Judgments (Information) nº T-275/11 of The General Court, October 16, 2013

• Resolution Date: October 16, 2013
• Issuing Organization: The General Court
• Decision Number: T-275/11

Judgment of the General Court (Third Chamber) of 16 October 2013 —TF1 v Commission (Case T‑275/11)

State aid — Public service broadcasting — Aid proposed by the French authorities for France Télévisions — Annual budgetary grant — Decision declaring the aid compatible with the internal market — Article 106(2) TFEU — Strict interdependence of a tax and an aid measure

1. State aid — Provisions of the Treaty — Scope — Taxes constituting the method of financing an aid measure — No strict interdependence between the tax and the financing of the aid concerned — Exclusion (Arts 107 TFEU and 108 TFEU) (see paras 41-44, 47, 57, 69, 81, 86)

2. Judicial proceedings — Application initiating proceedings — Formal requirements — Brief summary of the pleas in law on which the application is based — Abstract statement — Inadmissibility (Statute of the Court of Justice, Art. 21, first para.; Rules of Procedure of the General Court, Art. 44(1)(c)) (see paras 94-99, 113)

3. Acts of the institutions — Statement of reasons — Obligation — Scope — Commission decision on State aid (Art. 296 TFEU) (see paras 104-109)

4. Judicial proceedings — Measures of organisation of procedure — Request for production of documents — Obligations of the applicant (Rules of Procedure of the General Court, Art. 64(3)(d), and (4)) (see paras 115-120)

5. State aid — Concept — Measures designed to offset the cost of public service tasks assumed by an undertaking — Not included — Conditions set out in the Altmark judgment (Arts 106(2) TFEU and 107(1) TFEU) (see paras 124-128)

6. State aid — Concept — Measures designed to offset the cost of public service tasks assumed by an undertaking — Distinction between the Altmark test, designed to...