Opinion of the Advocate General — ECLI:EU:C:2014:2239
Date: 2014-09-24
Language of the case: English
Subject matter: State aids;Competition
Procedure: Reference for a preliminary ruling
Origin: United Kingdom

summary publication in OJ 2012 C 220, p. 6). 37 – See Altmark (EU:C:2003:415, paragraph 77) where the Court simply stated that ‘… it is not impossible that a public subsidy granted to an undertaking which provides only local or regional transport services and does not provide any transport services outside its State of origin may none the less have an effect on trade between Member States’ (emphasis added). 38 – See, inter alia, Comitato “Venezia vuole vivere” and Others v Commission, EU:C:2011:368, paragraph 135. 39 – See similarly the Opinion of Advocate General Alber in Spain v Commission, C‑409/00, EU:C:2002:475, point 116. 40 – See, inter alia, Belgium v Commission, C‑75/97, EU:C:1999:311, paragraph 47 and case-law cited. 41 – See, inter alia, Xunta de Galicia, C‑71/04, EU:C:2005:493, paragraphs 47 and 48, concerning an aid scheme to shipbuilding and ship conversion to Galician shipyards whose customers where both domestic and foreign. 42 – See, on this point, the Opinion of Advocate General Jacobs in GEMO, C‑126/01, EU:C:2002:273, paragraph 145; the answer given by Commissioner Kinnock to Written Question E-3484/96, OJ 1996 C 186, p. 96; and Case N 733/2000 — Italy (Liguria), Regional action to upgrade the public taxi service, Decision of 25 April 2001, available at URL http://ec.europa.eu/competition/state_aid/cases/134182/134182_1154208_1_2.pdf (summary publication in OJ 2004 C 67, p. 11). However all those elements predate the ruling in Altmark, EU:C:2003:415. 43 – See Altmark, EU:C:2003:415, paragraph 78 and case-law cited. See also Philip Morris Holland v Commission, 730/79, EU:C:1980:209, paragraph 11. 44 – See, inter alia, Case N 258/2000 — Germany, Leisure Pool Dorsten, Decision of 21 December 2000, available at URL http://ec.europa.eu/competition/state_aid/cases/137009/137009, 1153410_12_2.pdf (summary publication in OJ 2001 C 172, p. 16), and Case SA.36581 (2013/NN) — Greece, Construction of Archeological Museum Messara, Crete, Decision of 6 November 2013, available at URL http://ec.europa.eu/competition/state_aid/cases/250254/ 250254_1484489_76_2.pdf (summary publication in OJ 2013 C 353, p. 4). 45 – See Fallimento Traghetti del Mediterraneo, C‑140/09, EU:C:2010:335, paragraph 51.