Official Journal of the European Union

C series

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C/2025/2186

Appeal brought on 28 February 2025 by Durie – Trading e Serviços Internacionais; Sociedade Unipessoal, Lda (Zona Franca da Madeira); Starboard, Unipessoal, Lda (Zona Franca da Madeira); Caledonian – Serviços Internacionais, Sociedade Unipessoal, Lda (Zona Franca da Madeira) e Fuchinvest Real Estate Participações, Unipessoal, Lda (Zona Franca da Madeira) against the judgment delivered by the General Court (Fifth Chamber) on 18 December 2024 in the joined cases T-702/22, T-704/22, T-705/22 and T-710/22 to T-712/22, TA v Commission (Zona Franca da Madeira)

(Case C-174/25 P)

(C/2025/2186)

Language of the case: Portuguese

Parties

Appellants:

Durie – Trading e Serviços Internacionais, Sociedade Unipessoal, Lda (Zona Franca da Madeira),

Starboard, Unipessoal, Lda (Zona Franca da Madeira),

Caledonian – Serviços Internacionais, Sociedade Unipessoal, Lda (Zona Franca da Madeira),

Fuchinvest Real Estate Participações, Unipessoal, Lda (Zona Franca da Madeira) (represented by: A. I. Ferreira Correia and R. da Palma Borges, advogados)

Other party to the proceedings: European Commission

Form of order sought

The appellants claim that the Court should:

—Grant the present appeal, setting aside the judgment under appeal and, consequently, grant the claim formulated in the applications regarding annulment of Decision (EU) 2022/1414 of the European Commission (1) of 4/12/2020 as regards Articles 1 and 4, on the ground of failure to state reasons or error of fact or of law; and

—Order the European Commission to pay all the costs.

Grounds of appeal and main arguments

In support of their appeal, the appellants put forward four grounds of appeal:

First ground of appeal, alleging failure to comply with the obligation to state reasons in breach of Article 296 TFEU;

Second ground of appeal, alleging an error of law regarding distortion of the status of authorisation decisions and breach of the principles of legality and legal certainty;

Third ground of appeal, alleging an error on the ground of infringement of Article 107(3) TFEU and Commission Regulation (EU) No 651/2014 of 17 June 2014 declaring certain categories of aid compatible with the internal market in application of Articles 107 and 108 [TFEU] (OJ 2014 L 187, p. 1) and distortion of the 2007 Guidelines as regards the declaration of incompatibility of benefits which do not exceed the quantitative limits laid down in those Guidelines and in that regulation;

Fourth ground of appeal, alleging errors of law concerning the plea of breach of the EU law general principles of legal certainty, protection of legitimate expectations and the legality.

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Commission Decision (EU) 2022/1414 of 4 December 2020 on aid scheme SA.21259 (2018/C) (ex 2018/NN) implemented by Portugal for Zona Franca da Madeira (ZFM) – Regime III (OJ 2022 L 217, p. 49-87).

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ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2025/2186/oj

ISSN 1977-091X (electronic edition)

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