ALERT: STATE AID - NOTION OF STATE RESOURCES - NOTION OF UNDERTAKING

Notion of undertaking : The General Court confirms that environment protection agencies can be regarded, for part of their activity, as undertakings within the meaning of competition law (Germany v. Commission)

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TUE, 12 septembre 2013, arrêt dans l’affaire T-347/09 (République fédérale d’Allemagne, soutenue par République française, Royaume des Pays-Bas, et par République de Finlande, contre Commission européenne)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. By judgment of 12 September 2013 in Case T-347/09 (Federal Republic of Germany, supported by the French Republic, the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Republic of Finland v European Commission), the General Court of the European Union confirmed the conclusion reached by the Commission in its decision of 2 July 2009 in State aid NN 8/2009 granted by the Federal Republic of Germany and concerning the transfer of natural protection areas to new owners and measures for biological diversity, finding that environmental protection bodies may be regarded, in respect of part of their activities, as undertakings within the meaning of competition law. In the case in

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