Partial cancellation: The General Court of the European Union partially annuls the decision finding no state aid in a case concerning the granting of assets under management to a public institution in Slovenia and notes that the European Commission, faced with serious difficulties, should have opened an in-depth investigation procedure (Petra Flašker)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. On April 27, 2022, the General Court of the European Union issued a judgment in case T-392/20 (Flašker v. European Commission). In it, he partially annulled the decision of the Commission of March 24, 2020 in case SA.43546 in which the Commission considered that, insofar as the granting of assets under management to a public institution operating some 50 pharmacies, mainly in the Slovenian capital Ljubljana, gave rise to state aid, this would be existing aid, since this aid was granted in 1979, 25 years before Slovenia's accession to the European Union, when the latter was an administered economy, and that these assets under management were transferred in