New aid : The General Court of the European Union annuls a Commission’s decision, which has found new aid to exist in the prolongation by a judge granting interim measures of the effect of a contract granting a favourable tariff for electricity supplies to an undertaking (Alouminion)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. The Court of First Instance had to rule on the classification as new aid of a measure extending a preferential tariff, itself constituting existing aid, with the particularity that the extension was decided on a temporary basis by the interim relief judge. Whereas the Commission had considered that that extension constituted new aid, the Court of First Instance develops a different analysis based in particular on the permanence of the legal basis of the existing aid and on the specific role of the court hearing the application for interim measures in the temporary maintenance of the aid. Since 1960, the company producing aluminium in Greece (now AtE)