Compensation granted to services of general economic interest (SGEI) : The CFI confirms the compatibility with the internal market of the long-term financing arrangement of a public television operator (Télévision française 1 (TF1))

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. By judgment of 16 October 2013 in Case T-275/11, the General Court of the European Union has upheld the Commission's decision of 20 July 2010 in its entirety.by which it had authorised, following the phasing out of advertising on public channels from 2009, the modification of France Télévisions' annual public funding mechanism (France 2, France 3, France 4, France 5 and France Ô, as well as Radio France Outremer), which provides for the allocation of part of the contribution resources to public broadcasting and an annual budget subsidy to offset France Télévisions' public service charges. By way of compensation, France had entered appropriations in the general