22.2.2016

Official Journal of the European Union

C 68/33

(Case T-724/15)

(2016/C 068/42)

Language of the case: German

Parties

Applicant: Verband der Bayerischen Privaten Milchwirtschaft e. V. (Munich, Germany) (represented by: C. Bittner and N. Thies, lawyers)

Defendant: European Commission

Form of order sought

The applicant claims that the Court should

—annul the contested decision in so far as it

—found in Article 1 that, in Germany, with regard to the milk quality tests carried out in Bavaria, State aid had been granted in favour of the undertakings in the dairy industry concerned, in infringement of Article 108(3) TFEU, and that that aid had been incompatible with the internal market since 1 January 2007;

—ordered, in Articles 2 to 4, the recovery of that aid together with interest from the recipients;

—order the defendant to pay the costs incurred by the applicant.

Pleas in law and main arguments

By the present action the applicant requests the partial annulment of Commission Decision C(2015) 6295 final of 18 September 2015 on State aid No SA.35484 (2013/C) (ex SA.35484 (2012/NN)) granted by Germany for milk quality tests within the framework of the Milk and Fat Law.

In support of the action the applicant puts forward six pleas in law, which are, in essence, identical or similar to the pleas in law put forward in Case T-722/15 Interessengemeinschaft privater Milchverarbeiter Bayerns v Commission.