CELEX: 62005TA0354
Language: en
Date: 2009-03-11 00:00:00
Title: Case T-354/05: Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 11 March 2009 — TF1 v Commission (State aid — Financing of France Télévisions by the audiovisual licence fee — Constant review of existing aid — Recommendation for the adoption of appropriate measures — Member State’s commitments accepted by the Commission — Decision declaring the aid compatible with the common market — Action for annulment — Period allowed for commencing proceedings — Nature of the contested measure — Interest in bringing proceedings — Admissibility — Rights of the defence — Obligation to state the reasons on which the decision is based — Altmark judgment)

16.5.2009   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 113/31
            
         Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 11 March 2009 — TF1 v Commission
   (Case T-354/05) (1)
   
   (State aid - Financing of France Télévisions by the audiovisual licence fee - Constant review of existing aid - Recommendation for the adoption of appropriate measures - Member State’s commitments accepted by the Commission - Decision declaring the aid compatible with the common market - Action for annulment - Period allowed for commencing proceedings - Nature of the contested measure - Interest in bringing proceedings - Admissibility - Rights of the defence - Obligation to state the reasons on which the decision is based - Altmark judgment)
   2009/C 113/62
   Language of the case: French
   
      Parties
   
   
      Applicant: Télévision française 1 SA (TF1) (Boulogne-Billancourt, France) (represented by: J.-P. Hordies and C. Smits, lawyers)
   
      Defendant: Commission of the European Communities (represented by: C. Giolito, acting as Agent)
   
      Interveners in support of the defendant: French Republic (represented by: G. de Bergues and A.-L. Vendrolini, acting as Agents); and France Télévisions S.A. (Paris, France) (represented by: J.-P. Gunther and D. Tayar, lawyers)
   
      Re:
   
   Application for the annulment of Commission Decision C(2005) 1166 final of 20 April 2005 on aid granted to France Télévisions [aid E 10/2005 (ex C 60/1999) — France, Audiovisual licence fee].
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The Court:
   
               1.
            
            
               Dismisses the application;
            
         
               2.
            
            
               Orders Télévision française 1 SA (TF1) to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by the Commission and by France Télévisions SA;
            
         
               3.
            
            
               Orders the French Republic to bear its own costs.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 315, 10.12.2005.