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As regards the contribution of Nîmes airport to the region’s accessibility, France has recognised in particular that Montpellier airport is situated just 63 km from Nîmes airport, which represents a journey time of only 49 minutes by road.
Ranskan on ilmoitettava komissiolle tämän päätöksen täytäntöön panemiseksi toteutettavien kansallisten toimenpiteiden edistymisestä säännöllisesti siihen saakka, kun 1 artiklassa tarkoitetun tuen takaisinperintä on saatettu loppuun.
It has also recognised that Nîmes has been served by a high-speed rail service (TGV) since 2001.
Sen on annettava viipymättä komission pyynnöstä tiedot toimenpiteistä, jotka on jo toteutettu tai joita suunnitellaan tämän päätöksen noudattamiseksi.
This town is therefore connected, for example, to Paris and Lyon by regular train services with journey times of around 3 hours and 1 hour 30 minutes respectively.
Sen on annettava myös yksityiskohtaisia tietoja tuensaajilta jo perityistä tukimääristä ja koroista.
France has omitted to take account of this rail service in its arguments on the existence of an SGEI.
7 artikla
As regards Montpellier airport, France has indicated as follows: ‘although the above information tends to place it in the same catchment area as Nîmes airport due to the journey time of less than 60 minutes and the cost of the return journey not exceeding EUR 20, it should, however, be stressed that the Ryanair routes from Montpellier airport, which currently number four, meet a tourist demand that is situated more to the west than to the east of the airport (the route to Hahn is an example of this, even though Ryanair has withdrawn its routes to Germany from Marseille) and that Nîmes airport covers a different catchment area from part of Montpellier airport’s catchment area (in particular the Cévennes, Uzège and the northeast of Gard/south of the Ardèche in the Rhône valley).
Komission puolesta
It therefore has a particular catchment area.
Varapuheenjohtaja
It should also be noted that 51 % of low-cost passengers travel less than 50 km from their airport’.
EY:n perustamissopimuksen 87 artiklasta tuli 1 päivänä joulukuuta 2009 Euroopan unionin toiminnasta tehdyn sopimuksen (SEUT-sopimuksen) 107 artikla ja 88 artiklasta SEUT-sopimuksen 108 artikla.
France has therefore recognised that there are factors suggesting that Nîmes airport is situated within the same catchment area as Montpellier airport.
Asiasisällöltään nämä kaksi määräyskokonaisuutta ovat samanlaiset.
Under these circumstances, it cannot be argued that the presence of Nîmes airport may prevent an isolation that could prejudice the social and economic development of part of the area served by that airport, particularly as Nîmes airport is served by the TGV, as indicated above.
Näissä suuntaviivoissa tarkoitetaan tarvittaessa viittauksella SEUT-sopimuksen 107 ja 108 artiklaan viittausta EY-perustamissopimuksen 87 ja 88 artiklaan.
France has also not provided any information allowing the extent of such a hypothetical prejudice to be assessed.
EYVL L 240, 24.8.1992, s. 8.
The fact that the catchment areas of Nîmes and Montpellier airports are not exactly the same is not a sufficient argument.
EUVL C 241, 10.8.2012, s. 11.
In fact, the catchment areas of two separate airports, however close they may be, never exactly coincide.
Katso alaviite 3.
Lastly, the fact that 51 % of low-cost passengers travel less than 50 km from their airport does not prove that, without Nîmes airport, travellers wanting to travel to or from the catchment area of that airport would not be prepared, to a large extent, to use flights that start or end at Montpellier airport.
Komission tiedonanto: Suuntaviivat valtiontuesta lentoasemille ja lentoyhtiöille, EUVL C 99, 4.4.2014, s. 3.
France has also argued that the development of the air traffic task entrusted to VTAN through the CDSP ‘can be regarded as a public service obligation within the meaning of the Altmark case-law’.
EUVL C 113, 15.4.2014, s. 30.
According to France, this task concerns the ‘economic and tourism development of the area’, which requires, in its opinion, ‘(i) an increase in passenger flows, generating income and jobs for the regional economy …; and (ii) the development of the enterprise zone situated adjacent to the airport’.
Tilapäisestä hallintaluvasta 12 päivänä marraskuuta 1986 tehty päätös.
As regards this enterprise zone, France refers to several undertakings established there and indicates that ‘Within this industrial hub, VTAN has the task of developing aviation-related activities and building the industrial or commercial activity that can generate jobs for the area’.
Tammikuun 31 päivänä 2006 tehty ministeriöiden päätös (arrêté interministériel).
This argument cannot be accepted given that, as recalled above, the simple contribution of an activity to local economic development is not in itself sufficient to justify that activity being defined as an SGEI.
Ranskan viranomaiset täsmentävät, että sekayhtymän oikeudellinen muoto, josta säädetään alueellisia julkisyhteisöjä koskevan yleisen lain (code général des collectivités territoriales) L5721-1 §:ssä ja sitä seuraavissa pykälissä sekä sen R5721-1 §:ssä ja sitä seuraavissa pykälissä, mahdollistaa sen, että alueelliset julkisyhteisöt ja muut julkisyhteisöt voivat muodostaa yhtymiä niiden kaikkien kannalta merkityksellisten palvelujen tarjoamiseksi.
Moreover, the commercial development of an airport by introducing new air routes or expanding non-aeronautical activities cannot as such satisfy the general interest criterion for definition as an SGEI.
SMAN:ää hallinnoi sen jäsenorganisaatioiden edustajista koostuva hallintokomitea (comité syndical).
In particular, the Commission takes the view that the compensation by public authorities of the net costs incurred in the provision of an SGEI should not affect the economic incentive for an airport operator to enter into commercial relations with airlines.
CGG:llä on komiteassa viisi, CANM:llä seitsemän ja CAAC:llä kolme edustajaa.
As a result, in the light of all the above and the arguments submitted by France, and particularly given the proximity of Montpellier airport and the TGV service from which Nîmes benefits, the Commission takes the view that France has committed a manifest error of assessment in claiming that the overall management of Nîmes airport was an SGEI.
SMAN:n perustamisesta 9 päivänä joulukuuta 2005 tehty päätös.
In particular, the activity of the Nîmes airport operator consisting of handling commercial passenger transport flights at that airport cannot be regarded as a genuine SGEI.
Julkisen palvelun hoitamisesta 31 päivänä tammikuuta 2006 tehty sopimus.
It therefore follows that, in so far as the various financial support measures covered by this assessment were intended to finance the operation of the airport’s activity as a whole, they cannot be regarded as financial compensation granted with a view to the management of a genuine SGEI.
Kesäkuun 30 päivänä 2011 tehty hallintokomitean päätös.
As a result, they do not satisfy the cumulative conditions of the Altmark judgment.
Hallinnointivastuun siirtämisestä 30 päivänä kesäkuuta 2011 tehty puolustusministerin päätös.
Furthermore, even if all or part of the management of Nîmes airport could validly be defined as an SGEI, the measures in question would still not satisfy the cumulative conditions of the Altmark judgment.
Ranskan valtion ja SMAN:n välillä 30 päivänä kesäkuuta 2011 tehdyssä sopimuksessa vahvistettiin lisäksi luettelo SMAN:n käyttöön annetusta omaisuudesta ja sellaisten tilapäisten hallintalupien alaisesta omaisuudesta, joihin mahdollisesti liittyy sivullisen esineoikeuksia.
In fact, they do not satisfy the first, second and fourth conditions of that judgment, as will be proven further on in the light of the Communication on the application of the State aid rules to compensation granted for the provision of an SGEI (‘the SGEI communication’).
Korkeimman hallinto-oikeuden 20 päivänä toukokuuta 1998 antama tuomio Syndicat des Compagnies aériennes autonomes, SCARA.
The Commission considers that, in the case of Nîmes airport, these conditions of the Altmark judgment should be assessed by distinguishing between the entities that effectively carried on this economic activity during the 2000-2012 period.
Nykyään kodifioitu yleisen verokoodeksin 1609 w §:ään.
Clearly defined public service obligations discharged by the undertaking (first condition)
Luonnonvaraisista eläimistä vaaroja aiheuttavat etenkin linnut, jotka voivat lentokoneisiin törmätessään uhata niissä olevia henkilöitä ja tavaroita.
As France has committed a manifest error of assessment by defining the overall management of the airport as an SGEI and as the measures covered by the present assessment were used to finance the airport’s operation as a whole, the first Altmark condition is not satisfied.
Tähän tehtävään voivat kuulua esimerkiksi aitojen pystyttäminen ja ylläpito yleisen alueen erottamiseksi turvavalvotusta alueesta tai videovalvontajärjestelmän asentaminen turvavalvotun alueen ympärille.
In addition, according to the SGEI communication, in order for the first Altmark condition to be satisfied, the public service task must be assigned by way of one or more acts that, depending on the legislation in Member States, may take the form of legislative or regulatory instruments or contracts.
Tähän tehtävään kuuluvat muun muassa meluntorjuntatoimenpiteet, jotka korreloivat tarvittaessa lentokoneiden lentoreittien kanssa, sekä ilman- ja vedenlaadun tarkkailu lentoasemien lähistöllä.
Moreover, the act or series of acts must at least specify the content and duration of the public service obligations, the undertaking and, where applicable, the territory concerned, the nature of any exclusive or special rights assigned to the undertaking by the authority in question, the parameters for calculating, controlling and reviewing the compensation, and the arrangements for avoiding and recovering any overcompensation.
Edellä kuvatut tehtävät, jotka voidaan rahoittaa lentoasemaveron tuotolla.
The only acts produced by France that could possibly fulfil this function are the 1965 Order, the Concession Agreement, the CDSP and their subsequent amendments, in so far as they impose various obligations on the CCI in terms of operation (including on points such as opening times or equal treatment of users), servicing, maintenance and development, for a specified period.
Yleiskustannukset liittyvät ennen kaikkea tukitoimintoihin, kuten henkilöstöhallintoon, rahoitusasioihin, varainkäytön valvontaan, ostoihin, yleisiin tietojärjestelmiin, oikeudellisiin toimintoihin, yleispalveluihin, ylimpään johtoon, kirjanpitotoimintoihin ja taloudelliseen ohjaukseen.
However, aside from the CDSP and its amendments, which apply only to VTAN, none of these acts lays down arrangements for calculating and reviewing any financial compensation mechanism.
Vuonna 1965 tehdyn toimilupasopimuksen 31 artikla.
As a result, the acts having assigned obligations to the CCI-Airport do not meet the requirements of the first Altmark condition, even regardless of the fact that the obligations imposed on the CCI-Airport do not form a genuine SGEI.
Ranskan valtion ja SMAN:n välillä 1 päivänä helmikuuta 2006 tehdyn julkisen palvelun hoitamista koskevan sopimuksen 8 artikla.
Compensation parameters established in advance in an objective and transparent manner (second condition)
Ranskan valtion ja SMAN:n välillä 1 päivänä helmikuuta 2006 tehdyn julkisen palvelun hoitamista koskevan sopimuksen johdanto-osa.
CCI-Airport operating period (2000-2006)
Ranskan valtion ja SMAN:n välillä 1 päivänä helmikuuta 2006 tehdyn julkisen palvelun hoitamista koskevan sopimuksen 27 artikla.
The exceptional subsidies and repayable advances received by the CCI-Airport were all exceptional measures granted on an ad hoc basis to finance the airport’s operating deficit.
Ranskan valtion ja SMAN:n välillä 1 päivänä helmikuuta 2006 tehdyn julkisen palvelun hoitamista koskevan sopimuksen 29 artikla.
They did not therefore stem from calculation parameters that were established in advance.
Aloittamispäätöstä koskevat Ranskan huomautukset, s. 8 ja 13.
It should be noted that the CCI-Airport’s tasks for the period from 2000 to February 2006 were specified in the 1965 Order and its annexed schedule of conditions and in the 1986 AOT.
Aloittamispäätöstä koskevat Ranskan huomautukset, s. 8.
However, these acts did not provide for any financial compensation mechanism for the CCI, based on parameters established in advance in an objective and transparent manner.
Liikesalaisuus
Likewise, the Concession Agreement, which defined the CCI-Airport’s obligations for the period from February to December 2006, also did not provide for any financial compensation mechanism for the operator.
Kaksi ensimmäistä määrää on yhdistetty sarakkeessa ”Kunnat ja kuntaliittymät”.
As a result, the financial support measures granted to the CCI-Airport do not satisfy the second Altmark condition.
Tämä määrä on merkitty edellä olevan taulukon sarakkeeseen ”Muut”.
VTAN operating period (2007-2012)
Sellaisina kuin ne on kirjattu lentoasema-KTK:n taseen vastattavaa-puolelle kohtaan ”laitosten väliset ennakot”.
The compensation paid to VTAN by the SMAN was granted under the CDSP and its annexes, which stipulated the obligations of both parties within the airport operation task and which defined the arrangements for calculating the flat-rate contribution paid to VTAN by the SMAN.
Taulukko perustuu 27 päivänä helmikuuta 2012 päivättyyn Ranskan viranomaisten kirjeeseen.
However, the arrangements for calculating this contribution were subsequently altered by four amendments.
KTK vaati jo 8 päivänä elokuuta 2006 yli 9 miljoonan euron ennakoiden takaisinmaksua.
The specific public contribution and equipment subsidies referred to in recital 565 also do not satisfy this condition because they involved exceptional financial support that was not established at the start.
Joulukuun 12 päivänä 2006 tehdyn julkisen palvelun hoitamista koskevan sopimuksen 25 artikla.
Arrangements for selecting the service provider (fourth condition)
Heinäkuun 20 päivänä 2010 tehty toinen lisäsopimus.
As a result, the financial support measures granted to the CCI-Airport do not satisfy the fourth Altmark condition.
Aloittamispäätöstä koskevat Ranskan huomautukset, s. 56.
Veolia Transport was selected following a negotiated procedure, which was preceded by a notice of a competitive public tender published in the Official Journal of the European Union.
Kirjeet, jotka on päivätty 28 päivänä marraskuuta 2001, 11 ja 18 päivänä joulukuuta 2002, 21 ja 24 päivänä joulukuuta 2001, 2 ja 5 päivänä helmikuuta 2002 sekä 15 päivänä helmikuuta 2002.
Under EU law, the French authorities therefore had recourse to a negotiated procedure with prior publication of a contract notice.
Kirjeet, jotka on päivätty 10 ja 16 päivänä maaliskuuta 2004.
The Commission generally takes the view that a negotiated procedure with prior publication can be deemed to satisfy the fourth Altmark condition only in exceptional cases.
Ranskan 25 päivänä huhtikuuta 2014 päivätty kirje.
It notes, in this respect, that, once the two tenderers having responded to the invitation to tender had submitted their tenders, the SMAN initiated negotiations with each one.
”– – including greater prominence and a stronger brand, alongside network externalities and repeat passenger.”
Contacts were made in particular between Veolia Transport and the SMAN in order to clarify, and even amend, certain important aspects of Veolia Transport’s tender.
Myös Liverpool-reittiä liikennöitiin tuolloin.
France has indicated, for example, that on 20 September 2006 Veolia Transport made further proposals over and above its initial tender, in the light of information contained in the SMAN’s letter of 6 September 2006.
Ranskan mukaan reitin liikennöinti ei keskeytynyt vuosina 2005–2012, mutta reitti oli aina kausiluonteinen.
Moreover, on 4 October 2006 Veolia Transport submitted a series of clarifications amending essential elements of its tender, such as (i) introducing a ‘downturn scenario’ leading to a change in the flat-rate contribution if the airport’s activity were to be reduced; (ii) changing the formulas stipulated for updating the general balance of the delegation; or even (iii) amending the undertakings made with regard to staff costs.
Ranska korostaa, ettei reittiä mainita 27 päivänä elokuuta 2008 tehdyssä markkinointisopimuksessa, koska sen tilanne oli epävarma (keskeyttämistä harkittiin); liikennöinti kuitenkin jatkui vuosina 2008–2011, mutta vuoroja harvennettiin.
Moreover, in the decision awarding the contract at the end of the procedure, the SMAN stated that Veolia Transport’s tender was the most advantageous with regard to the criteria laid down by the consultation rules, in particular: (i) commercial development policy; (ii) financial control; (iii) security; and (iv) quality undertaking.
Vuoden 2008 markkinointisopimukseen ei siksi sisälly tilan ostaminen Ryanairin verkkosivustolta tämän reitin mainostamista varten.
However, the criteria in question left the SMAN with plenty of room for manoeuvre in the choice of service provider, as these criteria were worded very generally and went beyond the quality of the service provided and the cost to the community.
Reittiä liikennöitiin vuosina 2008–2010 ilman markkinointivastinetta.
This was particularly the case with the criterion entitled ‘commercial development policy’, which cannot be likened in any way to a quality criterion for an SGEI.
Katso alaviite 42.
For all these reasons, the procedure followed by the SMAN was unlikely to ensure that ‘the tenderer capable of providing the services concerned at the least cost to the community’ was selected.
Ranskan 26 päivänä toukokuuta 2014 päivätty kirje.
Furthermore, there is no evidence that the cost forecasts produced by VTAN, based on which the flat-rate contribution was established, corresponded to the costs that a typical undertaking, well-run and adequately equipped, would have incurred in operating the airport.
Yhteisön suuntaviivat lentoasemien rahoittamisesta ja alueellisilta lentoasemilta liikennöivien lentoyhtiöiden toiminnan aloittamista koskevasta valtiontuesta (EUVL C 312, 9.12.2005, s. 1).
In this respect, it seems that VTAN mainly used the CCI-Airport’s operating figures to establish its forecasts.
Korkeimman hallinto-oikeuden tuomio 21.2.2011, Société Ophrys v. CA Clermont Communauté, kanne nro 337349.
However, there is nothing to confirm that the CCI-Airport acted as a typical undertaking, well-run and adequately equipped.
Komission päätös 2012/21/EU, annettu 20 päivänä joulukuuta 2011, Euroopan unionin toiminnasta tehdyn sopimuksen 106 artiklan 2 kohdan määräysten soveltamisesta tietyille yleisiin taloudellisiin tarkoituksiin liittyviä palveluja tuottaville yrityksille korvauksena julkisista palveluista myönnettävään valtiontukeen (EUVL L 7, 11.1.2012, s. 3).
As a result, the financial support measures granted to VTAN do not satisfy the fourth Altmark condition.
Tuomio asiassa C-482/99, Ranska v. komissio, ECLI:EU:C:2002:294.
As established above, none of the measures in question satisfies the cumulative conditions of the Altmark judgment.
Tuomio asiassa C-482/99, Ranska v. komissio, ECLI:EU:C:2002:294, 52 ja 58 kohta.
It therefore remains to determine whether the various measures in question were likely to enable the CCI-Airport or VTAN to avoid having to bear costs that would normally have had to be met out of their own financial resources or whether these corresponded to normal market conditions.
Ranskan korkeimman hallinto-oikeuden 16 päivänä kesäkuuta 1992 antama lausunto nro 351 654.
Analysis of the existence of an economic advantage — Measures likely to enable the CCI-Airport and VTAN to avoid costs that they would normally have had to bear
Tuomio yhdistetyissä asioissa C-83/01 P ja C-93/01 P, Chronopost v. Ufex, ECLI:EU:C:2003:388, 38 ja 40 kohta.
The ‘exceptional subsidies’ totalling EUR 1,35 million received in 2005 from the CAAC, the CANM and the CGG were non-repayable subsidies granted without any prospect of a return on their investment for the authorities concerned.
Ryanairin mukaan Nîmesin lentoasemaa voidaan verrata seuraaviin lentoasemiin: […], […], […], […] ja […].
The same was true of the subsidy of EUR 200000 granted to the CCI-Airport by the CCI’s general arm in 2006.
Tämä tarkoittaisi, että lentoasemat voisivat vähentää suhdannevaihtelun niille aiheuttamaa riskiä ja parantaa kassavirtaansa ja näin laskea tavallisen yksityisen sijoittajan niiltä vaatimaa tuottoastetta.
This non-repayable subsidy was in fact granted in order to finance the operating deficit that the CCI-Airport was facing in the final year of the period during which it operated the airport, and there was consequently no prospect of profitability for the CCI’s general arm.
Lokakuun 10 päivänä 2005, marraskuun 1 päivänä 2007 ja elokuun 27 päivänä 2008 tehtyjen sopimusten 3 artikla.
With regard to the repayable advances, it should firstly be noted that these were equivalent to interest-free loans granted by the CCI’s general arm to the CCI-Airport.
Ryanairin mukaan tuella saatettiin kattaa tappioita, joita aiheutui aiemmista liiketoimista Air Liberté- ja Air Littoral -lentoyhtiöiden kanssa, jotka olivat tulleet maksukyvyttömiksi ollessaan lentoasemalle velkaa huomattavia summia, tai siitä saattoi hyötyä pysäköintialueita aiemmin hallinnoinut yritys.
According to France, ‘The fact that the advances were made available without applying an interest rate is not moreover sufficient for the Commission to conclude that they constituted State aid.
Komission päätös 2004/393/EY Vallonian alueen ja Brussels South Charleroi Airport -lentoaseman Ryanair-lentoyhtiölle myöntämistä eduista lentoyhtiön aloittaessa toimintansa Charleroissa.
In accordance with General Court case-law, it must be accepted that lenders, due to their prior capacity as shareholders, can agree to grant interest-free loans or guarantees not remunerated by premiums.
(EUVL L 137, 30.4.2004, s. 1).
Likewise, it should be accepted that it was normal for the CCI, as the airport concession-holder, to make sufficient resources available to its airport arm so that the latter could ensure the continued operation of Nîmes airport’ (footnotes omitted).
Ryanairille laadittu Oxeran selvitys ”Are prices set by AMS in line with the market rate?”, 20.12.2013.
Such an argument might be relevant only if, by granting these advances to allow the continued operation of Nîmes airport, the CCI expected the airport to become profitable in the more or less long term, allowing the CCI not only to see these advances repaid, but also to receive a ‘return on its investment’ remunerating the capital committed, through any profits made by the airport.
Ryanairille laadittu Oxeran selvitys ”How should AMS agreements be treated within the profitability analysis as part of the market economy operator test?”, 17.1.2014.
In its reply, France did not mention any prospect of a ‘return’ on the repayable advances, aside from the assurance of this repayment by the state at the end of the concession.
Komissio toteaa, että ensimmäinen kyseisistä sopimuksista tehtiin 11 päivänä huhtikuuta 2000 (Ryanairin ja KTK:n välinen ensimmäinen sopimus), mutta komission tutkinta alkoi 16 päivänä maaliskuuta 2010 päivätystä kirjeestä, joka koski muun muassa tätä toimenpidettä.
Quite clearly, at the time when it granted the various repayable advances, the CCI could not have expected the airport’s operation to become profitable, allowing the CCI-Airport to repay the advances granted while leaving a profit margin that could remunerate the capital committed by the CCI’s general arm.
Tästä seuraa, että 22 päivänä maaliskuuta 1999 annetun neuvoston asetuksen (EY) N:o 659/1999 Euroopan unionin toiminnasta tehdyn sopimuksen 108 artiklan soveltamista koskevista yksityiskohtaisista säännöistä (EYVL L 083, 27.3.1999, s. 1) 15 artiklassa säädetty vanhentumisaika keskeytyi ennen umpeutumistaan.
In fact, the repayable advances were granted from 2002.
Vastaus 23 päivänä joulukuuta 2013 päivättyyn tietopyyntöön.