Criteria for establishing the existence of State aid: The Court of Justice confirms that the reduction in the royalties’ amount owed by mobile carriers following the retrocession of UMTS licenses does not constitute a State aid (Orange / SFR)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. In the field of State aid, the main point to note now is the rejection in a Judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Communities of 2 April 2009 in Case T-379/00 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Court of Justice of the European Communities) brought by Bouygues SA and Bouygues Télécom SA against the Commission of the European Communi of the judgment, subtly argued, delivered on 4 July 2007 by the Court of First Instance of the European Communities in Case T-157/07, in which the Court of Justice at first instance of the European Communities, pursuant to which it had rejected the claims of the third French mobile operator on the UMTS