Judgment_paragraph 35 · European Commission and Others v Ryanair DAC (C-266/24 P)

35The appellants state that, contrary to the interpretation adopted by the General Court, the key point for identifying the beneficiary of the aid is to determine which entities actually benefit or could benefit from the aid, as the Court of Justice held, inter alia, in the judgment of 3 July 2003, Belgium v Commission (C‑457/00, ‘the judgment in Verlipack’, EU:C:2003:387, paragraphs 55 to 60). By omitting from its analysis the principles arising from that case-law, the General Court established, in paragraphs 54 to 61 of the judgment under appeal, an incorrect or at least incomplete legal framework, without providing a valid explanation. Moreover, in paragraphs 135 to 138 of that judgment, the General Court incorrectly drew a distinction between the circumstances of the present case and those which gave rise to that case-law and therefore wrongly found it to be irrelevant.

European Commission and Others v Ryanair DAC (C-266/24 P)

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