Brussels, 21/01/2010 (Agence Europe) - In a ruling delivered on Wednesday 20 January (cases T-252/07, T-271/07 and T-272/07) the General Court of the EU dismissed compensation actions by three cotton ginning undertakings. The Court concluded that the companies had not established that there was a causal link between the infringement of the principle of proportionality by the Council in adopting the 2004 aid scheme for cotton and the losses alleged.
The cotton sector aid scheme was reformed...