Film Support in the EU: The Uteca Case and the Future Challenges for the Main Characters

This chapter seeks to further explore the latent conflict between the EU Commission Directorate General for Competition and the DG Information Society and Media, and the declared conflict between the EU Commission and the Member States. It highlights some of the challenges that the ‘main characters’ involved will face in the treatment of these conflicts. To this end the author presents a case analysis of the case of Unión de Televisiones Comerciales Asociadas (Uteca) v. Administración General del Estado, ruled by the European Court of Justice.