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De foreliggende beviser i undersøgelsen peger navnlig ikke på nogen specifik interesse eller involvering fra den rumænske stats side i forhold til at overtale Hidroelectrica til at indgå eller efter Rumæniens tiltrædelse opretholde kontrakterne med Elsid, Electrocarbon og elektricitetsforhandlerne.
Pursuant to the relevant case-law [59] it is necessary to examine both whether the Romanian authorities can be considered as having been involved, in one way or another, in maintaining the contracts in force and in modifying the contract prices, and the unlikelihood of their not having been involved in these decisions.
Med hensyn til Elsid, Electrocarbon og Luxten-Lighting, som specifikt blev fremhævet i afsnit 7.1, gør flere kendsgerninger det endvidere usandsynligt, at beslutningen om at opretholde kontrakterne og ændre priserne i kontrakterne med Luxten-Lighting for 2008-2009 og med Electrocarbon og Elsid for 2007-2010 kunne tilskrives de rumænske myndigheder.
To that effect, the imputability to the Romanian State of the decisions regarding the contracts under investigation may be inferred from a set of indicators arising from the circumstances, and from the context, in which Hidroelectrica supplied electricity to Luxten-Lighting for the years 2008-2009 and to Electrocarbon and Elsid after 2007.
Navnlig blev de faktiske priser i de tre kontrakter konstant forhøjet hvert år.
In particular, and on the basis of the relevant case-law, maintaining the three ongoing contracts and introducing modifications to the contract prices after 2007 may be imputable to Romania (i) if Hidroelectrica could not have decided on these matters without taking account of the requirements of the public authorities; or (ii) if Hidroelectrica had to take account of directives issued by a governmental or an interministerial body.
Mellem 2007 og 2010 steg priserne over for Elsid, Electrocarbon og Luxten-Lighting med henholdsvis 44,5 %, 44,5 % og 41,4 %.
Likewise, regard must be also had to (iii) whether Hidroelectrica is integrated into the structures of the public administration; (iv) the nature of its activities and the exercise of the latter on the market in normal conditions of competition with private operators; (v) the legal status of Hidroelectrica (in the sense of its being subject to public law or ordinary company law); (vi) the intensity of the supervision exercised by the public authorities over its management; or (vii) any other indicator of either involvement by the public authorities in maintaining the contracts and modifying the contract prices, or the unlikelihood of their not being involved, having regard also to (viii) the compass of the decisions taken by Hidroelectrica, their content or the conditions which they contain [60].
Prisstigninger reducerer den absolutte værdi af den ydede støtte.
Hidroelectrica is a company governed by ordinary company law and not integrated into the structures of the public administration.
Disse kontraktændringer, som reducerer det formodede beløb af den påståede statsstøtte, blev altid udløst af og til fordel for Hidroelectrica.
In fact, members of Hidroelectrica's board of directors can cumulate functions with government posts (recital 12).
En strategi rettet mod at reducere omfanget af den støtte, som blev ydet til støttemodtagerne, synes at stride mod formålet med at yde støtte eller, som minimum, være for avanceret til at være sandsynlig.
This could suggest that members of the board of directors were chosen mainly on the grounds of their closeness to the Government rather than on the basis of their business experience or competence.
I modsætning til Alro og ArcelorMittal kan Elsid, Electrocarbon og Luxten-Lighting desuden ikke anses for at være industrielle forbrugere af national betydning: Eksempelvis udgjorde deres årlige forbrugskøb fra Hidroelectrica mindre end en tiendedel af Alros (bilag I).
While there are indications that Hidroelectrica is obliged to take into account directives issued by a governmental or interministerial body, there are no indications that any such directives were issued for the purposes of maintaining in force the three contracts at issue and increasing the contract prices.
Det er derfor usandsynligt, at beslutninger, der reducerer omfanget af støtten ved at øge kontraktpriserne væsentligt, kan tilregnes ikke en kommerciel beslutning truffet af Hidroelectrica, men en beslutning truffet af den rumænske stat med det formål at yde støtte til de påståede støttemodtagere.
In particular, there are no indications that Hidroelectrica's general meeting of shareholders or board of directors played any role in decisions related to (maintaining) commercial electricity supply contracts and/or to amending prices applied in application of those contracts (recital 12).
Det er ligeledes åbenlyst usandsynligt, at staten ville være involveret i diskret at reducere omfanget af støtten med hensyn til kontrakterne med Electrocarbon og Elsid.
As noted by several interested parties, according to Hidroelectrica's articles of incorporation and Romanian company law, the chief executive officer manages the company, represents it in its day-to-day business and independently takes decisions on matters other than those reserved for the general meeting of shareholders and the board of directors.
Især er det usandsynligt, at Hidroelectrica handlede efter instrukser fra staten, da den anmodede om prisstigninger i forhold til kontraktpriserne i 2010 og truede med at afbryde elforsyningen og trække sagen i retten (betragtning 22), da de anmodede prisstigninger havde den virkning, at de reducerede det formodede støttebeløb, og en afbrydelse af forsyningen kunne have været til fare for købernes produktionsaktiviteter.
The Romanian authorities stress that members of the board of directors must take decisions in the interest of the company.
Denne adfærd med ikke at følge en kontraktpris, som angiveligt udgør støtte, og true med at afbryde forsyningen og forsvare prisstigningerne i retten er ikke en typisk adfærd for en støtteyder, men snarere for en virksomhed, der søger at øge indtægterne og forsvare sine kommercielle interesser, og som ikke bekymrer sig om at følge ikkekommercielle mål, eventuelt efter statens anvisninger.
Ministerial Order 445/2009, to which the Commission referred in the opening decisions (recital 44), had no effect on the terms and conditions of the three contracts at issue.
Hvad angår Luxten-Lighting, er der ingen åbenlys offentlig politisk årsag, som f.eks. lave priser til slutbrugerne, til at sælge til en forhandler, som kun kan sælge på detailmarkedet, til højere priser, end hvis Hidroelectrica selv havde solgt den samme elektricitet på detailmarkedet.
Pursuant to Article 1(2) of this Order, ongoing bilateral contracts were generally exempted from the rule on the basis of which the representatives of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Business Environment and members of the boards of directors of the State-owned electricity companies were obliged to ensure that, as of 31 March 2010, the volume of electricity intended for the wholesale market should be traded exclusively on OPCOM.
Eksempelvis købte Alro, inden virksomheden fik leveret elektricitet detail af Hidroelectrica fra 2005, sin elektricitet fra en forhandler, Energy Holding, som købte elektricitet engros af Hidroelectrica.
As noted in recital 101, the competence to examine the contracts at issue from the perspective of EU State aid rules started as from Romania's accession to the EU, that is to say 3 years before the time-limit set in Ministerial Order No 445/2009 and more than 2 years before the Order's adoption.
Alro udviste fornuftig adfærd ved at få leveret elektricitet direkte af Hidroelectrica og dermed spare en bruttoavance, hvis leverandøren ikke føjede værdi til Hidroelectricas engroslevering.
It follows that no such rule existed when the contracts at issue became susceptible of review under EU rules.
Endvidere opsagde Luxten-Lighting ensidigt sin kontrakt med Hidroelectrica i november 2011, inden Kommissionen åbnede sagen, og denne adfærd stemmer ikke overens med den adfærd, som en modtager af statsstøtte udviser.
Moreover, although Ministerial Order 445/2009 suggests a degree of influence on the part of the State on the commercial policy of State-owned electricity producers, its aim is mainly of a regulatory nature, namely to increase transparency of energy transactions on the wholesale market and to ensure greater volumes and liquidity on the trading platforms administered by OPCOM.
Kontrakterne i denne afgørelse udgør ikke statsstøtte efter artikel 107, stk. 1, i TEUF.
In particular, a significant volume of electricity well above the total amount of Hidroelectrica's supplies under all the contracts under investigation was traded through bilateral bespoke long-term contracts on the Romanian market, where many other suppliers compete (recitals 30 and 38).
VEDTAGET DENNE AFGØRELSE:
Hidroelectrica's contracts under scrutiny and, in particular, the three bespoke long-term contracts with Luxten-Lighting, Electrocarbon and Elsid, maintained after 1 January 2007, are, therefore, not abnormal or extraordinary, which would suggest a particular interest of the State in maintaining them.
Artikel 1
Furthermore, the contracts with Electrocarbon and Elsid were maintained and renegotiated by Hidroelectrica's receiver after insolvency proceedings were begun in 2012, which provides an indication that these contracts were still of interest to Hidroelectrica's temporary new management, well after Romania's accession to the European Union in 2007 and well after the contracts were concluded and were amended, in particular with regard to prices.
De indgåede kontrakter mellem Hidroelectrica og ArcelorMittal, Alpiq RomEnergie, Alpiq RomIndustries, EFT, Electrica, Electromagnetica, Energy Holding, EURO-PEC, Luxten-Lighting, Electrocarbon og Elsid og kontrakten med Alro udgør ikke statsstøtte efter artikel 107, stk. 1, i traktaten om Den Europæiske Unions funktionsmåde.
Likewise, Hidroelectrica requested increased prices above contract levels and gave notice to Electrocarbon and Elsid of the interruption of supplies in order to prompt them to accept further price increases in 2010 (recital 22), thus behaving like a revenue-maximising seller and not like a grantor of aid.
Artikel 2
This is not to say that the Romanian State is not in the position of being involved with the commercial contracts of State-owned electricity suppliers in the interests of specific and major industrial buyers.
Denne afgørelse er rettet til Rumænien.
For instance, before Romania's accession to the EU, an Internal Note dated 2 February 2006, signed by the State Secretary of the Economy and Trade Ministry and approved by the Prime Minister, proposed the implementation of special preferential treatment for the ten largest energy-intensive users in Romania (including aluminium or steel producers supplied by Hidroelectrica or Nuclearelectrica).
Udfærdiget i Bruxelles, den 12. juni 2015.
As regards the contract with Arcelor-Mittal, in particular, Hidroelectrica's board of directors' decision No 13/2009 dated 16 December 2009 empowered Hidroelectrica's chief executive officer ‘to negotiate the ongoing sale-of-electricity contract in the best conditions for Hidroelectrica’.
På Kommissionens vegne
The board of directors did this by approving the main terms of the contracts of 2009 and 2010 with ArcelorMittal.
Medlem af Kommissionen
Addendum No 17 in 2009 to the contract with Alro (inserting the LME formula in the calculation of the contract price) was also approved by Hidroelectrica's board of directors.
Kommissionens afgørelse C(2012) 2516 final af 25. april 2012 vedrørende sag SA.
Likewise, a memorandum of 3 February 2011 from the two General Managers of Nuclearelectrica and CE Hunedoara, which, like Hidroelectrica, are State-owned, requested the approval of the Ministry of Economy and Trade for the conclusion of a wholesale sale of electricity contract between Nuclearelectrica as a seller and CE Hunedoara as a purchaser.
33623 (EUT C 189 af 29.6.2012, s. 3).
This transaction needed a derogation from the provisions of Order 445/2009 requiring that any wholesale electricity transaction involving a State-owned enterprise should take place only on OPCOM.
Kommissionens afgørelse C(2012) 2517 final af 25. april 2012 vedrørende sag SA.
This derogation was requested in view of the fact that the electricity acquired would serve ‘the electricity needs of a number of industrial consumers of national importance in 2011’.
33624 (EUT C 268 af 5.9.2012, s. 21).
This memorandum was fully endorsed by the Minister of Economy and Trade.
Kommissionens afgørelse C(2012) 2542 final af 25. april 2012 vedrørende sag SA.
It follows that there is some indirect evidence that does not allow it to be completely ruled out that the Romanian State would have been involved in concluding, or making major amendments to, Hidroelectrica's contracts with big energy-intensive industrial buyers.
33451 (EUT C 395 af 20.12.2012, s. 5).
Moreover, the Commission has concluded that other purchase contracts into which Hidroelectrica entered with two other State-owned companies, Electrocentrale Deva and Termoelectrica, in 2008 and 2009, were imputable to the Romanian State.
Kommissionens afgørelse C(2012) 2556 final af 25. april 2012 vedrørende sag SA.
That conclusion was based mainly on direct evidence of the other two State-owned companies having sought approval of the contracts from the Minister responsible also for the State-owned Hidroelectrica as a means of (cross) financing their current operations and that of the State-owned mines which supplied them with coal, for social and other non-commercial reasons [61].
33581 (EUT C 395 af 20.12.2012, s. 34).
However, the considerations that may render plausible (or not exclude the possibility of) the Romanian State's being involved in a number of Hidroelectrica's contracts with big industrial buyers of national importance for the Romanian economy and with other State-owned sellers cannot be extrapolated from in such a way that all Hidroelectrica's commercial contracts and, in particular, those with Elsid, Electrocarbon and electricity traders are considered to be imputable to the Romanian State.
EUT L 115 af 9.5.2008, s. 92.
Unlike Electrocentrale Deva and Termoelectrica, Elsid, Electrocarbon and the electricity traders were privately-owned and none of them can be held to be a big industrial buyer of national importance for the Romanian economy.
Sag SA.
In particular, the evidence available in the investigation does not point at any specific interest or involvement on the part of the Romanian State in prompting Hidroelectrica to conclude or, after Romania's accession, to maintain the contracts with Elsid, Electrocarbon and the electricity traders.
33623 (EUT C 189 af 29.6.2012, s. 3), sag SA.
Moreover, as regards Elsid, Electrocarbon and Luxten-Lighting, which were specifically singled out in the previous Section 7.1, several facts make it implausible that the decision to maintain the contracts and amend the prices of the contracts with Luxten-Lighting for 2008-2009 and with Electrocarbon and Elsid for 2007-2010 could be attributed to the Romanian authorities.
33624 (EUT C 268 af 5.9.2012, s. 21), sag SA.
In particular, the actual prices under the three contracts were constantly increased each year.
33451 (EUT C 395 af 20.12.2012, s. 5), og sag SA.
Between 2007 and 2010, the prices charged to Elsid, Electrocarbon and Luxten-Lighting increased by 44,5 %, 44,5 % and 41,4 %, respectively.
33581 (EUT C 395 af 20.12.2012, s. 34).
Price increases reduce the absolute value of the aid granted.
Herunder de foreløbige bemærkninger fra Luxten-Lighting og Euro-Pec inden offentliggørelsen af opfordringen til at fremsætte bemærkninger til åbningsafgørelsen: Luxten-Lighting den 14. august 2012 og Euro-Pec den 13. august 2012.
These contract changes which reduce the putative amount of the alleged State aid, were always triggered by, and for the benefit of, Hidroelectrica.
Alle medlemmerne af Hidroelectricas bestyrelse med undtagelse af Hidroelectricas generaldirektør og repræsentanten for Fondul Proprietatea (2010) varetog andre funktioner i forskellige ministerier og var blevet udnævnt ved bekendtgørelse udstedt af ministeriet for økonomi og handel som følger: i) i 2005-2006: den personlige rådgiver i økonomi- og handelsministerens kabinet, kabinetsdirektøren i ministeriet for små og mellemstore virksomheder, den personlige rådgiver i finansministerens kabinet og den personlige rådgiver i regeringens generalsekretariat var medlemmer af Hidroelectricas bestyrelse, ii) i 2007-2008 — vides ikke, iii) i 2009: statssekretæren i ministeriet for økonomi og handel var også formand for Hidroelectricas bestyrelse (2009), og en anden statssekretær i finansministeriet og to generaldirektører i ministeriet for økonomi og handel var også medlemmer af Hidroelectricas bestyrelse, og iv) i 2010: tre personlige rådgivere i ministeriet for økonomi og handel, en statssekretær i finansministeriet og en generaldirektør i ministeriet for økonomi og handel var medlemmer af Hidroelectricas bestyrelse.
A strategy aimed at reducing the amount of aid granted to the beneficiaries seems to contradict the purpose of granting aid or, at least, to be too sophisticated to be plausible.
Se International Energy Agency: »Projected costs of generating electricity« 2010-udgaven, afsnit 4.2 »Country by country data on electricity generating costs«, s. 89.
Moreover, contrary to Alro and ArcelorMittal, Elsid, Electrocarbon and Luxten-Lighting cannot be deemed to be industrial consumers of national importance: by way of illustration, their annual consumption purchases from Hidroelectrica amounted to less than one tenth of those of Alro (Annex I).
Afgørelse fra domstolen i Bukarest nr. 22456/3/2012 af 26. juni 2012.
It is therefore unlikely that decisions reducing the amount of aid by considerably increasing the contract prices can be imputed not to a commercial decision of Hidroelectrica but to a decision of the Romanian State aimed at providing aid to the alleged beneficiaries.
Afgørelse fra domstolen i Bukarest nr. 6482 af 26. juni 2013.
The fact that it is unlikely that the State would be involved in subtly reducing the amount of aid is also apparent with respect to the contracts with Electrocarbon and Elsid.
Findes kun på rumænsk: http://www.euroinsol.eu/uploads/Raport%2059%20Hidro%20v11.pdf.
In particular, it is implausible that Hidroelectrica was acting under instructions from the State when requesting price increases above the contract prices in 2010, threatening to discontinue the electricity supply and arguing the matter in court (recital 22), for the requested price increases had the effect of reducing the putative amount of aid, and discontinued supplies could have jeopardised the productive activities of the buyers.
Electrica indgik to kortsigtede kontrakter med Hidroelectrica.
This behaviour of not adhering to a contract price that purportedly provides aid, threatening to interrupt supplies and defending price increases in court is not behaviour typical of a grantor of aid, but is, rather, that of a revenue-maximising company defending its commercial interests and not concerned with following non-commercial goals, possibly under instructions received from the State.
Kontrakt med AlpiqRomEnergie, to kontrakter med Electrica og to kontrakter med ArcelorMittal.
As regards Luxten-Lighting, there is no obvious reason of public policy, such as low end-user prices, behind sales to a trader which can only sell retail at higher prices than if Hidroelectrica had sold the same electricity retail on its own.
Fem kontrakter med elektricitetsforhandlere (Alpiq RomIndustries, Electromagnetica, Energy Holding, Euro-Pec og Luxten-Lighting).
For instance, before being supplied retail by Hidroelectrica as from 2005, Alro purchased electricity from a trader, Energy Holding, that bought electricity wholesale from Hidroelectrica.
Kontrakter med EFT (elektricitetsforhandler) og Alro.
It was rational behaviour for Alro to be supplied directly by Hidroelectrica, thus saving a trading margin, if its supplier was not adding value to Hidroelectrica's wholesale supply.
Kontrakter med Electrocarbon og Elsid og Alpiq RomEnergie (elektricitetsforhandler).
In the same vein, it is rather implausible that the Romanian State should have prompted Hidroelectrica to maintain the contract with Luxten-Lighting in 2008 and 2009, for, if Luxten-Lighting did not add value to its retail sales to industrial users or other buyers, the latter would have obtained lower prices by contracting directly with Hidroelectrica.
Kontrakter med Electrocarbon og Elsid.
Furthermore, Luxten-Lighting unilaterally terminated its contract with Hidroelectrica in November 2011, before the Commission opened proceedings; this behaviour is not consistent with that of a beneficiary of State aid.
To kontrakter med Arcelor Mittal.
On the basis of all the above considerations, it is not established that the contracts with Luxten-Lighting for 2008-2009 and for Electrocarbon and Elsid for 2007-2010 are imputable to Romania.
To kontrakter med Electrica.
As the essential element of imputability to Romania for the existence of State aid is not present in the three contracts with Luxten-Lighting for 2008-2009 and with Electrocarbon and Elsid for 2007-2010, it is not necessary to analyse whether the other cumulative conditions for the application of this provision, such as the potential effect on competition and trade between Member States, are met.
Kontrakten med Luxten-Lighting (elektricitetsforhandler) blev opsagt af Luxten-Lighting ved meddelelse af 15. november 2011 med virkning fra 1. januar 2012.
In the light of the above, the three contracts under scrutiny, with Luxten-Lighting for 2008-2009 and with Electrocarbon and Elsid for 2007-2010, do not constitute State aid within the meaning of Article 107(1) TFEU.
Kontrakterne med Electrocarbon og Elsid udløb den 13. marts 2013, og kontrakten med Electromagnetica (elektricitetsforhandler) udløb den 30. april 2014.
CONCLUSION
Tillæg 1 til kontrakten med Electrocarbon indeholdt en forud fastsat pris (fast mængde — samme pris) indtil 28. februar 2008.
The contracts covered by the present Decision do not constitute State aid within the meaning of Article 107(1) TFEU,
Tillæg 2 til kontrakten med Elsid indeholdt en forud fastsat pris indtil 31. december 2007.
HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
Den 1. juli 2004 aftalte parterne en tabel med forud fastsatte årlige priser for perioden 2006-2013 (dvs.: tillæg 4 til kontrakten med Electrocarbon og tillæg 5 til kontrakten med Elsid).
Article 1
Priserne blev efterfølgende ændret den 1. januar 2005 med forud fastsatte priser for en fast mængde frem til 31. december 2007 for Elsid og frem til 28.februar 2008 for Electrocarbon.
The contracts concluded between Hidroelectrica and ArcelorMittal, Alpiq RomEnergie, Alpiq RomIndustries, EFT, Electrica, Electromagnetica, Energy Holding, Euro-Pec, Luxten-Lighting, Electrocarbon and Elsid, and the contract with Alro, do not constitute State aid within the meaning of Article 107(1) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union.
Fra 2006 blev kontraktpriserne justeret årligt for Electrocarbon og Elsid.
Article 2
Retten i første instans: Domstolen i Olt — sag 2800/104/2010 (Electrocarbon) og domstolen i Dambovita — sag 4102/120/2010 (Elsid).
This Decision is addressed to Romania.
Artikel 10, stk. 2, i hver af de tre kontrakter.
Done at Brussels, 12 June 2015.
Artikel 10, stk. 1, i hver af de tre kontrakter.
For the Commission
Artikel 55, stk. 1, i el- og gaslov nr. 123/2012 som ændret ved lov nr. 127/2014.
Member of the Commission
KPMG Report, bilag 3 til Memorandum of Energy Holdings af 27. februar 2012, s. 8, kilde: Hidroelectricas Annual Reports, 2010 Administrator's Report, KPMG Analysis.
Commission Decision C(2012) 2516 final of 25 April 2012 concerning case SA.33623 (OJ C 189, 29.6.2012, p. 3).
KPMG Report, bilag 3 til Memorandum of Energy Holdings af 27. februar 2012, s. 21, kilde: ANRE.
Commission Decision C(2012) 2517 final of 25 April 2012 concerning case SA.33624 (OJ C 268, 5.9.2012, p. 21).
Forretningshemmelighed.
Commission Decision C(2012) 2542 final of 25 April 2012 concerning case SA.33451 (OJ C 395, 20.12.2012, p. 5).