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It can therefore be concluded that the likely effect of the Nîmes traffic on the neighbouring airports was taken into account.
CGG este reprezentat de cinci delegați, CANM de șapte delegați și CAAC de trei delegați.
Although the Commission does not agree with the Operators about the presence of different catchment areas, it considers that the impact of the aid in question on the neighbouring airports was not such as to offset the contribution of the aid to the objective of common interest in question, or to substantially compromise the operating conditions of the neighbouring airports.
Ordin de înființare a SMAN din 9 decembrie 2005.
Need for state intervention and appropriateness of the aid as a policy instrument
Convenția de delegare de serviciu public din 31 ianuarie 2006.
The aid paid in the form of repayable advances and operating subsidies was necessary to ensure the economic equilibrium of Nîmes airport’s operation, and consequently its continued operation.
Deliberare în cadrul Comitetului Sindical din 30 iunie 2011.
Furthermore, according to the new Guidelines, ‘Therefore, under present market conditions, smaller airports may have difficulties in ensuring the financing of their operation without public funding’.
Ordinul de delegare a competențelor de gestionare al Ministrului Apărării din 30 iunie 2011.
The new Guidelines also indicate that airports with up to 700000 passengers per annum may not be able to cover their operating costs to a large extent.
O convenție din 30 iunie 2011 încheiată între stat și SMAN stabilește, de asemenea, lista bunurilor puse la dispoziția SMAN și detalii privind bunurile care au făcut obiectul unor autorizații de ocupare temporară, însoțite sau nu de drepturi reale în favoarea unor părți terțe.
Nîmes airport is indeed a small airport as its traffic did not exceed 320000 passengers during the 1999-2011 period.
Hotărârea Consiliului de Stat din 20 mai 1998, „Syndicat des Compagnies Aériennes autonomes” ( „SCARA”).
As a result, state intervention to ensure the economic equilibrium of Nîmes airport, and consequently its continued operation, was necessary during the 2000-2011 period.
Codificat, de acum, prin articolul 1609c din Codul general al impozitelor.
According to the new Guidelines, it should be examined whether other policy instruments or aid instruments could have been used and would have been less distortive of competition.
Riscul reprezentat de animalele sălbatice include, în special, pericolul reprezentat de păsări, manifestat prin coliziuni între aeronave și păsări, care sunt de natură să pună în pericol pasagerii și mărfurile aflate la bordul aeronavei.
As already indicated, the airport recorded a very large operating deficit every year during the 2002-2011 period.
Îndeplinirea acestei atribuții poate include, de exemplu, instalarea și întreținerea unor garduri care să delimiteze zonele publice de zonele în care accesul este restricționat sau instalarea unui sistem de supraveghere video în jurul zonei în care accesul este restricționat.
In order to keep it operating, it was therefore difficult, in this context, to envisage any instruments other than non-repayable operating subsidies, such as the exceptional operating subsidies, flat-rate contribution and specific public contribution, and interest-free repayable advances without a specific repayment deadline.
Această sarcină include, în special, măsuri în materie de zgomot, în corelație cu rutele de zbor, după caz, precum și controlul calității aerului și apei în zonele din jurul aeroporturilor.
Incentive effect and proportionality of the aid
Atribuții eligibile pentru finanțare prin taxa de aeroport, astfel cum este descris mai sus
According to the new Guidelines, it should be ascertained whether, in the absence of the operating aid, the level of economic activity of the airport would have been significantly reduced and whether, in addition, the aid was limited to the minimum necessary for the aided activity to take place.
Cheltuielile generale sunt legate în principal de funcțiile de sprijin, cum ar fi gestionarea resurselor umane, afacerile financiare, controlul financiar, achizițiile, sistemele informatice nespecializate, departamentul juridic, serviciile generale, direcția generală, contabilitatea și controlul gestiunii.
As explained previously, the arrival of the TGV as well as the departure of Air France in 2001, followed two years later by the withdrawal of Air Littoral, caused the number of flights to Nîmes airport to fall dramatically.
Articolul 31 din contractul de concesiune din 1965.
Combined with the conditions of the agreements signed with Ryanair/AMS from 2002, these factors also seriously eroded the airport’s financial situation.
Convenția de delegare stat-SMAN din 1 februarie 2006, articolul 8.
As a result, in the absence of support measures intended to finance the airport’s operating deficit, its activity would have significantly reduced, if not completely halted.
Preambul la convenția de delegare stat – SMAN din 1 februarie 2006.
Furthermore, as explained below, the aid amounts were limited to the minimum necessary.
Convenția de delegare stat – SMAN din 1 februarie 2006, articolul 27.
The operating aid granted to the CCI-Airport was limited to the amounts needed to ensure the airport’s financial stability, without going beyond what was necessary.
Convenția de delegare stat – SMAN din 1 februarie 2006, articolul 29.
In so far as, without this aid, the CCI-Airport would have recorded a significant operating deficit every year, the airport’s activity would have needed to have been considerably reduced, if not completely halted, in order to ensure its financial stability.
Observațiile Franței cu privire la decizia de inițiere a procedurii, p. 8 și p. 13.
The aid therefore had an incentive effect within the meaning of point 124 of the new Guidelines.
Observațiile Franței cu privire la decizia de inițiere, p. 8.
As a result, with regard to the exceptional operating subsidies received in 2005, France has explained that the CCI’s 2005 budget was established on the basis of revenue and cost forecasts taking account of the traffic forecasts and that, given the airport’s programme, the 2005 forecasts apparently revealed a financing need of EUR [1-3] million.
Informații confidențiale.
This need corresponded to the difference between the forecast costs (EUR [4-6] million) and the forecast revenue (EUR [2-4] million).
Primele două sume sunt grupate în coloana „comune și comunități comunale”.
However, the exceptional operating subsidies received by the CCI-Airport in 2005 totalled only EUR 1,35 million, well below the financing need of EUR [1-3] million.
Această sumă apare în coloana „altele” din tabelul de mai sus.
The shortfall of approximately EUR [600000-800000] was made up by the CCI, partly in the form of repayable advances.
Astfel cum sunt înscrise în pasivul bilanțului CCI-aeroport la rubrica „Avansuri inter-instituții”.
Likewise, the exceptional operating subsidy of EUR 200000 received from the CCI’s general arm in 2006 covered only part of the operating deficit.
Conform scrisorii autorităților franceze din 27 februarie 2012.
The decision of the CCI’s General Meeting of 14 December 2005 in fact shows that this exceptional operating subsidy stemmed from an agreement between the SMAN and the CCI, under which the latter undertook to cover only part of the airport’s operating deficit, limited to EUR 200000, with the rest being covered by the SMAN, as the new owner.
Încă de la 8 august 2006, CCI a solicitat rambursarea avansurilor în valoare de peste 9 milioane EUR.
The repayable advances granted by the CCI’s general arm stemmed from the obligation to present a balanced budget for the airport, which was imposed on the CCI by the concession agreement.
Articolul 46 din contractul de concesiune din 1965.
The amount of the advances was defined each year when the budget was prepared, in order to ensure its balance.
Articolele 1 și 1a din CDSP.
The preparation of budgets for airports managed by chambers of commerce and industry is subject to strict procedures intended to ensure that public contributions used to balance the budget are limited to the minimum necessary.
Observațiile Franței cu privire la decizia de inițiere, p. 15.
Accordingly, Circular No 111 of 30 March 1992 laying down the accounting and financial budget rules applicable to chambers of commerce and industry provides for a precise procedure that particularly governs how the general arm of a chamber of commerce and industry must determine the budget for an airport’s operation.
CDSP din 12 decembrie 2006, articolul 25.
This Circular in particular stipulates that the chamber of commerce and industry must determine, for the purposes of preparing the budget: (i) the state of operating transactions; (ii) the state of self-financing capacity; and (iii) the state of capital transactions.
Actul adițional nr. 2 din 20 iulie 2010.
In addition, a number of documents have to be annexed to the budget proposal for approval (schedule of services provided and inter-organisation contributions, and schedule of employees and wage bills, etc.).
Scrisoarea Franței din data de 20 martie 2014.
The aim of this procedure is particularly to ensure that the budget balances without overcompensation.
Observațiile Franței cu privire la decizia de inițiere, p. 56.
Consequently, the amounts of the repayable advances did not exceed what was necessary to finance the CCI-Airport’s operating deficit, bearing in mind the exceptional operating subsidies.
Scrisorile din 28 noiembrie 2001, 11 decembrie și 18 decembrie 2002, 21 și 24 decembrie 2001, 2 și 5 februarie 2002 și 15 februarie 2002.
As a result, the operating aid received by the CCI-Airport had an incentive effect and was limited to the minimum necessary.
Scrisorile din 10 martie și 16 martie 2004.
The operating aid granted to VTAN, which involved large amounts, was also necessary to ensure the airport’s financial stability.
Scrisoarea Franței din 25 aprilie 2014.
Without this aid, VTAN would have recorded a significant operating deficit and the airport’s activity would have needed to have been considerably reduced, if not completely halted.
„[…] including greater prominence and a stronger brand, alongside network externalities and repeat passenger”.
The flat-rate contribution, as originally determined, was calculated based on a provisional budget drawn up by Veolia Transport.
Ruta către Liverpool, care era, de asemenea, operată la acel moment.
According to this budget, in the ‘reference scenario’ the flat-rate contribution of EUR [1,2-1,5] million would allow VTAN to achieve net margins [of 0-5 % on average] throughout the term of the public service delegation.
Franța a explicat că această operare a acestei rute nu a încetat între 2005 și 2012, ci că era vorba tot de o rută sezonieră.
At the SMAN’s invitation, Veolia Transport also included a ‘downturn scenario’ corresponding to a reduction in activity, whereby the flat-rate contribution would drop to EUR [1,0-1,3] million.
Franța subliniază că această rută nu apare în contractul de marketing din 27 august 2008, întrucât statutul acesteia era nesigur (suspendarea sa era avută în vedere în acel moment), în timp ce aceasta a continuat să funcționeze din 2008 până în 2011, cu o scădere a frecvenței.
In this scenario, VTAN would achieve net margins [of 0-5 % on average] throughout the term of the public service delegation.
Astfel, contractul de marketing din 2008 nu prevedea, așadar, achiziționarea de servicii pe site-ul Ryanair pentru această rută.
In the light of this information, the net margins expected by Veolia Transport seem reasonable, and the downturn scenario was included so that these margins would not unduly increase if there were a reduction in activity.
Aceasta a fost asigurată, între anii 2008 și 2010, fără alte obligații în materie de marketing.
The flat-rate contribution was therefore initially designed to be limited to the minimum necessary to ensure the financial stability of the airport and a reasonable profit for VTAN.
A se vedea nota de subsol 42.
Its subsequent amendments followed this logic.
Scrisoarea Franței din data de 26 mai 2014.
As a result, the increase in the flat-rate contribution made by Amendment No 1 corresponded to the unforeseen loss of revenue that had initially been taken into account by Veolia Transport in its previous estimates, whilst the increase resulting from Amendment No 3 corresponded to additional marketing expenditure incurred by VTAN that was not anticipated at the start.
Orientările privind finanțarea aeroporturilor și ajutorul la înființare pentru companiile aeriene cu plecare de pe aeroporturile regionale (JO C 312, 9.12.2005, p. 1).
Moreover, VTAN’s profit and loss accounts observed ex post show that the flat-rate contribution did not exceed the minimum necessary, in that it did not lead to VTAN recording excessive profits.
CE 21 februarie 2011, Ophrys c/CA Clermont Communauté, cererea nr. 337349.
In fact, according to Table 6 in the opening decision, VTAN’s net margin was actually negative throughout the 2007-2010 period.
Decizia 2012/21/UE a Comisiei din 20 decembrie 2011 privind aplicarea articolului 106 alineatul (2) din Tratatul privind funcționarea Uniunii Europene în cazul ajutoarelor de stat sub formă de compensații pentru obligația de serviciu public acordate anumitor întreprinderi cărora le-a fost încredințată prestarea unui serviciu de interes economic general (JO L 7, 11.1.2012, p. 3).
The specific public contribution implemented by Amendment No 4 to the CDSP was calculated based on a provisional budget reflecting VTAN’s new operating costs following the closure of the airbase.
Hotărârea în cauza C-482/99, Franța/Comisia, Rec., p.
It was also stipulated that its amount would be readjusted ex post according to the results achieved, in order to avoid overpayments.
I- 4397.
As a result, the operating aid received by VTAN had an incentive effect and was limited to the minimum necessary.
Hotărârea în cauza C-482/99, Franța/Comisia, Rec., 2002, p.
Assessment of distortions of competition and effects on trade
I- 4397, punctele 52 și 58.
According to the new Guidelines, when assessing the compatibility of operating aid granted before 4 April 2014, the Commission will take account of the distortions of competition and the effects on trade.
Avizul Consiliului de Stat nr. 351.654 din 16 iunie 1992.
Aid granted to a Union airport can potentially have a negative effect on all Union airports.
Hotărârea în cauzele conexate C-83/01 P și C-93/01 P, Chronopost/UFEX, Rec., 2003, p.
In fact, all Union airports are in competition with each other to attract airlines, in the context of the intra-Union internal air transport market.
I-6993, punctele 38 și 40.
In the case of operating aid allowing the airport to remain economically viable, the intensity of this general effect on other airports depends on the volume of activity of the aided airport, which can be expressed in particular by number of passengers, routes and frequencies.
Ryanair arată că aeroportul din Nîmes poate fi comparat în mod valabil cu aeroporturile din […], […], […], […] și […].
It should be noted in this regard that, during the period in question (2002-2011), Nîmes airport remained a small airport.
Acest lucru ar presupune că un anumit aeroport ar putea să reducă riscul cu care se confruntă ca urmare a ciclului financiar și să îmbunătățească fluxul de numerar și, astfel, să reducă rata de rentabilitate cerută de un investitor privat obișnuit.
Its traffic peaked at 320000 passengers in 2001, with between 130000 and 300000 passengers per year in all the other years.
Articolul 3 din contractele din 10 octombrie 2005, 1 noiembrie 2007 și 27 august 2008.
During this same period, the scheduled services offered from this airport were limited to Air Littoral’s Paris route, which was only operated until 2003, and those routes operated by Ryanair (a maximum of four at the same time), with one flight per day or less, except potentially in the summer when two flights per day may have been available on certain routes, depending on the year.
Ryanair subliniază posibilitatea ca ajutorul să fi fost utilizat pentru „a șterge” pierderile care rezultă din tranzacții anterioare cu Air Liberté și Air Littoral, companii care au devenit insolvabile, deoarece datorau sume importante aeroportului, sau să fi adus beneficii fostului administrator al parcărilor aeroportului.
Nîmes airport’s volume of activity therefore remained modest.
Decizia 2004/393/CE a Comisiei din 12 februarie 2004 privind avantajele acordate de Regiunea valonă și de Brussels South Charleroi Airport companiei aeriene Ryanair în legătură cu stabilirea sa la Charleroi (JO L 137, 30.4.2004, p. 1).
The general effect of the aid granted to this airport on all the other airports was therefore relatively limited.
Oxera, „Are prices set by AMS in line with the market rate?”, elaborat pentru Ryanair, la 20 decembrie 2013
However, the effects of operating aid granted to a given airport on another airport increase if the two airports are close to each other.
Oxera, „How should AMS agreements be treated within the profitability analysis as part of the market economy operator test?”, elaborat pentru Ryanair, la 17 ianuarie 2014
In particular, when one of the airports is located within the catchment area of the other, the competition between them to attract airlines wanting to serve the region in question is especially intense.
Decizia 2011/60/UE a Comisiei din 27 ianuarie 2010 privind ajutorul de stat C 12/08 (ex NN 74/07) – Slovacia – Acord între aeroportul din Bratislava și Ryanair (JO L 27, 1.2.2011, p. 24), punctul 114.
Moreover, when there are routes from each of these two airports to the same destination, these airports are in competition to attract passengers wanting to travel to this destination, who have a choice between the two airports for this journey.
Circulara nr. 111 din 30 martie 1992 de stabilire a normelor bugetare, contabile și financiare aplicabile ACFCI, CRCL, CCI și GIC.
Avignon airport lies 68 km from Nîmes airport, but its runway constraints mean that it can only handle private and business flights.
În sensul prezentei decizii, prin „contracte” se înțelege diferitele acorduri în cauză, indiferent de forma lor juridică (inclusiv acte adiționale, „side letters” etc.).
It is not therefore in competition with Nîmes airport for scheduled flights.
Comisia subliniază faptul că primul dintre aceste contracte este datat 11 aprilie 2000 (primul contract Ryanair/CCI), în timp ce investigația Comisiei a debutat cu scrisoarea din data de 16 martie 2010, care se referea, printre altele, la această măsură.
As regards Marseille airport, this is 115 km away, which is 1 hour and 15 minutes’ journey by road.
Rezultă că termenul de prescripție prevăzut la articolul 15 din Regulamentul (CE) nr. 659/1999 al Consiliului din 22 martie 1999 de stabilire a normelor de aplicare a articolului 108 din tratatul privind funcționarea Uniunii Europene (JO L 83, 27.3.1999, p. 1) a fost reziliat înainte de expirarea acestuia.
It is therefore too far away to suffer too much impact from the aid in question.
Răspuns la cererea de informații din 23 decembrie 2013.
As indicated previously, Montpellier airport is situated just 63 km from Nîmes airport, which represents a journey time of only 49 minutes by road.
De exemplu, Hotărârea Italia/Comisia, C-303/88, Rec., p.
In so far as the Commission considers that a distance of less than 100 km and a journey time of less than one hour are criteria allowing the catchment area of an airport to be defined as a first approximation, Montpellier airport is a priori situated within the catchment area of Nîmes airport.
I- 1433, punctul 11, și Hotărârea Compagnie Nationale Air France/Comisia, T-358/94, Rec., p.
Moreover, certain routes operated from Montpellier have the same destination as certain routes from Nîmes airport.
II-2109, punctele 58-61).
In this respect, France considers that the catchment area of an airport is defined using two criteria, namely: (i) length of the journey; and (ii) cost of the journey for airports dominated by low-cost traffic, such as Nîmes airport.
Hotărârea în cauza Stardust Marine, punctul 52.
As a result, France considers that a regional airport’s catchment area is limited to those airports that can be reached by car within a maximum of 60 minutes.
Directiva 2000/52/CE a Comisiei (JO L 193, 29.7.2000, p. 75).
According to France, ‘Lastly, as regards Montpellier airport, 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).
A se vedea Decizia Comisiei din 22 iunie 2006 în cauza N 563/2005 – Franța – Ajutor în favoarea companiei Ryanair pentru serviciile aeriene pe ruta Toulon-Londra, alineatul (16).
It therefore has a particular catchment area.
Observațiile Operatorilor cu privire la decizia de inițiere, p. 5.
It should also be noted that 51 % of low-cost passengers travel less than 50 km from their airport’.
Cu titlu suplimentar, Comisia subliniază că nu este necesar să se facă distincție între CCI și serviciul specific al CCI care se ocupă de gestionarea aeroportului în scopul aplicării normelor privind ajutoarele de stat, având în vedere că serviciul care gestionează aeroportul din Nîmes nu are personalitate juridică proprie, distinctă de cea a CCI, și reprezintă doar o corelare a serviciilor interne din cadrul CCI, fără autonomie decizională, alta decât în ceea ce privește administrarea zilnică a aeroportului.
These factors are indeed likely to mitigate the impact on Montpellier airport of the operating aid received by Nîmes airport.
Astfel, acordul din 11 aprilie 2000, contractele de servicii aeroportuare și contractele de servicii de marketing din 10 octombrie 2005, precum și amendamentul din 30 ianuarie 2006 au fost semnate toate de către președintele CCI.
Added to this is the fact that, throughout the period in question, Montpellier airport handled much more traffic than Nîmes airport.
În ceea ce privește schimburile de scrisori de la sfârșitul anului 2001-începutul anului 2002 și 2004, care constituie modificări ale Convenției din 11 aprilie 2000, acestea nu poartă semnătura președintelui CCI.
In fact, its traffic fluctuated between 1,2 million and 1,6 million passengers per year.
Cu toate acestea, Franța a menționat: „Prin urmare, se poate concluziona că contractele și actele adiționale cu compania Ryanair țin de competențele de gestionare a serviciilor industriale și comerciale atribuite președintelui (…)” (Răspuns la cererea de informații din 20 martie 2014).
The aid received by Nîmes airport, which is around six times smaller, could have had, at most, only a limited impact on Montpellier airport.
În plus, nici Franța, nici părțile terțe nu au susținut că măsurile supuse procedurii oficiale de investigare ar trebui imputate numai respectivului serviciu.
Lastly, the journey time between the two airports, which is less than one hour but almost 50 minutes, is also a factor likely to mitigate the impact of the aid in question on Montpellier airport.
Articolul 1 din CDSP.
As a result, the operating aid in question had a limited impact on the airports neighbouring Nîmes airport.
Observațiile Franței din 27 iulie 2012, cu privire la decizia de inițiere a procedurii, pp.
Taking into account all these positive and negative effects of the aid in question, the Commission takes the view that this aid did not affect trade to an extent contrary to the common interest.
27-28.