Class action: The Court of Justice of the European Union confirms that the measures for the financing of the fixed rail-road link project of the Strait of Fehmarn between Germany and Denmark were not liable to distort competition or affect trade between Member States and, therefore did not constitute State aid (Scandlines Danmark, Scandlines Deutschland vs. European Commission)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. On 6 October 2021, the Court of Justice of the European Union delivered its judgment in Joined Cases C-174/19 (Scandlines Danmark ApS and Scandlines Deutschland GmbH v European Commission) and C-175/19 (Stena Line Scandinavia AB v European Commission). It will be recalled that, with two judgments delivered in almost identical terms on 13 December 2018 in cases T-630/15 (Scandlines Danmark ApS and Others v Commission) and T-631/15 (Stena Line Scandinavia AB v Commission)concerning the public financing of the Fehmarn Strait fixed rail-road link between Germany and Denmark, the General Court of the European Union annulled the Commission's decision of 23 July