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Document 62006TJ0024

Judgment of the Court of First Instance (Seventh Chamber) of 6 October 2009.
Medienanstalt Berlin-Brandenburg (MABB) v Commission of the European Communities.
State aid - Digital terrestrial television - Aid granted by the German authorities to broadcasters which use the digital terrestrial television network (DVB-T) in Berlin-Brandenburg - Decision declaring the aid incompatible with the common market and ordering its recovery - Action for annulment - Not of individual concern - Inadmissibility.
Case T-24/06.

Thuarascálacha na Cúirte Eorpaí 2009 II-00198*

ECLI identifier: ECLI:EU:T:2009:388





Judgment of the Court of First Instance (Seventh Chamber) of 6 October 2009 – MABB v Commission

(Case T-24/06)

State aid – Digital terrestrial television – Aid granted by the German authorities to broadcasters which use the digital terrestrial television network (DVB-T) in Berlin-Brandenburg – Decision declaring the aid incompatible with the common market and ordering its recovery – Action for annulment – Not of individual concern – Inadmissibility

Actions for annulment – Natural or legal persons – Measures of direct and individual concern to them – Commission decision finding aid to be incompatible with the common market – Action brought by an authority forming an integral part of the State, not having budgetary independence and subject to State control – Inadmissibility (Art. 230, fourth para., EC) (see paras 42, 50, 52-53)

Re:

APPLICATION for annulment of Commission Decision 2006/513/EC of 9 November 2005 on the State aid which the Federal Republic of Germany has implemented for the introduction of digital terrestrial television (DVB-T) in Berlin-Brandenburg (OJ 2006 L 200, p. 14).

Operative part

The Court:

1.

Dismisses the action as inadmissible;

2.

Orders Medienanstalt Berlin-Brandenburg (MABB) to pay the costs.

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