CELEX: 62007TA0177
Language: en
Date: 2010-06-15 00:00:00
Title: Case T-177/07: Judgment of the General Court of 15 June 2010 — Mediaset v Commission (State aid — Telecommunications — Subsidised purchase of digital decoders — Decision declaring the aid incompatible with the common market and ordering its recovery — Concept of State aid — Exclusion of decoders for the reception of television programmes broadcast by satellite — Advantage — Selective nature — Adverse effect on competition — Obligation to state reasons)

31.7.2010   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 209/32
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 15 June 2010 — Mediaset v Commission
   (Case T-177/07) (1)
   
   (State aid - Telecommunications - Subsidised purchase of digital decoders - Decision declaring the aid incompatible with the common market and ordering its recovery - Concept of State aid - Exclusion of decoders for the reception of television programmes broadcast by satellite - Advantage - Selective nature - Adverse effect on competition - Obligation to state reasons)
   2010/C 209/46
   Language of the case: English
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Mediaset SpA (Milan, Italy) (represented by: K. Adamantopoulos, G. Rossi, E. Petritsi and A. Nucara, lawyers, and by D. O’Keeffe and P. Boyle, Solicitors)
   
      Defendant: European Commission (represented by: B. Martenczuk, G. Conte and E. Righini, acting as Agents)
   
      Intervener in support of the defendant: Sky Italia Srl (Rome, Italy) (represented intially by: F.E. González Díaz and D. Gerard, and subsequently by F.E. González Díaz, lawyers)
   
      Re:
   
   Application for the annulment of Commission Decision 2007/374/EC of 24 January 2007 on State aid C 52/2005 (ex NN 88/2005, ex CP 101/2004) implemented by the Italian Republic for the subsidised purchase of digital decoders (OJ 2007 L 147, p. 1)
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Mediaset SpA to bear its own costs and to pay those of the European Commission and Sky Italia Srl.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 170, 21.7.2007.