On Tuesday 16 January, in case T-747/15, the General Court of the EU upheld the Commission’s 2015 decision ordering France to recover €1.37 billion in the context of state aid granted to EDF (Électricité de France) in 1997.
In this case the first Commission decision goes back to 2003 when it observed that the French State had waived a tax claim valued at €888.89 million, corresponding to the corporation tax due from EDF. The latter benefitted from this measure in 1997 with the...