Judgment of the General Court of 26 November 2015 — Abertis Telecom and Retevisión I v Commission
(Case T-541/13) 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 — Obligation to state reasons)
Language of the case: Spanish
Parties
Applicants: Abertis Telecom, SA (Barcelona, Spain) and Retevisión I, SA (Barcelona) (represented by: initially L. Cases Pallarès, J. Buendía Sierra, N. Ruiz García, A. Lamadrid de Pablo, M. Muñoz de Juan and M. Reverter Baquer, then L. Cases Pallarès, J. Buendía Sierra, A. Lamadrid de Pablo and M. Reverter Baquer, 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 and 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 Abertis Telecom, SA and Retevisión I, SA to bear their own costs and to pay those incurred by the European Commission and by SES Astra.
____________1 OJ C 352, 30.11.2013.