Judgment_paragraph 6 · TV2/Danmark A/S v European Commission (T-674/11)

6Following a complaint lodged on 5 April 2000 by SBS Broadcasting SA/TvDanmark, the system for funding TV2 was examined by the Commission of the European Communities in its Decision 2006/217/EC of 19 May 2004 on measures implemented by Denmark for [TV2] (OJ 2006 L 85, p. 1, corrigendum in OJ 2006 L 368, p. 1; ‘the TV2 I decision’). That decision covered the period from 1995 to 2002 and concerned the following measures: licensing fees, transfers granted from funds used to finance TV2 (TV2 and Radiofonden Funds), sums granted on an ad hoc basis, exemption from corporation tax, exemption from interest and servicing charges on loans granted to TV2 at the time of its formation, the State guarantee for operating loans and favourable terms for payment of fees due by TV2 for use of nationwide transmission frequencies (taken as a whole, ‘the measures concerned’). Lastly, the Commission’s investigation also concerned the authorisation given to TV2 to broadcast on local networks and the obligation for all owners of communal aerial installations to relay TV2’s public-service programmes through those installations.