EFTA COURT – NORWAY
October 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALL
NORWEGIAN metal producer Tinfos Titan & Iron KS has appealed against an order that it and other manufacturers in Norway pay back savings gained from being exempt from a now abolished national electricity tax in 2003. It has joined Norsk Hydro and others in opposing the European Free Trade Area (EFTA) Surveillance Authority order in June that the exemptions amounted to illegal state aid. The EFTA Court will now consider whether to support the ruling.
NORWEGIAN metal producer Tinfos Titan & Iron KS has appealed against an order that it and other manufacturers in Norway pay back savings gained from being exempt from a now abolished national electricity tax in 2003. It has joined Norsk Hydro and others in opposing the European Free Trade Area (EFTA) Surveillance Authority order in June that the exemptions amounted to illegal state aid. The EFTA Court will now consider whether to support the ruling.
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