( December 22, 2025, 11:44 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: The Czech government's planned €18 million support for three digital terrestrial television infrastructure operators, České Radiokomunikace, Digital Broadcasting and Česká televize, was incompatible with EU state aid rules, the European Commission said Monday. In a statement, the watchdog said the funding sought to compensate costs that were inherent to commercial activity and was incompatible with state aid rules due to the lack of a market failure, the absence of an incentive effect and the aid not being limited to the minimum necessary. The aid, which aimed to cover the costs of running transitional networks from 2017 to 2020, was not paid out by Czechia pending the Commission state aid decision.Statement follows. ...
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