Order of the Court (Seventh Chamber) of 22 March 2012 --
   Italy v Commission
   (Case C-200/11 P)

   Appeal -- Article 119 of the Rules of Procedure -- State aid --
   Incompatibility with the common market -- Commission decision -- Action
   for annulment -- Regulation (EC) No 659/1999 -- Article 1(c) --
   Alteration of existing aid -- Regulation (EC) No 794/2004 -- Article
   4(1) -- Temporary defensive mechanism for shipbuilding

   1.                     State aid -- Commission decision finding a
   national measure compatible with Article 87(1) EC -- Determining the
   scope of the decision -- Account taken not only of the wording of the
   decision, but also of the content notified (Art. 87(1) EC) (see para.
   27)

   2.                     State aid -- Existing aid and new aid -- Measure
   amending an existing aid scheme -- Treated as new aid (Council
   Regulation No 659/1999, Art. 1(c)); Commission Regulation No 794/2004,
   Art. 4(1)) (see paras 30, 31)

   3.                     State aid -- Planned aid -- Examination by the
   Commission -- Application of the rules of substantive law in force when
   the Commission took its decision (Art. 88(3) EC; Council Regulation
   No 1177/2002, Art. 5) (see paras 37-39, 43)

   4.                     State aid -- Planned aid -- Notifying the
   Commission -- Scope of the obligation -- Necessary for notification to
   include estimates of the total amounts of the aid planned on account of
   their impact on that aid (Art. 88(3), EC; Council Regulation No
   1177/2002) (see paras 47-49)

   5.                     Appeals -- Setting out in the application of the
   pleas in law and legal arguments -- Plea in law not clear enough --
   Whether inadmissible (Art. 256 TFEU; Statute of the Court of Justice,
   Art. 58, first para.; Rules of Procedure of the Court of Justice, Art.
   112(1)(c)) (see paras 52-54)

   6.                     State aid -- Commission decision finding a
   national measure compatible with Article 87(1) EC -- No legitimate
   expectations in the case of alteration to the aid scheme going beyond
   the bounds of the authorisation decision (Art. 87(1) EC) (see paras
   65-68)

   7.                     Union law -- Principles -- Equal treatment --
   Meaning -- Unequal treatment as a result of the temporal limitation of
   authorisation to grant State aid in a given sector of the market --
   Whether objectively justified (Council Regulation No 1177/2002, Art. 5)
   (see paras 74-76)

   Re:

   Appeal against the judgment of the General Court (Eighth Chamber) of
   3 February 2011 in Case T-3/09 Italy v Commission , by which the
   General Court dismissed an application for annulment of Commission
   Decision 2010/38/EC of 21 October 2008 on State aid C 20/08
   (ex N 62/08) which Italy is planning to implement through a
   modification of scheme N 59/04 concerning a temporary defensive
   mechanism for shipbuilding (OJ 2010 L 17, p. 50).

   Operative part

   1.

   The appeal is dismissed.

   2.

   The Italian Republic is ordered to pay the costs.