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Aid to Olympic Airways and Olympic Airlines must be recovered

  • Nabarro LLP
  • -
  • European Union, Greece
  • -
  • March 12 2008

The European Court of Justice on 14 February 2008 upheld (in case C-41906) the European Commission's 2005 decision finding that Greece had granted a number of illegal and incompatible aid measures both to Olympic Airways Services and its successor, Olympic Airlines, and that the aid must be recovered

Aer Lingus’s request for interim measures rejected

  • Nabarro LLP
  • -
  • European Union
  • -
  • April 16 2008

The Court of First Instance (CFI) has rejected an injunction application by Aer Lingus requesting that Ryanair refrain from exercising its voting rights in the company pending the outcome of an action for annulment of the European Commission decision that refused to order Ryanair to divest its 29.4 shareholding following Ryanair’s blocked acquisition attempt

State aid: Ryanair takes Commission to court over subsidies to rival airlines

  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • -
  • European Union, Ireland
  • -
  • July 13 2007

The Irish low-cost carrier, Ryanair, has announced its intention to sue the European Commission for not having taken action against alleged State aid to some of its rival airlines

British Airways incurs £300m fines from US and UK competition authorities

  • Bird & Bird
  • -
  • European Union, United Kingdom
  • -
  • October 30 2007

British Airways (BA) has been fined £121.5m and $300m by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) and the United States Department of Justice (DoJ) respectively for its part in fixing fuel surcharges on both passenger and cargo flights

Air transport: list of articles prohibited on aeroplanes cannot be enforced if not published

  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • -
  • European Union
  • -
  • March 13 2009

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has decided that a Community regulation, which imposes obligations on individuals but has not been published in the Official Journal of the European Union, has no binding force

CFI rules harmonisation did not impede competition

  • Nabarro LLP
  • -
  • European Union
  • -
  • February 5 2007

SELEX Sistemi Integrati SpA has failed to establish abuse of a dominant position by the European air traffic control organisation (“Eurocontrol”) following a judgment of the Court of First Instance on 12 December 2006 (T-15504

European Court of Justice upholds fine on British Airways for abuse of market dominance

  • Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
  • -
  • European Union
  • -
  • March 19 2007

In 1999 the Commission fined British Airways (BA) 6,800,000 for abuse of its dominant position on the market for air travel agency services, contrary to article 82 of the EC Treaty

Court of First Instance partially annuls the Commission decision on state aid to Olympic Airways

  • Bird & Bird
  • -
  • European Union, Greece
  • -
  • October 31 2007

In 1994, the Commission declared that restructuring aid granted to Olympic Airways (OA) was compatible with the common market, provided the Greek government complied with a series of commitments

State aid: annulment of Commission decision regarding Charleroi Airport

  • Bird & Bird
  • -
  • European Union
  • -
  • March 16 2009

At the end of 2008, Ryanair’s long-running battle with the European Commission about its operation at Charleroi Airport near Brussels took a new turn

Court of First Instance rules damages claim by Selex inadmissible

  • Nabarro LLP
  • -
  • European Union
  • -
  • November 23 2007

In 1997, Alenia Marconi Systems SpA, now Selex Sistemi Integrati SpA (Selex), made a complaint to the European Commission (Commission) claiming that Eurocontrol had abused its dominant position in the management of contracts supplying air-traffic management equipment and assistance to national administrations

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