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EU political update 4 - 8 March 2013

  • Clifford Chance LLP
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  • China, European Union, Germany, Global, Peru, Portugal
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  • March 4 2013

On 27 February, the European Commission decided under the EU Merger Regulation to prohibit the third attempt of low-cost airline Ryanair to acquire

Corporate crime update - July 2012

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • European Union, Germany, Iran, North Korea, Spain, Syria, United Kingdom, USA
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  • July 16 2012

The SFO has announced that it has obtained a civil recovery order against Oxford Publishing Ltd (OPL), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Oxford University Press (OUP

General counsel update

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • China, European Union, Germany, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Mongolia, Singapore, United Kingdom, USA
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  • July 11 2012

This is the thirtieth in our series of general counsel updates which aim to summarise major developments in key areas

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change : following referral back, Commission’s decision concerning subsidies in the Land of Saxony upheld

  • Stibbe
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  • European Union, Germany
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  • January 17 2012

From 1992, the Ministry of Economy and Labour of the Land of Saxony granted subsidies to small and medium-sized enterprises and liberal professions to promote the development of the economy on its territory

ECJ finds German state aid appeals to be admissible

  • Mayer Brown LLP
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  • European Union, Germany
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  • October 18 2011

On 13 October 2011, the ECJ overturned the General Court’s ruling that appeals made by Germany and Deutsche Post relating to a Commission request for information were inadmissible

General Court declares action of RapidEye AG inadmissible

  • Stibbe
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  • European Union, Germany
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  • August 2 2011

By its order of 17 February 201139 the General Court declared inadmissible the action for annulment of RapidEye AG against the decision presumably contained in a letter of the Commission of 9 June 2009 because that letter was not an act susceptible for action under Article 263 TFEU

General Court partially annuls commission decision concerning aid granted to Flughafen Leipzig-Halle

  • Stibbe
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  • European Union, Germany
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  • August 2 2011

In its judgment of 24 March 2011, the General Court on the one hand, dismissed the application of Freistaat Sachsen (‘FS’) and Land Sachsen-Anhalt (‘LSA’) as inadmissible, and on the other hand, accepted the application of Middeldeutsche Flughafen AG (‘MF’) and Flughafen Leipzig Halle (‘FLH’) against the same Commission decision, and partially annulled that decision due to contradictory and thus insufficient motivation of the decision

DHL appeal against the Leipzig-Halle airport warranties dismissed

  • Nabarro LLP
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  • European Union, Germany
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  • October 11 2010

DHL has lost its attempt to overturn the European Commission's 2008 decision which found that DHL benefited from State aid in the context of regional assistance in relation to Leipzig-Halle airport and ordered recovery of the aid

Appeal against Commission’s DHL training aid decision dismissed

  • Nabarro LLP
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  • European Union, Germany
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  • July 16 2010

On 8 July 2010, the General Court dismissed an appeal by the German Government against the Commission’s finding that the grant of 7.7m of aid to parcel delivery company, DHL, in order to cover the costs of training 485 employees at a new logistics hub was incompatible with the state aid rules

Advocate General delivers opinion in Deutsche Post State aid case

  • Nabarro LLP
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  • European Union, Germany
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  • April 7 2010

Advocate General Jaaskinen's Opinion of 24 March 2010 (case C-39908 P) concurred with the General Court's (GC) annulment of a European Commission 2002 decision finding that Deutsche Post had been in receipt of unauthorised State aid