270/01 Diputación Foral de Álava and Others v Commission [2009] ECR II-0000; and Joined Cases T-230/01 and T-267/01 to T-269/01 Diputación Foral de Álava and Others v Commission [2009] ECR II-0000.
Operative part of the order
1. The actions are dismissed as inadmissible.
2. Territorio Histórico de Álava - Diputación Foral de Álava, Territorio Histórico de Guipúzcoa - Diputación Foral de Guipúzcoa and Territorio Histórico de Vizcaya - Diputación Foral de Vizcaya shall each bear their own costs and pay the costs incurred by the European Commission.
____________1 - OJ C 32, 7.2.2009.