Judgment of the General Court of 26 November 2015 — Comunidad Autónoma de Cataluña and CTTI v Commission
(Case T-465/13) 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)
Language of the case: Spanish
Parties
Applicants: Comunidad Autónoma de Cataluña (Spain) and Centre de Telecomunicacions i Tecnologies de la Informació de la Generalitat de Catalunya (CTTI) (Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain) (represented by: initially J. Buendía Sierra, N. Ruiz García, M. Muñoz de Juan and M. Reverter Baquer, then J. Buendía Sierra, N. Ruiz García, M. Reverter Baquer and A. Lamadrid de Pablo, and finally J. Buendía Sierra, M. Reverter Baquer 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:
Dismisses the action;
Orders Comunidad Autónoma de Cataluña (Spain) and Centre de Telecomunicacions i Tecnologies de la Informació de la Generalitat de Catalunya (CTTI) to bear their own costs and to pay those incurred by the European Commission and by SES Astra.
____________1 OJ C 304, 19.10.2013.