Julia Zöchling studied law at the University of Vienna. During her studies she completed an Erasmus semester in Lyon and participated in the Straniak Academy for Democracy and Human Rights in Montenegro. She also gained first experiences in legal practice at a bank, as an intern at a renowned law firm in Vienna and at an IT company in the field of data protection. She also held workshops on European and data protection law for the Legal Literacy Project Vienna. After obtaining her law degree, she worked in the Research and Documentation Directorate at the CJEU for just over a year, first as a trainee and then as a temporary agent. Since July 2020, Julia Zöchling has been working as a University Assistant (prae doc) at the Department of European, International and Comparative Law. Her research focuses on EU competition law.
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Background & Facts of the case As a preliminary to the discussion of the case, it is useful to highlight the historical development of the material scope of the law at issue in the proceedings before the public courts, the Energieabgabenvergütungsgesetz (Law on the rebate of energy (...)
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Background & Facts of the case In order to enable a more efficient use of the Austrian mobile communications network, the Telekom-Control Commission (“the authority”) ordered, by decision of 28 July 2014, a so-called “refarming” of rights of use for radio frequencies in the 900 and 1800 (...)
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Background & Facts of the case In order to mitigate the effects of the financial and economic crisis of 2008, the Austrian legislator adopted the so-called Unternehmensliquidationsstärkungsgesetz (Law on strengthening the liquidity of companies, hereafter the “ULSG“). It authorised the (...)
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Background & Facts of the case One of the most prominent lines of recent Austrian State aid case law is probably the one pertaining to Bank Burgenland (“BB”), which, until its privatisation, was a regional bank taking the form of a company limited by shares under Austrian law with its (...)
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Background & Facts of the case In 2002, the plaintiff wanted to establish a technology centre that should provide office space to innovative companies on the territory of the defendant municipality. The aim of this technology centre was to provide innovative companies with office space (...)
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Background & Facts of the case As Austria’s national public service broadcaster, ORF finances its public interest activity via a “programme fee” that (in principle) every owner of TV and/or radio equipment in Austria is legally obliged to pay. ORF’s activities are based on a special law (...)
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Background & Facts of the case The main proceedings concerned the corporation tax levied on CEE Holding GmbH and its successor in title, IFN-Holding AG, for the years 2006 to 2010. In those years, the two companies were members of a tax group within the meaning of § 9 of the (...)
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Background & Facts of the case One of the most prominent lines of recent Austrian State aid case law is probably the one pertaining to Bank Burgenland (“BB”), which, until its privatisation, was a regional bank taking the form of a company limited by shares under Austrian law with its (...)
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Background & Facts of the case In 1990, the Province of Carinthia enacted the Kärntner Landesholding-Gesetz (Law on the regional holding company of Carinthia, hereafter “K-LHG”), that provided for a transfer of all the assets of the regional mortgage bank, that had existed since 1894, (...)
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Background & Facts of the case The first defendant runs a shopping centre (called “Murpark”) on the outskirts of the city of Graz. At the beginning of 2006, when Murpark was still in construction, the first defendant sold a property near the future shopping centre to the second (...)
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Background & Facts of the case The proceedings concerned the planned sale of a forestry district wholly owned by a holding company whose single shareholder was the province of Upper Austria. In 2007, the Upper Austrian provincial parliament authorised the holding company to award the (...)
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Background & Facts of the case Pursuant to § 13(1) of the Green Electricity Act, operators of existing and modernised CHP (combined heat and power) plants were compensated by the competent authority for the costs required to maintain operation in an amount to be determined annually by (...)
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Background & Facts of the case One of the most prominent lines of recent Austrian State aid case law is probably the one pertaining to Bank Burgenland (“BB”), which, until its privatisation, was a regional bank taking the form of a company limited by shares under Austrian law with its (...)
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Background & Facts of the case In 1996, the Energieabgabenvergütungsgesetz (Law on the rebate of energy taxes; the “EAVG”) was enacted. It provided that companies whose focus is on the production of goods could obtain a rebate on the energy taxes they paid. Companies that mainly offered (...)
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Background & Facts of the case The judgment concerned an appeal by a producer of agricultural products against the imposition by AMA (Agrarmarkt Austria, a legal person under public law) of agricultural marketing contributions. The applicant argued that its contribution financed (...)
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Background & Facts of the case The applicant, a dentist, claimed to be eligible for certain VAT exemptions (waiver on adjusting deductions in the course of a transition from VAT liability to VAT exemption for medical services that was required by Community law). The tax office and the (...)
