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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10429

29 July 2011
Contents Publication in full By article 22 / 24
GENERAL NEWS / (ae) eu/cjeu
Mediaset non-suit on digital terrestrial decoders

Brussels, 28/07/2011 (Agence Europe) - The Court of Justice of the EU confirmed on 28 July that subsidies granted by Italy to consumers in 2004 and 2005 for purchasing or hiring digital terrestrial decoders constitute discriminatory state aid and must be repaid. The Court confirms every point of the General Court's ruling of 15 June 2010 and dismisses Mediaset SpA's appeal against that ruling, which upheld a decision taken by the Commission in February 2007. At the time, the Commission had...