Acórdão do Tribunal da EFTA
Processo E-5/04

N.º do Acórdão
E2004J0005
Data
21/07/2005

Sumário

Judgment of the Court of 21 July 2005 in Joined Cases E-5/04, E-6/04 and E-7/04 Fesil and Finnfjord, PIL and others, and The Kingdom of Norway v EFTA Surveillance Authority (State aid — Exemptions from energy tax for the manufacturing and mining industries — Admissibility — Selectivity — Effect on trade and distortion of competition — Existing aid and new aid — Recovery — Legal certainty — Legitimate expectations — Proportionality)


Texto da decisão

23.2.2006

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 45/14

JUDGMENT OF THE COURT

of 21 July 2005

in Joined Cases E-5/04, E-6/04 and E-7/04 Fesil and Finnfjord, PIL and others, and The Kingdom of Norway v EFTA Surveillance Authority

(State aid — Exemptions from energy tax for the manufacturing and mining industries — Admissibility — Selectivity — Effect on trade and distortion of competition — Existing aid and new aid — Recovery — Legal certainty — Legitimate expectations — Proportionality)

(2006/C 45/10)

In Joined Cases E-5/04, E-6/04 and E-7/04, Fesil and Finnfjord, PIL and others, and The Kingdom of Norway v EFTA Surveillance Authority — APPLICATION for the partial annulment of Decision 148/04/COL of 30 June 2004 concerning environmental tax measures in Norway, the Court, composed of Carl Baudenbacher, President and Judge-Rapporteur, Per Tresselt and Thorgeir Örlygsson, Judges, gave judgment on 21 July 2005, the operative part of which is as follows:

1.

Joins Cases E-5/04, E-6/04 and E-7/04 for the purposes of the judgment;

2.

Dismisses the applications;

3.

Orders the applicants to pay the costs of the proceedings.