Judgment of the Court of 30 September 2003. Freistaat Sachsen (C-57/00 P) and Volkswagen AG and Volkswagen Sachsen GmbH (C-61/00 P) v Commission of the European Communities. State aid - Compensation for the economic disadvantages caused by the division of Germany - Serious disturbance in the economy of a Member State - Regional economic development - Community framework for State aid in the motor vehicle industry. Joined cases C-57/00 P and C-61/00 P.

«(State aid – Compensation for the economic disadvantages caused by the division of Germany – Serious disturbance in the economy of a Member State – Regional economic development – Community framework for State aid in the motor vehicle industry)»

JUDGMENT OF THE COURT30 September 2003 (1)

((State aid – Compensation for the economic disadvantages caused by the division of Germany – Serious disturbance in the economy of a Member State – Regional economic development – Community framework for State aid in the motor vehicle industry))

appellants,

interveners at first instance,

THE COURT,,

having regard to the Report for the Hearing,

after hearing the Opinion of the Advocate General at the sitting on 28 May 2002,

gives the following

On those grounds,

THE COURT

Rodríguez Iglesias

Puissochet

Wathelet

Schintgen

Timmermans

Edward

Jann

Skouris

Macken

von Bahr

Cunha Rodrigues

R. Grass

G.C. Rodríguez Iglesias

Registrar

President