Recovery of aid: The EU Court of Justice urges national judges to render decisions on illegal State aid recovery requests even when the State aid compatibility is still being debated (CELF)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. In a judgment delivered on 11 March 2010, the Court of Justice ruled specify the obligations on national courts when they receive a request for recovery of aid unlawfully enforced on the basis of Article 88(3) EC. The present judgment is delivered in the context of the Centre's well-known case of d'exportation du livre français (CELF) and is in response to a request Reference for a preliminary ruling from the French Conseil d'État. It will be remembered that, in that case, CELF, which was a commission agent in export, benefited from operating subsidies from 1980 to 2002 granted by the French State to compensate for the additional cost of processing the