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Rådets direktiv 96/82/EF af 9. december 1996 om kontrol med risikoen for større uheld med farlige stoffer (EFT L 10 af 14.1.1997, s. 13), det såkaldte Seveso-direktiv.
According to Belgium, the continuation of this payment was confirmed in a letter of 5 July 2001 sent by BSCA to the Walloon transport and facilities administration, detailing the main lines of the BSCA 2002 budget covering the costs of these services, following a telephone conversation during which, according to Belgium, the Region had confirmed that it would pay for these services for 2002.
Hvilket ikke er tilfældet med lufthavnene.
As indicated in recitals 71 and 72, Amendment No 3 of 29 March 2002 to the Region/BSCA agreement amended Article 3.2 of this agreement and provided that the Walloon Region would reimburse the costs (expenses and investments) inherent in the fire and maintenance services.
Betragtning 182.
Amendment No 3 also amended Article 25 of the schedule of conditions and provided that the concession-holder would present the concession authority with the budget for the fire and maintenance services and that it would keep a separate operating account that could at any time be analysed and checked by the concession authority.
Europa-Parlamentets og Rådets forordning (EF) nr. 2320/2002 af 16. december 2002 om fastsættelse af fælles bestemmelser om sikkerhed inden for civil luftfart (EFT L 355 af 30.12.2002, s. 1).
The Commission takes the view that Amendment No 3 of 29 March 2002 to the Region/BSCA agreement substantially affected the measure.
Artikel 5, stk. 1.
Amendment No 3 in fact introduced a written undertaking on the part of the Region to cover the costs associated with the fire and maintenance services, when there was no longer any written undertaking on the part of the Region with regard to the costs incurred by BSCA from 1 January 2002.
Svar nr. 15 i Belgiens brev af 24. februar 2014.
Moreover, Amendment No 3 amended Article 3.2 of the Region/BSCA agreement and provided that the Region would reimburse the costs (expenses and investments) inherent in the fire and maintenance services.
Notat godkendt af den vallonske regering den 8. november 2000, s. 2.
It also amended Article 25 of the schedule of conditions and provided that the concession-holder would present the concession authority with the budget for the fire and maintenance services and that it would keep a separate operating account that could at any time be analysed and checked by the concession authority.
Kommissionens beslutning 2005/842/EF af 28. november 2005 om anvendelse af bestemmelserne i EF-traktatens artikel 86, stk. 2, på statsstøtte i form af kompensation for offentlig tjeneste ydet til visse virksomheder, der har fået overdraget at udføre tjenesteydelser af almindelig økonomisk interesse (EUT L 312 af 29.11.2005, s. 67).
In this respect, the Commission stresses that Amendment No 3 stipulated that this operating account would include the investment costs and/or investment depreciation costs, even though this had not previously been the case.
Kommissionens beslutning af 28. oktober 2009 finansieringen af de offentlige hospitaler, der indgår i IRIS-samarbejdet i hovedstadsregionen Bruxelles, statsstøttesag NN 54/09, Europa-webstedet.
Based on these points, the Commission takes the view that the subsidy paid by the Region to BSCA for certain services associated with the airport activities was introduced, or in any event substantially amended, by Amendment No 3 of 29 March 2002 to the Region/BSCA agreement.
Se fodnote 103.
Amendment No 5 of 10 March 2006 to the Region/BSCA agreement
Arbejdsdokument fra Kommissionens tjenestegrene, hyppigt stillede spørgsmål om Kommissionens beslutning af 28. november 2005 om anvendelse af bestemmelserne i EF-traktatens artikel 86, stk. 2, på statsstøtte i form af kompensation for offentlig tjeneste ydet til visse virksomheder, der har fået overdraget at udføre tjenesteydelser af almindelig økonomisk interesse og EU's rammebestemmelser for statsstøtte i form af kompensation for offentlig tjeneste (SEK(2007) 1516 endelig, s. 6).
Through the following provisions, Amendment No 5 of 10 March 2006 to the Region/BSCA agreement substantially amended Amendment No 3:
Rådets forordning (EF) nr. 659/1999 af 22. marts 1999 om fastlæggelse af regler for anvendelsen af artikel 108 i traktaten om Den Europæiske Unions funktionsmåde (EFT L 83 af 27.3.1999, s. 1).
Under Article 3.2.2 of the Region/BSCA agreement, as amended by Amendment No 5, the costs incurred by BSCA for ‘the fire protection and ground traffic and airport site safety services’ were to be compensated by the Region, whereas previously the Region had compensated the costs incurred by BSCA for the ‘fire and maintenance’ services.
Jf. betragtning 10 i forordning (EF) nr. 1998/2006 af 15. december 2006 om anvendelse af traktatens artikel 87 og 88 på de minimis-støtte (EUT L 379 af 28.12.2006, s. 5).
According to Belgium, this new wording aimed to define more precisely the costs assumed by the Region, but did not substantially alter the scope of the services covered.
Kommissionens afgørelse af 1. august 2006 om retningslinjer for afslutning af strukturfondsinterventioner (2000-2006), KOM(2006) 3424, ikke offentliggjort, webstedet europa.eu.
However, the Commission notes that, even if the change in wording of the services for which BSCA receives compensation is ignored, the details of the costs covered under Article 25 of the schedule of conditions, as amended by Amendment No 5, differ in that they include certain costs that were not previously mentioned, namely ‘the ground traffic and airport site safety services include routine maintenance of the airport site, … minor surfacing work, routine maintenance and repair of the runway and accesses, operational maintenance and servicing of the general lighting and runway lighting, mowing services, rubber removal from the runway and its markings, snow clearance and any other services ensuring the safety of ground traffic, airport site and infrastructures, except for commercial areas of the airport zone’.
Dom af 14. januar 2004 i sag T-109/01, Fleuren Compost BV mod Kommissionen, Sml. 2004 II, s. 127, ECLI:EU:T:2004:4, præmis 74.
The subsidy was capped, whereas it had not been previously.
Dom af 15. februar 2001 i sag C-99/98, Østrig mod Kommissionen, Sml. 2001 I, s. 1101, ECLI:EU:C:2001:94, præmis 34, 35 og 38.
This cap applied from the initial entry into force of Amendment No 5 and therefore had an impact on the amount of the subsidy paid by the Region to BSCA from the first year.
Betragtning 214 i 2004-beslutningen.
The amount of the subsidy had to be revised before July 2009 [234].
Dom af 12. september 2000 i forenede sager C-180/98 til C-184/98, Pavlov m.fl., Sml. 2000 I, s. 6451, ECLI:EU:C:2000:428.
Based on these points, the Commission takes the view that the measure was substantially affected by the adoption of Amendment No 5 of 10 March 2006 to the Region/BSCA agreement.
Dom af 16. juni 1987 i sag 118/85, Kommissionen mod Italien, Sml. 1987, s. 2599, ECLI:EU:C:1987:283, præmis 7; dom af 18. juni 1998 i sag C-35/96, Kommissionen mod Italien, Sml. 1998 I, s. 3851, ECLI:EU:C:1998:303, præmis 36; dom af 12. september 2000 i forenede sager C-180/98 til C-184/98, Pavlov m.fl., ECLI:EU:C:2000:428, præmis 75.
Amendment No 6 of 15 January 2008 to the Region/BSCA agreement substantially amended Amendment No 5 by significantly extending the scope of the services for which the Region paid a subsidy to BSCA, as those services subsequently included flight tracking and recording, provisional flight planning, marshalling and security.
Ovennævnte Leipzig/Halle-dom, præmis 102 ff.
As set out in Section 6.1.1, the Commission takes the view that these services, except for the security services, constitute economic services.
Dom af 24. marts 2011 i forenede sager T-455/08, Flughafen Leipzig/Halle GmbH og Mitteldeutsche Flughafen AG mod Kommissionen, ECLI:EU:T:2011:117, og T-443/08, Freistaat Sachsen og Land Sachsen-Anhalt mod Kommissionen (herefter »Leipzig/Halle-dommen«), Sml. 2011 I, s. 1311,, præmis 93, 95, 100 og 119.
The Commission therefore concludes that the subsidy paid by the Region to BSCA for certain services associated with the airport activities cannot be regarded as a measure having been continuously in force and not having been substantially amended since 1991.
Se også dom af 12. december 2000 i sag T-128/98, Aéroports de Paris mod Kommissionen, Sml. 2000 II, s. 3929, bekræftet af Domstolens dom af 24. oktober 2002 i sag C-82/01 P, Sml. 2002 I, s. 9297, og af dom af 17. december 2008 i sag T-196/04, Ryanair mod Kommissionen, Sml. 2008 II, s. 3643, præmis 88.
The payment of this subsidy is based on several new measures applicable in succession.
Dom af 17. februar 1993 i forenede sager C-159/91, Poucet/AGV, og C-160/91, Pistre/Cancava, Sml. 1993 I, s. 637, ECLI:EU:C:1993:63.
Those examined in this decision are: (a) Amendment No 3 of 29 March 2002 to the Region/BSCA agreement; (b) Amendment No 5 of 10 March 2006 to the Region/BSCA agreement; and (c) Amendment No 6 of 15 January 2008 to the Region/BSCA agreement.
Aéroports de Paris-dommen.
Measures (a) to (c) cannot benefit from the 10-year limitation period as there were less than 10 years between the date when they were granted and 20 April 2011, which was the date when the Commission sent its first request for information to Belgium on the subject of the aid granted to BSCA.
Dom af 10. januar 1994 i sag C-364/92, SAT/Control, Sml. 1994 I, s. 43, ECLI:EU:C:1994:7, præmis 30, og dom af 26. marts 2009 i sag C-113/07, Selex Sistemi Integrati mod Kommissionen, Sml. 2009 I, s. 2207, ECLI:EU:C:2009:191, præmis 71.
As stipulated by Article 15 of the Procedural Regulation, any action taken by the Commission or by a Member State, acting at the request of the Commission, with regard to the unlawful aid shall interrupt the limitation period.
Fodnote 29 i luftfartsretningslinjerne.
The Commission therefore concludes that the limitation period laid down by Article 15 of the Procedural Regulation does not apply to the aid granted to BSCA and examined in this decision.
Se også dom af 12. december 1996 i sag T-358/94, Compagnie nationale Air France mod Kommissionen,, Sml. 1996 II, s. 2109, ECLI:EU:T:1996:194, præmis 79; dom af 14. januar 2004 i sag T-109/01, Fleuren Compost BV mod Kommissionen,, Sml. 2004 II, s. 127, ECLI:EU:T:2004:4, præmis 74; dom af 2. december 2008 i forenede sager T-362/05 og T-363/05, Nuova Agricast Srl mod Kommissionen, Sml. 2008 II, s. 297, ECLI:EU:T:2008:541, præmis 80; dom af 30. november 2009 i forenede sager T-427/04 et T-17/05, France et France Telecom mod Kommissionen, Sml. 2009 II, s. 4315, ECLI:EU:T:2009:474, præmis 321.
Applicability of the principle of legitimate expectations to the subsidy paid by the Region for certain services associated with the airport activities
Jf. betragtning 228 i nærværende afgørelse.
Article 14(1) of the Procedural Regulation stipulates that ‘The Commission shall not require recovery of the aid if this would be contrary to a general principle of Community law’.
Se fodnote 37.
In particular, the Commission cannot require recovery of aid that, although granted within the 10-year period defined in Article 15(1) of the Procedural Regulation, may be covered by the existence of a legitimate expectation — in the mind of the beneficiary of the aid — resulting from acts or positions taken by the Commission in the past.
Se fodnote 121.
As indicated in Section 5.4 of this decision, Belgium maintains that recovery of the subsidy paid by the Region for certain services associated with the airport activities would be contrary to the principle of legitimate expectations.
Punkt 35 i luftfartsretningslinjerne.
However, the Court of Justice has ruled that the beneficiary of unlawful aid may not in principle invoke a legitimate expectation [235].
Instrumentlandingssystem, der hjælper ved landing i dårlig sigtbarhed.
The beneficiary should in fact have checked that the aid granted had been notified to and approved by the Commission.
Kommissionens afgørelse (EU) 2016/1698 af 20. februar 2014 om de foranstaltninger, SA.
In this respect, the Commission notes that the aid granted to BSCA was not notified to the Commission.
22932 (2011/C) (ex NN 37/2007), som Frankrig har iværksat til fordel for lufthavnen Marseille Provence og de luftfartsselskaber, som benytter lufthavnen (EUT L 260 af 27.9.2016, s. 1).
Absence of precise assurances
Dom af 18. marts 1997 i sag C-343/95, Diego Calì & Figli mod Servizi Ecologici Porto di Genova, Sml. 1997 I, s. 1547, ECLI:EU:C:1997:160; Kommissionens beslutning af 19. marts 2003 i sag N309/2002 og Kommissionens beslutning af 16. oktober 2002 i sag N438/2002, subsidier til belgiske havnemyndigheder for udøvelse af beføjelser som offentlig myndighed.
Moreover, as clarified by the Court of Justice [236], a person may not plead infringement of the principle of legitimate expectations ‘unless he has been given precise assurances by the administration’.
I overensstemmelse med forordning (EF) nr. 2320/2002 forstås ved »»luftfartssikkerhed«: kombinationen af foranstaltninger og menneskelige og naturlige ressourcer, som har til formål at beskytte civil luftfart mod ulovlige handlinger «.
Belgium maintains that, given the lack of a complaint by the Commission in its 2004 decision, BSCA did receive precise assurances that the subsidy was not likely to constitute State aid.
De fælles grundlæggende standarder for luftfartssikkerhed baseres på henstillingerne i dokument 30 fra Den Europæiske Konference for Civil Luftfart (ECAC) og fastlægges i bilaget til forordning (EF) nr. 2320/2002.
Belgium in particular relies on recital 214 of the 2004 decision, in which the Commission stated that it ‘does not dispute the legitimate possibility of the Walloon authorities continuing to bear the cost of the fire and maintenance services’.
Se fodnote 129.
It indicates that this legitimate expectation has been reinforced by the settled decision-making practice of the Commission on the distinction between economic activities and non-economic activities, as reiterated in the Commission decision on Leipzig/Halle airport.
Bilag, der er en integreret del af tillæg nr. 6 til aftalen mellem regionen og BSCA.
The Commission takes the view that the lack of a complaint about the aid granted to BSCA in its 2004 decision cannot constitute a ‘precise assurance’.
Artikel 25.2 i specifikationerne som ændret ved tillæg nr. 6 af 15. januar 2008 til aftalen mellem regionen og BSCA.
The Commission notes that neither the 2002 opening decision nor the 2004 final decision concerned the measures granted to BSCA.
Se fodnote 50.
As regards recital 214 of the 2004 decision, the Commission stresses that this recital must be read in context.
Se fodnote 52.
It would appear that, in said context, the recital in question cannot be regarded as approving the measure with regard to the State aid rules, but only as explaining the reason why it is not the conformity of this measure with the State aid rules that is being examined by the Commission, but rather the uncertainty about the funding by the Region of certain services within the BSCA business plan, for the purposes of applying the market economy operator test to the 2001 contracts.
Se fodnote 90.
As stated in recitals 397 to 399 of this decision, the Commission disputes that it can be concluded from recitals 182 and 183 of the decision on Leipzig/Halle airport that the Commission has in the past taken the view that tasks comparable to maintenance and traffic safety, as defined in the Region/BSCA agreement, fall within the public policy remit.
Opfølgning og registrering af flyvninger består i at tilføre den vallonske forvaltningsdatabase oplysninger om flyvningerne (antal passagerer, registreringsnummer, navn på piloten, flytypen, flyvningens art, hjemsted, flyets vægt osv.).
Foreseeability of the change to the pattern of conduct
Marshalling dækker over to opgaver: dirigering til standplads, som udføres af områdekoordinatoren ved hver flyankomst, og »follow me«, som består i at vise flyet vej fra en bil, hvilket udelukkende bruges til at dirigere piloter, som ikke kender lufthavnen (forretningsfly), eller store fragtfly i kategori D.
As stated by the Court of Justice [237], ‘if a prudent and alert economic operator could have foreseen the adoption of a Community measure likely to affect his interests, he cannot plead that principle if the measure is adopted [238]’.
Se fodnote 85.
According to Belgium, there was nothing to indicate to BSCA that the Commission was going to re-examine, in 2012, a measure on which it had not expressed any reservations in 2004, and which the General Court did not question in 2008.
Dom af 11. juli 1996 i sag C-39/94, SFEI m.fl., Sml. 1996 I, s. 3547, ECLI:EU:C:1996:285, præmis 60; dom af 29. april 1999 i sag C-342/96, Spanien mod Kommissionen, Sml. 1999 I, s. 2459, ECLI:EU:C:1999:210, præmis 41.
The Commission refutes having adopted a position on the measures granted to BSCA by adopting the 2004 decision.
Se fodnote 92.
As a result, the 2012 decision does not constitute a change to its pattern of conduct.
EUT C 8 af 11.1.2012, s. 4.
The Commission also refutes that the present decision constitutes a change to its decision-making practice concerning the distinction between economic activities and non-economic activities.
Kommissionens afgørelse 2013/664/EF af 25. juli 2012 om foranstaltning SA.23324 — C 25/07 (ex NN 26/07) — Finland Finavia, Airpro og Ryanair i Tampere-Pirkkala lufthavn (EUT L 309 af 19.11.2013, s. 27).
As regards the decision on Leipzig/Halle airport cited by Belgium to prove the alleged change to the Commission's pattern of conduct, the Commission refutes that it can concluded from that decision that it has in the past taken the view that tasks comparable to maintenance and traffic safety fall within the public policy remit (see recitals 397 to 399).
Jf. notat af 8. november 2000 fra den vallonske regerings økonomiminister.
In conclusion, the Commission takes the view that recovery of the unlawful and incompatible aid granted to BSCA is not contrary to the principle of legitimate expectations.
Dom af 21. januar 1999 i forenede sager T-129/95, T-2/96 og T-97/96, Neue Maxhütte Stahlwerke og Lech-Stahlwerke mod Kommissionen, Sml. 1999 II, s. 17, ECLI:EU:T:1999:7, præmis 120.
CONCLUSION AND QUANTIFICATION OF THE AID TO BE RECOVERED FROM BSCA
Stigningstakten på 2 % bruges også i de forskellige aftaler, som regionen-SOWAER og BSCA har indgået efterhånden, f.eks. i forbindelse med loftet over den variable afgift.
Aid unlawfully granted to BSCA
Dom af 11. juli 1996 i sag C-39/94, SFEI, Sml. 1996 I, s. 3547, ECLI:EU:C:1996:285, præmis 60 og 61.
The Commission finds that, by adopting the 2002 agreements and the 2003 investment decision, Belgium unlawfully granted aid to BSCA in breach of Article 108(3) TFEU.
Som angivet i investeringsprogrammet for Charleroi lufthavn, der er bilag til aftalen mellem SOWAER og BSCA af 15. april 2002.
This aid consists of the difference between the fee that a market economy operator would have required (hereinafter ‘the market price fee’) and the fees actually paid by BSCA to the Region-SOWAER.
Som angivet af BSCA.
The market price fee is the fee that BSCA should have paid so that each of the two measures (the 2002 agreements and the 2003 investment decision) has a zero net present value for the Region-SOWAER.
Jf. s. 10 i SOWAER's forretningsplan, som var bilagt regionens beslutning af 23. maj 2001.
The Commission has determined the market price fee in line with the reasoning given in Section 6.1.2.2, which has shown that the 2002 agreements and the 2003 investment decision resulted in a concession fee below what a market economy operator guided by profitability prospects would have required.
Jf. slutningen af betragtning 431.
The Commission has taken into account that, on the signature of the 2002 SOWAER/BSCA agreement, a prudent operator would not have required BSCA to pay a fee reflecting the investments that SOWAER undertook to make under that agreement until the investments had been made and BSCA was earning the expected revenue from those investments.
Kilde: Damodaran: »Risk Premiums for Other Markets« 2001 (http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~ADAMODAR/).
A prudent operator would have agreed to the fee increasing only when the new investments could be used by the airport manager.
Rentesatsen på 10-årige belgiske statsobligationer i april 2002.
Table 31 shows:
Notat fra Belgien med titlen »réponse de la Wallonie à la demande d'informations du 14 janvier 2014« (svar fra Vallonien på anmodningen om oplysninger af 14. januar 2014, spørgsmål 13), som Kommissionen modtog den 7. februar 2014.
the variable concession fees expected from BSCA under the provisions in force at the time when the 2002 measure was granted [239];
Belgien betegner disse tjenesteydelser som »ikke-økonomiske tjenesteydelser«.
the additional concession fee, conceived as an annual fixed amount indexed at a rate of 2 % per year reflecting inflation [240], which BSCA should have paid from 2007 so that the concession fees payable by BSCA correspond to the market price concession fee in return for the 2002 agreements [241];
Dom af 2. juli 1974 i sag 173/73, Italien mod Kommissionen, Sml. 1974, s. 709, ECLI:EU:C:1974:71.
the additional concession fee, conceived as an annual fixed amount indexed at a rate of 2 % per year reflecting inflation, which BSCA should have paid from 2008 so that the concession fees payable by BSCA correspond to the market price concession fee in return for the 2003 investment decision [242];(a + b + c) represents the expected market price concession fees: their amounts are such that the net present value of the 2002 agreements and the 2003 investment decision is zero.
Se fodnote 155.
Table 31
Rentesatsen på 10-årige belgiske statsobligationer i april 2003.
Expected market price concession fees
Og samtidig hæve f.eks. groundhandlingafgifterne for at fastholde den samlede indtjening.
Concession fees expected from BSCA at the time when the 2002 measure was granted
Dekret af 19. december 2007 om ændring af dekret af 23. juni 1994 om etablering og drift af lufthavne og flyvepladser i regionen Vallonien.
Concession fees to be added to (a) so that the NPV of the 2002 measure equals 0
Rapport forelagt på vegne af det vallonske parlaments udvalg for arealanvendelse, transport, energi og bolig af E. Stoffels den 6. december 2007 om forslag til dekret om ændring af dekret af 23. juni 1994 om oprettelse og drift af lufthavne og flyvepladser i regionen Vallonien.
Concession fees to be added so that the NPV of the 2003 investment decision equals 0
Ved samling af forvaltningen forstås det, at lufthavnenes driftsselskaber får overdraget det samlede ansvar for kundehåndteringen, herunder sikkerhedsopgaverne.
(a + b + c) Market price concession fees
Rettens dom af 12. maj 2011 i forenede sager T-267/08 og T-279/08, Région Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Sml. 2011 II, s. 1999, ECLI:EU:T:2011:209, præmis 108.
The Commission has decided that the two-year delay in the work should be covered by the Region and SOWAER, and not by BSCA, as those entities were responsible for making the investments.
Afstande angivet på https://maps.google.com.
It turns out that, even though traffic has proven to be much higher than predicted in 2002, the fees actually payable (shown in column (a) of Table 32) correspond to the expected variable concession fees (shown in column (a) of Table 31) due to the cap on the variable concession fee stipulated in 2002.
http://www.charleroi-airport.com/laeroport/localisation-et-bassin-dattraction/index.html
Table 32 shows the elements making up the market price concession fee:
Se fodnote 174.
Table 32
Jf. Belgiens notat af 13. maj 2014 (svar på spørgsmål 1).
Market price concession fees taking into account the delay in the work [243]
Artikel 11 i BSCA's vedtægter af 10. december 2009.
More generally, beyond 2013, for example for year (2013 + n), the market price concession fee will be: (a) + (9348451 + 2640013) × (1,02)n, i.e. (a) + 11988464 × (1,02)n, where (a) is the variable part of the concession fee payable by BSCA for the year (2013 + n).