CELEX: C2003/019/75
Language: en
Date: 2003-01-25 00:00:00
Title: Case T-346/02: Action brought on 22 November 2002 by Cableuropa, S.A., Región de Murcia de Cable, S.A., Valencia de Cable, S.A., Mediterránea Sur Sistemas de Cable, S.A., y Mediterránea Norte Sistemas de Cable, S.A. against Commission of the European Communities

C 19/40                EN                     Official Journal of the European Communities                                      25.1.2003
The applicant finally submits that the defendant committed               by Admira, by means of an exchange of shares. According to
serious procedural irregularities. More particularly, the defend-        the notification, following the successful completion of the
ant did not respect the principle of good administration, the            abovementioned operation, the resulting undertaking would
right of parties to be heard and the duty to state reasons for its       come under the joint control of Prisa and Groupe Canal+.
decisions.
                                                                         In support of its arguments, the applicants allege:
                                                                         —     lack of competence of the Commission, in that it is not
                                                                               empowered to refer a case to the authorities of a
                                                                               Member State when the markets concerned affect intra-
                                                                               Community trade and more than one Member State;
Action brought on 22 November 2002 by Cableuropa,
S.A., Región de Murcia de Cable, S.A., Valencia de Cable,
                                                                         —     infringement of Article 9 of the abovementioned regu-
S.A., Mediterránea Sur Sistemas de Cable, S.A., y Mediter-
                                                                               lation on concentrations in that the contested decision
ránea Norte Sistemas de Cable, S.A. against Commission
                                                                               makes a ‘blank’ reference to the national authorities;
                of the European Communities
                                                                         —     failure to observe the obligation to provide reasons,
                         (Case T-346/02)                                       specifically as regards the exceptional nature of the
                                                                               reference in cases in which the markets in question affect
                         (2003/C 19/75)                                        a substantial part of the common market.
                  (Language of the case: Spanish)                        (1 ) OJ 1989 L 395, p. 1.
An action against the Commission of the European Communi-
ties was brought before the Court of First Instance of the
European Communities on 22 November 2002 by Cableuropa,
S.A. (having its registered office in Aravaca, Madrid), Región
de Murcia de Cable, S.A. (having its registered office in Murcia,        Action brought on 22 November 2002 by Aunacable,
Spain), Valencia de Cable, S.A. (having its registered office in         S.A.Unipersonal, Retecal Sociedad Operadora de Teleco-
Madrid), Mediterránea sur Sistemas de Cable, S.A. (having its            municaciones de Castilla y León, S.A., Euskaltel, S.A.,
registered office in Alicante, Spain) y Mediterránea Norte               Telecable de Avilés, S.A. Unipersonal, Telecable de Ovie-
Sistemas de Cable, S.A. (having its registered office in Castellón,      do, S.A. Unipersonal, Telecable de Gijón, S.A. Uniper-
Spain), represented by Luis Felipe Castresana Sánchez and                sonal, R Cable y Telecomunicaciones Galicia, S.A., and
Gonzalo Samaniego Bordiu, lawyers.                                       Tenaria S.A. against Commission of the European Com-
                                                                                                       munities
The applicants claim that the Court should:
                                                                                                   (Case T-347/02)
—     annul the decision of the Commission of 14 August 2002
      referring Case COMP/M.2845 - Sogecable/Canalsatélite                                          (2003/C 19/76)
      Digital/Vía Digital to the competent authorities in the
      Kingdom of Spain pursuant to Article 9 of Council
      Regulation (EEC) No 4064/89;                                                         (Language of the case: Spanish)
—     order the parties to bear their own costs.
                                                                         An action against the Commission of the European Communi-
                                                                         ties was brought before the Court of First Instance of the
Pleas in law and main arguments                                          European Communities on 22 November 2002 by Aunacable,
                                                                         S.A.Unipersonal (having its registered office in Madrid), Retecal
                                                                         Sociedad Operadora de Telecomunicaciones de Castilla y León,
The decision contested by the present application concerns the           S.A. (having its registered office in Boecilli, Valladolid, Spain),
notification, pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EEC)          Euskaltel, S.A.(having its registered office in Zamudio-Bizkaia),
No 4064/89 of 21 December 1989 on the control of                         Telecable de Avilés, S.A. Unipersonal (registered in Avilés),
concentrations between undertakings ( 1), of a planned concen-           Telecable de Oviedo, S.A. Unipersonal (having its registered
tration by which Sogecable SA, controlled by Promotora de                office in Oviedo), Telecable de Gijón, S.A. Unipersonal (having
Informaciones S.A (Prisa) and Groupe Canal +S.A., the latter             its registered office in Gijón), R Cable y Telecomunicaciones
belonging to the Vivendi Universal group, signs an agreement             Galicia, S.A.(having its registered office in A Coruña, Spain)
with the Admira Media S.A. group, belonging to the Telefónica            and Tenaria S.A.(having its registered office in Cordovilla,
S.A group, with the aim of merging Sogecable and DTS                     Navarra, Spain), represented by Antonio Creus Carreras,
Distribuidora de Televisión Digital S.A. (Vía Digital), controlled       Natalia Lacalle Mangas and José Mª Jiménez Laiglesia, lawyers.