15.2.2016
EN
Official Journal of the European Union
C 59/13
Judgment of the General Court of 17 December 2015 — SNCF v Commission
(Case T-242/12) (1)
((State aid - Aid measures implemented by France in favour of Sernam SCS - Aid measures for restructuring and recapitalising, guarantees and debt write-off by SNCF in favour of Sernam - Decision declaring the aid measures incompatible with the internal market - Misuse of aid - Recovery - Economic continuity - Private investor criterion))
(2016/C 059/12)
Language of the case: French
Parties
Applicant: Société nationale des chemins de fer français (SNCF) (Paris, France) (represented by: P. Beurier, O. Billard and V. Landes, lawyers)
Defendant: European Commission (represented by: T. Maxian Rusche and B. Stromsky, acting as Agents)
Intervener in support of the applicant: French Republic (represented by: initially D. Colas and J. Gstalter, subsequently by D. Colas and J. Rossi and finally by D. Colas and J. Bousin, acting as Agents)
Intervener in support of the defendant: Mory SA, in liquidation, (Pantin, France) and Mory Team, in liquidation, (Pantin) (represented by: B. Vatier and F. Loubières, lawyers)
Re:
Application for annulment of Commission Decision 2012/398/EU of 9 March 2012 on State aid SA. 12522 (C 37/08) — France — Enforcing the Sernam 2 Decision (OJ 2012 L 195, p. 19).
Operative part of the judgment
The Court:
1.
Dismisses the application of the Société nationale des chemins de fer français (SNCF);
2.
Orders SNCF to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by the European Commission;
3.
Orders the French Republic to bear its own costs;
4.
Orders Mory and Mory Team to bear their own costs.
(1) OJ C 273, 8.9.2012.
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