CELEX: 62006TA0231
Language: en
Date: 2010-12-16 00:00:00
Title: Joined Cases T-231/06 and T-237/06: Judgment of the General Court of 16 December 2010 — Netherlands v Commission (State aid — Public service broadcasting — Measures taken by the Netherlands authorities — Decision declaring State aid compatible in part and incompatible in part with the common market — New aid or existing aid — Concept of State aid — Concept of undertaking — Overcompensation for the costs of the public service mission — Proportionality — Duty to give reasons — Rights of the defence)

5.2.2011   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 38/9
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 16 December 2010 — Netherlands v Commission
   (Joined Cases T-231/06 and T-237/06) (1)
   
   (State aid - Public service broadcasting - Measures taken by the Netherlands authorities - Decision declaring State aid compatible in part and incompatible in part with the common market - New aid or existing aid - Concept of State aid - Concept of undertaking - Overcompensation for the costs of the public service mission - Proportionality - Duty to give reasons - Rights of the defence)
   2011/C 38/11
   Language of the case: Dutch
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicants: Kingdom of the Netherlands (represented by: H. Sevenster and M. de Grave, Agents) (Case T-231/06); and Nederlandse Omroep Stichting (NOS) (Hilversum, Netherlands) (represented by: J. Feenstra and H. Speyart van Woerden, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: European Commission (represented by: N. Khan and H. van Vliet, Agents)
   
      Re:
   
   Applications for the annulment of Commission Decision 2008/136/EC of 22 June 2006 on the ad hoc financing of Dutch public service broadcasters C 2/2004 (ex NN 170/2003) (OJ 2008 L 49, p. 1)
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               dismisses the actions;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               orders the Kingdom of the Netherlands to pay the costs in Case T-231/06;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               orders Nederlandse Omroep Stichting (NOS) to pay the costs in Case T-237/06.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 261, of 28.10.2006.