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Moreover, under Article 3.2.3 of the Region/BSCA agreement, as amended by Amendment No 3 of 29 March 2002, the costs inherent in the fire and maintenance services are reimbursed in 12 instalments.
În pofida absenței unui plan de afaceri al regiunii și/sau al SOWAER, Comisia a examinat dacă, pentru grupul constituit de Regiune-SOWAER, valoarea actualizată netă a fiecărui set de măsuri identificat în considerentul 416 era pozitivă.
The twelfth instalment is paid after the Minister receives and approves a report, based on BSCA's annual accounts, providing justification for the costs incurred and presented in the same format as required for the provisional budget, i.e. based on the headings defined by Article 25 of the schedule of conditions.
Într-adevăr, în cazul în care valoarea actualizată netă a unei măsuri este pozitivă, aceasta înseamnă că măsura în cauză este benefică pentru operatorul în cauză.
Lastly, for the period after 10 March 2006, Article 25.7 of the schedule of conditions, introduced by Amendment No 5 of 10 March 2006, provides that the amount of the compensation for the fire protection and ground traffic and airport site safety services may not exceed the actual costs incurred by BSCA and that any overcompensation of the costs will result in budgetary compensation through the budget entry for the following year.
Valoarea actualizată netă a fost calculată ca suma actualizată a fluxurilor financiare (venituri minus costuri) agregate pentru grupul Regiunea-SOWAER care pot fi așteptate de la fiecare set de măsuri în momentul acordării acestuia.
The Commission takes the view that these provisions are sufficient to conclude that, since Amendment No 3 of 2002 to the Region/BSCA agreement, the compensation paid by the Region for the fire protection costs has been proportionate and has not been used to subsidise economic activities.
Rata de actualizare utilizată pentru a calcula valoarea actualizată netă a fost determinată prin stabilirea costului capitalului pentru entitatea care a acordat măsura la momentul la care aceasta a fost acordată.
Security was added to the activities for which BSCA receives compensation through Amendment No 6 of 15 January 2008.
Costul capitalului unei entități depinde de structura sa de finanțare, în special în ceea ce privește capitalul propriu și datoria.
The security tasks are defined as ‘the combination of measures and human and natural resources intended to safeguard civil aviation against acts of unlawful interference’ [139].
În acest caz, cea mai mare parte a cheltuielilor legate de proiect care revin grupului Regiunea-SOWAER vine din investițiile finanțate de către SOWAER.
The security services include ‘screening, remote surveillance, security rounds and patrols, access control and issue of visitor badges’ [140].
Din acest motiv, Comisia a decis să evalueze costul capitalului entității care acordă măsura de ajutor prin costul capitalului acordat de structura bilanțului SOWAER, care este structura de finanțare aleasă de grupul Regiunea-SOWAER și de condițiile de acces la piețele de capital.
Article 25.7 of the schedule of conditions, as amended by Amendment No 6 of 15 January 2008, provides that ‘the amount of the compensation intended to cover the costs incurred in providing the services may not exceed the actual costs incurred by the concession-holder in this context, after deducting any fees collected from users to cover these services.
Aplicarea testului operatorului privat în economia de piață la convențiile din 2002
Any overcompensation of these costs will result in budgetary compensation through the budget entry for the following year’.
În conformitate cu convențiile din 2002, Regiunea-SOWAER a hotărât să pună la dispoziția BSCA, în schimbul unei taxe de concesiune, terenurile și infrastructura aeroportului din Charleroi, angajându-se să dezvolte această infrastructură în conformitate cu programul de investiții anexat la Convenția SOWAER/BSCA din 2002 și să desfășoare lucrări majore de întreținere și reparații, precum și să plătească BSCA o subvenție pentru anumite servicii legate de activitatea aeroportuară.
The Commission takes the view that these provisions are sufficient to conclude that the compensation paid for the security costs has been proportionate and has not been used to subsidise economic activities.
Scenariul contrafactual ar fi constat pentru Regiunea-SOWAER să nu semneze convențiile din 2002 și, prin urmare, să nu se angajeze la noi investiții importante, nici să nu acorde subvenția „incendiu-întreținere”.
Application of point 37 of the aviation guidelines
Comisia a presupus că, în acest scenariu contrafactual în absența ajutorului, aeroportul ar continua probabil să funcționeze, dar mult mai puțin, având în vedere necesitatea investițiilor prevăzute în convențiile din 2002, pentru a permite o creștere semnificativă a traficului în cadrul aeroportului.
As highlighted by point 37 of the aviation guidelines, the Commission must check that the funding of non-economic activities does not lead to undue discrimination between airports.
Acest scenariu contrafactual ar duce la o valoare actualizată netă ușor pozitivă, care este imposibil de estimat cu un oarecare grad de fiabilitate, în special din cauza faptului că ar fi foarte dificil ca Regiunea-SOWAER să estimeze care ar fi putut fi traficul așteptat în absența convențiilor din 2002, precum și cuantumul taxei de concesiune obținute de BSCA.
As clarified by Belgium, the non-economic activities of the two main Walloon airports (Liège and Charleroi) are funded in a non-discriminatory manner by the Region.
Prin urmare, pentru calcularea valorii actualizate nete, Comisia a presupus că valoarea actualizată netă a scenariului contrafactual este zero.
Given this legal framework, the Commission takes the view that the relevant level for assessing the existence of discrimination in terms of the financing of certain non-economic services associated with the airport activities is the region, and not the Federal State.
În cazul în care, pe baza acestei ipoteze, valoarea actualizată netă a convențiilor din 2002 este negativă, aceasta este negativă a fortiori, în ipoteza în care valoarea actualizată a scenariului contrafactual este pozitivă.
As the non-economic activities of the two main Walloon airports (Liège and Charleroi) are funded in a non-discriminatory manner by the Region, the Commission concludes that there is no undue discrimination between the airports.
Aceasta este, așadar, o ipoteză favorabilă pentru Regiunea-SOWAER, cât și pentru BSCA.
The compensation paid for BSCA's activities associated with fire protection and security cannot therefore be qualified as State aid and is consequently excluded from the subsequent analysis.
În vederea calculării valorii actualizate nete a convențiilor din 2002 pentru Regiunea-SOWAER, Comisia a determinat costurile și veniturile grupului Regiunea-SOWAER care puteau fi anticipate ca rezultat al acestor convenții, integrând:
Maintenance/ground traffic safety
pentru perioada 2002-2015:
In this section, the Commission examines whether the following services may escape the applicable State aid rules due to their non-economic nature:
costul estimat al investițiilor (a se vedea tabelul 13) și al prestațiilor de natură economică care trebuie să fie realizate de către SOWAER, precum și ponderea subvenției plătite de regiune pentru anumite servicii legate de activitatea aeroportuară care este plătită pentru servicii de natură economică;
the ‘maintenance services’, as defined by Articles 12 and 19 of the schedule of conditions annexed to the Region/BSCA agreement;
veniturile estimate ale taxei de concesiune datorate de către BSCA societății SOWAER;
the ‘ground traffic safety services’, as defined by Article 25 of the schedule of conditions amended by Amendment No 5 of 10 March 2006.
pentru perioada 2016-2040:
As indicated in recital 71, the maintenance service is defined by Articles 12 and 19 of the schedule of conditions as ‘technical maintenance services for buildings, runways, surrounding areas, vehicle fleet, etc.’ [141], and as ‘maintenance of land, buildings and building facilities, and equipment forming part of the concession or placed at the disposal of the concession, such that they are always fit for their intended purpose’ [142].
Aceste date se bazează pe previziunile de care dispuneau regiunea și SOWAER în 2002, în special în ceea ce privește traficul și costurile.
As indicated in recitals 73 and 74, Amendment No 5 of 10 March 2006 amended Article 3.2.2 of the Region/BSCA agreement and Article 25 of the schedule of conditions.
Prin urmare, Comisia nu a ținut cont de devierile unor costuri ale programului de investiții care nu puteau fi anticipate la momentul deciziei de a iniția programul în aprilie 2002 (de exemplu, creșterea prețurilor de construcție și devierile unor costuri legate de probleme de stabilitate a solului care nu erau cunoscute la momentul elaborării programului de investiții).
As a result of these amendments, the Region pays compensation to BSCA for the costs of the fire protection and ground traffic and airport site safety services.
De asemenea, Comisia nu a ținut seama de valoarea terenurilor și a infrastructurii în calcularea valorii actualizate nete, atât în ceea ce privește calculul corespunzător scenariului în care convențiile din 2002 sunt adoptate și în cel corespunzător scenariului contrafactual.
Article 25 of the schedule of conditions, as amended, provides that ‘the ground traffic and airport site safety services include routine maintenance of the airport site, technical maintenance services for buildings, runways, surrounding areas and vehicle fleet, minor surfacing work, routine maintenance and repair of the runway and accesses, operational maintenance and servicing of the general lighting and runway lighting, mowing services, rubber removal from the runway and its markings, snow clearance and any other services ensuring the safety of ground traffic, airport site and infrastructures, except for commercial areas of the airport zone’.
Astfel, calculul valorii actualizate nete se bazează pe fluxurile de numerar viitoare estimate în 2002.
These services differ in particular from the security services.
Comisia consideră că, în cazul de față, punerea la dispoziție a unei infrastructuri la un preț mai mic decât prețul pieței constituie un avantaj pentru BSCA, chiar în ipoteza în care SOWAER preconizează că își va recupera pierderea prin evaluarea capitalului pe care îl deține sau a dividendelor pe care le va primi.
They are inherent in the commercial operation of the airport, which involves ensuring that the airport site, including its runways, is sufficiently well-maintained to enable the landing and take-off of aircraft under satisfactory safety conditions.
Comisia notează, de asemenea, efectele asupra concurenței ale unei abordări în care ar fi luate în considerare eventualele câștiguri de capital și dividendele.
No public policy remit is associated with this type of service.
Împins la extrem, acest scenariu ar conduce la a admite că o autoritate publică poate solicita o taxă de concesiune nulă a unui aeroport în care aceasta ar fi acționară (acesta este motivul pentru care această autoritate ar putea aștepta dividende și/sau o creștere a valorii acțiunilor sale), fără ca acest fapt să constituie ajutor de stat.
According to Belgium (see recital 237), when the Commission made its decision on 23 July 2008 on Leipzig/Halle airport, it recognised that operational safety services were non-economic activities [143].
Acest lucru ar permite aeroportului în cauză să ofere condiții tarifare foarte scăzute companiilor aeriene și ar produce, astfel, o denaturare a concurenței în special față de aeroporturile private.
It is clear from the list of operational safety infrastructures provided by the German authorities that these infrastructures are essential for ground traffic safety, i.e.: uninterruptible power supply for aprons, transformer stations, runway lighting, apron lighting, etc.
Tabelul de mai jos prezintă costul investițiilor economice luate în considerare de către Comisie pentru calcularea valorii actualizate nete a măsurii din 2002.
The Commission disputes that it can be concluded from recitals 182 and 183 of the decision on Leipzig/Halle airport that the Commission has in the past taken the view that tasks comparable to maintenance and traffic safety, as defined in the Region/BSCA agreement, fall within the public policy remit, for the following reasons.
Tabelul 13
Firstly, the maintenance and traffic safety costs defined in the Region/BSCA agreement are much broader than the operational safety investment costs referred to in the decision on Leipzig/Halle airport.
costul investițiilor care rămân de efectuat la 15 aprilie 2002
The latter consist of the uninterruptible power supply for the aprons, transformer station, high voltage cables and runway lighting.
(milioane EUR)
The maintenance and traffic safety costs defined in the Region/BSCA agreement ‘include routine maintenance of the airport site, technical maintenance services for buildings, runways, surrounding areas and vehicle fleet, minor surfacing work, routine maintenance and repair of the runway and accesses, operational maintenance and servicing of the general lighting and runway lighting, mowing services, rubber removal from the runway and its markings, snow clearance and any other services ensuring the safety of ground traffic, airport site and infrastructures, except for commercial areas of the airport zone’.
Expropriere (sold faza 1)
Secondly, the Commission points out that, contrary to Belgium's argument, the Commission did not conclude that the operational safety tasks referred to in the Leipzig/Halle decision constitute tasks falling within the public policy remit.
Achiziționarea de noi terenuri
Recital 182 of that decision states that ‘the Commission can conclude that in the present case certain costs fall within the public policy remit’ (emphasis added).
Sold noi terenuri
In recital 183 of the same decision, the Commission considers that ‘to the extent that they fall within the public policy remit’, the measures may not amount to State aid (emphasis added).
Renovare SABCA
It indicates that ‘in the present case independently [of] whether the Commission was to accept the approach advanced by the German authorities that none of the costs should be considered as State aid, the final assessment of the measure would not change’ (emphasis added).
Decont, regularizare și diverse
As a result, in those recitals the Commission neither confirmed nor contradicted Germany's position that certain tasks, including operational safety tasks, fell within the public policy remit, but instead indicated that it did not need to take a position, given that, assuming that the measure did constitute aid, this would be authorised.
Subtotal
Thirdly, the Commission points out that, in the General Court's judgment on the Commission decision on Leipzig/Halle airport, contrary to Belgium's argument, the Court did not confirm this alleged Commission position in paragraph 225 of its judgment.
Renovarea localurilor tehnice și administrative
The Court in fact reproduced recitals 182 and 183 of the Commission decision in order to recall the latter's position and concluded that the Commission had considered that it did not have to reach a definitive conclusion on this question (namely if it were to accept the German authorities' argument that none of the costs should be considered as State aid).
Împrejmuirea perimetrului aeroportuar
Their funding does not therefore escape the applicable State aid rules.
Reparare jgheaburi
Flight tracking and recording, provisional flight planning and marshalling
Extinderea stației de kerosen
In this section, the Commission examines whether the following services, the provision of which was entrusted to BSCA and for which BSCA receives compensation under Amendment No 6 of 15 January 2008, may escape the applicable State aid rules due to their non-economic nature:
Eliminarea deșeurilor
flight tracking and recording [145] and flight planning [146],
Reabilitarea pistei de rulare sud
(402) According to Belgium (see recital 240), flight tracking and recording, provisional flight planning and marshalling services are essential parts of civil aviation safety and therefore fall within the public policy remit, given that they are fundamental components in the safety of an airport.
Detectarea incendiilor din parcarea subterană pentru autovehiculele pasagerilor
The Commission takes the view that the services covered by this compensation are activities inseparable from the economic activity of the airport operator BSCA.
Tratarea apelor uzate
These services cannot be included within the security services intended to combat acts of unlawful interference or within any activity falling within the public policy remit.
Echipamente pentru energie și telecomunicații
The Commission therefore concludes that flight tracking and recording, flight planning and marshalling constitute economic services.
Tunel tehnic
As the capital increase, which was covered by the formal investigation procedure, was subscribed by SOWAER to the benefit of BSCA in 2002, i.e. after the ADP judgment [148], it falls under the Commission's control of State aid (see recital 346).
Rută de serviciu
In order to determine whether a State measure constitutes aid, it is necessary to establish whether the recipient undertaking receives an economic advantage that it would not have obtained under normal market conditions.
Rambleuri în perimetrul aeroportului
The presence of an economic advantage can be ruled out where the measures in question constitute economic operations carried out by public bodies or undertakings under normal market conditions [149].
Extinderea pistei
In this case it must be determined whether, in similar circumstances, a private operator, having regard to the foreseeability of obtaining a return and leaving aside all social, regional policy and sectoral considerations, would have taken part in the same operations as the entity granting the measure (hereinafter ‘the market economy operator test’).
Cale de rulare nord și ieșire de pe pistă
The presence of an economic advantage can also be ruled out where the measures in question constitute financial compensation granted to the undertakings concerned in order to enable them to operate a service of general economic interest, provided that such compensation satisfies all the conditions set out in the Altmark judgment [150].
Parcare pentru avioane și refacerea pavajului
The Commission will now proceed to analyse the measures concerned in turn, in the light of the conditions of the Altmark judgment and the market economy operator test.
Asistență pentru navigație
Application of the Altmark judgment conditions
Carburant pentru hangarul de asistență
It is firstly necessary to examine Belgium's argument, set out in Section 5.1.1.1(c)(ii), according to which the subsidy for certain services associated with the airport activities — assuming that some of these services are economic in nature — allegedly does not constitute an advantage for BSCA under the Altmark judgment [151].
Turn de control
As established in Section 6.1.1, the Commission considers that some of the services for which the subsidy is paid are not economic in nature (for example, firefighting and security services) and will exclude from its analysis the part of the subsidy compensating for the costs of those services.
Clădiri de birouri + marfă
However, the Commission considers that other services for which the subsidy is paid are economic in nature, such as maintenance and repair of infrastructures operated commercially, and even marshalling.
Terminal nou
The Commission takes the view that Belgium is committing a manifest error of assessment in qualifying these services as services of general economic interest.
Apoi, Comisia a păstrat doar partea din aceste investiții pe care o consideră legată de activități economice.
As recalled by paragraph 47 of the Communication from the Commission on the application of the European Union State aid rules to compensation granted for the provision of services of general economic interest [152], generally speaking, a ‘particular public service task’ implies the supply of services which, if it were considering its own commercial interest, an undertaking would not assume or would not assume to the same extent or under the same conditions.
Au fost, prin urmare, eliminate:
In paragraph 50 of said Communication, the Commission also considers that the services to be classified as services of general economic interest must be addressed to citizens or be in the interest of society as a whole.
împrejmuirea părții perimetrului aeroportuar la care se ajunge după verificările efectuate de poliție și unde se află, în special, avioanele (a se vedea explicațiile de la considerentul 365);
In the present case, the economic services identified are not supplied in the interest of citizens, but only to enable BSCA to provide an airport service.
turnul de control (a se vedea explicațiile de la considerentul 365);
They are indissociable from the economic activity of operating the airport.
7 % din costul investițiilor legate de noul terminal (a se vedea explicațiile de la considerentul 366).
Furthermore, BSCA was not chosen in a procedure meeting the requirements of the fourth Altmark condition.
Comisia ajunge la următorul plan de investiții:
In addition, Belgium has not provided any evidence that the amount of the subsidy was determined on the basis of an analysis of the costs that a typical undertaking, well run and adequately equipped, would have incurred in order to meet the necessary public service requirements.
Tabelul 14 Costul investițiilor pentru activități economice luate în considerare de către Comisie pentru calcularea valorii actualizate nete a măsurii din 2002 (milioane EUR) Partea economică (%)
Belgium's arguments are actually insufficient for the following reasons:
Conform calculelor Comisiei, investițiile pentru activități economice prevăzute inițial reprezentau 89690000 EUR, adică 97 % din investițiile prevăzute inițial.
Belgium indicates that the ratios mentioned in the Communication referred to above in recital 410 demonstrate BSCA's efficient management (see recital 253), without, however, indicating the nature and value of those ratios.
La aceste investiții, trebuie să se adauge costurile de întreținere și cheltuielile de funcționare a SOWAER care pot fi atribuite activităților economice ale aeroportului din Charleroi, astfel cum sunt prevăzute de Regiunea/SOWAER [160].
Belgium adds that this sound management enabled private investors to be attracted in 2009 during BSCA's partial privatisation.
Tabelul 15
However, the Commission stresses that, although investors did decide to participate in BSCA's capital (while obtaining a right of veto over important decisions), this may have been due to the existence of the aid, allowing them to expect that BSCA would attract a significant volume of traffic and therefore generate high profits, rather than due to sound management.
suma costurilor de întreținere (A) și a cheltuielilor de funcționare (B) a SOWAER care pot fi atribuite activităților economice ale aeroportului din Charleroi
It can also be pointed out in this regard that private investors may take holdings in mismanaged companies that they hope to turn around once they have or share control of the company in question, as is the case with BSCA's private investor who has obtained a right of veto over important decisions.
Trebuie, de asemenea, să se adauge partea din subvenția pentru „incendii-întreținere” care poate fi atribuită unor activități economice.
It also cannot be concluded, as Belgium has done, that the airport is well run simply due to the fact that the turnover or traffic at Charleroi airport is on the increase (see recital 254).
Comisia estimează că 10 % din cheltuielile acoperite de subvenția pentru „incendii-întreținere”, după cum se indică în planul de afaceri al BSCA din 2002, sunt de natură economică.
This increase in turnover and traffic may stem from the aid, which enables BSCA to offer very favourable conditions to airlines and thus attract traffic.
Tabelul 16