Action brought on 30 July 2009 - Unicid v Commission

(Case T-305/09)

Language of the case: French

Parties

Applicant: Union nationale interprofessionnelle cidricole (Unicid) (Paris, France) (represented by: V. Ledoux and B. Néouze, lawyers)

Defendant: Commission of the European Communities

Form of order sought

annul the contested decision in its entirety;

order the Commission to pay the costs.

Pleas in law and main arguments

By the present action, the applicant seeks annulment of Commission Decision C(2008) 7846 final of 10 December 2008, ¹ by which the Commission found that the framework for actions liable to be carried out by French inter-branch organisations, consisting in aid for technical assistance, for production and marketing for quality products, for research and development and marketing for primary producers and undertakings engaged in processing and marketing agricultural products, financed through voluntary levies made compulsory by inter-ministerial decree, to be collected from the members of those inter-branch organisations, were a measure constituting State aid compatible with the common market.

The pleas in law and principal arguments relied on by the applicant are essentially identical or similar to those put forward in Case T-293/09 CNIEL v Commission and Case T-302/09 CNIPT v Commission.

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¹ - OJ 2009 C 116, p. 14.