Judgment of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 12 March 2020

European Commission v Italian Republic

Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations – Judgment of the Court establishing a failure to fulfil obligations – Non-compliance – Recovery of unlawful aid granted to the hotel industry in Sardinia – Article 260(2) TFEU – Pecuniary penalties – Penalty payment and lump sum

Case C-576/18


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Document Date Name of the parties Subject-matter Curia EUR-Lex Autres Liens
Judgment (OJ)
12/06/2020 Commission v Italy (Unlawful aid granted to the hotel sector in Sardinia)
Competition
- State aid
  • Competition
  • - State aid
EUR-Lex text EUR-Lex bilingual text
Judgment
ECLI:EU:C:2020:202		 12/03/2020 Commission v Italy (Unlawful aid granted to the hotel sector in Sardinia)
Competition
- State aid
  • Competition
  • - State aid
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Judgment (Information)
ECLI:EU:C:2020:202		 12/03/2020 Commission v Italy (Unlawful aid granted to the hotel sector in Sardinia)
Competition
- State aid
  • Competition
  • - State aid
EUR-Lex text EUR-Lex bilingual text
Top of the page Legal analysis of the decision or of the case

Reports of Cases

published in the electronic Reports of Cases (Court Reports - general - 'Information on unpublished decisions' section)

Subject-matter

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Systematic classification scheme

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3 Legal proceedings
  3.01 Actions for failure to fulfil obligations
    3.01.04 Effects of the judgment
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3 Legal proceedings
  3.01 Actions for failure to fulfil obligations
    3.01.03 Defences
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3 Legal proceedings
  3.01 Actions for failure to fulfil obligations
    3.01.01 Procedure under Article 108 TFEU
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3 Legal proceedings
  3.01 Actions for failure to fulfil obligations
    3.01.03 Defences
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4 Internal policy of the European Union
  4.09 State aid
    4.09.04 Procedure for reviewing aid
      4.09.04.08 Implementation of the Commission decision and recovery
        4.09.04.08.02 Beneficiaries of the aid to be recovered
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3 Legal proceedings
  3.01 Actions for failure to fulfil obligations
    3.01.05 Pecuniary penalties
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3 Legal proceedings
  3.01 Actions for failure to fulfil obligations
    3.01.05 Pecuniary penalties
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3 Legal proceedings
  3.01 Actions for failure to fulfil obligations
    3.01.05 Pecuniary penalties
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3 Legal proceedings
  3.01 Actions for failure to fulfil obligations
    3.01.05 Pecuniary penalties
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3 Legal proceedings
  3.01 Actions for failure to fulfil obligations
    3.01.05 Pecuniary penalties
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3 Legal proceedings
  3.01 Actions for failure to fulfil obligations
    3.01.05 Pecuniary penalties
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3 Legal proceedings
  3.01 Actions for failure to fulfil obligations
    3.01.05 Pecuniary penalties


Citations of case-law or legislation

References in grounds of judgment

Operative part

Opinion

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Dates

Date of the lodging of the application initiating proceedings

  • 12/09/2018

Date of the Opinion

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Date of the hearing

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Date of delivery

12/03/2020


References

Publication in the Official Journal

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Name of the parties

Commission v Italy (Unlawful aid granted to the hotel sector in Sardinia)

Notes on Academic Writings

  1. Rigaux, Anne: Recours en manquement - Sanctions pécuniaires du manquement, Europe 2020, n° 5 Mai, Comm. 138 (FR)
  2. Derenne, Jacques: Récupération : La Cour de justice de l'Union européenne condamne un État membre pour inexécution d’un arrêt constatant un manquement à la suite d’une décision négative de la Commission européenne et rappelle notamment l’illégalité de décisions juridictionnelles nationales venant suspendre des ordres de recouvrement nationaux exécutant cette décision de la Commission européenne (Commission / Italie), Concurrences : revue des droits de la concurrence 2020, nº 2, p. 146-147 (FR)
  3. Gjevori, Anduena: Recovery of Unlawful State Aid in Times of COVID-19, European State Aid Law Quarterly 2025, Volume 24, Issue 1, p. 34-42 (EN)



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

  • Action for a declaration of failure to fulfil obligations : application granted

Formation of the Court

Sixième chambre (Cour)

Judge-Rapporteur

Safjan

Advocate General

Hogan

Language(s) of the Case

  • Italian

Language(s) of the Opinion

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