STATE AID : ECJ OVERTURNS DECISION ON TAX FOR SPANISH COOPERATIVES.(European Court of First Instance )(Brief article) From: European Report | Date: December 13, 2006 | COPYRIGHT 2006 Europe Information Service. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

The EU Court of First Instance annulled on 12 December a European Commission decision concerning tax benefits given to Spanish agricultural cooperatives.

The Court said that the Commission had not given "clear or sufficient reasons" why the tax perks in question were not state aid and therefore annulled the Commission's December 2002 decision (Case T-146/03).

A Spanish law allows only agricultural cooperatives, and not other specially protected cooperatives s...

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