Action brought on 30 August 2013 – Comunidad Autónoma de Cataluña and CTTI v Commission

(Case T-465/13)

Language of the case: Spanish

Parties

Applicants: Comunidad Autónoma de Cataluña (Catalonia, Spain) and Centre de Telecomunicacions i Tecnologies de la Informació de la Generalitat de Catalunya (Catalonia, Spain) (represented by: J. Buendía Sierra, N. Ruiz García, M. Muñoz de Juan and M. Reverter Baquer, lawyers)

Defendant: European Commission

Form of order sought

The applicants claim that the Court should:

declare admissible and well-founded the grounds of annulment relied on in support of the present action;

annul the contested decision, in particular Article 1, in so far as it finds that there is a State aid incompatible with the internal market;

consequently, annul the recovery orders provided for in Articles 3 and 4 of the decision; and

order the Commission to pay the costs of these proceedings.

Pleas in law and main arguments

The decision contested in the present case is the same as that at issue in Case T-462/13, Comunidad Autónoma del País Vasco and Itelazpi v Commission.

In support of the action, the applicants rely on the same pleas in law as those relied on in Case T-462/13.