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Advocate General Recommends Upholding General Court Judgment Annulling Amazon Illegal State Aid Decision

09 June 2023

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European Union-Luxembourg

On 8 June 2023, an opinion was issued from Advocate General (AG) Kokott of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) regarding the appeal brought by the European Commission against the judgment of the General Court that annulled the Commission's decision on illegal State aid granted by Luxembourg to Amazon. As previously reported, the General Court issued a judgment on 12 May 2021 annulling the European Commission's 2017 decision that Luxembourg granted illegal State aid (a selective advantage) to Amazon that amounted to around EUR 250 million. In the opinion, AG Kokott found that the Commission had erred...