Annotation on the Judgment of the General Court of 13 September 2012 in Case T-379/09, Italian Republic v Commission.

I. Introduction The case Italian Republic vCommission1 concerns the appeal by Italy against decision 2009/944/EC of the European Commission dated 13 July 2009which concluded that an aid scheme in the form of an exemption from excise duties on diesel used for heating glasshouses, implemented between 3