The judgment of the General Court of the European Union (EGC) in Case T-357/02 RENV of 14 July 2011 is the third and final1 judgment concerning an action for annulment brought to court by the Freistaat Sachsen against the European Commission’s decision of 24 September 2002. In this decision, the Commission had considered part of the measures of an aid scheme which the Freistaat planned to implement in order to grant non-refundable subsidies to small and mediumsized en