Court to rule on aid to SNCM in September

The advocate-general has called for a rejection of French demands to annul the reimbursement of 440 million euro in aid
25 juillet 2014 à 15h57
Pouvoirs
par Sophie Mosca

The Société nationale Corse Méditerranée (SNCM or National Corsican Mediterranean Company), which serves the island of Corsica (as well as Sardinia, Algeria and Tunisia) via ferries, will have its fate determined in September. The EU Court of Justice (ECJ) will rule on its appeal and France’s appeal concerning €440 million in state aid received in 2002, then during its privatisation in 2006, which the European Commission had approved.

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Complaint by sailors’ trade union

The resumption of work after the summer break may also be a chance for the Commission to clarify what treatment it will give to the complaint that it has received from the sailors’ trade union CGT-marins, the SNCM’s main trade union. The latter points to a distorsion of competition on the lines to Corsica run by Corsica Ferries, which carries an international Italian flag and employs Romanian workers that are a lot less expensive than the labour force imposed on the SNCM. “The investigation is ongoing,” said Commissioner Joaquin Almunia’s spokesperson without giving more details on timings.

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