CELEX: 62016CA0070
Language: en
Date: 2017-12-20 00:00:00
Title: Case C-70/16 P: Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of 20 December 2017 — Comunidad Autónoma de Galicia, Redes de Telecomunicación Galegas Retegal SA (Retegal) v European Commission, SES Astra SA (Appeal — State aid — Digital television — Aid for the deployment of digital terrestrial television in remote and less urbanised areas — Subsidies granted to operators of digital terrestrial television platforms — Decision declaring the aid incompatible in part with the internal market — Concept of ‘State aid’ — Advantage — Service of general economic interest — Definition — Discretion of the Member States)

26.2.2018   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 72/6
            
         Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of 20 December 2017 — Comunidad Autónoma de Galicia, Redes de Telecomunicación Galegas Retegal SA (Retegal) v European Commission, SES Astra SA
   (Case C-70/16 P) (1)
   
   ((Appeal - State aid - Digital television - Aid for the deployment of digital terrestrial television in remote and less urbanised areas - Subsidies granted to operators of digital terrestrial television platforms - Decision declaring the aid incompatible in part with the internal market - Concept of ‘State aid’ - Advantage - Service of general economic interest - Definition - Discretion of the Member States))
   (2018/C 072/07)
   Language of the case: Spanish
   
      Parties
   
   
      Appellants: Comunidad Autónoma de Galicia, Redes de Telecomunicación Galegas Retegal, SA (Retegal) (represented by: F. J. García Martínez and B. Pérez Conde, abogados)
   
      Other parties to the proceedings: European Commission (represented by: P. Němečková, É. Gippini Fournier and B. Stromsky, acting as Agents), SES Astra (represented by F. González Díaz and V. Romero Algarra, abogados, and by F. Salerno, avocat)
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Sets aside the judgment of the General Court of the European Union of 26 November 2015, Comunidad Autónoma de Galicia and Retegal v Commission (T-463/13 and T-464/13, not published, EU:T:2015:901);
            
         
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               Annuls Commission Decision 2014/489/EU of 19 June 2013 on State aid SA.28599 (C 23/2010) (ex NN 36/2010, ex CP 163/2009) implemented by the Kingdom of Spain for the deployment of digital terrestrial television in remote and less urbanised areas (outside Castilla-La Mancha);
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders the European Commission to bear the costs incurred by the Comunidad Autónoma de Galicia (Autonomous Community of Galicia, Spain) and Redes de Telecomunicación Galegas Retegal SA (Retegal) in the present appeal and at first instance;
            
         
               4.
            
            
               Orders SES Astra SA to bears its own costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 118, 4.4.2016.