Press Release: State aid: Commission orders recovery of incompatible aid from certain terrestrial digital platform operators in Castilla-La Mancha

The European Commission concluded that subsidies worth €46 million granted in the Spanish region of Castilla-La Mancha to finance the digitisation and extension of the terrestrial television network in remote areas were incompatible with EU state aid rules. The measure only benefited terrestrial digital technology, in breach of the principle of technological neutrality, and also discriminated between different terrestrial operators. As a result, some operators of terrestrial platforms received a selective advantage over their competitors and had to pay it back to the region Castilla-La Mancha. In June 2013 the Commission had already concluded that similar measures covering other regions of Spain were incompatible with EU state aid rules.

ESO: Background information: State aid: Terrestrial digital platform operators in Spain must pay back incompatible subsidies http://www.europeansources.info/record/press-release-state-aid-terrestrial-digital-platform-operators-in-spain-must-pay-back-incompatible-subsidies/

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