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Kongeriget Spanien skal sikre, at denne afgørelse gennemføres senest fire måneder efter datoen for meddelelsen af afgørelsen.
its underestimation of the existing demand in an attractive and affluent area.
Artikel 4
Real Madrid contests the estimate by CEIAM of 42,9 % of the population which practises sport and proposes 50 %, also referring to the possible demand by the many employees working in the area;
Senest to måneder efter meddelelsen af denne afgørelse skal Kongeriget Spanien forelægge Kommissionen følgende oplysninger:
the fact that the land value is appraised under a scenario with a mere right to use the land (derecho de superficie) and not on the transfer of full possession and title to the land.
det samlede beløb (hovedstol og renter), der skal tilbagesøges fra støttemodtageren
These criticisms fail to convince.
en detaljeret beskrivelse af allerede trufne og planlagte foranstaltninger med henblik på at efterkomme denne afgørelse
First, regarding the hypothetical alternative use scenarios, as explained in recital 114, they serve only for the purposes of comparison of various hypothetical types of land use, since the classification of the land has not and cannot be changed from sport use.
dokumentation for, at støttemodtageren har fået påbud om at tilbagebetale støtten.
This analysis demonstrates that the value of plot B-32 could at least approximate the value assumed by the Madrid City Council if it had a classification with more commercial potential.
Kongeriget Spanien skal holde Kommissionen underrettet om udviklingen i de foranstaltninger, der træffes på nationalt plan for at efterkomme denne afgørelse, indtil den i artikel 1 omhandlede støtte er fuldt tilbagebetalt.
However, since the Madrid City Council did not change the classification of plot B-32, nor could legally have changed that classification from sport use, the appropriate reference for the ultimate outcome of the study is the sport use scenario.
Efter anmodning fra Kommissionen skal Kongeriget Spanien fremsende omgående oplysninger om, hvilke foranstaltninger der er truffet eller planlagt for at efterkomme afgørelsen.
Second, regarding the alleged valuation of the land on the basis of a ‘mortgage lending value’ or under the assumption of a mere land use right, the CEIAM study does not use these assumptions, as Real Madrid claims.
Spanien skal tillige give detaljerede oplysninger om de støttebeløb og renter, støttemodtageren allerede har tilbagebetalt.
On the contrary, as explained in Section 2.5 of the part of the study referring to the sport use scenario, the study defines the value on the basis of the investment value of the land which is its value to a current or potential owner.
Artikel 5
The CEIAM study explains in Section 2.3.2 that the application of the method described in Order ECO/805/2003, criticised by Real Madrid, has the objective to determine the market value of a plot [28].
Denne afgørelse er rettet til Kongeriget Spanien.
Independently of the purposes for which Order ECO/805/2003 applies, it describes a method for determining the value of land which can produce income linked to a certain economic activity and has nothing to do with a mortgage value.
Udfærdiget i Bruxelles, den 4. juli 2016.
For that purpose it applies generally accepted standards which do not depend on the reason for the valuation.
På Kommissionens vegne
That method depends on the existence of an investment project, since the value is determined by the net present value of long term future cash flows of the most likely investment project (in the case of plot B-32 building and operating sport infrastructure).
Medlem af Kommissionen
Unlike the static residual valuation method used in the Aguirre Newman report, supplied by Real Madrid, the CEIAM study bases its calculation not on the price which a sport infrastructure investor would make with the short term sale of the infrastructure, but with its commercial exploitation over the next decades.
EUT C 69 af 7.3.2014, s. 108.
The method proposed by CEIAM is particularly appropriate for plot B-32, since no opportunity exists to sell the land with the infrastructure because the type of use and the public ownership of that land are determined for the long term.
Jf. fodnote 1.
The static residual valuation method proposed by Real Madrid is not appropriate in a case of the intended operation of sport infrastructure against payment of user fees.
Dom af 6. oktober 2004 afsagt af Tribunal Superior de Justicia de Madrid, Sala de lo Contencioso-Administrativo, Seccion 2a.
That method can only be applied if the land and the infrastructure on it can be sold and only if this sale occurs immediately following the construction.
Dom nr. 77/2015, Sala de lo Contencioso-Administrativo, Sección Primera.
For the purposes of determining the current value of a plot in order to determine the value of a compensation claim depending on that value, it does not appear to be appropriate to assume or determine a hypothetical value based on characteristics which influence the value of the land but which actually are not fulfilled.
»Toda alteración de la ordenación establecida por un Plan de Ordenación Urbanística que […], desafecte el suelo de un destino público […], deberá contemplar las medidas compensatorias precisas para mantener la cantidad y calidad de las dotaciones previstas respecto del aprovechamiento urbanístico del suelo […].«
If there were a claim for compensation against the Madrid City Council, the relevant value of plot B-32 is the value it has for the Madrid City Council, which could not benefit from a hypothetical value of the plot if it would be transferable.
Aguirre Newman-rapporten, indgivet af Real Madrid, side 122-126.
Third, the CEIAM study contains a detailed and careful comparison with other sport installations of various characters and attractiveness for the estimation of the costs and revenues.
Aguirre Newman-rapporten, side 113-117.
Regarding the alleged failure to consider revenue streams from other activities than sport and to fully exhaust the buildability of the land, the study provides in Section 1.6.4 a detailed hypothesis on the way in which the land could be used for several mixes of sport infrastructure.
Aguirre Newman-rapporten, side 106-112.
It also includes parking, shop and restaurant use and the expected revenues from user fees, elaborated in detail for the various infrastructures.
EFT C 209 af 10.7.1997, s. 3.
Those percentages of land use are often set very high by urban planning to allow it to react to varying demands over the years until the expected use materialises.
Kongeligt dekret 1020/1993 om tekniske standarder for ejendomsvurdering og standardtabellen for jord- og bygningsværdier (»Real Decreto 1020/1993, de 25 de junio, por el que se aprueban las Normas Técnicas de Valoración y el Cuadro Marco de Valores del Suelo y de las construcciones para determinar el valor catastral de los bienes inmuebles de naturaleza urbana«).
However, that would not be unusual in case of public use land, since it is common that those maximum percentages are not fully exhausted in those cases.
I henhold til artikel 114.1 i lov nr. 33/2003 om de offentlige forvaltningers aktiver ( »Ley 33/2003, de 3 de noviembre, del Patrimonio de las Administraciones Públicas«) skal vurderinger af offentlig jord, som foretages i medfør af denne lov, udføres af i) tekniske medarbejdere i det offentlige organ, som forvalter de aktiver eller rettigheder, der skal overføres, eller som er interesseret i at købe eller leje dem, ii) teknisk personale i ministeriet for finans og offentlig forvaltning, iii) vurderingsfirmaer, der er opført på Spaniens nationalbanks liste over vurderingsfirmaer ( »Registro de Sociedades de Tasación del Banco de España«), samt andre vurderingsfirmaer, der er blevet godkendt dertil.
The intensity of the land use would depend on the expected demand and on the type of sport activities or infrastructure offered.
Sag C-399/08 P, Kommissionen mod Deutsche Post, ECLI:EU:C:2010:481, præmis 38, og den deri nævnte retspraksis.
In this regard, CEIAM analysed 22 comparable sport complexes for the development of the scenario used by the study.
Sag C-399/08 P, Kommissionen mod Deutsche Post, ECLI:EU:C:2010:481, præmis 39, og den deri nævnte retspraksis.
Regarding the percentage of sport users in the neighbourhood, which Real Madrid considers too low, the study used the existing official statistical data on sport activity of the inhabitants of the catchment area of sport installations on plot B-32 in Madrid, as reproduced in Section 3.2 of the study's information annex.
Forenede sager C-180/98 til C-184/98, Pavlov m.fl., ECLI:EU:C:2000:428.
The study also considers the possible demand by employees of the surrounding offices.
Sag C-415/93, Bosman, ECLI:EU:C:1995:463, præmis 73, sag C-519/04 P, Meca-Medina og Majcen mod Kommissionen, ECLI:EU:C:2006:492, præmis 22, og C-325/08, Olympique Lyonnais, ECLI:EU:C:2010:143, præmis 23.
In this regard, Real Madrid fails to provide figures based on market research in the neighbourhood to support its arguments that the percentage of sport users is too low, so that the Commission must accept the more prudent estimates provided by CEIAM.
Sag C-172/03, Heiser, ECLI:EU:C:2005:130, præmis 55, forenede sager C-71/09 P, C-73/09 P og C-76/09 P, Comitato »Venezia vuole vivere« m.fl. mod Kommissionen, ECLI:EU:C:2011:368, præmis 136.
Finally, regarding the fact that the land value is appraised under a scenario with a mere right to use the land (derecho de superficie) and not on the transfer of full possession and title to the land, the Commission refers to recital 111 above, in particular the observation that no opportunity exists to sell the land with the infrastructure because the type of use and the public ownership of that land are determined for the long term.
Se også sag C-156/98, Tyskland mod Kommissionen, ECLI:EU:C:2000:467, præmis 30, og den deri nævnte retspraksis.
For all the foregoing reasons, the Commission considers that the criticisms expressed by Spain and by Real Madrid on the CEIAM study are unfounded.
Sag C-342/96, Spanien mod Kommissionen, ECLI:EU:C:1999:210, præmis 41.
Real Madrid fails to show by how much the alleged shortcomings of the CEIAM report result in a material underestimation in value.
Sag C-39/94, SFEI m.fl., ECLI:EU:C:1996:285, præmis 60 og 61.
Consequently, the value of plot B-32 in 2011 could not have been assumed to be higher than the EUR 4275000 value estimated by the CEIAM study, so that a prudent market economy operator in similar circumstances would not have entered into the 2011 settlement agreement by which the Madrid City Council agreed to compensate Real Madrid in the amount of EUR 22693054,44 to buy off an uncertain legal liability for its failure to fulfil its obligation to transfer plot B-32 under the 1998 implementation agreement.
Sag C-73/11 P, Frucona Košice mod Kommissionen, ECLI:EU:C:2013:32, præmis 71, og den deri nævnte retspraksis.
In light of the uncertain probability that the Madrid City Council would have been found liable for its failure to transfer plot B-32 under the 1998 implementation agreement and the considerable disparity between the amount the Madrid City Council agreed to compensate Real Madrid under the 2011 settlement agreement (EUR 22693054,44) and the maximum extent of its legal liability (EUR 4275000), the Commission concludes that a prudent market economy operator, operating in circumstances similar to the Madrid City Council, would not have entered into the 2011 settlement agreement.
Sag C-124/10 P, Kommissionen mod EDF, ECLI:EU:C:2012:318, præmis 84, 85 og 105, jf. analogt Kommissionens afgørelse af 12. marts 2014 i sag SA.36249 (2014/N-3): Spanien, »Amendment of the Restructuring of CEISS through integration with Unicaja Banco«, betragtning 59 og 60 ( EUT C 141 af 9.5.2014, s. 1).
The Commission therefore concludes that the Madrid City Council, in concluding the 2011 settlement agreement with Real Madrid, did not behave as a market economy operator would have in comparable circumstances.
Sag C-124/10 P, Kommissionen mod EDF, ECLI:EU:C:2012:318, præmis 85.
Consequently, the 2011 settlement agreement should be considered to confer an economic advantage on Real Madrid amounting to the difference between the amount of the compensation and the maximum amount of its legal liability and therefore constitutes State aid within the meaning of Article 107(1) of the Treaty.
Spanien bekræftede i et telefonmøde den 6. november 2015 og skriftlige oplysninger den 9. marts 2016, at den ikke havde søgt sådan ekstern rådgivning.
Finally, regarding Spain's claim that if the Madrid City Council had transferred plot B-32 to Real Madrid in 2011 instead, no aid would be present, the Commission considers that claim irrelevant for its conclusion that Real Madrid obtained an economic advantage under the 2011 settlement agreement.
Jf. fodnote 4.
The Madrid City Council could only have transferred plot B-32 if it was legally entitled to do so.
I det bedst og værst tænkelige scenarie med hensyn til det forventede investeringsafkast i form af indtægter vil værdien være henholdsvis 6350000 EUR og 2350000 EUR
If that were the case, not only would there have been no need to enter into the 2011 settlement agreement, but Real Madrid would have obtained the actual plot of land to which it was entitled under the 1998 implementation agreement, so that there would have been no need to assess whether the compensation offered to Real Madrid in lieu of that plot of land corresponded to the value of that land.
Bemærkninger fra Spanien af 15. juni 2015 om den CEIAM-undersøgelse, som Kommissionen fremsendte den 22. april 2015.
In other words, the Madrid City Council would have implemented the 1998 implementation agreement, which is not the subject-matter of the present decision.
Indlæg fra Real Madrid af 10. juli 2015.
Compatibility of the aid
Jf. artikel 24, stk. 2, i Orden ECO/805/2003, de 27 de marzo, sobre normas de valoración de bienes inmuebles y de determinados derechos para ciertas finalidades financieras, BOE núm.
State aid shall be deemed compatible with the internal market if it falls within any of the categories listed in Article 107(2) of the Treaty [29] and it may be deemed compatible with the internal market if it is found by the Commission to fall within any of the categories listed in Article 107(3) of the Treaty [30].
85, de 9 de abril de 2003, p. 13678.
However, it is the Member State granting the aid which bears the burden of proving that State aid granted by it is compatible with the internal market pursuant to Articles 107(2) or 107(3) of the Treaty [31].
Undtagelserne i traktatens artikel 107, stk. 2, vedrører: a) støtte af social karakter til enkelte forbrugere, b) støtte, hvis formål er at råde bod på skader, der er forårsaget af naturkatastrofer eller af andre usædvanlige begivenheder, c) eller støtteforanstaltninger for økonomien i visse af Forbundsrepublikken Tysklands områder.
Neither Spain nor Real Madrid have claimed that any of the exceptions provided for in Article 107(2) and 107(3) of the Treaty apply in the present case.
Undtagelserne i traktatens artikel 107, stk. 3, vedrører: a) støtte til fremme af den økonomiske udvikling i visse områder, b) støtte, der kan fremme virkeliggørelsen af vigtige projekter af fælleseuropæisk interesse eller afhjælpe en alvorlig forstyrrelse i en medlemsstats økonomi, c) støtte til fremme af udviklingen af visse erhvervsgrene eller økonomiske regioner, d) støtte til fremme af kulturen og bevarelse af kulturarven og e) andre former for støtte, hvorom Rådet træffer afgørelse.
The Commission notes in this regard that since the aid in question results in an income from which Real Madrid would not normally have benefited in the course of its business operations, the 2011 settlement agreement should be considered as granting operating aid to Real Madrid.
Sag T-68/03, Olympiaki Aeroporia Ypiresies mod Kommissionen, ECLI:EU:T:2007:253, præmis 34.
As a general rule, such aid can normally not be considered compatible with the internal market under Article 107(3)(c) of the Treaty in that it does not facilitate the development of certain activities.
Rådets forordning (EU) 2015/1589 af 13. juli 2015 om fastlæggelse af regler for anvendelsen af artikel 108 i traktaten om den Europæiske unions funktionsmåde (EUT L 248 af 24.9.2015, s. 9).
Consequently, the State aid granted to Real Madrid through the 2011 settlement agreement is incompatible with the internal market.
Se sag C-70/72, Kommissionen mod Tyskland, ECLI:EU:C:1973:87, præmis 13.
UNLAWFULNESS OF THE AID
Se forenede sager C-278/92, C-279/92 og C-280/92, Spanien mod Kommissionen, EU:C:1994:325, præmis 75.
According to Article 108(3) of the Treaty, Member States are obliged to inform the Commission of any plan to grant aid (notification obligation) and they may not put into effect any proposed aid measures until the Commission has taken a final position decision on the aid in question (standstill obligation).
Se sag C-75/97, Belgien mod Kommissionen, ECLI:EU:C:1999:311, præmis 64-65.
The Commission notes that Spain did not notify the Commission of any plan to grant aid through the 2011 settlement agreement, nor did it respect the standstill obligation laid down in Article 108(3) of the Treaty.
Se sag C-441/06, Kommissionen mod Frankrig, ECLI:EU:C:2007:616, præmis 29 og den deri nævnte retspraksis.
RECOVERY
Kommissionens forordning (EF) nr. 271/2008 af 30. januar 2008 om ændring af forordning (EF) nr. 794/2004 om gennemførelse af Rådets forordning (EF) nr. 659/1999 om fastlæggelse af regler for anvendelsen af EF-traktatens artikel 93 (EUT L 82 af 25.3.2008, s. 1).
According to the Treaty and the Court's established case-law, the Commission is competent to decide that the Member State concerned must abolish or alter aid when it has found that it is incompatible with the internal market [33].
Den 20. december 2011 anmodede Kommissionen om Spaniens bemærkninger til disse oplysninger, og disse blev fremsendt den 23. december 2011 og 20. februar 2012.
The Court has also consistently held that the obligation on a Member State to abolish aid regarded by the Commission as being incompatible with the internal market is designed to re-establish the previously existing situation [34].
Som svar på endnu en anmodning om oplysninger fra Kommissionen af 2. april 2012 fremsendte Spanien yderligere oplysninger den 18. juni 2012.
In this context, the Court has established that this objective is attained once the recipient has repaid the amounts granted by way of unlawful aid, thus forfeiting the advantage which it had enjoyed over its competitors on the market, and the situation prior to the payment of the aid is restored [35].
Kommissionen modtog Spaniens bemærkninger i et brev af 17. november 2014.
Article 16(1) of Regulation (EU) 2015/1589 establishes an obligation on the Commission to order recovery of unlawful and incompatible aid.
Den 4. november 2015 og 14. marts 2016 mødtes Kommissionen med repræsentanter for Real Madrid.
That provision also provides that the Member State concerned shall take all necessary measures to recover unlawful aid that is found to be incompatible.
Derfor indvilligede Madrids kommunalbestyrelse i at kompensere Real Madrid for, at jordlod B-32 ikke kunne overføres i overensstemmelse med aftalen fra 1998, med et beløb, som svarede til 2011-værdien af B-32.
Article 16(2) of Regulation (EU) 2015/1589 establishes that the aid is to be recovered, including interest from the date on which the unlawful aid was at the disposal of the beneficiary until the date of its effective recovery.
Kommissionen udtrykte i åbningsafgørelsen tvivl om den betydelige stigning i den påståede værdi af jordlod B-32 mellem 1998 og 2011.
Commission Regulation (EC) No 794/2004 [36] elaborates the methods to be used for the calculation of recovery interest.
Denne grund, som på købstidspunktet blev vurderet til 595194 EUR, var angiveligt steget til mere end 22 mio. EUR, dvs. at værdien var 37 gange højere.
Finally, Article 16(3) of Regulation (EU) 2015/1589 states, that ‘recovery shall be effected without delay and in accordance with the procedures under the national law of the Member State concerned, provided that they allow for the immediate an effective execution of the Commission decision’.
I den forbindelse antager Spanien, at aftalen fra 1998 er ugyldig i sin helhed, og konkluderer, at Real Madrid og Madrids kommunalbestyrelse også ville skulle returnere de andre jordlod, som var omfattet af bytteaftalen fra 1996 og gennemførelsesaftalen fra 1998.
No provision of Union law requires the Commission, when ordering the recovery of aid declared incompatible with the internal market, to quantify the exact amount of the aid to be recovered.
Eftersom disse jordlodder imidlertid i mellemtiden var blevet solgt, og ikke kunne returneres i naturalier, ville Madrids kommunalbestyrelse skulle returnere værdien af disse jordlodder på salgstidspunktet.
Rather, it is sufficient for the Commission's decision to include information enabling the addressee of the decision to work out that amount itself without overmuch difficulty [37].
Spanien henviser desuden til retspraksis, der støtter den opfattelse, at Madrids kommunalbestyrelse ville skulle kompensere Real Madrid for den manglende opfyldelse af sine forpligtelser i henhold til gennemførelsesaftalen fra 1998.
Nevertheless, in the present case, the Commission deems the aid resulting from the 2011 settlement agreement which Spain must recover from Real Madrid to be equal to the difference between the value of plot B-32 as agreed to in the 2011 settlement agreement, being EUR 22693054,44, and the maximum extent of its legal liability under the 1998 implementation agreement, taking EUR 4275000 as the accurate market value of plot B-32 in 2011.
Der henvises til domme, som omhandler efterfølgende umulighed, forårsaget forsætligt eller uagtsomt af en af parterne.
Thus to remove the advantage granted to Real Madrid as a result of the 2011 settlement agreement, Spain must recover EUR 18418054,44 from that entity.
Hvad angår forskellen mellem grundvurderingen i 1998 og 2011, forklarer Spanien, at den store forskel kan forklares med, at man i 1998 kun lige var begyndt med byudviklingsplanlægningen for grunden.
CONCLUSION
Man var dengang kun lige færdig med planlægningen.
In conclusion, the Commission finds that Spain, by way of the 2011 settlement agreement concluded between Madrid City Council and Real Madrid, has unlawfully granted State aid to Real Madrid, in breach of Article 108(3) of the Treaty, which Spain is required to recover by virtue of Article 16 of Regulation (EU) 2015/1589 from Real Madrid,
Situationen var en helt anden i 2011.
HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
I begge tilfælde fulgte man i vurderingen Madrids kommunalbestyrelses normale standarder for grundvurdering.
Article 1
Real Madrid ville ikke have været villig til at acceptere et forlig, der vurderede retten til jordlod B-32 til grundens markedsværdi i 1998 eller i 2003.
The State aid amounting to EUR 18418054,44, unlawfully granted on 29 July 2011 by the Kingdom of Spain in breach of Article 108(3) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, in favour of Real Madrid Club de Fútbol is incompatible with the internal market.
Real Madrid ville have anlagt sag for at sikre den fulde værdi af sin ret til at kræve fuldbyrdelse af gennemførelsesaftalen fra 1998.
Article 2
Dette ville føre til et erstatningskrav svarende til værdien af grunden på tidspunktet for domsafsigelsen, hvilket ville være den værdi, der blev lagt til grund i forligsaftalen fra 2011.
The Kingdom of Spain shall recover the aid referred to in Article 1 from the beneficiary.
Real Madrid kunne også have ophævet aftalen i overensstemmelse med civillovens artikel 1124, hvilket i henhold til artikel 1123 ville have givet tilbageleveringsret til det, der allerede var overført, samt ret til erstatning.
The sums to be recovered shall bear interest from the date on which they were put at the disposal of the beneficiary until their actual recovery.