Export aids: The EU Court of First Instance annuls the Commission’s compatibility decision related to the subsidies granted in the sector of book export (CELF)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. Only two months have elapsed since the European Court of Justice (ECJ) of the European Communities in a judgment of 12 February 2008, responding to a reference for a preliminary ruling from the Conseil d'État French Republic in the complex litigation concerning aid in the form of operating subsidies granted by the French State to the Centre d'exportation du livre français (CELF), for its activity as a commission agent. for export, in order to compensate for the additional cost of processing small orders (less than 76 euros) placed by booksellers established at abroad, that the national judge is not required to order recovery aid put into effect in breach of