24.3.2011 Official Journal of the European Union L 78/37 COMMISSION DECISION of 14 December 2010 concerning State aid C 39/96 (ex NN 127/92) implemented by France in favour of Coopérative d’exportation du livre francais (CELF) (notified under document C(2010) 8938) (Only the French text is authentic) (Text with EEA relevance) (2011/179/EU) THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION, Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, and in particular the first subparagraph of Article 108(2) thereof (1), Having called on interested parties to submit their comments in accordance with the above Article (), and having regard to those comments, Whereas: 1. PROCEDURE (1) By judgment of 15 April 2008 () (hereinafter ‘the judgment of the Court of First Instance), the Court of First Instance of the European Union annulled Commission Decision 2005/262/EC of 20 April 2004 on the aid implemented by France in favour of the Coopérative d'exportation du livre frangais (CELF) () (%). (2)  Following the judgment of the Court of First Instance, the Commission must adopt a new decision. (3)  This judgment is the culmination of a procedure the principal stages of which are set out below. () As of 1 December 2009, Articles 86, 87 and 88 of the EC Treaty became, respectively, Articles 106, 107 and 108 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU). In these three cases, the provisions are, in essence, the same. For the purposes of this Decision, references made to Articles 106, 107 and 108 of the TFEU are to be understood, as appropriate, as referring respectively to Articles 86, 87 and 88 of the EC Treaty. (3) OJ C 366, 5.12.1996, p. 7; O] C 142, 23.6.2009, p. 6. (’) Case T-348/04 Société internationale de diffusion et d’édition (SIDE) v Commission [2008] ECR 11-625. () OJ L 85, 2.4.2005, p. 27. (°) Coopérative d'exportation du livre francais acts under the trading name of ‘Centre d’exportation du livre frangais’ (CELF). A. Hrst stage By letter dated 20 March 1992, Société internationale de diffusion et d'édition (SIDE) drew the Commission’s attention to aid measures for promotion, transport and marketing granted by the French authorities to CELF, aid which had not been notified to the Commission’s services in advance. By letter dated 2 April 1992, the Commission, having pointed out to the French authorities that any plans to grant or alter aid had to be notified to its services in advance, asked the said authorities to inform it as to the nature and purpose of the aid measures referred to by SIDE. By letter dated 29 June 1992, the French authorities confirmed to the Commission the existence of grants to CELF. They explained that these measures were designed to make French language and literature known in non-French-speaking countries and that CELF had also been asked to manage three schemes of ad hoc aid which were also designed to facilitate access to French books by readers in far-distant places. By letter dated 7 August 1992, the Commission confirmed to SIDE the existence of aid to CELF, explained its purpose and informed the company that the measures at issue had not been notified. It stated, however, that the disputed aid did not seem likely to adversely affect trade between Member States. SIDE was accordingly asked to submit its comments. By letter dated 7 September 1992, SIDE informed the Commission that it intended to submit a complaint with regard to the discriminatory nature of the measures and the consequences for intra-Community trade, without however disputing the cultural purpose of the Ministry of Culture, which was to see the spread of the French language and French literature.