Case T-475/04: Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 4 July 2007 — Bouygues and Bouygues Télécom v Commission (State Aid — Mobile telephony — Alteration of the fees payable by Orange and SFR for the UMTS licences — Decision finding no State aid)
Date: 2007-08-25
Institutions: Court of First Instance
Subjects: European Commission, France, State aid, action for annulment (EU), control of State aid, patents licence, telecommunications industry, telephone, waveband

25.8.2007

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 199/33

Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 3 July 2007 —
Au Lys de France v Commission

Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 4 July 2007 —
Bouygues and Bouygues Télécom v Commission

(Case T-458/04) (1)

(Case T-475/04) (1)

for

sites

(Competition — Dominant position — Market in the supply
at
of
Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle airport held by the operator Aéro-
ports de Paris — Rejection of a complaint — Action for
annulment — No Community interest)

businesses

operation

retail

the

of

(2007/C 199/61)

Language of the case: French

Parties

(State Aid — Mobile telephony — Alteration of the fees
payable by Orange and SFR for the UMTS licences — Deci-
sion finding no State aid)

(2007/C 199/62)

Language of the case: French

Parties

Applicant: Bouygues and Bouygues Tèlécom (Boulogne-Billan-
J. Vogel, B. Amory,
court, France)
A. Verheyden, F. Sureau and D. Théophile, lawyers)

(represented by: L. Vogel,

Applicant: Au Lys de France SA (Raincy, France) (represented by:
G. Lesourd, lawyer)

Defendant: Commission of the European Communities (repre-
sented by: J.L. Buendia Sierra and C. Giolito, Agents)

Defendant: Commission of the European Communities (repre-
sented by: initially, P. Olivier and O. Beynet, and subsequently,
P. Olivier, Agents)

Intervener in support of the applicant: Aéroports de Paris (Paris,
France) (represented by: H. Calvert and O. Billard, lawyers)

Interveners in support of
the defendant: French Republic (repre-
sented by: G. de Bergues and S. Ramet, Agents); Société française
(represented by:
de radiotéléphone — SFR (Paris, France)
C. Vadja QC and A. Vincent,
lawyer; and Orange France SA
(Montrouge, France) (represented by: A. Gosset-Grainville and
S. Hautbourg, lawyers)

Re:

annulment of

Action for
the Commission's decision of
17 September 2004 to take no further action on the complaint
brought by the applicant against the public undertaking Aéro-
of Article 82 EC (Case
breach
ports
COMP/D3/38.666 Au Lys de France/Aéroports de Paris).

Paris

for

de

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

1. Dismisses the action;

Re:

Action for annulment of the Commision's decision of 20 July
2004 (State aid NN 42/2004 — France) concerning alteration
of the fees payable by Orange and SFR for the UMTS (Universal
Mobile Telecommunication System) licences.

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

1. Dismisses the action;

2. Orders Bouygues and Bouygues Télécom SA jointly and severally to
pay their own costs, those of the Commission and those of Orange
France SA and Société française de radiotéléphone — SFR

2. Orders Au Lys de France SA to pay the costs.

3. Orders the French Republic to pay its own costs.

(1) OJ C 45 of 19.2.2005.

(1) OJ C 69 of 19.3.2005.