State aid scheme: The General Court of the European Union upholds the Commission’s decision on aid schemes for charity associations for social assistance tasks based in the Land of Lower Saxony (Verband Deutscher Alten- und Behindertenhilfe, CarePool Hannover)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. On 14 April 2021, the General Court of the European Union delivered a judgment in case T-69/18 (Verband Deutscher Alten und Behindertenhilfe and CarePool Hannover v. European Commission). In that decision, the Court dismissed the action brought by residential establishments providing outpatient and inpatient care for dependent persons seeking annulment of the Commission's decision of 23 November 2017concerning State aid schemes implemented by Germany in favour of charities for social assistance tasks based in the Land of Lower Saxony Under the terms of the contested decision,