Tax exemption : The General Court of the European Union confirms the obligation for Germany to recover unlawful aid granted to certain large electricity users in the form of an exemption from network duties in Germany (Wepa Hygieneprodukte a. o.)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. On 6 October 2021, the General Court of the European Union delivered four judgments in the following cases: T-238/19 (Wepa Hygieneprodukte GmbH and Others v. European Commission) T-196/19 (AZ v European Commission) T-745/18 (Covestro Deutschland AG v European Commission) and in joint cases T-233/19 and T-234/19 (Infineon Technologies Dresden GmbH & Co KG v European Commission) concerning an aid scheme implemented by Germany in favour of certain large electricity consumers. From 2011, the Federal Republic of Germany granted certain large energy consumers a full exemption from network charges. The costs arising from that exemption fell on the