SGEI : The General Court of the European Union confirms that German animal carcass and slaughter waste disposal services do not qualify as SGEI (Germany / Commission)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. The judgment of the Court of First Instance of 16 July 2014 raises a number of interesting questions in the field of State aid. Therefore, in this column, we will only deal with Article 106(2) TFEU. For the rest, the judgment is dealt with in parallel in the State aid column of this issue. In February 2008, Saria Bio-Industries AG & Co KG lodged a complaint against the system of contributions organised by Germany for the benefit of the Zweckverband Tierkörperbeseitigung (Association for the Disposal of Animal Corpses, hereinafter 'ZT') in Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland, the district of Rheingau-Taunus and the district of Limburg-Weilburg. On 25 April