On 19 December 2016, the European Commission published the non-confidential version of the final negative decision adopted on 30 August 2016 concluding that Ireland gave illegal tax benefits to Apple worth up to EUR 13 billion ({News-2016-08-31/A/2- previous coverage}). On the same date, Ireland's Department of Finance published an explanation of the main lines of argument in Ireland’s application lodged with the General Court of the European Union on 9 November 2016 to annul the Commission d…