ITALY CENSURED BY ECJ IN EURALLUMINA SUBSIDY REPAYMENT CASE
June 8th, 2014
Italy has been censured by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) for delays in recovering illegal excise duty breaks granted to Eurallumina when buying liquid fuel for its alumina production in Sardinia. The ECJ backed the European Commission in the case, which accused Italy of breaking EU law by failing to recover these subsidies, after the Commission had deemed them illegal in 2005. Brussels had concluded that they broke European Union (EU) state aid rules designed to prevent governments giving local companies unfair advantages in the EU’s borderless internal ...
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