CELEX: C2002/323/48
Language: en
Date: 2002-12-21 00:00:00
Title: Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 17 October 2002 in Case T-180/00: Astipesca, SL v Commission of the European Communities (Fisheries — Reduction of Community financial aid — Action for annulment — Articles 44 and 47 of Regulation (EEC) No 4028/86 and Article 7 of Regulation (EEC) No 1116/88 — Principle of proportionality — Action for compensation)

21.12.2002              EN                     Official Journal of the European Communities                                       C 323/31
     JUDGMENT OF THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE                                  JUDGMENT OF THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE
                                                                                                of 8 October 2002
                        of 17 October 2002
                                                                          In Joined Cases T-185/00, T-216/00, T-299/00 and T-300/
                                                                          00: Métropole télévision SA (M6) and Others v Com-
in Case T-180/00: Astipesca, SL v Commission of the
                   European Communities ( 1)                                        mission of the European Communities (1)
                                                                          (Competition — Decision granting exemption — Television
(Fisheries — Reduction of Community financial aid —                       rights — Eurovision system — Article 81(1) and (3) EC —
Action for annulment — Articles 44 and 47 of Regulation                                    Manifest error of assessment)
(EEC) No 4028/86 and Article 7 of Regulation (EEC)
No 1116/88 — Principle of proportionality — Action for
                           compensation)                                                          (2002/C 323/49)
                                                                                (Languages of the case: French, Spanish and Portuguese)
                          (2002/C 323/48)
                   (Language of the case: Spanish)
                                                                          In Joined Cases T-185/00, T-216/00, T-299/00 and T-300/00,
                                                                          Métropole télévision SA (M6), established in Neuilly-sur-Seine
                                                                          (France), represented by D. Théophile, lawyer, with an address
                                                                          for service in Luxembourg, applicant in Case T-185/00,
                                                                          Antena 3 de Televisión SA, established in Madrid (Spain),
                                                                          represented by F. Pombo García, E. Garayar Gutiérrez and
In Case T-180/00, Astipesca, SL, established in Huelva (Spain),           R. Alonso Pérez-Villanueva, lawyers, with an address for service
represented by J.-R. García-Gallardo Gil-Fournier and                     in Luxembourg, applicant in Case T-216/00, Gestevisión
M.D. Domínguez Pérez, lawyers, v Commission of the Euro-                  Telecinco SA, established in Madrid, represented by S. Muñoz
pean Communities (Agents: initially L. Visaggio, and, sub-                Machado and M. López-Contreras Gonzalez, lawyers, with an
sequently, S. Pardo Quintillán and J. Guerra Fernández):                  address for service in Luxembourg, applicant in Case T-299/
Application for, first, annulment of the Commission’s fax of              00, SIC — Sociedade Independente de Comunicação SA,
5 May 2000 informing the applicant of the payment, on 4 May               established in Linda-a-Velha (Portugal), represented by C. Bo-
2000, of part of the balance of the financial aid granted to              telho Moniz, lawyer, , supported by Deutsches SportFernsehen
project SM/ESP/20/92 and of the contents of the Commission’s              GmbH (DSF), established in Ismaning (Germany), represented
letter of 18 May 2000, reducing the abovementioned aid and,               by K. Metzlaff, lawyer, with an address for service in Luxem-
second, compensation on the grounds of the allegedly unlawful             bourg, in Case T-299/00, and by Reti Televisive Italiane Spa
suspension of payment of the balance of that aid and of the               (RTI), established in Rome (Italy), represented by G. Amorelli,
abovementioned reduction, the Court of First Instance (Third              lawyer, with an address for service in Luxembourg, in Case
Chamber), composed of: M. Jaeger, President, K. Lenaerts and              T-300/00, v Commission of the European Communities
J. Azizi, Judges; J. Palacio González, Administrator, for the             (Agents: in Case T-185/00: K. Wiedner and B. Mongin; in
Registrar, has given a judgment on 17 October 2002, in which              Cases T-216/00 and T-299/00: K. Wiedner, E. Gippini Fournier
it has ruled:                                                             and J. Rivas Andrés, and in Case T-300/00: Wiedner and
                                                                          M. França), supported by Union européenne de radio-télévision
                                                                          (UER), established in Grand-Saconnex (Switzerland), represen-
                                                                          ted by D. Waelbroeck and M. Johnsson, lawyers, with an
1.     Dismisses the application;                                         address for service in Luxembourg, in Cases T-185/00, T-216/
                                                                          00, T-299/00 and T-300/00, and by Radiotelevisión Española
                                                                          (RTVE), established in Madrid, represented by J. Gutiérrez
2.     Orders the applicant to pay the costs.                             Gisbert, lawyer, with an address for service in Luxembourg, in
                                                                          Cases T-216/00 and T-299/00: Application for annulment of
                                                                          Commission Decision 2000/400/EC of 10 May 2000 relating
                                                                          to a proceeding pursuant to Article 81 of the EC Treaty (Case
                                                                          IV/32.150 — Eurovision) (OJ 2000 L 151, p. 18), the Court
( 1) OJ C 259 of 9.9.2000.
                                                                          of First Instance (Second Chamber, Extended Composition),
                                                                          composed of: R.M. Moura Ramos, President, V. Tiili, J. Pirrung,
                                                                          P. Mengozzi and A.W.H. Meij, Judges; B. Pastor, Principal
                                                                          Administrator, for the Registrar, has given a judgment on
                                                                          8 October 2002, in which it: