Brussels, 20/10/2011 (Agence Europe) - The Court of Justice found against France, in case C-549/09 on Thursday 20 October, for failing to recover, within the time prescribed, aid incompatible with the common market which it had paid out to fish farmers and fishermen in 2000 for damages suffered following the shipwreck of the Erika and storms.
In a decision of 14 July 2004, the Commission declared aid (reduction of social security and financial charges and exoneration from state duties)...