Judgment of the General Court (Third Chamber), 11 July 2014

DTS Distribuidora de Televisión Digital, SA v European Commission

State aid — Public service broadcasting — Aid planned by Spain for RTVE — Alteration of the funding scheme — Replacement of advertising revenues by new taxes on television and telecommunications operators — Decision declaring the aid compatible with the internal market — Fiscal measure constituting the method by which the aid measure is financed — Tax necessarily hypothecated to the aid — Direct impact of the revenue from the tax on the amount of the aid — Proportionality

Case T‑533/10



Top of the page Documents in the Case
Document Date Name of the parties Subject-matter Curia EUR-Lex Autres Liens
Judgment (OJ)
08/08/2014 DTS Distribuidora de Televisión Digital v Commission
Judgment
ECLI:EU:T:2014:629
11/07/2014 DTS Distribuidora de Televisión Digital v Commission
Judgment (Summary)
ECLI:EU:T:2014:629
11/07/2014 DTS Distribuidora de Televisión Digital v Commission
Application (OJ)
29/01/2011 DTS Distribuidora de Televisión Digital v Commission
Order (OJ)
08/07/2011 DTS Distribuidora de Televisión Digital v Commission
Order
ECLI:EU:T:2011:263
09/06/2011 DTS Distribuidora de Televisión Digital v Commission
Order (Information)
ECLI:EU:T:2011:263
09/06/2011 DTS Distribuidora de Televisión Digital v Commission
Top of the page Legal analysis of the decision or of the case

Reports of Cases

published in the electronic Reports of Cases (Court Reports - general)

Subject-matter

Action for annulment of Commission Decision C(2010) 4925 final of 20 July 2010 declaring compatible with the internal market the aid scheme which Spain is planning to implement for the Spanish public radio and television broadcaster ‘Corporación de Radio y Televisión Española (RTVE)’ by an alteration of the tax funding system intended to replace the income from advertising and other commercial activities by new taxes on TV and telecommunications operators (State aid No C 38/2009 (ex NN 58/2009)).

Systematic classification scheme

1.
3 Legal proceedings
  3.02 Actions for annulment
    3.02.00 General
4 Internal policy of the European Union
  4.09 State aid
    4.09.01 Definition of aid
      4.09.01.00 General
3 Legal proceedings
  3.02 Actions for annulment
    3.02.00 General
4 Internal policy of the European Union
  4.09 State aid
    4.09.04 Procedure for reviewing aid
      4.09.04.04 Preliminary review
4 Internal policy of the European Union
  4.09 State aid
    4.09.01 Definition of aid
      4.09.01.00 General
4 Internal policy of the European Union
  4.08 Competition
    4.08.04 Public undertakings
4 Internal policy of the European Union
  4.09 State aid
    4.09.01 Definition of aid
      4.09.01.03 Advantage conferred on an undertaking
        4.09.01.03.02 Compensation for the costs connected with a public service mission
4 Internal policy of the European Union
  4.08 Competition
    4.08.04 Public undertakings
4 Internal policy of the European Union
  4.09 State aid
    4.09.01 Definition of aid
      4.09.01.03 Advantage conferred on an undertaking
        4.09.01.03.02 Compensation for the costs connected with a public service mission
4 Internal policy of the European Union
  4.08 Competition
    4.08.04 Public undertakings
4 Internal policy of the European Union
  4.09 State aid
    4.09.01 Definition of aid
      4.09.01.03 Advantage conferred on an undertaking
        4.09.01.03.02 Compensation for the costs connected with a public service mission
4 Internal policy of the European Union
  4.08 Competition
    4.08.04 Public undertakings
4 Internal policy of the European Union
  4.08 Competition
    4.08.04 Public undertakings
2 Institutional framework of the European Union
  2.05 Legal acts of the European Union
    2.05.06 Statement of reasons
4 Internal policy of the European Union
  4.09 State aid
    4.09.04 Procedure for reviewing aid
      4.09.04.07 Commission decision following the formal investigation procedure
        4.09.04.07.01 Statement of reasons for the decision following the formal investigation procedure
3 Legal proceedings
  3.08 Procedural rules
    3.08.02 Intervention


Citations of case-law or legislation

References in grounds of judgment

Operative part

Opinion

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Dates

Date of the lodging of the application initiating proceedings

  • 24/11/2010

Date of the Opinion

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Date of the hearing

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Date of delivery

11/07/2014


References

Publication in the Official Journal

Application: OJ C 30 from 29.01.2011, p.44

Order: OJ C 219 from 23.07.2011, p.17

Name of the parties

DTS Distribuidora de Televisión Digital v Commission

Notes on Academic Writings

  1. Idot, Laurence: Financement de l'audiovisuel public, Europe 2014 Octobre Comm. nº 10 p.41-42 (FR)



Procedural Analysis Information

Source of the question referred for a preliminary ruling

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Subject-matter

  • Competition
  • - State aid

Provisions of national law referred to

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Provisions of international law referred to

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Procedure and result

  • Actions for annulment : dismissal on substantive grounds

Formation of the Court

troisième chambre (Tribunal)

Judge-Rapporteur

Czúcz

Advocate General

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Language(s) of the Case

  • Spanish

Language(s) of the Opinion

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