Recovery of State aid: The General Court issues a decision conciliating the principle of effective judicial protection and the requirement of immediate and effective recovery of State aid (Scott et Kimberly Clark)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. – CJUE, May 20, 2010, Scott and Kimberly Clark v. City of Orléans, Case C-210/09 In response to a question referred by a French court for a preliminary ruling, the Court of Justice provides useful clarifications concerning the office of the national court in the context of assessing the validity of revenue documents for the recovery of unlawful State aid. The factual and procedural framework More than 20 years ago, the city of Orléans and the Loiret department sold a plot of land to a company on preferential terms and undertook to grant it a preferential rate of water treatment levy. Taking the view that those measures constituted unlawful State aid, the