Notice for the OJ
Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 19 October 2005 - CDA Datenträger Albrechts v Commission
(State aid - Misuse of aid - Risk of circumvention of the order for recovery - Recovery of aid from the companies which acquired the operating assets from the original beneficiary)
Language of the case: German
Parties
Applicant(s): CDA Datenträger Albrechts GmbH (Albrechts, Germany) (represented by: T. Schmidt-Kötters and D. Uwer, lawyers)
Defendant(s): Commission of the European Communities (represented by: K.-D. Borchardt and V. Kreuschitz, Agents, assisted by C. Koenig)
Intervener(s) in support of the applicant(s) : Federal Republic of Germany (represented by: W.-D. Plessing and T. Jürgensen, Agents, assisted by R. Bierwagen, lawyer)
Intervener(s) in support of the defendant(s) : ODS Optical Disc Service GmbH (Hamburg, Germany) (represented by: I. Brinker and U. Soltész, lawyers)
Application for
annulment of Commission Decision 2000/796/EC of 21 June 2000 on State aid granted by Germany to CDA Compact Disc Albrechts GmbH, Thuringia (OJ 2000 L 318, p. 62).
Operative part of the judgment
The Court:
Annuls Article 2(3) of Commission Decision 2000/796/EC of 21 June 2000 on State aid granted by Germany to CDA Compact Disc Albrechts GmbH, Thuringia;
Declares that there is no longer any need to adjudicate on the remainder of the action for annulment;
Orders the Commission to bear its own costs and the costs of CDA Datenträger Albrechts GmbH. The Federal Republic of Germany and ODS Optical Disc Service GmbH are to bear their own costs.
____________1 - OJ 2000 C 355.