Judgment of the General Court of 11 July 2014 — DTS Distribuidora de Televisión Digital v Commission
(Case T-533/10) 1
(State aid — Public service broadcasting — Aid planned by Spain for RTVE — Alteration of the funding scheme — Replacement of advertising revenues by new taxes on television and telecommunication operators — Decision declaring the new funding scheme compatible with the internal market — Fiscal measure constituting the method by which the aid measure is financed — Tax necessarily hypothecated to the aid — Direct impact of the revenue of the tax on the amount of the aid — Proportionality)
Language of the case: Spanish
Parties
Applicant: DTS Distribuidora de Televisión Digital, SA (Tres Cantos, Spain) (represented by: H. Brokelmann and M. Ganino, lawyers)
Defendant: European Commission (represented by: G. Valero Jordana and C. Urraca Caviedes, acting as Agents)
Interveners in support of the applicant: Telefónica de España, SA (Madrid, Spain); and Telefónica Móviles España, SA (Madrid) (represented by: F. González Díaz and F. Salerno, lawyers)
Interveners in support of the defendant: Kingdom of Spain (represented initially by J. Rodríguez Cárcamo and M. Muñoz Pérez, subsequently by M. Muñoz Pérez, subsequently by S. Centeno Huerta and N. Díaz Abad, subsequently by N. Díaz Abad, and lastly by M. Sampol Pucurull, abogados del Estado); and Corporación de Radio y Televisión Española, SA (RTVE) (Madrid) (represented by: A. Martínez Sánchez and J. Rodríguez Ordóñez, lawyers)
Re:
Application for the annulment of Commission Decision 2011/1/EU of 20 July 2010 on the State aid scheme C 38/09 (ex NN 58/09) which Spain is planning to implement for Corporación de Radio y Televisión Española (RTVE) (OJ 2011 L 1, p. 9).
Operative part of the judgment
The action is dismissed.
DTS Distribuidora de Televisión Digital, SA shall bear its own costs, including those relating to the application for interim measures, the costs of Corporación de Radio y Televisión Española, SA (RTVE), including those relating to the application for interim measures, and the costs of the European Commission, including those relating to the application for interim measures, excluding the costs incurred by the latter due to the intervention of Telefónica de España, SA and Telefónica Móviles España, SA.
Telefónica de España and Telefónica Móviles España shall bear their own costs and pay, jointly, the costs incurred by the Commission due to their intervention.
The Kingdom of Spain shall bear its own costs, including those relating to the application for interim measures.
________________________1 OJ C 30, 29.1.2011.