Judgment of the General Court of 26 November 2015 — Comunidad Autónoma de Galicia and Retegal v Commission
(Joined Cases T-463/13 and T-464/13) 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 — Concept of undertaking — Economic activity — Advantage — Service of general economic interest — Selective nature — Article 107(3)(c) TFEU — Obligation to state reasons)
Language of the case: Spanish
Parties
Applicants: Comunidad Autónoma de Galicia (Spain) (represented by: M. Lorenzo Outón and P. Egerique Mosquera, lawyers) (Case T-463/13); and Redes de Telecomunicación Galegas Retegal SA (Retegal) (Santiago de Compostela, Spain) (represented by: F. García Martínez and B. Pérez Conde, lawyers) (Case T-464/13)
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 and in Case T-463/13, 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 Galicia (Spain) and Redes de Telecomunicación Galegas Retegal, SA (Retegal) 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.