CELEX: 62011TA0275
Language: en
Date: 2013-10-16 00:00:00
Title: Case T-275/11: Judgment of the General Court of 16 October 2013 — TF1 v Commission (State aid — Public service broadcasting — Aid proposed by the French authorities for France Télévisions — Annual budgetary grant — Decision declaring the aid compatible with the internal market — Article 106(2) TFEU — Strict interdependence of a tax and an aid measure)

30.11.2013   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 352/13
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 16 October 2013 — TF1 v Commission
   (Case T-275/11) (1)
   
   (State aid - Public service broadcasting - Aid proposed by the French authorities for France Télévisions - Annual budgetary grant - Decision declaring the aid compatible with the internal market - Article 106(2) TFEU - Strict interdependence of a tax and an aid measure)
   2013/C 352/23
   Language of the case: French
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Télévision française 1 (TF1) (Boulogne-Billancourt, France) (represented initially by J.-P Hordies and C. Smits, and subsequently by J. Vogel, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: European Commission (represented by: B. Stromsky and D. Grespan, Agents)
   
      Interveners in support of the defendant: Kingdom of Spain (represented initially by M. Muñoz Pérez, then by S. Centeno Huerta and subsequently by N. Díaz Abad, Abogados del Estato); French Republic (represented initially by G. de Bergues and J. Gstalter, and subsequently by D. Colas and J. Rossi, Agents); and France Télévisions (Paris, France) (represented by: J.-P. Gunther and A. Giraud, lawyers)
   
      Re:
   
   Application for annulment of Commission Decision 2011/140/EU of 20 July 2010 on State Aid C-27/09 (ex N 34/B/09) Budgetary grant for France Télévisions which the French Republic plans to implement in favour of France Télévisions (OJ 2011 L 59, p. 44).
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Télévision française 1 (TF1) to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by the European Commission and by France Télévisions;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders the Kingdom of Spain and the French Republic each to bear its own costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 232, 6.8.2011.