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Artikel 3
Even assuming that for some baseload consumers the full exemption was appropriate, and necessary to contribute to an objective of common interest and had an incentive effect, it should be noted that the full exemption was not proportionate and that the negative impact of the aid outweigh its hypothetical positive impact.
Tyskland tilbagesøger fra støttemodtagerne den uforenelige støtte, der er tildelt i henhold til den i artikel 1 omhandlede støtteordning.
In order to be proportionate, the full exemption would have had to be limited to the amount necessary to trigger the change in the behaviour of the concerned baseload consumer that is beneficial for either the security of supply or the promotion of renewable electricity.
De beløb, der skal inddrives, tilskrives rente fra den dato, hvor de blev stillet til rådighed for modtagerne, indtil de er tilbagebetalt.
However, Germany has not demonstrated that the full exemption is calibrated to being limited to what would be necessary to incentivize a change in the consumption pattern of baseload consumers, nor that the full exemption is the least distortive tool to keep the baseload consumers' contribution to the stability and security of the network.
Renterne beregnes på grundlag af rentes rente i overensstemmelse med kapitel V i Kommissionens forordning (EF) nr. 794/2004.
In this respect, some interested parties have claimed that in order to be sure that they would reach the 7000 hours of full use, their employees needed to reserve part of their time to the monitoring of the consumption and that a continuous consumption also involved continuous production and thus possibly increased stocks when product demand was decreasing.
Tyskland skal indstille alle udestående betalinger af den i artikel 1 omhandlede støtte i henhold til ordningen med virkning fra datoen for vedtagelsen af denne afgørelse.
However, the same interested party admits that those costs differed for each company.
Artikel 4
Therefore, even assuming that in order to reach 7000 hours of full use some of the baseload consumers would face additional costs, there was no guarantee that the exemption would in all cases correspond to what would have been necessary to cover those extra costs and Germany did not demonstrate that it had been the case.
Tilbagesøgningen af den støtte, der er ydet på grundlag af den i artikel 1 omhandlede ordning, iværksættes øjeblikkeligt og effektivt.
It is noted in addition that the measure does not seem to promote security of supply beyond what is already taken into account to compute individual network charges.
Tyskland sørger for, at denne afgørelse er efterkommet senest fire måneder efter, at den er meddelt de tyske myndigheder.
Such additional contribution has not been demonstrated.
Artikel 5
In any event, both Germany and interested parties admit that it cannot be quantified.
Senest to måneder efter meddelelsen af denne afgørelse sender Tyskland følgende oplysninger til Kommissionen:
In addition, it is noted that even if it was assumed that baseload consumers would contribute to security of supply beyond the stabilizing effect on networks already taken into account in the determination of individual network charges and would also indirectly contribute to the promotion of renewable electricity, Germany has not demonstrated that the aid is limited to what would be necessary to achieve those positive effects.
En liste over de støttemodtagere, der måtte have modtaget støtte i henhold til den i artikel 1 omhandlede støtteordning, og det samlede støttebeløb, som hver enkelt af dem har modtaget i henhold til ordningen
In its 2015 Evaluation Report, the BNetzA noted that network operators having baseload consumers connected to their network were split between those finding that baseload consumers had stabilizing effects and those finding that they had no such stabilizing effects (see figures 6 and 7 of the report and the findings on p. 38 of the report).
Det samlede beløb (hovedstol og renter), der skal tilbagesøges fra hver støttemodtager
As the report does not make this distinction, it is unclear whether for those network operators having identified stabilizing effects, the effects concerned would go beyond those already taken into account to calculate individual network charges.
En detaljeret beskrivelse af, hvilke foranstaltninger der er truffet eller vil blive truffet for at efterkomme denne afgørelse
One TSO explained that the contribution of baseload consumers to the stability of the networks depended on the specific circumstances of the network: in the event of overload, baseload consumers were threatening network stability while at times of underload, they were contributing to it so that the key to network stability was actually flexible load.
Dokumentation for, at støttemodtagerne har fået påbud om at tilbagebetale den i artikel 1 nævnte støtte.
However, baseload consumers by definition do not constitute flexible load but stable and inflexible load.
Tyskland underretter Kommissionen om udviklingen i de foranstaltninger, der på nationalt plan træffes for at efterkomme denne afgørelse, indtil den støtte, der blev tildelt i henhold til den i artikel 1 omhandlede støtteordning, er fuldt tilbagebetalt.
Indeed, if the baseload consumers were to offer flexibility services (reduction of consumption upon request of the network operator for instance), they would not comply with the definition of baseload consumers anymore as they would not reach the 7000 hours of full use anymore.
Efter anmodning fra Kommissionen fremsender Tyskland omgående oplysninger om, hvilke foranstaltninger der er truffet eller planlagt for at efterkomme afgørelsen.
This confirms at the very least, that — assuming that under certain conditions baseload consumers contribute to network stability beyond what is already taken into account to compute individual network charges — baseload consumers' additional contribution to stability would depend on each case but cannot be automatically presumed for any baseload consumer exceeding 10 GWh of consumption and reaching 7000 hours of full use.
Tyskland fremsender endvidere detaljerede oplysninger om de støttebeløb og renter, der allerede er tilbagebetalt af støttemodtagerne.
Nor can it be presumed that it would warrant a full exemption from network charges in all cases.
Udfærdiget i Bruxelles, den 28. maj 2018.
Germany has not provided any elements that would demonstrate that the full exemption is limited to the baseload consumption that is allegedly needed to secure the existence of baseload conventional power plants nor that it would over time be calibrated to adapt to changing needs.
På Kommissionens vegne
Germany has argued that there would be no undue distortion of trading conditions as the impact on competition would be limited given that the measure significantly contributed to security of supply and would hardly have any impact on competition with undertakings from other Member States given the very high electricity prices in Germany compared to other Member States.
Medlem af Kommissionen
However, as result from the findings under section 5.3.2.1 to 5.3.2.4 it is not demonstrated that the full exemption would be appropriate to achieve security of supply and promotion of renewable electricity, nor that it would be necessary and have an incentive effect.
EUT C 128 af 4.5.2013, s. 43.
Also, as demonstrated under (205)-(211) of this Decision, the aid is not limited to amount needed to reach the objectives and leads to overcompensation.
Kommissionens afgørelse af 6. marts 2013 i statsstøttesag SA.34045 (2012/C) — Tyskland — Netafgiftsfritagelse for elkunder med stort forbrug (§ 19 i elnetsbekendtgørelsen) — Opfordring til at fremsætte bemærkninger efter artikel 108, stk. 2, i traktaten om Den Europæiske Unions funktionsmåde (EUT C 128 af 4.5.2013, s. 43).
The hypothetical positive impact of the aid is therefore extremely limited, if existing at all.
I, s. 1554.
By contrast, the full exemption does not seem to observe Article 32 of Directive 2009/72/EC and Article 14 of Regulation (EC) No 714/2009.
I, s. 1786.
Concerning the distortion of competition with other Member States and contrary to Germany's views, they cannot be considered as being insignificant.
Netoperatøren er den virksomhed, der er ansvarlig for driften og den sikre forvaltning af det pågældende elnet.
First, the measure fully exempts the beneficiaries from network charges while all their competitors remain under the obligation to pay network charges in their respective Member States, in line with the applicable European legislation.
Netoperatørerne kan generelt inddeles i transmissionssystemoperatører og distributionssystemoperatører, afhængigt af, om de driver et transmissionssystem eller et distributionssystem.
This can have an important distortive impact on competition given that, as Germany has pointed out itself, most of the beneficiaries are electro-intensive undertakings.
Elnetsbekendtgørelsen blev udstedt i 2005 og er siden blevet ændret flere gange.
Electricity costs are thus an important factor of their competitiveness.
I denne afgørelse henvises til »elnetsbekendtgørelsen« i al almindelighed, når den omhandlede bestemmelse ikke var berørt af de forskellige ændringer.
Second, the circumstance that electricity prices would be high in Germany and would heavily burden the production costs of electro-intensive companies in Germany has not been demonstrated.
Hvis en nævnt bestemmelse blev ændret, henvises der i denne afgørelse udtrykkeligt til den relevante udgave af elnetsbekendtgørelsen:
It is noted to the contrary that between 2011 and 2013 electro-intensive users benefitted in Germany from reductions of the electricity tax, of the EEG-surcharge and of the CHP-surcharge
»Elnetsbekendtgørelsen 2010« betegner den udgave af elnetsbekendtgørelsen, der er ændret ved artikel 6 i lov af 3. september 2010 (BGBl.
Based on those elements, it is concluded that the negative impact of the aid exceeds the hypothetical positive contribution that it might have had in terms of the promotion of renewable electricity or the security of supply.
I, s. 2074).
CONCLUSION
»Elnetsbekendtgørelsen 2011« betegner den udgave af elnetsbekendtgørelsen, der er ændret ved artikel 7 i lov af 26. juli 2011 (BGBl.
The aid granted in 2012 and 2013 is not compatible with the internal market.
I, s. 1554).
RECOVERY
»Elnetsbekendtgørelsen 2014« betegner den udgave af elnetsbekendtgørelsen, der er ændret ved artikel 1 i forordning af 14. august 2013 (BGBl.
According to the Treaty and the Court's established case-law, the Commission is competent to decide that the Member State concerned must abolish or alter aid when it has found that it is incompatible with the internal market.
I, s. 3250).
The Court has also consistently held that the obligation on a Member State to abolish aid regarded by the Commission as being incompatible with the internal market is designed to re-establish the previously existing situation.
I et elnet skal der i princippet være ligevægt mellem produktion og forbrug af el. Ubalancer kan forekomme, hvis det faktiske forbrug er forskelligt fra det estimerede forbrug, hvis et kraftværk er ude af drift eller i forbindelse med pludseligt aftagende vind eller mindre solindstråling.
In this context, the Court has established that this objective is attained once the recipient has repaid the amounts granted by way of unlawful aid, thus forfeiting the advantage which it had enjoyed over its competitors on the market, and the situation prior to the payment of the aid is restored.
Transmissionssystemoperatørerne (herefter »TSO'er«) har ansvaret for altid at holde nettet i balance, tilføre yderligere el til nettet, hvis forbruget er højere end den faktisk tilførte elmængde, og tilvejebringe en formindskelse af elproduktionen eller en forøgelse af forbruget, hvis forbruget ligger under den tilførte elmængde.
In line with the case-law, Article 16(1) of Council Regulation (EU) 2015/1589 stated that ‘where negative decisions are taken in cases of unlawful aid, the Commission shall decide that the Member State concerned shall take all necessary measures to recover the aid from the beneficiary […]’.
Da det ikke er nemt at lagre elektricitet, skal TSO'en sikre, at denne har hurtig adgang (inden for sekunder eller minutter) til positiv eller negativ energi.
Thus, given that the aid in question was implemented in violation of Article 108(3) of the Treaty and is incompatible with the internal market, it must be recovered from the beneficiaries in order to re-establish the situation that existed on the market prior to their granting.
Til dette formål indkøber TSO'erne reserver (også kaldet balancering).
Recovery should cover the time from when the advantage accrued to the beneficiary, that is to say when the aid was put at the disposal of the beneficiary, until effective recovery, and the sums to be recovered should bear interest from the date on which they accrued to the beneficiary until effective recovery.
I Tyskland sondres der mellem tre typer reserver. a) Primær balancering skal være til rådighed for TSO'erne inden for 30 sekunder efter anmodning herom. b) Sekundær balancering skal være til rådighed inden for fem minutter og minutreserven (også kaldet tertiær balancering) inden for 15 minutter (se Bundesnetzagenturs websted: https://www.smard.de/blueprint/servlet/page/home/wiki-article/446/396).
As regards the claim put forward by some interested parties that the recovery would be in violation of the principle of the protection of legitimate expectations, it should be pointed out that the Court of Justice has repeatedly held that the right to rely on the principle of the protection of legitimate expectations extends to any person in a situation where a Union institution has caused him to entertain expectations which are justified by precise assurances provided to him.
Der gøres brug af belastningsomfordeling i forbindelse med håndtering af kapacitetsbegrænsninger.
However, if a prudent and alert economic operator could have foreseen the adoption of a Union measure likely to affect his interests, he cannot plead that principle if the measure is adopted.
En netkapacitetsbegrænsning opstår, når den producerede elmængde overstiger kapaciteten i de netelementer, via hvilke produktionsanlæggene er forbundet med forbrugspunkterne.
In light of that case-law, the judgment in PreussenElektra could not create any legitimate expectations because it has not put into question the possibility to mandate private bodies to administer an aid scheme and to qualify parafiscal levies and charges as State resources.
Hvis tilførslen af aktiv effekt fra et eller flere kraftværker reduceres på den ene side af kapacitetsbegrænsningen og øges på den anden side, kan kapacitetsbegrænsningen modvirkes og samtidig i vid udstrækning holde tilførslen af aktiv effekt konstant i nettet.
Rather, it concerned one narrow situation already identified in Van Tiggele.
Ved belastningsomfordeling anmoder TSO'erne kraftværkerne om at tilpasse deres tilførsel af aktiv effekt for at undgå eller eliminere kapacitetsbegrænsninger.
In addition, the Commission has concluded on the existence of State aid in a big number of schemes financed on the basis of a surcharge imposed by the State.
TSO'erne skal betale kraftværkerne en kompensation i tilfælde af en fastsat belastningsomfordeling (https://www.bundesnetzagentur.de/DE/Sachgebiete/ElektrizitaetundGas/Unternehmen_Institutionen/Versorgungssicherheit/Engpassmanagement/Redispatch/redispatch-node.html).
In any event, the Court clarified in Essent the boundaries of the PreussenElektra judgment and repeated its earlier case law that also qualifies as State resource an advantage financed from surcharge imposed by the State and managed by an entity designated by the State.
Ved eltransmission er der en del af elektriciteten, som går tabt, og derfor skal nettet tilføres yderligere energi for at holde elmængden konstant i forhold til den oprindeligt tilførte mængde.
The interpretation of State resources adopted in this decision is in line with the well-established case law of the Court as well as the decisional practice of the Commission.
Tyskland har bemærket, at der i forbindelse med omkostningerne til køb af balanceringsenergi skal sondres mellem de omkostninger, der er forbundet med reserverne, og de omkostninger, der optræder i forbindelse med den faktiske tilrådighedsstillelse af positiv eller negativ balanceringsenergi.
As it could have been foreseen by any prudent and alert economic operator, recovery would not be in violation of the principle of the protection of legitimate expectations.
De anlæg, der er bundet til reserven, kompenseres for at stå til rådighed.
In light of the above, especially with respect to recital 216, the aid should be recovered as it is incompatible with the internal market and the sums to be recovered should bear interest from the date on which they accrued to the beneficiary until effective recovery.
Hvis de på TSO'ens anmodning faktisk stiller energi til rådighed, modtager de en yderligere kompensation for den leverede energi.
Recovery should only cover the full exemption from network charges granted during the period from 1 January 2012 until 31 December 2013 by comparison of the individual network charges that would have been due absent the exemption, as only that part qualifies as State aid.
Omkostningerne i forbindelse med den faktisk leverede (positive eller negative) energi betales direkte af de operatører, der er ansvarlige for ubalancen.
The recoverable amounts are for each of the years concerned, the individual network charges that the beneficiaries would have had to pay without the full exemption.
Tyskland har bemærket, at knækpunktet ved 2500 brugstimer ganske vidst er en konvention, men ikke desto mindre blev udledt af empiriske iagttagelser.
The individual network charges referred to in the previous recital should be calculated on the basis of the physical path methodology as it was set out by the BNetzA in its guidance document ‘Leitfaden zur Genehmigung individueller netzentgeltvereinbarungen nach § 19 Abs. 2 S. 1 und 2 StromNEV’ issued on 26 October 2010.
Empirisk beskrives samtidighedsfunktionen ikke ved et fuldstændig lineært forløb, men derimod formindskes den indtil ca. 2500 brugstimer relativt kraftige stigning efter dette knækpunkt.
The recoverable amount, for each of the years concerned, equals at least 20 % of the amount that the beneficiary would have paid if he had had to pay the published network charges.
Dette medfører to forskellige afsnit for samtidighedsfunktionen og dermed fire forskellige afgiftselementer: en effektpris og en kWh-tarif for brugere med mindre end 2500 brugstimer og en effektpris og kWh-tarif for brugere med mere end 2500 brugstimer.
Where the total amount of advantage received by a beneficiary is less than EUR 200000 and where the advantage meets all the other criteria laid down in either Commission Regulation (EU) No 1407/2013 or Commission Regulation (EC) No 1998/2006, such advantage should be deemed not to constitute State aid in the meaning of Article 107(1) of the Treaty, and should therefore not be subject to recovery.
Det eneste alternativ ville være en konkav kurve for samtidighedsfunktionen, men dette ville imidlertid betyde, at der for hver netbruger i Tyskland skulle beregnes en egen kWh-tarif (da kurvens stigning ændrer sig ved hvert punkt i kurven).
It is concluded that Germany has unlawfully put into effect during the period 1 January 2012 until 31 December 2013 aid in the form of a full exemption from network charges for baseload consumers reaching an annual electricity consumption of at least 10 GWh and 7000 hours of full use in breach of Article 108(3) of the Treaty.
Dette ville betyde en væsentlig forøgelse af de administrative omkostninger, der er forbundet med fastsættelsen af netafgifterne i Tyskland, gøre beregningen heraf langsommere og reducere netafgifternes gennemsigtighed og forudsigelighed.
The State aid amounts to the network costs actually caused by the exempted baseload consumers in 2012 and 2013 or, where those network costs amount to less than the minimum network charges of 20 % of the published network charges, to those minimum network charges.
Et eksempel på samtidighedsfunktionen er indeholdt i rapporten fra Bundesnetzagentur om netafgiftssystematikken for elektricitet (status december 2015): https://www.bundesnetzagentur.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/DE/Sachgebiete/Energie/Unternehmen_Institutionen/Netzentgelte/Netzentgeltsystematik/Bericht_Netzentgeltsystematik_12-2015.pdf?__blob=publicationFile&v=1.
To this extent, the full exemption granted under the second sentence of Paragraph 19(2) of the StromNEV 2011 deviates from the reference system as it was in place.
Effektprisen beregnes ved at multiplicere de specifikke årlige omkostninger for netniveauet med værdien af samtidighedsfunktionen ved henholdsvis 0 og 2500 brugstimer (for brugere med henholdsvis mindre eller mere end 2500 brugstimer).
Accordingly, the State aid amounts to the value of the individual network charges that the baseload consumers did not pay in 2012 to 2013 and corresponds to at least 20 % of the network charges published in the respective years.
Eksempelvis har Amprion i 2017 anvendt følgende effektpris for højspændingsniveauet:
The State aid does not meet the conditions of any of the derogations provided for in Article 107(2) and (3) of the Treaty and cannot be considered compatible with the internal market for any other reason.
kWh-tariffen beregnes ved at multiplicere de specifikke årlige omkostninger for netniveauet med værdien af samtidighedsfunktionen indtil henholdsvis dens knækpunkt ved 2500 brugstimer (for brugere med mindre end 2500 brugstimer) og med samtidighedsfunktionens stigning efter knækpunktet (for brugere med mere end 2500 brugstimer).
Consequently, it is incompatible with the internal market.
Eksempelvis har Amprion i 2017 anvendt følgende kWh-tarif for højspændingsniveauet:
In accordance with Article 16(1) of Regulation (EU) 2015/1589 the Commission must require that the Member State concerned takes all necessary measures to recover the aid from the beneficiaries.
Forordning af 29. oktober 2007, BGBl.
Germany should therefore be required to recover the incompatible aid,
I, s. 2529.
HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
ARegV er blevet ændret flere gange siden 2007.
Article 1
I denne afgørelse henvises til »ARegV« i al almindelighed, når den omhandlede bestemmelse ikke var berørt af de forskellige ændringer.
The full exemption of baseload consumers in Germany from paying network charges, which Germany has unlawfully put into effect in 2012 and 2013, constitutes State aid within the meaning of Article 107(1) of the Treaty insofar as those consumers were exempted from paying network charges corresponding to the network costs caused by them or, where those network costs amounted to less than the minimum network charges of 20 % of the published network charges, from paying those minimum network charges.
Hvis en nævnt bestemmelse blev ændret, henvises der i denne afgørelse udtrykkeligt til den relevante udgave af ARegV:
The State aid referred to in paragraph 1 was put into effect by Germany in breach of Article 108(3) of the Treaty and is incompatible with the internal market.
»ARegV 2011« betegner den udgave af ARegV, der er ændret ved artikel 5 i lov af 28. juli 2011 (BGBl.
Article 2
I, s. 1690).
Individual aid granted under the scheme referred to in Article 1 does not constitute State aid if, at the time it is granted, it fulfils the conditions laid down by the regulation adopted pursuant to Article 2 of Council Regulation (EC) No 994/98 which is applicable at the time the aid is granted.
Kravet om 7000 brugstimer var gældende i henhold til elnetsbekendtgørelsen 2010 fra den 1. januar 2011, dvs. allerede inden indførelsen af den fuldstændige netafgiftsfritagelse for båndlastbrugere.
Article 3
Inden denne ændring lå kravet på 7500 brugstimer.
Germany shall recover the incompatible aid granted under the scheme referred to in Article 1 from the beneficiaries.
Se fodnote 6.
The sums to be recovered shall bear interest from the date on which they were put at the disposal of the beneficiaries until their actual recovery.