CELEX: 62009TA0520
Language: en
Date: 2012-07-10 00:00:00
Title: Case T-520/09: Judgment of the General Court of 10 July 2012 — TF1 and Others v Commission (State aid — Public service broadcasting — Aid intended to be granted by the French Republic to France Télévisions — Budgetary grant for 2009 — Decision not to raise objections — Service of general economic interest — Criterion of proportionality — No serious difficulties)

18.8.2012   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 250/12
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 10 July 2012 — TF1 and Others v Commission
   (Case T-520/09) (1)
   
   (State aid - Public service broadcasting - Aid intended to be granted by the French Republic to France Télévisions - Budgetary grant for 2009 - Decision not to raise objections - Service of general economic interest - Criterion of proportionality - No serious difficulties)
   2012/C 250/21
   Language of the case: French
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicants: Télévision française 1 (TF1) (Boulogne-Billancourt, France); Métropole télévision (M6) (Neuilly-sur-Seine, France); and Canal + (Issy-les-Moulineaux, France) (represented by: J.P. Hordies and C. Smits, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: European Commission (represented by: B. Stromsky and D. Grespan, acting as Agents)
   
      Interveners in support of the defendant: French Republic (represented by: G. de Bergues and J. Gstalter, acting as Agents); and France Télévisions (Paris, France) (represented by: J.P. Gunther and A. Giraud, lawyers)
   
      Re:
   
   Application for annulment of the Commission’s decision of 1 September 2009 concerning a budgetary grant in favour of France Télévisions in so far as the Commission raises no objections in that decision regarding a budgetary grant of a maximum amount of EUR 450 million for 2009.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action as unfounded;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Télévision française 1 (TF1), Métropole télévision (M6) and Canal + to bear their own costs and to pay those incurred by the European Commission and France Télévisions;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders the French Republic to bear its own costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 80, 27.3.2010.