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I denne forbindelse skal de franske myndigheder desuden lægge renter til støttebeløbet, som beregnes fra den dato, hvor den ulovlige støtte var til virksomhedernes rådighed, dvs. på datoen for hver støtteudbetaling, og indtil den tilbagebetales, i henhold til kapitel V i Kommissionens forordning (EF) nr. 794/2004.
The capitalisation approach consists in treating the improvement in the brand image of the airport through the marketing services as an intangible asset, acquired for the price laid down in the marketing services agreement.
Da de kapitalstrømme, som støtten består af i nærværende sag, er komplekse og fordelt på flere datoer i årets løb eller blev udbetalt løbende for visse indtægtskategorier, finder Kommissionen det acceptabelt i forbindelse med renteberegningen at anse tidspunktet for den berørte støttes udbetaling for at ligge ved årets udgang, altså den 31. december i de pågældende år.
However, the study emphasises the extent of the difficulties raised by the capitalisation approach, thereby demonstrating the lack of reliability of the results that such a method can produce, and the study itself prefers the cash-flow approach.
De udbetalinger, som blev foretaget af departementet Charente, fællesskabet for bysamfundet Angoulême og opland og det kommunale fællesskab for Braconne Charente i henhold til aftalen af 23. maj 2002 om betingelserne for finansiering af driften og udviklingen af lufthavnen Angoulême Brie-Champniers og af »Syndicat mixte des aéroports de Charente« i henhold til kontrakttillægget om forvaltning af 22. januar 2009 og kontraktskrivelsen af 8. august 2011 til henholdsvis handels- og industrikammeret i Angoulême og SNC-Lavalin, udgør statsstøtte i henhold til artikel 107, stk. 1, i TEUF, som Frankrig ulovligt har ydet i modstrid med artikel 108, stk. 3, i TEUF.
It also stresses that, ‘to implement the capitalisation approach, it is necessary to estimate the average period during which an airport is able to retain a customer because of the AMS marketing campaign.
De udbetalinger til Ryanair og Airport Marketing Services, der blev foretaget af »Syndicat mixte des aéroports de Charente« i henhold til kontrakten om lufthavnstjenester og kontrakten om markedsføringstjenester, som blev indgået den 8. februar 2008, udgør statsstøtte i henhold til artikel 107, stk. 1, i TEUF, som Frankrig ulovligt har ydet i modstrid med artikel 108, stk. 3, i TEUF.
In practice it would be very difficult to estimate the average length of customer retention following an AMS campaign owing to lack of adequate data’.
De udbetalinger, som blev foretaget af departementet Charente, fællesskabet for bysamfundet Angoulême og opland og det kommunale fællesskab for Braconne Charente i henhold til aftalen af 23. maj 2002 om betingelserne for finansiering af driften og udviklingen af lufthavnen Angoulême Brie-Champniers og af »Syndicat mixte des aéroports de Charente« i henhold til kontrakttillægget om forvaltning af 22. januar 2009 til handels- og industrikammeret i Angoulême, udgør statsstøtte, som er forenelig med det indre marked, jf. artikel 106, stk. 2, i TEUF.
The study of 31 January 2014 proposed a practical application of the cash-flow approach.
Senest fire måneder efter udløbet af den kontrakt, der blev indgået i 2011 mellem »Syndicat mixte des aéroports de Charente« og SNC-Lavalin, forelægger Frankrig Kommissionen en rapport, som påviser, at den kompensation, der er blevet udbetalt til SNC-Lavalin, herunder en rimelig forrentning af den investerede kapital, er i overensstemmelse med artikel 5 i afgørelse 2012/21/EU i hele kontraktens løbetid.
This final value is based on the incremental profits expected from the airport services and marketing services agreements in the final year of application of the airport services agreement.
Frankrig tilbagesøger den i artikel 2, stk. 4, nævnte støtte fra støttemodtagerne.
According to the study of 31 January 2014, the capacity for producing lasting benefits depends on a number of factors ‘including greater prominence and a stronger brand, alongside network externalities and repeat passengers’, although no further details of these are given.
Ryanair og Airport Marketing Services hæfter solidarisk for støttens tilbagebetaling.
Moreover, this method takes into account a discount rate which reflects capital costs.
Den støtte, der skal tilbagebetales, pålægges renter fra det tidspunkt, hvor den blev stillet til støttemodtagernes rådighed, og indtil den er tilbagebetalt.
The study suggests a probability factor of 30 %, which it considers prudent.
Disse renter beregnes med renters rente i overensstemmelse med kapitel V i forordning (EF) nr. 794/2004 og Kommissionens forordning (EF) nr. 271/2008 om ændring af forordning (EF) nr. 794/2004.
However, this very theoretical study does not provide any serious evidence for this factor, neither quantitatively nor qualitatively.
Frankrig indstiller alle resterende udbetalinger af den i artikel 2, stk. 4, omhandlede støtte med virkning fra datoen for vedtagelse af denne afgørelse.
It does not base itself on any facts relating to Ryanair’s activities, air transport markets or airport services to substantiate this rate of 30 %.
Tilbagesøgningen af den i artikel 2, stk. 4, omhandlede støtte iværksættes omgående og effektivt.
It does not establish any link between this rate and the factors that it mentions in passing (prominence, strong brand, network externalities and repeat passengers) and that are supposed to extend the benefits of the airport services agreement and the market services agreement beyond their expiry dates.
Frankrig sikrer, at denne afgørelse efterkommes senest fire måneder efter datoen for afgørelsens meddelelse.
Finally, it does not in any way base itself on the specific content of the marketing services provided for in the various agreements with AMS when analysing to what extent these services could influence the factors mentioned above.
Senest to måneder efter meddelelsen af denne afgørelse sender Frankrig Kommissionen følgende oplysninger:
Moreover, it does not prove that there is any likelihood that, on expiry of an airport services agreement and a marketing services agreement, the profits generated by the agreements for the airport manager in the final year of their application will continue in the future.
en detaljeret beskrivelse af, hvilke foranstaltninger der allerede er truffet og planlagt for at efterkomme afgørelsen
A ‘final value’ calculated using the method suggested by Ryanair would therefore be highly unlikely to be taken into account by a prudent MEO when deciding whether or not to enter into an agreement.
de dokumenter, der godtgør, at støttemodtagerne har fået besked på at tilbagebetale støtten.
The study of 31 January 2014 therefore shows that a cash flow method would lead to only very imprecise and unreliable results, as would the capitalisation method.
Frankrig holder løbende Kommissionen underrettet om de nationale foranstaltninger, der træffes for at efterkomme denne afgørelse, indtil den i artikel 2, stk. 4, omhandlede støtte er fuldt tilbagebetalt.
Moreover, neither France nor any interested party has provided any evidence that the method put forward by Ryanair in this study, or any other method aimed at quantifying the benefits outliving the airport services agreements and marketing services agreements, has been successfully implemented by the managers of regional airports comparable to Angoulême airport.
Frankrig indsender på Kommissionens anmodning straks oplysninger om, hvilke foranstaltninger der er truffet eller planlagt for at efterkomme afgørelsen.
France has not commented on the studies of 17 and 31 January 2014 and has therefore not approved their conclusions in the course of the present procedure.
Derudover fremsender Frankrig udførlige oplysninger om de støttebeløb og renter, som støttemodtagerne allerede har tilbagebetalt.
Moreover, as stated above, the marketing services considered by the formal investigation procedure clearly target persons likely to use the route covered by the marketing services agreement.
Denne afgørelse er rettet til Den Franske Republik.
If this route is not renewed on expiry of the airport services agreement, it is extremely unlikely that marketing services will continue to have a positive effect on passenger traffic at the airport after the expiry date.
Udfærdiget i Bruxelles, den 23. juli 2014.
It is very difficult for an airport manager to assess the likelihood of an airline continuing to operate a route on expiry of the term to which it has committed itself in the airport services agreement.
Med virkning fra 1.12.2009 er EF-traktatens artikel 87 og 88 blevet til henholdsvis artikel 107 og 108 i traktaten om Den Europæiske Unions funktionsmåde (TEUF).
Low-cost airlines in particular have demonstrated very dynamic management of the opening and closure of routes.
De to sæt bestemmelser er i det væsentlige identiske.
Therefore, when entering into a transaction such as the one being examined in this formal investigation procedure, a prudent MEO would not count on an airline extending operation of the relevant route on expiry of the agreement.
I denne afgørelse skal henvisninger til artikel 107 og 108 i TEUF efter omstændighederne forstås som henvisninger til EF-traktatens artikel 87 og 88.
Furthermore, and for the sake of completeness, it should be observed that a terminal value calculated in accordance with the methodology proposed by Ryanair in the study of 31 January 2014 is positive (and therefore has a positive effect on the expected profitability of the airport services agreement and the marketing services agreement) only when the incremental profits expected from such agreements during the last year of application of the airport services agreement are positive.
Med TEUF er der endvidere sket en række terminologiske ændringer, bl.a. er »Fællesskabet« erstattet af »Unionen«, »fællesmarkedet« af »det indre marked« og »Retten i Første Instans« af »Retten«.
The methodology consists in starting with the expected incremental profit for the last year of application of the airport services agreement and projecting it into the future by applying two factors.
I denne afgørelse anvendes terminologien fra TEUF.
The first factor is the overall growth of the European aviation market and reflects the expected traffic growth.
EUT C 301 af 5.10.2012, s. 1.
The second is a factor of 30 % representing approximately the probability that the execution of the recently expired agreements promotes the future conclusion of similar agreements likely to generate similar financial flows.
EUT C 149 af 25.5.2012, s. 29.
Thus, if the expected future incremental profit for the last year of application of the airport services agreement is negative, the terminal value will also be negative, reflecting the fact that agreements similar to those which have recently expired would, like them, harm the profitability of the airport each year.
EUT C 99 af 4.4.2014, s. 3.
The study of 31 January 2014 envisages this case very briefly, confining itself to indicating in a footnote, without comments or explanations:
EUT C 113 af 15.4.2014, s. 30.
‘… no terminal value can be calculated if the incremental profits net of AMS payments are negative in the final year of the period in question’.
Overdragelsesaftalen af 22.4.2002, i det følgende benævnt »overdragelsesaftalen«.
However, as will be shown below, all the agreements concerned in this case lead to forecast incremental cash-flows that are negative each year — and not only globally — in terms of net discounted value.
Punkt 37 i driftsbetingelserne i overdragelsesaftalen.
Thus, for these agreements, a ‘terminal value’ calculated according to the methodology proposed by Ryanair would be zero or even negative.
Jf. betragtning 13 i ovennævnte indledningsafgørelse, tabel 2.
Taking account of such a terminal value would not therefore call into question the finding that the various agreements involve an economic advantage.
Som nævnt i betragtning 23 i indledningsafgørelsen har SMAC valgt en procedure for tildeling af offentlige kontrakter.
To conclude, it is clear from the above that the only benefit that a prudent MEO would expect from a marketing services agreement and would quantify when deciding on whether or not to enter into such an agreement, together with an airport services agreement, would be that the marketing services would have a positive effect on the number of passengers using the routes covered by the agreements in question for the term of operation of these routes, as set out in the agreements.
De i tabellen anførte køretider og afstande stammer fra Michelins ruteberegner og tager udgangspunkt i den korteste køretid.
The Commission considers that the other benefits would be deemed too uncertain to be regarded as quantified, and indeed such theoretical benefits were not taken into account by the managers of Angoulême airport at the time of conclusion of the agreements in question.
Trafik og bevægelser ifølge brev fra de franske myndigheder af 20.1.2012.
The comparability of Angoulême airport to other European airports
Tal for januar til november 2011.
Under the new guidelines for applying the MEO principle, the existence of aid to an airline using a particular airport can, in principle, be excluded if the price charged for the airport services corresponds to the market price, or it can be demonstrated through an ex ante analysis, that is to say one founded on information available when the aid is granted and on developments foreseeable at the time, that the airport/airline arrangement will lead to a positive incremental profit contribution for the airport.
Jf. betragtning 21 i denne afgørelse.
However, under the first approach (a comparison with a ‘market price’), the Commission doubts that, at the present time, an appropriate benchmark can be identified to establish a true market price for services provided by airports and considers an ex ante supplementary profitability analysis to be the most relevant criterion for the assessment of arrangements concluded by airports with individual airlines.
Aftale af 23.5.2002 om betingelserne for finansiering af driften og udviklingen af lufthavnen Angoulême Brie-Champniers.
It should be noted here that, in general, the application of the MEO principle based on an average price for other similar markets may prove helpful if such a price can be reasonably identified or deduced from other market indicators.
Fordelingsnøglen for disse bidrag fremgår af tabel 2 i indledningsafgørelsen.
However, this method cannot have the same relevance in the case of airport services.
SNC-Lavalins kontraktskrivelse af 19.7.2011, accepteret af SMAC den 8.8.2011 i henhold til en beslutning af 23.6.2011.
The reason for this is that the cost and revenues structure tends to vary greatly from one airport to another.
Udbudsbekendtgørelse offentliggjort den 9.3.2011 i BOAMP nr. 48-B, annonce nr. 222.
This is because costs and revenues depend on how highly developed an airport is, the number of airlines using the airport, its capacity in terms of passenger traffic, the state of the infrastructure and related investments, the regulatory framework which can vary from one Member State to another, and any debts or obligations entered into by the airport in the past.
Basisscenariet svarer til de mål og resultater, som den driftsansvarlige finder det realistisk at undersøge og påtage sig i længden på vilkårene for gennemførelse af den kontrakt, han har fået overdraget, i lyset af den økonomiske situation, de særlige forhold og konjunkturen på markedet for lufttransport samt lufthavnens beliggenhed og omgivelser.
Moreover, the liberalisation of the air transport market complicates any purely comparative analysis.
Det målrettede scenarie har til formål at sikre udviklingen af regelmæssige erhvervsflyvninger.
As can be seen in the case in point, commercial practices between airports and airlines are not based on a list of public prices for individual services.
Det vurderer indvirkningen på lufthavnens regnskab og eventuelt den driftsansvarliges godtgørelse samt de finansielle udfordringer i forbindelse med den yderligere finansielle bistand, som SMAC skal iværksætte uden for kontrakten.
Rather, these commercial relations are very varied.
Jf. betragtning 30 i (ovennævnte) indledningsafgørelse, tabel 3.
They include sharing risks with regard to passenger traffic and any related commercial and financial liability, standard incentive schemes and changing the spread of risks over the term of the agreements.
SMAC's beslutning af 23.6.2011.
Consequently, one transaction cannot really be compared with another based on a turnaround price or price per passenger.
Ud over de kapitalstrømme, der er forbundet med de statslige investeringer, jf. betragtning 24 i nærværende afgørelse, mindes der om de kapitalstrømme, der er forbundet med driften, jf. betragtning 43, tabel 4, i indledningsafgørelsen.
Ryanair considers that it is possible to apply the informed investor in a market economy principle by using certain European airports as a benchmark.
Brandbiler, biler til bekæmpelse af dyre- og fuglerisici, hegn.
In this connection, it considers that some European airports are substitutable for Angoulême airport because of their similarities.
Udstyr til passagerkontrol og kontrol af indskrevet bagage.
The study provided to the Commission in this regard compares the charges paid by Ryanair to Angoulême airport with the charges that the airline pays at these airports considered to be comparable.
Jf. afsnit 8.1.1.2 i nærværende afgørelse.
Ryanair claims that the charges applied by the other airports are lower than those of Angoulême airport.
Afgift for handicappede og bevægelseshæmmede passagerer.
However, as indicated above, the Commission considers that the market economy operator principle must be applied after a joint analysis of the two linked contractual instruments.
Jf. betragtning 35, tabel 9, i denne afgørelse vedrørende Ryanair.
Accordingly, the findings of the comparative analysis provided by Ryanair cannot be accepted.
EUT S 144-179348 af 28.7.2007.
Thus, the charges paid by Ryanair for airport services at other airports cannot serve as benchmark for the application of the market economy operator principle.
Jf. betragtning 55 ff. i indledningsafgørelsen.
This is, however, subject to the condition that that negative price is offset, over a period of time, by an expected increase in the revenues from the operation of an airline, whether these revenues have an aeronautical or a non-aeronautical origin.
Punkt 6 i kontrakten om lufthavnstjenester.
In the present case, the non-aeronautical revenues could not be sufficient and were unlikely to be developed to the extent necessary and sufficient during the five-year term of the airport services agreement.
Punkt 10.3 i kontrakten om lufthavnstjenester.
Finally, airports for which a negative price might be justified are few in number and do not feature in the sample selected.
Punkt 1 i kontrakten om markedsføringstjenester.
In this regard, the Commission considers that the characteristics of the airports that make up the sample are too disparate to provide a satisfactory basis for analysis.
Jf. betragtning 60 i indledningsafgørelsen.
Moreover, Ryanair has not shown how the airports mentioned in the study are sufficiently comparable in terms of traffic volume and type of traffic, type and level of airport services, the presence of a large city in the vicinity of the airport, the number of inhabitants in the catchment area, prosperity in the surrounding area, and the existence of different geographical areas likely to attract passengers.
Punkt 7 i kontrakten om markedsføringstjenester.
Neither France nor any interested party has cited the existence of airports that are sufficiently comparable to Angoulême airport in terms of those various criteria.
Betalingerne i medfør af kontrakten om markedsføringstjenester blev foretaget direkte af SMAC til AMS.
In such conditions, the Commission considers that, in this context and taking into account all the information available to it, there are no grounds for departing from the approach recommended in the new aviation guidelines for applying the MEO principle to relations between airports and airlines, i.e. an ex ante analysis of supplementary (or incremental) profitability.
Denne nettooverførsel tager ikke højde for andre indtægter eller udgifter i forbindelse med Ryanairs virksomhed.
This approach is justified by the fact that an airport manager has an objective interest in concluding a transaction with an airline if it can be reasonably expected that this transaction improves its profits (or reduces its losses) compared with a counterfactual situation in which the transaction was not concluded, irrespective of any comparison.
Jf. betragtning 175 i (ovennævnte) indledningsafgørelse.
Conclusion on the method used for the application of the market economy investor principle
Domstolens dom af 24.7.2003 i sag C-280/00, Trans GmbH og Regierungspräsidium Magdeburg mod Nahverkehrsgesellschaft Altmark GmbH, Sml. 2003 I, s. 7747.
It follows from all of the foregoing that, to apply the market economy operator principle to the 2008 agreements, the Commission must jointly analyse the marketing services agreement and the airport services agreement concluded simultaneously and must determine whether a hypothetical market economy operator guided by prospects of profitability and managing Angoulême airport in the stead of CCI-airport and SMAC would have concluded such agreements.
Jf. betragtning 240 i (ovennævnte) indledningsafgørelse.
To this end, it is necessary to assess the incremental profitability of the 2008 agreements throughout their period of application, as the market economy operator would have assessed them when concluding the agreements, by estimating:
Kommissionens retningslinjer om anvendelse af EF-traktatens artikel 92 og 93 og EØS-aftalens artikel 61 på statsstøtte i luftfartssektoren (EFT C 350 af 10.12.1994, s. 5).
the future incremental traffic expected from the implementation of the 2008 agreements, taking into account the effects of the marketing services on the load factor of the routes covered by the agreement,
Kommissionens beslutning 2008/948/EF af 23. juli 2008 om Tysklands foranstaltninger til fordel for DHL og Leipzig/Halle lufthavn C 48/06 (ex N 227/06) (EUT L 346 af 23.12.2008, s. 1).
the future incremental revenues expected from the implementation of the 2008 agreements, including revenues from aeronautical charges and ground handling services generated by the routes covered by these agreements and the non-aeronautical revenues from the additional traffic generated by the implementation of these agreements,
De franske myndigheder mener, at disse aktiviteter omfatter tiltag til bekæmpelse af dyrerisici.
the expected future incremental costs of implementing the 2008 agreements, including operating costs and any incremental investment costs generated by the routes covered by these agreements, as well as the costs of marketing services.
Ordningen med lufthavnsafgifter er oprettet i henhold til § 1609, stk. 24, i den almindelige skattelov og ved ministeriel anordning af 30. december 2009 om bestemmelserne om indberetninger fra lufthavnes driftsansvarlige til fastsættelse af lufthavnsafgiften pr. passager.
These calculations should provide the future annual flows corresponding to the difference between incremental revenues and costs, to be discounted if necessary with a discount rate reflecting the cost of capital for the airport manager.
En trafikenhed svarer til en passager eller til 100 kg post eller gods.
A positive net discounted value indicates in principle that the relevant agreements do not confer an economic advantage while a negative net discounted value indicates the presence of such an advantage.
Det er f.eks. kun halvdelen af udgifterne til hegn, der dækkes.
It should be noted that, in the context of such an assessment, Ryanair’s arguments that the price of the marketing services acquired by SMAC is equivalent to or lower than what can be considered a ‘market price’ for such services is irrelevant.