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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11606

23 August 2016
Contents Publication in full By article 12 / 20
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS / State aid
Commission overrules Spanish scheme in favour of terrestrial digital broadcasters
Brussels, 22/08/2016 (Agence Europe)

On Friday 5 August, the European Commission concluded that the Spanish regime compensating terrestrial private broadcasters for carrying out parallel broadcasting in analogue and digital during the process of the digitisation of the terrestrial television signal was in breach of EU state aid rules.

No aid has been granted yet, meaning that no recovery will be required, the Commission explained. "This measure provided a selective advantage to terrestrial broadcasters and platform operators...