CELEX: C2007/199/62
Language: en
Date: 2007-08-25 00:00:00
Title: 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)

25.8.2007   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 199/33
            
         Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 4 July 2007 — Bouygues and Bouygues Télécom v Commission
   (Case T-475/04) (1)
   
   (State Aid - Mobile telephony - Alteration of the fees payable by Orange and SFR for the UMTS licences - Decision finding no State aid)
   (2007/C 199/62)
   Language of the case: French
   Parties
   
      Applicant: Bouygues and Bouygues Tèlécom (Boulogne-Billancourt, France) (represented by: L. Vogel, J. Vogel, B. Amory, A. Verheyden, F. Sureau and D. Théophile, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: Commission of the European Communities (represented by: J.L. Buendia Sierra and C. Giolito, Agents)
   
      Interveners in support of the defendant: French Republic (represented by: G. de Bergues and S. Ramet, Agents); Société française de radiotéléphone — SFR (Paris, France) (represented by: C. Vadja QC and A. Vincent, lawyer; and Orange France SA (Montrouge, France) (represented by: A. Gosset-Grainville and S. Hautbourg, lawyers)
   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
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders the French Republic to pay its own costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 69 of 19.3.2005.