Court of Justice 28 May 2002, C-57/00 P and C-61/00 P (Freistaat Sachsen (C-57/00 P) and Volkswagen AG and Volkswagen Sachsen GmbH (C-61/00 P) v Commission of the European Communities.)

Opinion of the Advocate-General Opinion of the Advocate-General 1. In Joined Cases C-57/00 P and C-61/00 P, Freistaat Sachsen, first, and Volkswagen AG ( " Volkswagen" ) and Volkswagen Sachsen GmbH ( " VW Sachsen" ), second, have appealed against the judgment delivered on 15 December 1999 by the Court of First Instance of the European Communities, Second Chamber (Extended Composition), in