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Den giver konsortier med en markedsandel på over gruppefritagelsens loft, men under50 %, mulighed for at anmelde aftaler til Kommissionen og opnå godkendelse gennem en indsigelses-
Even if there is not necessarily a link between Community structural funds and State aid, the councils could have the legitimate expectation that those funds could also be consideredprivate funds in the field of State aid.
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588.The Accession Treaty provides that the following aid measures are to be regarded as existing aidwithin the meaning of Article 88(1) of the EC Treaty from the date of accession:
1. maj 2004, tager Kommissionens forslag sigte på at tilpasse forordningen til denne ændring.
(a) aid measures put into effect before 10 December 1994;
143.Ændringsforslagene vedrører ikke de indholdsmæssige bestemmelser i gruppefritagelsen, dergælder indtil den 25. april 2005.
594.Therefore, an assessment of the compatibility with the common market on the part of the Commission was not required, pursuant to Annex IV.3 of the Act of Accession.
144.I 2002 efterforskede Kommissionen Wallenius/Wilhelmsen/Hyundai-fusionen og godkendtetransaktionen på visse betingelser. Transaktionen omfattede to rederier med specialfartøjer til transport afbiler, det norsk/svenske selskab Wallenius Wilhelmsen Lines (WWL) og det koreanske selskab Hyundai Merchant Marine.
595.In June, as part of its reorganisation, the Competition DG set up a new unit within State Aid Directorate H. The new unit is specifically charged with ensuring the enforcement of State aid decisions.Commissioner Monti has repeatedly declared the enforcement of State aid decisions, and in particular ofrecovery decisions, to be one of the priorities of his State aid policy.
Under sin vurdering af denne fusion blev Kommissionen for første gang klar over, atde rederier med dybhavsspecialfartøjer til transport af biler, der sejler mellem Fjernøsten og Europa,havde indgået horisontale prisaftaler.
The experience gained in recent years suggests that Member States do not always give sufficient priority to the implementation of Commission recoverydecisions.
Disse prisaftaler omfattede tre japanske selskaber (NYK, MOL og K-Line) samt ovennævnte WWL — alle nuværende eller tidligere medlemmer af Far Eastern Freight Conference.
This may be due to the inherent conflict of interest given that Member States are, at the sametime, both the donor of aid and the recovering institution.
Disse fire selskaber tilbyder specialiseret søtransport af nye biler fra de japanske produktionsanlæg til distributionscentre i Europa. Deres største kunder er japanske bilproducenter.
Particular problems arise in cases where thebeneficiary has gone bankrupt (around a third of all recovery cases).
146.Rederierne søgte derefter uformelt Kommissionens vejledning for at finde frem til nye ordninger,som kunne erstatte deres tidligere ulovlige samarbejde.
597.The Commission assessed aid for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions via alternativeenergy sources and energy saving (317) in Lazio, Italy.
Kommissionen udtrykte forbehold om nogleaspekter af det foreslåede samarbejde, og de fire rederier har nu accepteret at begrænse deres samarbejdepå en sådan måde, at det stemmer overens med Kommissionens uformelle vejledning.
The case concerns two projects whose objective consists in developing (a) the production and use of alternative energy sources (windpower) and (b)energy saving (by means of combined heat and energy production and district heating).
147.Den 19. marts traf Retten i Første Instans afgørelse om en appel af Kommissionens beslutning i FETTCSA-sagen (95).
598.Nevertheless, on 3 May, the Commission opened the formal investigation procedure with regardto the first project (TLR/ACEA SpA) on the basis of the Deggendorf case-law.
Sagen vedrørte en aftale mellem 16 linjerederier, der driver linjer mellem
Therefore, newaid to be granted to ACEA SpA is not in line with the Deggendorf principles (319).
Fjernøsten og Europa, om ikke at yde deres kunder rabatter på de offentliggjorte satser og fragttillæg.Retten stadfæstede Kommissionens beslutning med hensyn til sagens genstand, men annullerede bøderne
In the course of theprocedure, P & O Ferries proposed amendments to the original agreement and proposals for replacingit with a new one, which the Commission considered as not constituting State aid, whereupon it decided to terminate the procedure.
148.Den 30. september afsagde Retten i Første Instans dom i TACA-sagen (97) om en appel af Kommissionens beslutning fra 1998, hvori den fandt, at visse aktiviteter udført af medlemmerne af enlinjekonference, der sejler mellem Nordeuropa og USA, var i strid med EF-traktatens artikel 81 og 82.Linjekonferencer er omfattet af en gruppefritagelse i Rådets forordning (EØF) nr. 4056/86 (søfartensmodstykke til forordning nr. 17), der bl.a. tillader dem at fastsætte fælles fragtrater og regulere denkapacitet, deres medlemmer tilbyder.
601.The Court of Justice found in this instance that the aid instituted by the new agreement was notgranted in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 88(3) of the EC Treaty and therefore wasunlawful. It found it also apparent from the contested decision that the original agreement and the newagreement constituted a single grant of aid, instituted and implemented in 1992 in the context of theoriginal agreement’s conclusion without prior notification to the Commission.
149.Retten i Første Instans stadfæstede Kommissionens beslutning med hensyn til fire af i alt femovertrædelser, men annullerede de bøder, Kommissionen havde pålagt for to overtrædelser afartikel 82.
602.In its assessment of the aid, the Commission observed that the total number of travel voucherspurchased by the Diputación was not fixed by reference to its actual needs to pursue the objectives of thescheme.
Retten fastslog, at medlemmerne af TACA havde overtrådt EF-traktatens artikel 81, stk. 1,ved at aftale priser for landtransporttjenester i EU, ved at fastsætte vederlag til mæglere og speditørerog betingelserne for deres servicekontrakter med afskiberne.
603.The Diputación argued that the Commission should have exempted the aid at issue on the basis ofthe derogation laid down in Article 87(2)(a), given that the vouchers purchased were distributed under thesocial programmes administered by the Diputación and, therefore, the aid benefited individualconsumers.
Kommissionens beslutning af 19.3.2000 i sag IV/34.018, Far East Trade Tariff Charges and Surcharges Agreement(FETTCSA) (EFT L 268 af 20.10.2000, s. 1).Europa-Kommissionen har anket dommen til Domstolen.Kommissionens beslutning af 16.9.1998 i sag IV/35.134, Trans-Atlantic Conference Agreement (TACA) (EFT L 95 af9.4.1999, s. 1).
Case C 27/99 (ex-NN 69/98), Decision 2003/193/EC, OJ L 77 of 24.3.2003, p. 21.Judgment of the Court of Justice of 15.5.1997 in Case C-355/95 P.Decision 2001/247/EC.OJ L 89 of 29.3.2001, p. 28.
XXXIII BERETNING OM KONKURRENCEPOLITIKKEN 2003 — SEK(2004) 658 ENDELIG beslutning om, at disse elementer ikke var omfattet af gruppefritagelsen og ikke kunne komme ibetragtning til en individuel fritagelse.
XXXIIIRD REPORT ON COMPETITION POLICY 2003 — SEC(2004) 658 FINAL related to the origin of the products concerned, it must be ascertained whether consumers benefit from theaid in question irrespective of the economic operator supplying the product or service capable offulfilling the social objective relied on by the Member State concerned.
150.Retten fastslog endvidere, at medlemmerne af TACA-konferencen havde overtrådt EF-traktatensartikel 82 ved at indføre begrænsninger for adgang til servicekontrakter og for deres indhold (førstetilfælde af misbrug).
604.In the absence of any evidence to prove that the ultimate consumers could also benefit from theaid at issue by using the services of other companies capable of fulfilling the social objective pursued bythe Diputación, the ECJ found that the Commission was justified in concluding that the aid had not beengranted to individual consumers without discrimination related to the origin of the products concernedand that, therefore, the conditions laid down in Article 87(2)(a) were not met.
Ved at nå til denne konklusion bekræftede Retten, at medlemmerne af TACA indtogen kollektiv dominerende stilling, og afviste begrundelser baseret på, at den konkurrencebegrænsendepraksis skulle skabe fordele.
Spain also submitted that,should the aid at issue be classified as unlawful aid, the presence of exceptional circumstances giving rise toa legitimate expectation would prevent its recovery, in accordance with the final sentence of Article 14(1)of Regulation (EC) No 659/1999.
151.Kommissionen havde desuden fastslået i sin beslutning, at TACA overtrådte artikel 82 ved atændre markedets konkurrencestruktur for at styrke TACA’s dominerende stilling (andet tilfælde afmisbrug).
It is true that a recipient of unlawfullygranted aid is not precluded from relying on exceptional circumstances on the basis of which it hadlegitimately assumed the aid to be lawful and thus declining to refund that aid (322).
Retten i Første Instans fandt, at bevismaterialet for, at parterne havde truffet specifikkeforholdsregler for at ændre markedets konkurrencestruktur, var uantageligt, fordi parterne ikke havde fåetlejlighed til at fremsætte bemærkninger hertil.
On the other hand, a Member State whose authorities have granted aid in breach of the procedural rules laid down in Article88 may not plead the legitimate expectations of recipients in order to justify a failure to comply with theobligation to take the steps necessary to implement a Commission decision instructing it to recover theaid.
Retten fandt endvidere, at Kommissionen under alleomstændigheder ikke havde fremlagt tilstrækkelige beviser for sin påstand om, at parterne havde truffetspecifikke og generelle foranstaltninger for at ændre markedets konkurrencestruktur.
Thus, it is not for the Member State concerned, but for the recipient undertaking, to invoke theexistence of exceptional circumstances on the basis of which it had entertained legitimate expectations,leading it to decline to repay the unlawful aid.
Derfor annullerede Retten beslutningen om det andet tilfælde af misbrug og de dertil hørende bøder. Der var også pålagtbøder for det første tilfælde af misbrug.
In this regard, the fact that the Commission initiallyadopted a positive decision approving the aid at issue could not have caused P & O Ferries to entertain alegitimate expectation, since that decision was challenged in due time before the Community judicature,which annulled it.
Selv om Retten stadfæstede Kommissionens beslutning om allevæsentlige dele af dette tilfælde af misbrug, annullerede den også disse bøder, delvis pga. immunitet,delvis pga. formildende omstændigheder.
It follows from the foregoing considerations that, in the circumstances of the instantcase, no legitimate expectation could have been entertained by P & O Ferries.
152.2003 var en overgangsperiode, inden de nye regler for distribution af biler trådte i kraft den1. oktober 2003 (98).
606.On 13 November 2002, the Commission decided (323) to approve EUR 450 million in rescue aidgranted to Bull during the first half of 2002 (324).
I årets løb koncentrerede Kommissionen især sine aktiviteter om oplysning og forklaringer til alle de berørte aktører (deltagelse i konferencer, høringer af operatører og forbrugere,besvarelse af spørgsmål om gennemførelse af forordningen).
607.However, the rescue and restructuring aid guidelines require rescue aid to be reimbursed within12 months of payment of the last aid instalment.
153.Den nye gruppefritagelsesforordning betegner et vigtigt skridt i forhold til den foregåendeforordning (EF) nr. 1475/95.
This wasparticularly important in view of the stricter own capital requirements imposed by European legislation(solvency ratio and own funds directives) as of 30 June 1993.
Derfor bestræbte Kommissionens tjenestegrene sig især på at ledsageændringen i løbet af denne overgangsperiode med informationsforanstaltninger, høringer og afklaringer.Denne fremgangsmåde blev valgt efter en række anmodninger fra alle de berørte aktører, nemligbilproducenter, producenter af bildele og reservedele, forhandlere, uafhængige værksteder og naturligvisforbrugerne.
Following an indepth investigation of the matter, the Commission decidedon 8 July 1999 that the remuneration the Land received was not in line with the socalled market investorprinciple and that WestLB therefore benefited from unlawful State aid incompatible with the commonmarket. The Commission took the view that, in respect of part of the assets transferred to WestLB, areturn at a market value ought to have been 9.3 % per annum after tax.
154.Der er grund til at fremhæve især tre vigtige bestræbelser vedrørende fortolkningen af den nyeforordning, nemlig for det første uafhængige værksteders adgang til Volkswagens og Audis godkendtenetværk, for det andet de vertikale aftaler om levering af smøremidler til værksteder og for det tredjeoffentliggørelsen af spørgsmål/svar som supplement til de vejledende bemærkninger fra 2002.
It confirmed that State aid is given where the return demanded by the State forsuch an investment is less than that which a private investor operating in a market economy would havedemanded for a similar investment. The CFI also considered that the Commission was entitled to takeaccount of the average return on investments in the relevant sector in order to determine the appropriatereturn.
Kommissionens forordning (EF) nr. 1400/2002 af 31.7.2002 om anvendelse af traktatens artikel 81, stk. 3, på kategorieraf vertikale aftaler og samordnet praksis inden for motorkøretøjsbranchen (EFT L 203 af 1.8.2002, s. 30).
Case T-233/99 Westdeutsche Landesbank Girozentrale v Commission.
Nettet af Audi-værksteder
327) on animal health, which established a
155.For at sikre reparation og vedligeholdelse af sine biler har Audi oprettet et netværk af godkendtedistributører, som sælger nye biler og tilbyder eftersalgsservice.
system to finance services to combat animal diseases and improve animal hygiene, and its State aidapplications were questioned before the Court of Justice (ECJ).
Desuden har Audi indgået aftaler medgodkendte Audi-værksteder, som tager sig af eftersalgsservicen.
In the disputes in the main proceedings, the applicants wereseeking reimbursement of part of the charges on the ground that they were levied contrary to Community law.
156.Aftalerne mellem Audi og de godkendte værksteder er ikke omfattet af overgangsperioden.
That question is posed in relation to an aid measure which provides for a scheme of charges thatforms an integral part of that measure and is intended specifically and exclusively to finance it.
Disseaftaler, der kun omhandler service, var ikke omfattet af den tidligere gruppeforordning, fordi de ikkeindeholder bestemmelser om en sammenkædning af salg af nye biler og service, hvilket var en afbetingelserne for anvendelse af den tidligere gruppefritagelsesforordning.
The ECJhas already held that Article 87 does not allow the Commission to isolate the aid as such from the methodby which it is financed and to disregard this method if, in conjunction with the aid in its narrow sense, itrenders the whole incompatible with the common market (328).
157.For Audis vedkommende gjaldt den nye gruppefritagelsesforordning derfor for service fra den 1.oktober 2002, hvor den nye forordning trådte i kraft.
614.Consequently, the method by which an aid measure is financed may render the entire aid schemeincompatible with the common market. Therefore, the aid cannot be considered separately from theeffects of its method of financing.
Da Audis andel af servicemarkedet oversteg 30 %,skulle Audi fra og med denne dato indføre et selektivt system for udvælgelse af godkendte værksteder.Endvidere bekræftede Volkswagen-koncernen, at den ville overholde denne forpligtelse for allekoncernens bilmærker (VW, Audi, Seat og Skoda) (99).
Since the obligation to notify also covers the method of financing the aid, theconsequences of a failure by the national authorities to comply with the last sentence of Article 88(3)must apply also to that aspect of the aid. The Member State is in principle required to repay chargeslevied in breach of Community law.
158.En analyse af en anmeldelse af vertikale aftaler om leverancer af smøremidler til bilværkstedergav Kommissionen anledning til at bekræfte sin holdning til vertikale begrænsninger, især konkurrenceklausuler, der ikke er omfattet af gruppefritagelsesforordning (EF) nr. 1400/2002.
Inasmuch as they relate to the period commencing on the exact date ofthat decision, 9 August 1996, both the aid in the narrow sense and the charges imposed in order tofinance it are therefore lawful. However, the 1998 law imposes charges with effect retroactively to 1January 1988.
Disse konkurrenceklausuler er fritaget ved forordning (EF) nr. 2790/1999 om vertikale begrænsninger op til et loft overmarkedsandele på 30 %.
Part of the charges provided for by the 1998 law is therefore imposed in respect of aperiod which predates the 1996 decision.
I denne sag fandt Kommissionen, at i de medlemsstater, hvor markedsandelenoversteg 30 %, skulle leverandørerne af smøremidler give værkstederne bedre muligheder for at skifteleverandør (100).
Accordingly, inasmuch as the 1998 law imposes chargeswith retroactive effect, it is illegal owing to the failure to observe the requirement for notificationprior to putting the aid scheme into effect.
Hyppigt stillede spørgsmål
National courts ‘must take all the consequential
Disse spørgsmål og svar supplerer de vejledende bemærkninger af 30. september 2002 til forordning (EF) nr. 1400/2002 og
XXXIIIRD REPORT ON COMPETITION POLICY 2003 — SEC(2004) 658 FINAL145 measures under national law as regards both the validity of decisions giving effect to the aid measures
102 anlægger samme pragmatiske indfaldsvinkel (
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160.Kommissionen foretager fortsat sammenligninger af priserne uden afgift på nye biler i EU.
GEMO, the Court of Justice (ECJ) confirmed the Commission’s position expressed in an ongoing formal State aid investigation (331
Dissesammenligninger foretages i maj og november hvert år på grundlag af producenternes anbefaledesalgspriser eksklusive afgifter for hver EU-medlemsstat (103).
), that the free removal of slaughterhouse waste and fallen stock offered by the French public service system of équarrissage (rendering) is a State aid to farmers andslaughterhouses.
Se også Kommissionens pressemeddelelse IP/02/1392 af 30.9.2002.Pressemeddelelse IP/03/290 af 27.2.2002 og IP/03/1117 af 25.7.2002.
See paragraph 64 of the judgment.Case C-126/01.C 49/2002.Case C-355/00.
Inden for euroområdet er Tysklandog Østrig stadig de dyreste markeder, mens Finland, Grækenland og Nederlandene er de billigste.Prisforskellene mellem de nationale markeder er stadig betydelige og svinger afhængigt af modellen fra10 til 30 % i euroområdet.
Figure 7 — Trend in the number of decisions taken by the Commission (other than in agriculture, fisheries, transport and coal) between 1998 and 2003
165.Den 21. oktober afsagde Retten i Første Instans en dom (109), som i det store og hele stadfæster Kommissionens beslutning (110) om at skride ind over for de eksportrestriktioner, som Opel indførte i
Figure 8 — Number of decisions by Member State in 2003 (other than in agriculture, fisheries, transport and coal)
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Retten fandt, at Kommissionen ikke havde ført tilstrækkeligt bevis for, at prisen var fastsatefter aftale med forhandlerne.
619.It is important to specify the conditions under which Member States may give financial support tothose of their undertakings which are entrusted with the operation of services of general economicinterest (SGEIs), and in particular the links between such financing and the EU rules on State aid.
Ifølge Retten kan Kommissionen ikke konkludere, at opfordringer fra enproducent som led i de kontraktlige relationer med forhandlerne faktisk udgør en aftale mellemvirksomheder, hvis Kommissionen ikke fremlægger bevis for forhandlernes faktiske samtykke.
With aview to increasing foreseeability and legal certainty for Member States, the Commission proposed in itsreport to the Laeken European Council of 14 and 15 December 2001 a two-phased approach:
Førsteinstansretten fandt desuden, at Kommissionen ikke havde fremlagt bevis for, at disse opfordringer blevfulgt af forhandlerne, og at Kommissionen ikke kan påregne, at undertegnelse af en forhandleraftalebetyder, at forhandleren vil rette sig efter alle senere opfordringer fra producenten.
— as a second step, to the extent justified by the experience gained with the application of the framework,preparation of a block exemption regulation whose scope should then be defined with care.
Kommissionen haranket denne dom (sag C-74/04).
620.Progress with this work was delayed by uncertainties surrounding the legal nature ofpublic service compensation.
167.Oversigterne over prisudviklingen viser, at der stadig er betydelige prisforskelle i EU.
In return, financial compensation may begranted to compensate for the operating deficit.
Disseforskelle er tegn på, at konkurrencen mellem distributørerne i de forskellige medlemsstater og indkøb påtværs af grænserne stadig ikke udsætter producenterne for konkurrencepres, og at markederne fortsater forholdsvis fragmenterede.
In particular, Altmark was, it claimed, not a financially sound company as it wasincapable of surviving unaided. The appeal court followed this line of argument and cancelled the licencesgranted to Altmark.
Efter den 1. oktober 2003, hvor den nye gruppefritagelsesforordning ertrådt fuldt ud i kraft, skulle de nye regler øge konkurrencepresset og fremme markedsintegrationenog forenkle grænseoverskridende køb.
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Et vigtigt skridt hen imod en bedre markedsintegration tagesden 1. oktober 2005.
624.The ECJ points out first of all that the existence of an advantage is a sine qua non in order for ameasure to constitute State aid.
Efter denne dato vil producenterne ikke længere kunne forhindre distributørerne i atåbne nye salgssteder, hvor de ønsker det, herunder i andre medlemsstater.
In accordance with its earlier judgments in ADBHU and Ferring, the ECJconcludes from this that ‘where a State measure must be regarded as compensation for the servicesprovided by the recipient undertakings in order to discharge public service obligations, so that thoseundertakings do not enjoy a real financial advantage and the measure thus does not have the effect ofputting them in a more favourable competitive position than the undertakings competing with them, sucha measure is not caught by Article 87(1) of the Treaty’.
168.Den 27. februar vedtog Kommissionen en ny gruppefritagelsesforordning for forsikringssektorentil erstatning for forordning (EØF) nr. 3932/92, der udløber ved udgangen af marts 2003.
627.The Court thus confirms in many respects the approach traditionally recommended by the Commission: as far as characterisation as a service of general interest is concerned, public servicecompensation may be envisaged only in the case of undertakings that are actually entrusted with theoperation of an SGEI.
Forordningenblev vedtaget efter en grundig høring, hvor man modtog bidrag fra organisationer i forsikringssektoren,forbrugersammenslutninger og organer i den offentlige sektor.
Although Member States enjoy considerable discretion in this area, the Commissionmust nevertheless ensure that it is exercised in an error-free manner.
Forordningen indrømmer en fritagelse forvisse typer af aftaler i forsikringssektoren, nemlig aftaler om:
Likewise, it is imperative that the obligations on the undertaking entrusted with the operation ofan SGEI be clearly defined.
— fælles beregninger og undersøgelser af risici
628.The methods of setting and calculating the financial compensation are the most importantaspects.
— uforbindende standardpolicevilkår
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— afprøvning og accept af sikkerhedsforanstaltninger.
The Court also confirms that theundertakings in question are, of course, entitled to a reasonable profit.