State aid granted to a firm in difficulty: The GCEU rejects the appeal against the decision of the Commission of 14 december 2010 regarding the State aid granted by Germany to a bicycle company, after a first annulment (Biria)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. On 3 July 2013, the General Court of the European Union delivered its judgment in case T-209/11 (MB System GmbH & Co. KG v. European Commission). In that judgment, the General Court dismissed MB System's action for annulment of the Commission's decision of 14 December 2010 on State aid No C 38/2005 (ex NN 52/2004) granted by Germany to the Biria Group. In this case, the Commission had already adopted a first decision on 24 January 2007, in which it concluded that the financial contributions in the form of silent partnership contributions and guarantees by German public financial institutions to two companies active in the bicycle manufacturing and