24.3.2012
EN
Official Journal of the European Union
C 89/20
Judgment of the General Court of 13 February 2012 — Budapesti Erőmű v Commission
(Joined Cases T-80/06 and T-182/09) (1)
(State aid - Wholesale electricity market - Favourable terms granted by a Hungarian public undertaking to certain power generators under power purchase agreements - Decision to initiate the procedure laid down in Article 88(2) EC - Decision declaring the aid incompatible with the common market and ordering its recovery - New aid - Private investor test)
2012/C 89/30
Language of the case: English
Parties
Applicant: Budapesti Erőmű Zrt (Budapest (Hungary)) (represented, in Cases T-80/06 and T-182/09, by M. Powell, C. Arhold and K. Struckmann, lawyers, and also, in Case T-182/09, by A. Hegyi, lawyer)
Defendant: European Commission (represented, in Cases T-80/06 and T-182/09, by N. Khan, L. Flynn and K. Talabér-Ritz, and also, in Case T-80/06, by V. Di Bucci, acting as Agents)
Re:
Application, in Case T-80/06, for annulment of the Commission’s decision, notified to Hungary by letter of 9 November 2005, to initiate the procedure laid down in Article 88(2) EC in relation to State aid C 41/2005 (ex NN 49/2005) — Hungarian Stranded Costs, and, in Case T-182/09, for annulment of Commission Decision 2009/609/EC of 4 June 2008 on the State aid C 41/05 awarded by Hungary through Power Purchase Agreements (OJ 2009 L 225, p. 53).
Operative part of the judgment
The Court:
1.
Dismisses the actions;
2.
Orders Budapesti Erőmű Zrt to pay the costs.
(1) OJ C 108, 6.5.2006.
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