Simultaneously with the proceedings at Community level, SIDE brought actions before the national authorities and courts seeking that payment of the aid granted to CELF be stopped and that the aid already paid be recovered.

However, the General Court (ex-CFI) (the “ GC”) overturned each of these decisions The aid granted to CELF formed the subject matter of three subsequent Commission decisions between 19, all three of which found the aid to be compatible with the common market under Article 87(3)(d) EC (now 107(3)(d) TFEU), which provides for a derogation for aid to promote culture and heritage conservation.

In 1992, Société internationale de diffusion et d’édition (SIDE), a competitor of CELF, lodged a complaint against the granting of the aid with the European Commission (the “ Commission”). The CELF “saga” can be summarized as follows. This judgment relates to probably the longest, running State aid case in the history of Community law. Société internationale de diffusion et d’édition (SIDE). Case C-1/09, Centre d’exportation du livre français (CELF) and others v.

The case involves French book and media exporter Centre d’exportation du livre français (CELF), which received non-notified State aid from the French government between 19 to offset the extra costs of handling small orders placed by booksellers established outside France. On March 11, 2010, the Court of Justice of the European Union (the “ ECJ”) rendered a judgment (preliminary ruling) in response to two State aid questions referred to it by the French Conseil d’État (France’s highest administrative Court).

Elizabeth van der slot court