Unlawful State Aid: The Council of State refers a question to the ECJ on restitution of an unlawful but compatible aid (CELF)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. – CE, 29 March 2006, Centre d'exportation du livre français (CELF), No 274923 The Centre d'exportation du livre français (CELF) received aid each year from 1980 to 2002 to reduce the cost of processing small orders from abroad for books written in French. The Société Internationale de Diffusion et d'Édition (SIDE), a competitor of CELF, has asked the Minister for Culture to stop paying this aid and to recover the aid already paid to CELF since 1980. In 1996, the Director of Books and Reading rejected both SIDE's requests. By judgment of 26 April 2001, the Paris Administrative Court annulled this decision. This judgment was confirmed by a decision of 5