Effet utile: The Court of Justice of the European Union considers that the national court is obliged to order the beneficiary of aid to pay interest for the period during which the aid was unlawful, even if it has subsequently been declared compatible with the internal market (Viasat Broadcasting UK / TV2/Danmark)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. On 24 November 2020, the Court of Justice of the European Union delivered a judgment in Case C-445/19 (Viasat Broadcasting UK Ltd v. TV2/Danmark A/S) https://lactu-concurrence.us14.list... following a reference for a preliminary ruling by the Court of Appeal of the Eastern Region of Denmark on the financing of public service broadcasting in Denmark by means of public subsidies, a question which has already been the subject of several judgments of the courts of the Union. In this connection, it will be recalled that the Court of Justice of the European Union has held in several judgments that the public financing measures in favour of TV 2, the Danish public