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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9474
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/court of justice

Res judicata principle cannot prevent recovery of State aid ruled illegal by Commission

Luxembourg, 23/07/2007 (Agence Europe) - In its ruling of 18 July on case C-119/05, the European Court of Justice declared that State aid granted to the Italian company Lucchini must be recovered, in line with the decision of the Commission of 1990, even though this aid was approved by rulings returned by Italian civil law in 1991 and 1994. Lucchini had invoked the “res judicata” principle in the hope of keeping in place the validity of the original decision by the Ministry of Industry...

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