Brussels, 27/07/2011 (Agence Europe) - On Thursday 21 July, the Court of Justice of the EU rejected the appeal by Alcoa Trasformazioni Srl against a Commission decision of 2006 that the prices paid by two of its factories, at Portovesme and Fusina in Italy, for electricity were “new illegal aid” and against the ruling by the General Court in March 2009 (Case T-332/06) which upheld the decision.
In support of its appeal, Alcoa referred to a 1996 Commission decision that preferential...