Annotation on the Judgment of the Court of Justice of 3rd of April 2014 in C-224/12 P Commission v ING

I. Introduction and Background to the Case The ING case was the first judgment of the General Court (GC) concerning the Commission’s practice in the field of State aid to the financial sector during the financial crisis.1 In other words, during a relatively long stretch of time (2008-2012), during which the Commissi