Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 17 October 2002 in Case T-180/00: Astipesca, SL v Commission of the European Communities (Fisheries — Reduction of Community financial aid — Action for annulment — Articles 44 and 47 of Regulation (EEC) No 4028/86 and Article 7 of Regulation (EEC) No 1116/88 — Principle of proportionality — Action for compensation)
Date: 2002-12-21
Institutions: Court of First Instance
Subjects: European Commission, action for annulment (EU), damages, financial aid, suspension of aid

21.12.2002

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

C 323/31

JUDGMENT OF THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE

JUDGMENT OF THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE

of 17 October 2002

of 8 October 2002

in Case T-180/00: Astipesca, SL v Commission of the
European Communities (1)

In Joined Cases T-185/00, T-216/00, T-299/00 and T-300/
00: Métropole télévision SA (M6) and Others v Com-
mission of the European Communities (1)

(Fisheries — Reduction of Community financial aid —
Action for annulment — Articles 44 and 47 of Regulation
(EEC) No 4028/86 and Article 7 of Regulation (EEC)
No 1116/88 — Principle of proportionality — Action for
compensation)

(Competition — Decision granting exemption — Television
rights — Eurovision system — Article 81(1) and (3) EC —
Manifest error of assessment)

(2002/C 323/49)

(2002/C 323/48)

(Languages of the case: French, Spanish and Portuguese)

(Language of the case: Spanish)

J.-R. García-Gallardo Gil-Fournier

In Case T-180/00, Astipesca, SL, established in Huelva (Spain),
represented by
and
M.D. Domínguez Pérez, lawyers, v Commission of the Euro-
pean Communities (Agents:
initially L. Visaggio, and, sub-
sequently, S. Pardo Quintillán and J. Guerra Fernández):
Application for, first, annulment of the Commission’s fax of
5 May 2000 informing the applicant of the payment, on 4 May
2000, of part of the balance of the financial aid granted to
project SM/ESP/20/92 and of the contents of the Commission’s
letter of 18 May 2000, reducing the abovementioned aid and,
second, compensation on the grounds of the allegedly unlawful
suspension of payment of the balance of that aid and of the
abovementioned reduction, the Court of First Instance (Third
Chamber), composed of: M. Jaeger, President, K. Lenaerts and
J. Azizi, Judges; J. Palacio González, Administrator, for the
Registrar, has given a judgment on 17 October 2002, in which
it has ruled:

1. Dismisses the application;

2. Orders the applicant to pay the costs.

( 1) OJ C 259 of 9.9.2000.

In Joined Cases T-185/00, T-216/00, T-299/00 and T-300/00,
Métropole télévision SA (M6), established in Neuilly-sur-Seine
(France), represented by D. Théophile, lawyer, with an address
for service in Luxembourg, applicant
in Case T-185/00,
Antena 3 de Televisión SA, established in Madrid (Spain),
represented by F. Pombo García, E. Garayar Gutiérrez and
R. Alonso Pérez-Villanueva, lawyers, with an address for service
in Luxembourg, applicant
in Case T-216/00, Gestevisión
Telecinco SA, established in Madrid, represented by S. Muñoz
Machado and M. López-Contreras Gonzalez, lawyers, with an
address for service in Luxembourg, applicant in Case T-299/
00, SIC — Sociedade Independente de Comunicação SA,
established in Linda-a-Velha (Portugal), represented by C. Bo-
telho Moniz, lawyer, , supported by Deutsches SportFernsehen
GmbH (DSF), established in Ismaning (Germany), represented
by K. Metzlaff, lawyer, with an address for service in Luxem-
bourg, in Case T-299/00, and by Reti Televisive Italiane Spa
(RTI), established in Rome (Italy), represented by G. Amorelli,
lawyer, with an address for service in Luxembourg, in Case
T-300/00, v Commission of
the European Communities
(Agents:
in Case T-185/00: K. Wiedner and B. Mongin; in
Cases T-216/00 and T-299/00: K. Wiedner, E. Gippini Fournier
and J. Rivas Andrés, and in Case T-300/00: Wiedner and
M. França), supported by Union européenne de radio-télévision
(UER), established in Grand-Saconnex (Switzerland), represen-
ted by D. Waelbroeck and M. Johnsson,
lawyers, with an
address for service in Luxembourg, in Cases T-185/00, T-216/
00, T-299/00 and T-300/00, and by Radiotelevisión Española
(RTVE), established in Madrid, represented by J. Gutiérrez
Gisbert, lawyer, with an address for service in Luxembourg, in
Cases T-216/00 and T-299/00: Application for annulment of
Commission Decision 2000/400/EC of 10 May 2000 relating
to a proceeding pursuant to Article 81 of the EC Treaty (Case
IV/32.150 — Eurovision) (OJ 2000 L 151, p. 18), the Court
of First Instance (Second Chamber, Extended Composition),
composed of: R.M. Moura Ramos, President, V. Tiili, J. Pirrung,
P. Mengozzi and A.W.H. Meij, Judges; B. Pastor, Principal
Administrator, for the Registrar, has given a judgment on
8 October 2002, in which it: