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Ved fastlæggelsen af tidsrammen for vurderingen af de pågældende aftaler ville en markedsøkonomisk investor som udgangspunkt have valgt datoen for undertegnelsen af markedsføringsaftalen (den 21. december 2006), som supplerede aftalen om lufthavnstjenester.
Payments to the public undertaking Austro Control, which is in charge of the security of the Austrian airspace.
Begge aftaler udløb den 21. april 2007.
Austro Control is the air traffic controller at KLU and operates the air control tower.
En sådan operatør ville på tidspunktet for underskrivelsen ikke have haft nogen rimelig grund til at formode, at det rent faktisk ville virke troværdigt med en forlængelse om et par år i forbindelse med et lavprisselskab.
Austria indicated for the services of Austro Control payments of EUR […] per rotation, i.e. EUR […] per year.
Derfor ville vurderingen vedrøre perioden indtil den 21. april 2007.
Incremental operating costs from the expected incremental traffic over the duration of the agreement: EUR […] per additional rotation and per ton of MTOW and EUR […] per additional departing passenger.
Med hensyn til vurderingen af de omhandlede aftaler henvises til konklusionerne i betragtning 373 til 377.
Austria declared that these two values are the best estimates for these values that could be established for an ex ante estimation of a MEO at the moment of the signature of the agreements.
Østrig fremlagde for hver af aftalerne relevante data, der er sammenfattet i tabel 11.
These values are derived from the cost accounting system in place in 2002 (BAB 2002) which comprised the cost factors of landing tariff, passenger tariff and ramp handling fee, traffic handling fee, infrastructure tariff and hangar service fee.
Tabel 11
In addition to these estimated fees and tariffs Austria increased the amount with a security margin to ensure that the estimation of the expected incremental operating costs would not be too optimistic.
Gradvist stigende rentabilitet af aftalerne med Ryanair og AMS fra 2006, udarbejdet af Østrig
This result was divided by the respective reference parameter, i.e. the expected number of passengers and MTOW.
4 måneder
As a result Austria estimated EUR […] incremental operating costs per rotation and EUR […] incremental operating costs per passenger.
Forbindelse 3x ugentligt
Austria declared that KFBG did not expect in February 2002 any incremental investment costs due to the additional traffic.
Beregningsmodel
KLU had at that time considerable spare capacity and the additional traffic was supposed to fill these capacities.
Belægningsgrad
The terminal of KLU had a total capacity of 600000 passengers per year and in 2001 around 227000 passengers used KLU.
Pass-Inc
The expected incremental traffic of 46040 passengers would therefore not require any investments as the existing terminal could accommodate the incremental traffic.
Incitamenter
The discount rate used by KFBG was based on the discount rate of 8 %, which was the discount rate used and published by the airport of Vienna.
Landingsafgift
The Commission finds that the approach taken by Austria in estimating the passenger numbers and calculating on that basis the expected incremental aeronautical revenues is sound.
Passagertakst
According to the data available for the expected incremental traffic the statement of Austria regarding incremental investment costs seems also reasonable.
Indtægter i alt
Having analysed the information provided by Austria, the Commission however disagrees in some of the points of the analysis and therefore will amend the analysis at the following points:
Merindtægter projekt
As expected incremental non-aeronautical revenues Austria estimated EUR […] per departing passenger in its analysis, calculating this amount from the average non-aeronautical revenue per passenger over the period of the years 2000-2004.
AMS markedsføringsbidrag
However, in an analysis for the 2002 agreements performed in February 2002, a prudent MEO would have rather used the average non-aeronautical revenue over the period of the years 1997-2001.
(aftale af 21. december 2006)
From the information submitted by Austria this average for the years 1997-2001 was indeed EUR […].
Sikkerhedsafgift 8 EUR
The Commission will therefore use the value of EUR […] per departing passenger in this analysis.
Projektomkostninger ifølge BAB 2005
The new result is therefore EUR […] per year.
Projektomkostninger/udgifter
The Commission disagrees with Austria on the inclusion as incremental revenues of the payments KFBG received from the State of Carinthia (EUR […] as an one-off payment in 2002, EUR […] per year), from the city of Klagenfurt (EUR […] per year) and from Kärnten Werbung (EUR […] per year) in its analysis.
Underskud
These amounts were granted as operating support to finance the 2002 agreements with Ryanair and its subsidiaries (see Section 7.1 above).
Afgifter ifølge aftale
According to point 63 of the Aviation Guidelines, ‘The airport should demonstrate that […] it is capable of covering all costs stemming from the arrangement’.
pr. turnaround
If additional support is needed, the MEO test is not fulfilled.
Slot-koordinering
This implies that any public support cannot be considered incremental revenue, failing which the provision would be void of meaning.
Sikkerhedsafgift
The Commission will therefore not take into account the payments received from the State of Carinthia, the city of Klagenfurt and from Kärnten Werbung as incremental revenues.
ACG-afgift
The Commission notes that Austria included in its analysis as expected incremental costs only the payments specified in the first marketing agreement between LV and DMG (EUR […] per year) as well as the payment specified in the third marketing agreement (side letter to the first marketing agreement) between LV and DMG (the one-off payment of EUR […]).
Østrig har lagt følgende til grund for oplysningerne i tabel 11:
Contrary to this, the Commission will also take into account the payments specified in the second marketing agreement between DMG and AMS (EUR […] per year).
Den forventede gradvist stigende trafikvolumen, dvs. det forventede gradvist stigende passagerantal, blev beregnet med udgangspunkt i det forventede antal flyvninger pr. uge (54 rotationer i det fastsatte tidsrum med 189 sæder, maksimal startvægt på 67 t og en udnyttelsesfaktor på 85 %) og ekstrapoleret til løbetiden af aftalen om lufthavnstjenester med Ryanair.
Austria did not include this payment, as it claims that this agreement was replaced by the third agreement and did not enter into force.
Som et resultat heraf anførte Østrig 8675 passagerer for den fastsatte periode.
The Commission notes that Austria did not submit any documents to prove this argument, it only declared the absence of any documents for payments in the accounting sheets of KFBG to demonstrate that no payment was carried out by KFBG under the second marketing agreement.
De forventede luftfartsrelaterede merindtægter (håndterings- og landingsafgifter på basis af de daværende lufthavnsafgifter) blev beregnet for løbetiden på fire måneder af aftalen om lufthavnstjenester på grundlag af de med Ryanair aftalte vilkår.
Even when assuming that Austria correctly recalls these facts, the Commission will nevertheless take the second marketing agreement into account in the analysis, as there is no reason why a reasonable MEO could have expected or foreseen in February 2002 when signing that contract that this agreement would not be implemented and payments would not be made later on.
Som merindtægter oplyste Østrig i alt […] EUR for de fire måneder.
A MEO had to assess the agreements according to the situation prevailing at the time they were signed and, more specifically, under the information available and developments foreseeable at that time.
Anvendelsen af dette incitament medførte et fald på […] EUR.
The second marketing agreement therefore has to be taken into account in the ex ante analysis.
De forventede luftfartsrelaterede merindtægter (parkeringsafgifter, indkøb i terminal osv.) er beregnet for løbetiden på fire måneder af aftalen om lufthavnstjenester.
In view of these necessary amendments, the Commission has carried out its own analysis by using directly the incremental profitability analysis as submitted by Austria and amending this analysis only where necessary as summarised in Table 10.
Som forventede meromkostninger, dvs. de omkostninger, der opstår ved det alternative scenarie som følge af ikkegennemførelsen af transaktionen med Ryanair og AMS, angav Østrig følgende betalinger:
Table 10
de i markedsføringsaftalen mellem AMS og DMG fastlagte betalinger ([…] EUR pr. år)
Incremental profitability of contracts with Ryanair, LV and AMS of 2002 as corrected by the Commission
betalinger til en tredjepart (Tyrolean Airways), der fungerede som underleverandør for groundhandlingtjenester, som det er nævnt i betragtning 379, litra e).
Contact period: 5 years
betalinger for sikkerhedsforanstaltninger til de relevante østrigske myndigheder.
Passenger Incentive:
Der blev taget hensyn til sikkerhedsafgiften på […] EUR pr. år, idet det i aftalen mellem KFBG og Ryanair var fastlagt, at KFBG skulle betale denne afgift
Daily connections:
gradvist stigende driftsomkostninger som følge af den forventede forøgelse af trafikniveauet i aftalens løbetid: […] EUR pr. yderligere rotation og pr. ton maksimal startvægt samt […] EUR pr. yderligere afrejsende passager.
MTOW (B373-800):
Disse værdier er udledt af omkostningsberegningssystemet BAB 2005, der har eksisteret siden 2005, og som registrerer omkostningsstederne landingstakst, passagertakst og forpladshandlingafgift.
5 year period
Omkostningsberegningssystemet BAB 2005 viser i detaljer de forskellige direkte omkostninger, indirekte omkostninger og generalomkostninger, der adderes til de samlede omkostninger.
July 2002-June 2003
Østrig redegjorde udførligt for den metode, i henhold til hvilken KFBG udledte meromkostningerne fra bestemte direkte omkostningssteder.
July 2003-June 2004
Østrig meddelte, at KFBG i december 2006 ikke har kalkuleret med nogen gradvist stigende investeringsomkostninger som følge af den ekstra trafik.
July 2004-June 2005
KLU's terminal har en samlet kapacitet på 600000 passagerer pr. år, og ved udgangen af 2006 er der blevet afviklet ca. 409000 passagerer i KLU.
July 2005-July 2006
Således har den forventede forøgelse af trafikniveauet på 23000 passagerer ikke nødvendiggjort investeringer, idet den eksisterende terminal har kunnet absorbere disse passagerer.
July 2006-June 2007
Efter vurdering af de oplysninger, som de østrigske myndigheder forelagde, konkluderer Kommissionen, at Østrig i forbindelse med skøn over passagertallene og den på dette grundlag foretagne beregning af de forventede luftfartsrelaterede merindtægter har en velfunderet tilgang.
EUR […] per rotation
Det samme gælder for de forventede luftfartsrelaterede merindtægter, reduktionen på grund af incitamentsordningen, de forventede ikkeluftfartsrelaterede merindtægter, meromkostningerne til tredjemands groundhandlingtjenester og omkostningerne til betalingerne til Austro Control.
EUR […] per departing passenger
Da KFBG/DMG altså ikke handlede som en markedsøkonomisk investor, opnåede Ryanair og AMS en økonomisk fordel ved beslutningen om at indgå aftalerne på disse vilkår.
Surplus non-aeronautical
Dette resultat i forbindelse med aftalerne fra 2006 er ikke i modstrid med den kendsgerning, at incitamentsordningen fra 2005 (der blev anvendt på aftalerne fra 2006) ikke i sig selv var forbundet med en økonomisk fordel, som det er nævnt i betragtning 261-288.
Incremental revenues
Aftalerne fra 2006 består i, at denne ordning kombineres med en markedsføringsaftale.
Marketing Agreement LV-DMG
I denne sammenhæng bemærker Kommissionen desuden, at aftalerne fra 2006 med Ryanair både afveg fra listen over gebyrer og aftalerne med andre luftfartsselskaber.
Marketing Agreement AMS-DMG
Kommissionen konkluderer, at den fordel, som Ryanair og AMS blev indrømmet, fordrejer konkurrencen og kan påvirke samhandelen mellem medlemsstaterne, som det fremgår af betragtning 387-389.
Side letter LV-DMG
Af ovennævnte årsager er det Kommissionens opfattelse, at Ryanair og AMS har modtaget statsstøtte til et beløb af 141326 EUR.
Project costs marginal costs basis
Aftalen med HLX fra 2003
Incremental costs
Ved at levere lufttransportydelser udøver HLX en økonomisk aktivitet og udgør derfor en virksomhed i henhold til traktatens artikel 107, stk. 1.
Incremental cash flows
Desuden kan aftalen med HLX fra 2003 tilregnes staten af de grunde, der er nævnt i betragtning 314.
Discount factor
Østrig bekræftede ligeledes delstaten Kärntens og byen Klagenfurts aktive deltagelse i indgåelsen af aftalerne fra 2003 med HLX.
Net Present Value
Dertil kommer, at omkostningerne i forbindelse med aftalerne fra 2003 blev båret af delstaten Kärnten og byen Klagenfurt (se afsnit 7.1), hvilket Kommissionen betragter som en yderligere stærk indikation for tilregnelse til staten, som det fremgår af betragtning 314.
Conclusion on economic advantage
Kommissionen konkluderer derfor, at indgåelsen af aftalen mellem KFBG/DMG og HLX fra 2003 kan tilregnes staten.
As the expected discounted result is negative for the 2002 agreements with Ryanair, LV and AMS, the Commission finds that KFBG/DMG did not act like a MEO in concluding those agreements.
Denne tidsramme synes at være realistisk i lyset af redegørelserne i betragtning 368 til 369.
The Airport could not have expected to cover the incremental costs brought about by those agreements.
Aftalen sluttede den 31. marts 2008.
As KFBG/DMG did not behave like a MEO, its decision to conclude the agreements on those terms granted Ryanair, LV and AMS an economic advantage.
En forsigtig markedsøkonomisk investor ville ikke have taget hensyn til muligheden for en forlængelse af aftalen.
Austria's argument that KFBG organised tenders to conclude agreements for the respective routes does not exclude the presence of the advantage as concluded by the Commission.
En sådan operatør ville på tidspunktet for underskrivelsen ikke have haft nogen rimelig grund til at formode, at det rent faktisk ville virke troværdigt med en forlængelse i forbindelse med et lavprisselskab.
A MEO operating an airport can in principle organise an open tender to offer financial incentives to an airline in order to increase traffic.
Derfor ville vurderingen vedrøre perioden indtil den 31. marts 2008.
A open tender may indeed be a suitable manner to maximise the profits generated by such incentives.
Efter anmodning fra Kommissionen udarbejdede Østrig en oversigt over de meromkostninger og -indtægter, der kunne forventes på tidspunktet for indgåelsen af den pågældende aftale.
However, if none of the bids submitted following such a tender can be expected by the airport operator to contribute, from an ex ante standpoint, to the profitability of the airport, then the MEO in question would not conclude any agreement even with the successful bidder, because it is not economically rational to conclude agreement reducing profits or increasing losses.
En sammenfatning er indeholdt i tabel 12.
If a public entity of a Member State decides to provide support, for public policy reasons, to a certain activity and tenders out, for example, the amount of funding provided, the mere fact that a tender is organised does not rule out the presence of State aid, but may only minimise the amount of aid.
Tabel 12
The economic advantage was granted on a selective basis, as only one airline, namely Ryanair, benefitted from it.
Gradvist stigende rentabilitet af aftalen med HLX fra 2003, udarbejdet af Østrig
In this context, the argument advanced by Austria that the discounts on airport charges granted to airlines flying from Klagenfurt were not selective must be rejected.
4 år og 7 måneder
Austria argued that the discounts were open to all airlines wishing to operate from Klagenfurt, which allegedly rendered them non-selective.
Rotationer
The Commission observes that the individual agreements concluded with Ryanair diverges from the schedule of charges and from agreements with other airlines, thus containing individually-negotiated conditions.
Passagerer afrejsende
A measure granted by a State is considered to distort or to threaten to distort competition when it is liable to improve the competitive position of the recipient compared to other undertakings with which it competes.
Incitamenter
For all practical purposes, a distortion of competition is thus assumed as soon as a State grants a financial advantage to an undertaking in a liberalised sector where there is, or could be, competition.
Varighed 4 år og 7 måneder
The case law of the European Courts has established that any grant of aid to an undertaking exercising its activities in the internal market can be liable to affect trade between Member States.
Bidrag luftfartsselskab
As the Court of Justice has observed,
Ingen angivelse, fordi bruttometode
‘where an undertaking operates in a sector in which […] producers from various Member States compete, any aid which it may receive from the public authorities is liable to affect trade between the Member States and impair competition, inasmuch as its continuing presence on the market prevents competitors from increasing their market share and reduces their chances of increasing exports.’.
Omkostningsbidrag svarende til de udækkede projektomkostninger
The Commission has found that KFBG/DMG granted a selective advantage to Ryanair, LV and AMS.
Omkostningsbidrag delstaten Kärnten
Ryanair with its subsidiaries is active on a competitive, Union-wide market and the advantage these undertakings received was liable to improve their competitive position on that market.
Ikkeluftfartsrelaterede indtægter
In this light, the Commission finds that the advantage granted to Ryanair, LV and AMS is liable to distort competition and affect trade between Member States.
Markedsføringsvolumen ifølge samarbejdsaftale
For the foregoing reasons, the Commission finds that Ryanair, LV and AMS have received State aid, amounting to EUR […] in net present value terms.
Korrektion, fordi vist under projektomkostninger
The 2006 agreements with Ryanair and AMS
Projektomkostninger på marginalomkostningsbasis
Ryanair provides air transport services.
Groundhandling ekstern ydelse 51 %
AMS provides marketing services.
(Austro Control — flyvekontrol)
Ryanair and AMS are therefore undertakings within the meaning of Article 107(1) TFEU.
(sikkerhedsafgift)
Until 2003 the shares of KFBG/DMG were held by the Republic of Austria (60 %), the State of Carinthia (20 %) and Klagenfurt city (20 %).
Projektomkostninger angivelse ifølge BAB 2002
KFBG/DMG must thus be considered public undertakings within the meaning of Article 2 (b) of Directive 2006/111/EC whose funds are State resources.
Samlede projektomkostninger
The 2006 agreements with Ryanair, AMS and LV are also imputable to the State.
Udgifter i alt
For the general involvement of the State of Carinthia in the activities of the airport, in particular the conclusion of the marketing agreement with the airlines, see above reference (314) et seq.
Cost-benefit-analysen viser et positivt diskonteret resultat på (i EUR)
Further, the Republic of Austria explicitly confirmed this involvement also with reference to the 2006 agreements with Ryanair and AMS.
Østrig har lagt følgende til grund for oplysningerne i tabel 12:
In the light of these considerations, the Commission considers that there are sufficient indicators to find that the conclusion of the 2006 agreements between KFBG/DMG and Ryanair/AMS are imputable to the State.
Den forventede gradvist stigende trafikvolumen, dvs. det forventede gradvist stigende passagerantal, blev beregnet med udgangspunkt i det forventede antal flyvninger pr. år (996 rotationer i det fastsatte tidsrum pr. år med undtagelse af 770 rotationer i det første år og 655 rotationer i det sidste år, 148 sæder, maksimal startvægt på 68 t og en udnyttelsesfaktor på 70 %) og ekstrapoleret til løbetiden af aftalen om lufthavnstjenester med HLX.
Regarding the current lack of comparable airports and agreements and the ex ante analysis of incremental profitability of the 2006 agreements reference is made to the assessment under recitals 261 to 278.
De forventede luftfartsrelaterede merindtægter (handling- og landingsafgifter på basis af de daværende lufthavnsafgifter) blev beregnet for løbetiden af aftalen om lufthavnstjenester på grundlag af de med HLX aftalte vilkår.
That study made no attempt to factor in the specific marketing services agreements at KLU in comparison to those possibly offered in other airports.
Som merindtægter oplyste Østrig i alt […] EUR.
Market Economy Operator Principle — Regarding an analysis of the marketing services agreements and the airport services agreement together
Som gradvist stigende indtægter tog Østrig i sin analyse også hensyn til delstaten Kärntens betalinger til KFBG ([…] EUR).
Indeed, as for the 2002 agreements, there are several indications pointing towards the fact that the 2006 agreements should be evaluated as one single measure since they were entered into within the framework of a single transaction.
Som forventede meromkostninger, dvs. de omkostninger, der opstår ved det alternative scenarie som følge af ikkegennemførelsen af transaktionen med HLX, angav Østrig følgende betalinger:
First, according to the marketing agreement, ‘this agreement is rooted in Ryanair's commitment to operate on a route between STN and KLU[…]’.
betalinger for sikkerhedsforanstaltninger til de relevante østrigske myndigheder.
Second, the contracts were entered into by essentially the same parties.
Der blev taget hensyn til sikkerhedsafgiften på […] EUR pr. år, idet det i aftalen mellem KFBG og HLX var fastlagt, at KFBG skulle betale denne afgift.
The Commission refers to recital 326 regarding the subsidiary AMS of Ryanair and regarding the subsidiary DMG of KFBG.
Ligeledes blev der taget hensyn til afgifter til Austro Control på […] EUR pr. år, fordi den ifølge aftale skulle betales af KFBG
Third, according to both agreements they both lasted until 21 April 2007, i.e. they were in force for an identical period of time.
Disse værdier er udledt af omkostningsberegningssystemet BAB 2002, der har eksisteret siden 2002, og som registrerer omkostningsstederne landingstakst, passagertakst og forpladshandlingafgift.
This contemporaneous expiry of both agreements after the same period of time also shows that both agreements are linked and depended on each other.
Omkostningsberegningssystemet BAB 2002 viser i detaljer de forskellige direkte omkostninger, indirekte omkostninger og generalomkostninger, der adderes til de samlede omkostninger.
In conclusion, the marketing services agreement concluded by DMG and AMS is thus indivisibly linked to the airport services agreement signed by Ryanair and KFBG.
Østrig meddelte, at KFBG i august 2003 ikke har kalkuleret med nogen gradvist stigende investeringsomkostninger som følge af den ekstra trafik.
The above considerations demonstrate that without the airport services agreement, the marketing services agreement would not have been concluded.
KLU's terminal har en samlet kapacitet på 600000 passagerer pr. år, og ved udgangen af 2002 er der blevet afviklet ca. 220000 passagerer i KLU.
Indeed, the marketing services agreement states explicitly that it is based on a 3-a-week-service between STN and KLU, and essentially envisages marketing services using the travel website www.ryanair.com aimed at promoting that service between STN and KLU.
Således har den forventede forøgelse af trafikniveauet på 103000 passagerer ikke nødvendiggjort investeringer, idet den eksisterende terminal har kunnet absorbere disse passagerer.
For those reasons, the Commission considers it appropriate to analyse the airport services agreement of 23 August 2006 and the marketing services agreement of 21 December 2006 jointly, with a view to determining whether they constitute State aid.
Som diskonteringssats har KFBG valgt den af Wien lufthavn anvendte og offentliggjorte sats på 8 %, som har været almindelig i forbindelse med KFBG's økonomiske beregninger.
Austria has agreed in its comments to the extension decision with the approach taken in the extension decision to analyse together the airport services agreement and marketing services agreement signed at the same time.