Judgment_paragraph 1 · British Steel plc v Commission of the European Communities and Others (C-1/98 P)

1By application lodged at the Registry of the Court of Justice on 7 January 1998 British Steel pic, which has since become Corus UK Ltd, (hereinafter ‘British Steel’) brought an appeal pursuant to Article 49 of the ECSC Statute of the Court of Justice against the judgment of the Court of First Instance of 24 October 1997 in Case T-243/94 British Steel v Commission [1997] ECR II-1887 (hereinafter ‘the contested judgment’), in which the Court of First Instance dismissed its action for the annulment of Commission Decision 94/258/ECSC of 12 April 1994 concerning aid to be granted by Spain to the public integrated steel company Corporación de la Siderurgia Integral (CSI) and Commission Decision 94/259/ECSC of 12 April 1994 concerning aid to be granted by Italy to the public steel sector (Ilva group) (OJ 1994 L 112, pp. 58 and 64 respectively, hereinafter ‘the contested decisions’).