CELEX: 62006TJ0024
Language: en
Date: 2009-10-06
Title: Judgment of the Court of First Instance (Seventh Chamber) of 6 October 2009. # Medienanstalt Berlin-Brandenburg (MABB) v Commission of the European Communities. # State aid - Digital terrestrial television - Aid granted by the German authorities to broadcasters which use the digital terrestrial television network (DVB-T) in Berlin-Brandenburg - Decision declaring the aid incompatible with the common market and ordering its recovery - Action for annulment - Not of individual concern - Inadmissibility. # Case T-24/06.

Judgment of the Court of First Instance (Seventh Chamber) of 6 October 2009 – MABB v Commission
      (Case T-24/06)
      State aid – Digital terrestrial television – Aid granted by the German authorities to broadcasters which use the digital terrestrial television network (DVB-T) in Berlin-Brandenburg
         – Decision declaring the aid incompatible with the common market and ordering its recovery – Action for annulment – Not of individual concern – Inadmissibility
      
      Actions for annulment – Natural or legal persons – Measures of direct and individual concern to them – Commission decision finding aid to be incompatible with the common market – Action brought by an authority forming an integral part of the State, not having budgetary independence and subject to State
         control – Inadmissibility (Art. 230, fourth para., EC) (see paras 42, 50, 52-53)
      
      Re:
      
         
               APPLICATION for annulment of Commission Decision 2006/513/EC of 9 November 2005 on the State aid which the Federal Republic
                  of Germany has implemented for the introduction of digital terrestrial television (DVB-T) in Berlin-Brandenburg (OJ 2006 L
                  200, p. 14).
               
            Operative part
      The Court:
      
         
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                  	Dismisses the action as inadmissible;
               
            
         
                  2.
               
               
                  
               
               
                  	Orders Medienanstalt Berlin-Brandenburg (MABB) to pay the costs.