Incompatible aid: The General Court of the European Union confirms the existence of an economic advantage for a company specialising in urban advertising in the Brussels street furniture case (JCDecaux)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. On September 7, 2022, the General Court of the Union delivered its judgment in case T-642/19 (JCDecaux Street Furniture Belgium v. European Commission... supported by Clear Channel Belgium). It dismissed the action brought by JCDecaux Street Furniture Belgium seeking annulment of the Commission's decision of 24 June 2019 in which the Commission found that the State aid in favour of the applicant, amounting to the unpaid rent and taxes on the advertising displays installed in execution of the 1984 contract on the territory of the city of Brussels and maintained beyond the date of removal provided for in Annex 10 to the 1999 contract, granted illegally