Judgment — ECLI:EU:T:2015:899
Date: 2015-11-26
Language of the case: Spanish
Court formation: Fifth Chamber
Subject matter: State aids;Competition
Procedure: Action for annulment - unfounded
Origin: Spain

Judgment of the General Court of 26 November 2015 — Navarra de Servicios y Tecnologías v Commission (Case T-487/13) 1 (State aid — Digital television — Aid for the deployment of digital terrestrial television in remote and less-urbanised areas in Spain — Decision declaring aid to be partly compatible and partly incompatible with the internal market — State resources — Economic activity — Advantage — Effect on trade between Member States and distortion of competition — Service of general economic interest —Article 107(3)(c) TFEU — Misuse of power) Language of the case: Spanish Parties Applicant: Navarra de Servicios y Tecnologías, SA (Pamplona, Spain) (represented by: A. Andérez González, lawyer) Defendant: European Commission (represented by: É. Gippini Fournier, B. Stromsky and P. Němečková, acting as Agents) Intervener in support of the defendant: SES Astra (Betzdorf, Luxembourg) (represented by: F. González Díaz, F. Salerno, V. Romero Algarra, lawyers) Re: Application for annulment of Commission Decision 2014/489/EU of 19 June 2013 on State aid SA.28599 [(C 23/2010) (ex NN 36/010, ex CP 163/2009)] implemented by the Kingdom of Spain for the deployment of digital terrestrial television in remote and less-urbanised areas (other than Castilla-La Mancha) (OJ 2014 L 217, p.52). Operative part of the judgment The Court: Dismisses the action; Orders Navarra de Servicios y Tecnologías, SA to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by the European Commission and by SES Astra. ____________ 1 OJ C 313, 26.10.2013.