25.8.2014

Official Journal of the European Union

C 282/29

(Case T-Joined Cases T-319/12 and T-321/12) (<span class="super">1</span>)

((State aid - Cinematography - Aid for the construction and operation of a film studio complex - Decision declaring the aid incompatible with the internal market - Criterion of private market economy investor - State aid for regional purposes - Aid to promote culture - Duty to state reasons))

2014/C 282/37

Language of the case: Spanish

Parties

Applicants: Kingdom of Spain (represented by: A. Rubio González, abogade del Estado); Cuidad de la Luz, SAU (Alicante, Spain); and Sociedad Proyectos Temáticos de la Comunidad Valenciana, SAU (Alicante) (represented initially by: J. Buendía Sierra, N. Ruiz García, J. Belenguer Mula and M. Muñoz de Juan, and subsequently by: J. Buendía Sierra and J. Belenguer Mula, lawyers)

Defendant: European Commission (represented by: É. Gippini Fournier, P. Němečková and B. Stromsky, acting as Agents)

Re:

Application for annulment of Commission Decision C(2012) 3025 final of 8 May 2012 concerning State aid SA.22668 (C 8/2008 (NN 4/2008)), which Spain implemented in favour of Ciudad de la Luz, SA

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

1.Dismisses the actions;

2.Orders La Ciudad de la Lux, SA, Sociedad Proyectos Temáticos de la Comunidad Valenciana, SA and the Kingdom of Spain to bear their own costs and to pay the costs incurred by the European Commission.

(<span class="super">1</span>) OJ C 287, 22.9.2012.