Unnotified aid measure: The General Court of the European Union confirms that the aid measures adopted by local authorities in favour of DTT development in Spanish rural zones constitute an incompatible aid (Kingdom of Spain/Abertis Telecom Terrestre)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. On 15 December 2016, the Court of First Instance of the European Union delivered two judgments concerning the State aid granted by the authorities of Castilla-La Mancha for the deployment of digital terrestrial television in remote and less urbanised areas of Castilla-La Mancha inCase T-808/14 (Kingdom of Spain v Commission) and in Joined Cases T-37/15 and T-38/15 (Abertis Telecom Terrestre and Others v Commission). The present cases concern measures implemented by the Spanish authorities in the context of the switchover from analogue to digital broadcasting in Spain as far as the Autonomous Community of Castilla-La Mancha (Spain) is concerned. The