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Denne driftsstøtte er ydet ulovligt før den 4. april 2014, hvor de nye retningslinjer trådte i kraft, og hvor Kommissionen erklærede, at den ville anvende principperne i retningslinjerne på alle verserende sager om driftsstøtte til lufthavne, selv om støtten blev ydet før den 4. april 2014.
Non-discriminatory allocation (criterion (h)).
Ifølge de nye retningslinjer kan driftsstøtte ydet til lufthavne før den 4. april 2014 erklæres for forenelig for hele det beløb, der svarer til driftsomkostningerne, hvis en række betingelser er opfyldt.
According to France, ‘VTAN states that its intention to grant financial incentives and/or make marketing payments to Ryanair was not made public knowledge before the various agreements were signed.
Disse betingelser kan opsummeres som følger:
However, VTAN made the same proposals to all airlines, which therefore enabled all interested airlines to offer their services as Ryanair did’.
Støtten bidrager til et veldefineret mål af fælles interesse (forbedring af borgernes mobilitet og forbindelsen til regionerne, bekæmpelse af trafiktætheden i EU's store hovedlufthavne, regional udvikling).
As a result, the non-discrimination condition, as set out in the 2005 Guidelines, was not met by any of the measures in question.
Statslig indgriben er nødvendig.
Proposals made privately to certain airlines chosen at the discretion of the airport operator are not enough to meet this condition.
Støtten er et egnet politikinstrument.
Given all the above, the Commission considers that none of the unlawful aid granted to Ryanair/AMS through the agreements covered by this investigation meets all the criteria established by the 2005 Guidelines.
Støtten virker som incitament på den måde, at den økonomiske aktivitet i den pågældende lufthavn ville være væsentligt lavere uden driftsstøtten.
Accordingly, the aid resulting from the following measures is incompatible with the internal market:
Støtten er proportionel i den forstand, at den er begrænset til det minimum, der er nødvendigt for at frembringe den støttemodtagende aktivitet.
ASSESSMENT OF THE FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR THE CCI-AIRPORT AND VTAN
Der skal i analysen tages hensyn til konkurrencefordrejningen som følge af støtten og dens påvirkning af samhandelen.
In this part the Commission will assess the various financial support measures granted to the CCI-Airport and VTAN, as described in Section 3.2.
Kommissionen vil anvende disse kriterier på den omhandlede støtte.
EXISTENCE OF STATE AID WITHIN THE MEANING OF ARTICLE 107(1) TFEU
Bidrag til et veldefineret mål af fælles interesse
For a measure to be classed as State aid the following cumulative criteria therefore have to be met:
Da denne støtte har finansieret Nîmes lufthavns driftsunderskud, har den gjort det muligt at opretholde aktiviteten.
the beneficiary must be an undertaking within the meaning of Article 107(1) TFEU, which presupposes that it carries on an economic activity,
Som Frankrig har understreget, har lufthavnens aktivitet haft en positiv indvirkning på den økonomiske udvikling i departementet Gard, især i turistsektoren.
the measure in question must be granted through state resources and be imputable to the state,
Vedrørende turistsektoren kan det ikke nægtes, at Nîmes lufthavn betjener et turistområde, og at Ryanairs ruteflyvninger til denne lufthavn siden 2000 har bragt store turiststrømme til området omkring Nîmes.
the measure in question must distort or threaten to distort competition and be likely to affect trade between Member States.
Eksempelvis præciseres det i førnævnte undersøgelse fra 2006 om de økonomiske virkninger af Nîmes lufthavn, at de turister, som blev bragt til Nîmes lufthavn alene i 2006, tilførte den lokale økonomi 100 mio. EUR i løbende udgifter, heraf 21 mio. til overnatning, 26 mio. til restaurationssektoren, 20 mio. til andre indkøb af fødevarer, 9 mio. til transport (ud over flytransport), 4 mio. til rundvisninger og 6 mio. til souvenirs.
In order to determine whether the aforementioned subsidies constitute State aid, it should firstly be ascertained whether their successive beneficiaries, namely the CCI-Airport and VTAN, were undertakings, i.e. carried on economic activities at the time when those measures were granted.
Den afsmittende økonomiske virkning (dvs. virkningen på resten af den lokale økonomi) af lufthavnens aktiviteter anslås i øvrigt til 2,38 mia. EUR under hensyntagen til virkningen af investeringerne.
In connection with this question, the Commission will then assess the subsidies received by the CCI-Airport and VTAN under the national system for financing sovereign tasks in French airports, as described in recital 32 et seq.
Desuden hedder det i undersøgelsen fra 2006, at 2200 arbejdspladser var direkte knyttet til lufthavnsvirksomheden.
Lastly, the Commission will examine whether or not the operation of Nîmes airport may have constituted a service of general economic interest during the period in question.
Indtil lukningen af BAN i juli 2011 gav denne sig således udslag i modtagelsen af mange familier i Nîmes-området (over 800 børn af militærfolk gik i skole i Gard).
After having made these three preliminary assessments and using their results, the Commission will assess each of the measures covered by this investigation in order to determine whether it constitutes State aid.
Tilstedeværelsen af BAN og den civile luftfartsvirksomhed gjorde det også muligt at udvikle et luftfartsindustriområde omkring lufthavnen.
Concepts of undertaking and economic activity
Dette område omfatter aktiviteter som:
As the Commission has explained in the new Guidelines, from the date of the judgment in Aéroports de Paris (12 December 2000), the operation and construction of airport infrastructure must be considered as falling within the ambit of State aid control.
GHSC (Groupement d’Hélicoptères de la Sécurité Civile), som både er hovedkvarter for de 22 permanente og operationelle baser for civilbeskyttelse, der er fordelt over hele det franske fastland og i de oversøiske departementer, center for vedligeholdelse af indenrigsministeriets helikopterflåde og center for personaleuddannelse og videreuddannelse af piloter (antal medarbejdere på stedet: 140 personer)
Conversely, due to the uncertainty that existed prior to this judgment, public authorities could legitimately consider that the financing of airport infrastructure did not constitute State aid and, accordingly, that such measures did not need to be notified to the Commission.
Sabena Technics (TAT-koncernen): Serviceselskab for vedligeholdelse af civilt og militært flymateriel (antal ansatte på stedet: 336 personer)
It follows that the Commission cannot now bring into question, on the basis of State aid rules, financing measures granted before 12 December 2000.
AVDEF: Aviation Défense Service (EADS-koncernen), arbejder inden for offentlig transport og sygetransport på anmodning, luftfartsarbejde for hæren og bekæmpelse af skovbrande (antal ansatte på stedet: 51 personer)
Furthermore, as also indicated in the new Guidelines, not all the activities of an airport are necessarily of an economic nature.
Airways Formation: pilotskole med en lufttransportlinje med alle adgangsgivende forberedelsesuddannelser til luftfartsselskaberne og en instruktørlinje, der giver alle de lovfæstede instruktørkvalifikationer (antal ansatte på stedet: 11 personer).
Activities that normally fall under the responsibility of the state in the exercise of its official powers as a public authority are not of an economic nature and in general do not fall within the scope of the rules on State aid.
Ifølge Frankrig skabte industriområdet i alt 680 civile arbejdspladser i 2012, hvortil kommer over 3000 afledte arbejdspladser som følge af platformens aktivitet.
With regard to the CCI-Airport, the measures covered by the opening decision are subsidies received under the national system for financing sovereign tasks in French airports (‘sovereign task subsidies’), various exceptional operating subsidies received from various public authorities and from the CCI’s general arm between 2000 and 2006, repayable advances granted to the CCI-Airport by the CCI’s general arm between 2002 and 2006 (‘repayable advances’), and the alleged non-billing of overheads incurred by the CCI’s general arm specified in the new Guidelines with regard to the compatibility of the operating aid granted to the CCI’s general arm in connection with the operation of the airport during the 2000-2006 period.
Det ventes at modtage 100 virksomheder med 2000 arbejdspladser.
These subsidies were intended to cover the operating deficit resulting from the imbalance between operating costs and revenues generated from making the airport infrastructure available to passengers and airlines.
Den omhandlede støtte har således ydet et væsentligt bidrag til den lokale økonomiske udvikling.
As these subsidies were granted after 12 December 2000 and were used to finance the airport’s economic activity, they may, with regard to the concepts of undertaking and economic activity, fall within the scope of the rules on State aid.
Hvis en lufthavn ifølge de nye retningslinjer har det samme opland som en anden lufthavn med overskydende kapacitet, skal forretningsplanen, som skal være baseret på en velfunderet prognose for passager- og fragttrafik, identificere de sandsynlige virkninger på trafikken i andre lufthavne i oplandet.
The same is true for the repayable advances, which were also granted after 12 December 2000 and used to ensure the financial stability of the airport’s operating account.
Det fremgår af Frankrigs bemærkninger i den forbindelse, at CCI-lufthavn og VTAN forventede, at trafikken i Nîmes ikke ville få nogen mærkbar virkning på trafikken i lufthavnene i Marseille, Avignon og Montpellier.
As regards the alleged non-billing of overheads incurred by the CCI’s general arm in connection with the operation of the airport during the 2000-2006 period, this was an assumption made by the Commission in the opening decision.
Især vurderede CCI, at disse tre lufthavne ikke var beliggende i Nîmes' opland.
However, as indicated in recital 59, France has provided information showing that, in actual fact, the CCI’s general arm rebilled the CCI-Airport for the part of its overheads attributable to the airport’s activity, based on an objective cost allocation key.
Det kan derfor konkluderes, at den sandsynlige indvirkning af trafikken i Nîmes på nabolufthavnene er taget i betragtning.
This conduct is in line with that of an MEO motivated by the prospect of profits in its relations with a subsidiary or division using its general services.
Selv om Kommissionen ikke deler forvalternes opfattelse af, at oplandene er adskilt, finder den, at den pågældende støttes virkning på nabolufthavnene ikke var af et sådant omfang, at den kunne udligne støttens bidrag til det pågældende mål af fælles interesse eller skade nabolufthavnenes driftsbetingelser væsentligt.
Consequently, the assumption made in the opening decision concerning the alleged non-billing of certain overheads of the CCI’s general arm is factually incorrect, and the overheads billing system applied by the CCI did not grant any advantage to the CCI-Airport.
Behov for statslig indgriben og støtteforanstaltningens hensigtsmæssighed som politikinstrument
This ‘measure’ does not therefore need to be considered any further in this decision.
Den støtte, der blev udbetalt som tilbagebetalingspligtige forskud og driftsstøtte, var nødvendig for at sikre økonomisk balance i driften af Nîmes lufthavn og dermed dens fortsatte drift.
Likewise, the information provided by France on the investments made within Nîmes airport when it was being managed by the CCI, which are the subject of recital 51, shows that the CCI-Airport bore the cost of these investments on its own and was responsible for making and financing these investments.
Endvidere hedder det i de nye retningslinjer, »Derfor kan små lufthavne under de nuværende markedsbetingelser have problemer med at sikre finansiering af deres drift uden offentlige midler«.
There are therefore no investment subsidies to the CCI-Airport to be examined in this assessment.
Det præciseres i øvrigt i de nye retningslinjer, at lufthavne, som modtager op til 700000 passagerer om året måske ikke er i stand til i vidt omfang selv at dække deres driftsomkostninger.
As regards the measures granted to VTAN, the main measure is the flat-rate contribution, as established by the CDSP and subsequently amended.
Statens indgriben for at sikre Nîmes lufthavns økonomiske balance og dermed dens fortsatte drift i perioden 2000-2011 var således nødvendig.
As the flat-rate contribution was established and amended after 12 December 2000 and was used to finance the airport’s economic activity, it falls within the scope of the rules on State aid.
Ifølge de nye retningslinjer skal det undersøges, om der kunne have været anvendt andre, mindre fordrejende politik- eller støtteinstrumenter.
The other measures granted to VTAN that are covered by the formal investigation procedure involve a specific public contribution paid for 2011 in order to take account of the new operating costs incurred by VTAN following the closure of the airbase (‘the specific public contribution’) and equipment subsidies for 2011 and 2012 (‘the equipment subsidies’).
Støttens virkning som incitament samt proportionalitet
These various measures, granted after 12 December 2000, were used, at least in part, to finance the airport’s operation (including its commercial activity of making available the airport infrastructure) as well as investments inherent in the airport’s commercial activity.
Ifølge de nye retningslinjer skal det tjekkes, om den økonomiske aktivitet i den pågældende lufthavn ville have været væsentligt lavere uden driftsstøtten, og om støtten i øvrigt var begrænset til det minimum, der er nødvendigt for at frembringe den støttemodtagende aktivitet.
With regard to the concepts of undertaking and economic activity, these measures may therefore fall within the scope of the rules on State aid.
Som tidligere forklaret forårsagede indsættelsen af TGV, men også udflytningen af Air France i 2001 efterfulgt to år senere af Air Littoral et dramatisk fald i antallet af flyvninger til Nîmes lufthavn.
As a result, the Commission will now examine the sovereign task subsidies and:
Sammen med betingelserne for de kontrakter, der blev indgået med Ryanair/AMS i 2002, forværrede disse faktorer ligeledes lufthavnens finansielle situation væsentligt.
for the CCI operating period, the exceptional operating subsidies and the repayable advances,
Uden støtteforanstaltninger til at finansiere lufthavnens driftsunderskud ville dens aktivitet således være blevet stærkt reduceret, måske indstillet.
for the VTAN operating period, the flat-rate contribution, the specific public contribution and the equipment subsidies.
Som forklaret nedenfor blev støttebeløbene endvidere reduceret til det minimum, der var nødvendigt.
Sovereign task subsidies
De forskellige former for driftsstøtte, der blev ydet CCI-lufthavn, blev begrænset til de beløb, som var nødvendige for at sikre finansiel balance i driften og ikke mere.
As pointed out by the Commission in the new Guidelines, the Court of Justice has held that activities that normally fall under the responsibility of the state in the exercise of its official powers as a public authority are not of an economic nature and in general do not fall within the scope of the rules on State aid.
Såfremt CCI-lufthavn uden denne støtte havde konstateret et stort driftsunderskud hvert år, ville man have været nødt til at reducere lufthavnens virksomhed betydeligt for at sikre finansiel balance eller måske helt indstille den.
According to the new Guidelines, activities such as air traffic control, police, customs, aircraft firefighting, measures designed to protect civil aviation from acts of unlawful interference, and investment in the infrastructure and equipment needed for such activities are regarded, as a general rule, as not being economic in nature.
Støtten havde derfor en virkning som incitament, jf. punkt 124 i de nye retningslinjer.
The new Guidelines also stipulate that, so as not to constitute State aid, the public financing of such non-economic activities must be strictly limited to compensating the costs to which they give rise and must not lead to undue discrimination between airports.
På samme måde dækkede engangstilskuddet til drift på 200000 EUR fra CCI's afdeling for generelle anliggender i 2006, kun en del af driftsunderskuddet.
The guidelines clarify with regard to this second condition that, when it is normal under a given legal order that civil airports have to bear certain costs inherent in their operation, whereas other civil airports do not, the latter might be granted an advantage, regardless of whether or not those costs relate to an activity which in general is considered to be of a non-economic nature.
Beslutningen fra CCI's generalforsamling den 14. december 2005 viser da også, at dette engangsdriftstilskud var et resultat af en aftale mellem SMAN og CCI, hvorefter sidstnævnte kun havde forpligtet sig til at afholde en del af lufthavnens driftsunderskud, begrænset til 200000 EUR, idet SMAN som ny ejer påtog sig resten.
The activities financed by the general system for financing sovereign tasks in French airports, as described in recital 32 et seq., relate to safeguarding civil aviation against acts of unlawful interference, police tasks, aircraft rescue and firefighting, air traffic safety and the protection of the natural and human environment.
Vedrørende de tilbagebetalingspligtige forskud, som blev ydet af CCI's afdeling for generelle anliggender, var de et resultat af CCI's forpligtelse ifølge koncessionskontrakten til at fremvise et budget for lufthavnen i balance.
These activities can legitimately be regarded as falling under the responsibility of the State in the exercise of its official powers as a public authority.
Forskudsbeløbet blev fastsat ved udarbejdelsen af budgettet hvert år for at bringe det i balance.
Consequently, France may legitimately regard these tasks as ‘sovereign’ in nature, in other words non-economic, under the rules on State aid.
Udarbejdelsen af budgetter for lufthavne, som forvaltes af handels- og industrikamre, er reguleret af strenge procedurer, der skal sikre, at de offentlige bidrag til balancering af budgettet, begrænses til det nødvendige minimum.
It may therefore provide for public financing to compensate the costs incurred by airport operators in carrying out these tasks in so far as these are entrusted to the latter by national law and provided that this financing does not give rise to overcompensation or discrimination between airports.
I cirkulære nr. 111 af 30. marts 1992 om fastsættelse af de budgetmæssige, regnskabsmæssige og finansielle regler for handels- og industrikamre fastsættes der således en nøjagtig procedure for, bl.a. hvordan et handels- og industrikammers afdeling for generelle anliggender fastlægger budgettet for forvaltning af en lufthavn.
It is clear from the description in recital 32 et seq. that the system laid down by French law is based on strict cost control mechanisms, both ex ante and ex post, ensuring that airport operators receive, through the airport tax and additional financing instrument, only those amounts strictly needed to cover the costs.
Det fastsættes bl.a. i dette cirkulære, at handels- og industrikammeret med henblik på udarbejdelse af budgettet bestemmer i) status for driftsoperationerne, ii) status for selvfinansieringskapaciteten, og iii) status for kapitaltransaktionerne.
Moreover, this system applies to all French civil airports in terms of both the types of task giving rise to compensation and the financing mechanisms.
Derudover er det et krav, at budgetforslaget vedlægges en række dokumenter, som skal være godkendt (tabel over ydelser og bidrag på tværs af tjenesterne, stillingsfortegnelse og lønningsliste osv.).
The non-discrimination condition is therefore met.
Målet med denne procedure er navnlig at garantere, at budgettet er i balance uden overkompensation.
Although French law entrusts airport operators with sovereign tasks, it does not require them to finance those tasks, but rather the State.
De tilbagebetalingspligtige forskud oversteg derfor ikke det, der var nødvendigt for at finansiere CCI-lufthavns driftsunderskud i betragtning af engangstilskuddene til drift.
Accordingly, the compensation of the costs arising from those tasks by public funds does not reduce the costs that airport operators should normally bear under French law.
Således virkede de forskellige driftstilskud, CCI-lufthavn modtog, som incitament og var begrænset til det, der var nødvendigt.
This national system has been applied to Nîmes airport since 2000.
De forskellige former for driftsstøtte, der blev ydet VTAN, og som repræsenterer store beløb, var også nødvendige for at sikre driftens finansielle balance.
As a result, the financing received by the CCI-Airport and VTAN under this system does not constitute State aid.
Uden denne støtte ville driften have givet stort underskud, og lufthavnens aktivitet skulle have været reduceret væsentligt eller været helt indstillet.
This conclusion applies, inter alia, to the subsidies received by the CCI-Airport from the FIATA, as mentioned in recital 55.
Det faste bidrag som bestemt fra begyndelsen blev defineret på grundlag af et foreløbigt budget opstillet af Veolia Transport.
State resources and imputability to the state
På baggrund af disse oplysninger forekommer de af Veolia Transport forventede nettoavancer rimelige, og tilbagegangsscenariet blev opstillet, for at disse avancer ikke skulle øges uforholdsmæssigt i tilfælde af nedgang i aktiviteten.
The various measures still to be examined were granted by local authorities (the CGG, the CAAC and the CANM), the SMAN (which is a group of local authorities) and the CCI.
Det faste bidrag blev således fra starten udformet, så det var begrænset til det nødvendige minimum for at sikre VTAN finansiel balance i driften samt en fornuftig fortjeneste.
The resources of local authorities are state resources within the meaning of Article 107(1) TFEU.
De senere ændringer fulgte denne logik.
Furthermore, the conduct of such authorities falls within the scope of that article, in the same way as measures taken by the central authority, if the conditions of that provision are met.
Forhøjelsen af det faste bidrag ved tillægskontrakt nr. 1 svarede til det uforudsigelige tab af en indtægt, som Veolia Transport oprindelig havde indregnet i sine forudgående skøn, mens forhøjelsen som følge af tillægskontrakt nr. 3 svarede til de ekstra marketingudgifter, VTAN havde forpligtet sig til, og som ikke var forudsat fra starten.
Accordingly, decisions of local authorities such as the CGG, the CAAC and the CANM must be regarded as imputable to the state (in the broad sense) within the meaning of the case-law on State aid.
Yderligere viser VTAN's resultatopgørelser efterfølgende, at det faste bidrag ikke oversteg det nødvendige minimum, eftersom det ikke førte til, at VTAN fik en uforholdsmæssigt stor fortjeneste.
This conclusion is valid, by extension, for a group of local authorities such as the SMAN.
Det specifikke offentlige bidrag ifølge tillægskontrakt nr. 4 til CDSP blev beregnet på grundlag af et foreløbigt budget, der afspejlede VTAN's nye driftsudgifter efter lukningen af BAN, og det var desuden fastsat, at beløbet skulle justeres efterfølgende i forhold til det faktiske driftsregnskab for at undgå for store betalinger.
In fact, the SMAN’s resources mainly consist of: (i) contributions from its members; (ii) subsidies; (iii) income from gifts and legacies; (iv) income from loans; (v) income from charges paid by operators; and (vi) more generally, all direct and indirect income associated with exercising the power defined by the SMAN’s articles of association.
Således virkede de forskellige driftstilskud, VTAN modtog, som incitament og var begrænset til det, der var nødvendigt.
Moreover, the SMAN is managed by a board consisting solely of representatives of its member local authorities.