CELEX: 62013TA0462
Language: en
Date: 2015-11-26 00:00:00
Title: Case T-462/13: Judgment of the General Court of 26 November 2015 — Comunidad Autónoma del País Vasco and Itelazpi v Commission (State aid — Digital television — Aid for the deployment of digital terrestrial television in remote and less-urbanised areas in Spain — Decision declaring aid to be partly compatible and partly incompatible with the internal market — Advantage — Service of general economic interest — Article 107(3)(c) TFEU — New aid)

25.1.2016   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 27/36
            
         Judgment of the General Court of 26 November 2015 — Comunidad Autónoma del País Vasco and Itelazpi v Commission
   (Case T-462/13) (1)
   
   ((State aid - Digital television - Aid for the deployment of digital terrestrial television in remote and less-urbanised areas in Spain - Decision declaring aid to be partly compatible and partly incompatible with the internal market - Advantage - Service of general economic interest - Article 107(3)(c) TFEU - New aid))
   (2016/C 027/42)
   Language of the case: Spanish
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicants: Comunidad Autónoma del País Vasco (Spain) and Itelazpi, SA (Zamudio, Spain) (represented by: initially N. Ruiz García, J. Buendía Sierra, A. Lamadrid de Pablo and M. Muñoz de Juan, then J. Buendía Sierra and A. Lamadrid de Pablo, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: European Commission (represented by: É. Gippini Fournier, B. Stromsky and P. Němečková, acting as Agents)
   
      Intervener in support of the defendant: SES Astra (Betzdorf, Luxembourg) (represented by: F. González Díaz, F. Salerno, V. Romero Algarra, lawyers)
   
      Re:
   
   Application for annulment of Commission Decision 2014/489/EU of 19 June 2013 on State aid SA.28599 [(C 23/2010) (ex NN 36/010, ex CP 163/2009)] implemented by the Kingdom of Spain for the deployment of digital terrestrial television in remote and less-urbanised areas (other than Castilla-La Mancha) (OJ 2014 L 217, p. 52).
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1)
            
            
               Dismisses the action;
            
         
               2)
            
            
               Orders Comunidad Autónoma del País Vasco (Spain) and Itelazpi, SA to bear their own costs and to pay those incurred by the European Commission and by SES Astra in the main proceedings;
            
         
               3)
            
            
               Orders Comunidad Autónoma del País Vasco and Itelazpi to bear their own costs relating to the interim proceedings.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 304, 19.10.2013.