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Dual Remedy Against State Aid Decisions · Case C-135/16 Georgsmarienhütte · Annotation by Rene Brunner
Annotation on the Judgment of the Court of Justice (Grand Chamber) of 25 July 2018 in Case C-135/16 Georgsmarienhütte GmbH and Others v Bundesrepublik Deutschland.
On 25 July 2018, the Court of Justice of the European Union handed down a ruling on the admissibility of the request for a preliminary ruling on the validity of a Commission Decision where the applicants in the main proceedings did not bring an action for annulment against that Decision before the General Court. The judgment Georgsmarienhütte re-evaluates the interrelationship between the action for annulment and the preliminary reference procedure and is, in essence, a reiteration of the TWD doctrine established already in 1994.
Keywords: Action for annulment; Preliminary ruling procedure; Dual remedy; Parallel proceedings; National courts; TWD doctrine.