On 8 December 2011, the Court of Justice dismissed an appeal brought by France Télécom SA against the judgment in joined cases T-427/04 and T-17/05 France and France Télécom SA v Commission (judgment of 30 November 2009). The case at first instance concerned an application for annulment by France and France Télécom of the Commission’s decision1 of 2004 finding State aid in relation to a special tax regime applied to France Télécom between 1994 and 2002 and requiring r