The EU Court of Justice holds that a Member State may be found to have infringed Art. 106(1) TFEU if its measures create a situation in which a public undertaking or an undertaking on which it has conferred special or exclusive rights is led to abuse its dominant position (Greek Lignite case)

Georgiopoulos, Ilias; Alexiadis, Peter

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17 Jul 2014

The EU Court of Justice holds that a Member State may be found to have infringed Art. 106(1) TFEU if its measures create a situation in which a public undertaking or an undertaking on which it has conferred special or exclusive rights is led to abuse its dominant position (Greek Lignite case)

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EU Court of Justice, Greek Lignite case, C-553/12 P, 17 July 2014

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ECJ held that the legal standard established by the General Court was incorrect, as the Commission was not required to identify or establish that an actual abuse had occurred or a particular abuse could have occurred as a result of the state measure at issue. The ECJ repeated its well established case law, according to which a member state may be found to have infringed article 106(1) TFEU if its measures create a situation in which a public undertaking or an undertaking on which it has conferred special or exclusive rights, merely by exercising the preferential rights conferred upon it, is led to abuse its dominant position, or when those rights are liable to create a situation in which that undertaking is led to commit such abuses. On 17 July 2014, the European Court of Justice

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Ilias Georgiopoulos
European Commission - DG COMP (Brussels)

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Peter Alexiadis
King’s College (London)

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Ilias Georgiopoulos, Peter Alexiadis, The EU Court of Justice holds that a Member State may be found to have infringed Art. 106(1) TFEU if its measures create a situation in which a public undertaking or an undertaking on which it has conferred special or exclusive rights is led to abuse its dominant position (Greek Lignite case), 17 July 2014, e-Competitions Exclusive rights (Art. 106 TFEU), Art. N° 73723

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