Judgment of the General Court of 16 October 2013 –TF1 v Commission
(Case T-275/11)1
(State aid – Public service broadcasting – Aid proposed by the French authorities for France Télévisions – Annual budgetary grant – Decision declaring the aid compatible with the internal market – Article 106(2) TFEU – Strict interdependence of a tax and an aid measure)
Language of the case: French
Parties
Applicant: Télévision française 1 (TF1) (Boulogne-Billancourt, France) (represented initially by J.-P Hordies and C. Smits, and subsequently by J. Vogel, lawyers)
Defendant: European Commission (represented by: B. Stromsky and D. Grespan, Agents)
Interveners in support of the defendant: Kingdom of Spain (represented initially by M. Muñoz Pérez, then by S. Centeno Huerta and subsequently by N. Díaz Abad, Abogados del Estato); French Republic (represented initially by G. de Bergues and J. Gstalter, and subsequently by D. Colas and J. Rossi, Agents); and France Télévisions (Paris, France) (represented by: J.-P. Gunther and A. Giraud, lawyers)
Re:
Application for annulment of Commission Decision 2011/140/EU of 20 July 2010 on State Aid C 27/09 (ex N 34/B/09) Budgetary grant for France Télévisions which the French Republic plans to implement in favour of France Télévisions (OJ 2011 L 59, p. 44).
Operative part of the judgment
The Court:
Dismisses the action;
Orders Télévision française 1 (TF1) to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by the European Commission and by France Télévisions;
Orders the Kingdom of Spain and the French Republic each to bear its own costs.
____________1 OJ C 232, 6.8.2011.