Language of document :

Order of the General Court of 21 March 2012 - Modelo Continente Hipermercados v Commission

(Case T-174/11) 

(Action for annulment - State aid - Aid schemes allowing for the tax amortisation of financial goodwill for foreign shareholding acquisitions - Decision declaring the aid scheme incompatible with the common market and not ordering the recovery of aid - Lack of individual concern - Inadmissibility)

Language of the case: Spanish

Parties

Applicant: Modelo Continente Hipermercados, SA, sucursal en España (Madrid, Spain) (represented by: J. Buendía Sierra, E. Abad Valdenebro, M. Muñoz de Juan and R. Calvo Salinero, lawyers)

Defendant: European Commission (represented by: R. Lyal and C. Urraca Caviedes, Agents)

Re:

Application for annulment of Article 1(1) of Commission Decision 2011/5/EC of 28 October 2009 on the tax amortisation of financial goodwill for foreign shareholding acquisitions C 45/07 (ex NN 51/07, ex CP 9/07) implemented by Spain (OJ 2011 L 7, p. 48).

Operative part of the order

The action is dismissed;

Modelo Continente Hipermercados, SA, sucursal en España, is ordered to pay the costs.

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1 - OJ C 139, 7.5.2011.