On Air Media Professionals

Provisional text OPINION OF ADVOCATE GENERALSZPUNARdelivered on 22 May 2025 (1)Joined Cases C‑416/24 and C‑417/24 On Air Media Professionals SRLv Agenția pentru Întreprinderi Mici și Mijlocii (C‑416/24)and Different Media SRLv Ministerul Antreprenoriatului și Turismului – Agenția pentru Întreprinderi Mici și Mijlocii, Atragere de Investiții și Promovare a Exportului Iași (C‑417/24)(Request for a preliminary ruling from the Curtea de Apel Bacău (Court of Appeal, Bacău, Romania))( Reference for a preliminary ruling – State aid – Regulation (EU) No 651/2014 – Exemption of certain categories of aid compatible with the internal market – Translation error in the Romanian language version – Legal effects of the regulation correcting that error – Possibility of the recovery of aid granted prior to the correction on the basis of the version of the regulation containing that error )I.      Introduction 1.        What is the fate of aid measures granted by a Member State, on the basis of a language version of a European Commission regulation which is incorrect but has been duly published in the Official Journal of the European Union? That is the question which the Court is called upon in essence to answer in the present case, since Romania has granted aid, on the basis of the Romanian language version of Regulation (EU) No 651/2014 (2) (‘the GBER’), to undertakings which should not have received it.2.        Questioned as to whether in such a situation a Member State is required to...