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As already described in recitals 54-55, distributors could make neither profits nor losses, could not choose how to procure electricity, could not select their customers, could not determine the sales price or offer any additional services yielding a profit margin.
S tega vidika se priznanje stroškov dobave po reguliranih tarifah električne energije v okviru španskega elektroenergetskega sistema leta 2005 načeloma ne razlikuje od nadomestila stroškov za nakup električne energije, ki jih Komisija ni opredelila kot državno pomoč v smislu člena 107(1) PDEU, niti glede električne energije iz nekaterih virov (uvodna izjava 90) niti glede električne energije na veleprodajnem trgu, namenjene dobavi po reguliranih tarifah (uvodna izjava 91).
The distributors themselves, and also the vertically integrated groups to which they belonged, had no economic interest, whether direct or indirect, in engaging in the supply of electricity at the regulated tariff.
Čeprav odločitev o začetku postopka ne obravnava vertikalno integriranih subjektov, h katerim spadajo distributerji, z ločitvijo računovodskih in delnih pravnih dejavnosti, je Komisija zaradi obravnavanja očitkov družbe Céntrica tudi ocenila, ali so imeli ti subjekti morda posredne prednosti, ki bi lahko pomenile državno pomoč.
A vertically integrated group would rather have an interest in serving end-users on free-market terms, as its supply division would have made a profit on such sales, which would not be the case if users were supplied by the group's distributor at regulated tariffs.
Družba Céntrica je zlasti navedla, da so se lahko povezani subjekti, ki so se ukvarjali s prodajo električne energije na drobno na prostem trgu (prek oddelka za dobavo), izognili izgubam s spodbujanjem uporabnikov, naj prestopijo k njihovemu lastnemu oddelku za distribucijo.
It follows that a comparison with the terms of supply under free market conditions disregards the different legal and factual situation between free-market suppliers and distributors supplying at regulated tariffs.
Trdila je tudi, da je bil proizvajalec, ki je pripadal povezanemu subjektu, pozvan k ohranjanju visokih veleprodajnih cen, saj bi bil oddelek za distribucijo pri povezanem subjektu (ki je prodajal po regulirani tarifi) tako zaščiten pred izgubami.
Whereas the State can, in principle, impose purchase and selling prices and other trading conditions on distributors in an electricity system, this does not mean that the compensation of costs incurred by the latter confers on them an economic advantage which they would not otherwise obtain under market conditions.
Komisija ni mogla ugotoviti obstoja gospodarske prednosti, ki bi izhajala iz možnosti uporabnikov električne energije, da namesto dobaviteljev izberejo distributerje.
Indeed, tariff regulation further backed with an obligation to supply leaves no freedom to decide on the most fundamental drivers of supply, such as prices and output.
Gospodarsko gledano s prehodom z dobave k distribuciji ni bilo mogoče ustvariti dobička, temveč se je bilo mogoče le izogniti izgubam oddelkov za dobavo štirih vertikalno povezanih skupin Iberdrola, S.A., Unión Eléctrica Fenosa, S.A., Hidroeléctrica del Cantábrico S.A. in Endesa, S.A.;
It is not only under hypothetical market conditions, i.e. in the absence of regulatory constraints regarding such fundamental parameters, that distributors would be able to charge a much higher, cost-covering tariff to end-customers.
medtem ko je družba Elcogás poslovala le v sektorju proizvodnje električne energije.
Moreover, and even more importantly, in the Spanish electricity system in 2005, as in every electricity system, the distributor — or the operator of the high-voltage network for energy-intensive consumers — is simply an intermediary which physically connects the user to the network, as a necessary condition for the supply of electricity.
Vendar to ne more pomeniti prednosti za druge štiri obravnavane družbe, saj bi se lahko oddelki za dobavo tem izgubam vsekakor preprosto izognili s prekinitvijo dobavnih pogodb.
Given the absence of a hypothetical alternative distribution network in Spain in 2005, the distributors in question were designated and supplied both the free market and the regulated market.
Torej sistem oddelkom za dobavo ni pomenil prednosti, temveč kazen:
Distributors play an essential role because they make the supply of electricity possible, regardless of the specific regulatory arrangements or policy, or of whether the competitive conditions governing supply are based on market mechanisms or regulation.
izgubili so odjemalce.
However, in the absence of the earmarking of specific categories of revenues to costs, the increase (decrease) in revenues and/or costs may not result in a corresponding deficit or surplus benefiting distributors.
Sami proizvajalci bi električno energijo vsekakor prodali na veleprodajnem trgu.
For instance, as shown in recital 27, graph 1, whereas the energy prices implicit in regulated tariffs were generally below wholesale market prices in most months of 2005, the opposite is true in the period from November 2006 to December 2007, without this being reflected in increased profits for distributors' activity of supply at regulated tariffs.
Glede domnevne spodbude za proizvajalce, da ohranjajo visoke veleprodajne cene, pa je treba navesti, da same tarife niso povzročile višjih veleprodajnih cen, čeprav bi lahko tržno okolje, ki so ga ustvarili španski organi, domnevno spodbudilo proizvajalce, da povišajo cene.
This is consistent with the regulatory set-up of the system, whereby distributors would not bear the costs of imbalances in the system's costs and revenues as a whole or in part, just as they would never make a profit on this activity, and any surplus arising from sales of electricity at regulated tariffs would be used to cover other system costs.
Za dejanski dvig cen bi bile potrebne zapletene strategije in protikonkurenčno ravnanje proizvajalcev.
Distributors acted as financial intermediaries of the electricity system in that they centralised all the financial flows, both incoming (regulated revenues from tariffs and access charges) and outgoing (all the general costs of the system).
Komisija je prav tako proučila možnost, da bi bili tekmeci na prostem trgu zaradi sistema izpodrinjeni z elektroenergetskega trga in bi bila s tem dodeljena prednost prvotnim skupinam, ki bi povečevale in „preoblikovale“ svoj tržni delež, tako da bi ta v primeru štirih vertikalno povezanih skupin na splošno sovpadal z velikostjo distribucijskega omrežja vsake skupine.
The electricity system's regulated revenues and costs in 2005, as described in recitals 19, 20 and 28, include a wide variety of market-driven and policy-driven regulated costs, such as costs of electricity purchases, including from renewable sources, additional electricity generation costs in the Spanish islands and transport and distribution costs, etc., without the earmarking of specific revenues to certain costs.
Tudi ta hipotetična prednost ni mogla biti ugotovljena iz naslednjih razlogov:
Regulated revenues never became the property of distributors, with the exception of the remuneration for pure distribution, which was retained by them after deduction of all other system costs.
Prvič, ni bilo vedno mogoče „premikati odjemalcev“ znotraj iste skupine.
Any deficit in the accounts such as the one that occurred in 2005, regardless of its causes, would therefore appear in the distributors' accounts, without them having any leeway to decide either on the level of regulated revenues and costs or on the financing of specific costs with specific revenues.
Odjemalec, ki ga je oskrboval oddelek za dobavo družbe Endesa na območju, kjer je bil lokalni distributer družba Iberdrola, ni mogel prestopiti k oddelku za distribucijo družbe Endesa, temveč le k oddelku za distribucijo družbe Iberdrola.
Indeed, as is apparent from the figures cited in recital 28, the transport and distribution costs of the electricity system in 2005 stood at EUR 4410 million, consistent with the same cost categories in 2004 and 2006 respectively.
Poleg tega je ta prestop na reguliranem trgu povzročil neto stroške za povezane subjekte, saj je povečal primanjkljaj, ki so ga ti morali financirati pod neugodnimi pogoji.
So the level of the distributors' costs bears no relation to the amount of the deficit in 2005.
Drugič, skupine niso imele nobenega dobička od prodaje distributerjev.
Therefore, the classification of the 2005 deficit as ‘distributors' losses’ does not seem justified because the deficit is not imputable to action on the part of distributors, but rather to the regulatory provisions establishing the right of end-users to be supplied at regulated tariffs and, to a certain extent, to the regulatory and policy choices made to support electricity production from renewable sources and cogeneration, for instance.
Zato morebitne koristi, ki bi izhajala iz večjega tržnega deleža, ni bilo mogoče prenesti v dobiček leta 2005 (ki je bilo zajeto v preiskavi), temveč šele v poznejših letih, ko si je prosti trg spet opomogel.
It follows that the financing of the deficit in the electricity system's accounts through the mechanisms described in recitals 29 to 32 is not a way to absorb the distributors' specific losses but rather the system's overall losses.
Za uresničitev te prednosti bi se morali uporabniki, ki jih je oskrboval distributer skupine, vrniti k oddelku za dobavo skupine.
Indeed, without the recognition of the EUR 3811 million deficit in 2005 and its prefinancing by the five major electricity utilities, it would not have been possible to pay the system's transmission and distribution costs incurred for the benefit of all users, whether in the regulated or free market.
Vendar bi lahko odjemalec, ki je razmišljal o novi menjavi dobavitelja, v zadevni fazi prosto izbiral med vsemi dobavitelji, dejavnimi na španskem trgu.
The formal investigation does not establish the existence of any other elements of advantage in favour of distributors.
Zato Komisija ni ugotovila konkretne prednosti, povezane s samim obstojem večjega tržnega deleža, ki so ga skupine imele v obdobju, na katerega se je nanašala preiskava.
Distributors passed on the entire benefit of low regulated tariffs to end-users, did not make any profit on sales and did not draw any benefit from users returning to the regulated market.
Nasprotno, povezane skupine so bile podvržene objektivni kazni:
It follows that, from a financial perspective, the position of distributors in Spain was fully comparable with that of a system intermediary.
obveznosti financiranja primanjkljaja pod nedobičkonosnimi pogoji, saj je bila obrestna mera, ki so jo prinašale pravice do izterjave, nižja od ustrezne tržne obrestne mere, in je tako listinjenje pravic do izterjave prineslo precej manjše poplačilo, kot bi ga tržna obrestna mera.
In that respect, the recognition of the costs of supplying at regulated electricity tariffs under the Spanish electricity system in 2005 is, in its principle, no different from the compensation of the costs of purchase of electricity which the Commission has not classified as State aid within the meaning of Article 107(1) TFEU, both as regards electricity from certain sources (recital 90) and wholesale electricity for supply at regulated tariffs (recital 91).
Komisija je na podlagi zgoraj navedenega glede dobav poslovnim uporabnikom ugotovila, da regulativni sitem, ki se je leta 2005 uporabljal v Španiji, ni pomenil neposredne ali posredne gospodarske prednosti niti za distributerje niti za povezane skupine, ki so jim ti pripadali.
Even though the opening decision does not target the vertically integrated entities to which distributors belong, with accounting and partial legal unbundling, with a view to addressing Céntrica's representations, the Commission has also assessed whether such entities may have reaped indirect advantages liable to constitute State aid.
Nazadnje, Komisija glede trditve družbe Céntrica, da je sistem diskriminiral distributerje in dobavitelje na prostem trgu, poudarja, da lahko o diskriminaciji govorimo takrat, kadar so osebe, ki so v enakem dejanskem in pravnem položaju, obravnavane različno, ali, obratno, kadar so osebe, ki so v različnem dejanskem in pravnem položaju, obravnavane enako.
Céntrica notably submitted that integrated entities active in electricity retail sales in the free market (through a supply division) were able to avoid losses by encouraging users to switch to their own distribution division.
Prvič, trditev je očitno neutemeljena v primeru družbe Elcogás S.A., ki so ji bile dodeljene pravice do izterjave, čeprav ni poslovala v distribucijskem sektorju.
It also maintained that there was an incentive for a generator belonging to an integrated entity to keep wholesale prices high, considering that the distribution division of the integrated entity (selling at the regulated tariff) would be shielded from losses.
Drugič, ni bilo dokazano, da so druge štiri imenovane družbe Iberdrola, S.A., Unión Eléctrica Fenosa, S.A., Hidroeléctrica del Cantábrico, S.A., in Endesa, S.A., dobile nadomestilo zaradi svoje distribucijske dejavnosti, v okviru katere so električno energijo dobavljale po reguliranih tarifah, kot je bilo že izpostavljeno v uvodni izjavi 30.
The Commission has not been able to establish the presence of an economic advantage arising from electricity users choosing distributors rather than suppliers.
Tretjič, distributerji in dobavitelji na prostem trgu v španskem elektroenergetskem sistemu nikakor niso bili v enakem dejanskem in pravnem položaju.
for its part, Elcogás operated only in the electricity generation sector.
Zato razlika pri obravnavi, ki jo prereka družba Céntrica, ne more pomeniti diskriminacije, ne glede na dejstvo, da je bila raven reguliranih tarif morda škodljiva za proces liberalizacije.
However, this cannot amount to an advantage for the other four companies in question, as the supply divisions could have avoided these losses in any event by simply terminating the supply contracts.
Vendar to ni bilo posledica dodelitve nezakonite državne pomoči distributerjem.
For the supply divisions, therefore, the system did not entail an advantage but a penalty:
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they lost customers.
Dvomi, ki jih je Komisija izrazila v odločitvi o začetku postopka, so bili med formalnim postopkom preiskave odpravljeni.
The system was financially neutral for distributors too (for the reasons explained above).
Komisija z zadovoljstvom ugotavlja, da Španija s tem, ko je priznala stroške, ki so jih distributerji električne energije imeli v zvezi s svojo dejavnostjo dobave električne energije srednjim in velikim poslovnim uporabnikom po reguliranih tarifah, distributerjem ni dodelila gospodarske prednosti v smislu člena 107(1) PDEU.
The generators, for their part, would have sold their electricity anyway on the wholesale market.
Ker so merila iz člena 107(1) PDEU kumulativna, ni potrebe po proučitvi, ali so izpolnjena preostala merila.
With regard to the generators' alleged incentive to keep wholesale prices high, it should be noted that, although the market environment created by the Spanish authorities might arguably have created an incentive for generators to raise prices, the tariffs per se did not lead to higher wholesale prices.
Komisija zato ugotavlja, da ukrep ne pomeni državne pomoči v korist distributerjem električne energije.
Actually raising prices would have required complex strategies and anti-competitive behaviour on the part of generators.
Ta ugotovitev se nanaša na stanje in časovno obdobje, zajeto v pritožbi, ter ne posega v možnost Komisije, da prouči ukrepe, ki jih je Španija sprejela od leta 2005 –
No direct and discernible direct causal link between the tariffs and a possible artificial increase in wholesale prices is established; it remains an unproven theoretical hypothesis.
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The Commission has also considered the possibility that the system, by squeezing free-market competitors out of the electricity market, might have conferred an advantage on incumbent groups by increasing and ‘remodelling’ their market share so that it tended to coincide, broadly, with the size of each group's distribution network in the case of the four vertically integrated groups.
Člen 1
This hypothetical advantage could not be established either, for the following reasons:
Dejstvo, da je Kraljevina Španija stroške, ki so jih imeli distributerji leta 2005 pri dobavi električne energije srednje velikim in velikim poslovnim končnim uporabnikom po reguliranih tarifah, priznala kot pravice do izterjave družb Iberdrola, S.A., Unión Eléctrica Fenosa, S.A., Hidroeléctrica del Cantábrico, S.A., Endesa, S.A., in Elcogás, S.A., imenovanih v kraljevem odloku z zakonsko močjo št. 5/2005, ne pomeni državne pomoči v smislu člena 107(1) Pogodbe o delovanju Evropske unije.
First, it was not always possible to ‘move customers around’ within the same group.
Člen 2
A customer served by Endesa's supply division in an area where the local distributor was Iberdrola could not switch to Endesa's distribution division, but only to Iberdrola's.
Ta sklep je naslovljen na Kraljevino Španijo.
Moreover, this switch to the regulated market resulted in a net cost to the integrated entities, since it increased the deficit that they had to finance on unfavourable terms.
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Second, the groups did not make any profit on sales made by distributors.
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Therefore, the potential benefit stemming from a higher market share could not translate into profits in 2005 (the year covered by the investigation) but only in later years, when the free market was viable again.
Podpredsednik
For this advantage to materialise, users served by a group's distributor would have had to switch back to the group's supply division.
UL C 43, 27.2.2007, str. 9.
However, at that stage, a client contemplating a new change of supplier would have been free to select among all the suppliers active in the Spanish market.
Glej opombo 1.
Therefore, the Commission has not established the presence of a concrete advantage linked to the mere existence of a higher market share held by the groups in the period covered by the investigation.
Upravljavec trga (OMEL) se ukvarja z nakupom in prodajo električne energije na veleprodajnem trgu.
On the contrary, integrated groups were subjected to an objective penalty:
Upravljavec omrežja (Red Eléctrica de España) je odgovoren za zagotavljanje zanesljivosti oskrbe z električno energijo ter koordinacijo sistema proizvodnje in prenosa.
the obligation to finance the deficit on terms which were non-remunerative, since the interest rate yielded by the collection rights was lower than an adequate market rate and, thus, the securitisation of the collection rights was carried out with a remuneration arguably lower than that obtained if a market rate had been applied.
Člen 11 kraljevega odloka 281/1998 opredeljuje distribucijo kot „tisto [dejavnost], katere glavni cilj je prenos električne energije s transportnega omrežja do točk porabe v skladu z ustreznimi zahtevami kakovosti ter prodaja električne energije uporabnikom ali distributerjem po reguliranih cenah“.
On the basis of the foregoing, the Commission has concluded that, as far as supply to business users is concerned, the regulatory system put in place by Spain in 2005 did not confer an economic advantage, whether direct or indirect, either on distributors or on the integrated groups to which they belonged.
Proizvajalci v tako imenovani „posebni shemi“.
Finally, with regard to Céntrica's allegation that the system discriminated between distributors and free-market suppliers, the Commission points out that discrimination may occur when persons who are in the same factual and legal position are treated differently or, vice versa, when the same treatment is applied to persons who are in a different factual and legal position.
„Posebna shema“ je sistem tarif na dovajanje toka:
First, the allegation is clearly without foundation in the case of Elcogás SA, which was granted collection rights even though it did not operate in the distribution sector.
distributerji (in upravljavec prenosnega omrežja) so zavezani kupiti vso energijo, ki jo proizvedejo upravičene zmogljivosti za soproizvodnjo in proizvodnjo iz obnovljivih virov energije na njihovem področju odgovornosti, in sicer po stopnji pokritja stroškov, ki jo določi država.
Second, it has not been demonstrated that the other four designated companies, Iberdrola, SA, Unión Eléctrica Fenosa, SA, Hidroeléctrica del Cantábrico, SA, and Endesa, SA, were compensated because of their activity as distributors supplying electricity at regulated tariffs, as already pointed out in recital 30.
Člen 12(2) zakona LSE je določal, da so se tarife električne energije načeloma določale enkrat letno, vendar jih je bilo mogoče med letom prilagoditi.
Third, and in any event, in the Spanish electricity system, distributors and free-market suppliers were not in the same factual and legal position.
V skladu s členom 8 kraljevega odloka 1432/2002 se povprečna tarifa ni mogla povišati za več kot 1,40 % (glede na prejšnje leto), medtem ko so se lahko posamezne tarife povišale le za delež, izračunan kot povišanje povprečne tarife + 0,60 % (skupaj 2 %).
The obligation of supplying electricity at regulated tariffs was carried out under regulatory constraints which made distributors act as mere financial and supply intermediaries that implemented legal provisions, whereas supply on free-market terms was a fully liberalised activity.
Nasedli stroški so izgube, ki so jih prvotni dobavitelji električne energije utrpeli zaradi nepovračljivih stroškov naložb, izvedenih pred liberalizacijo.
Therefore, the difference in treatment contested by Céntrica cannot amount to discrimination, notwithstanding the fact that the level of regulated tariffs may have been detrimental to the liberalisation process.
Letno poročilo 2005, Elcogás SA, na voljo na spletnem naslovu http://www.elcogas.es/images/stories/3-principales-indicadores/1-datos-economico-financieros/esp2005.pdf.
However, this was not the consequence of the granting of unlawful State aid to distributors.
Španija je maloprodajni trg električne energije liberalizirala prej, kot se je to zahtevalo z direktivama o električni energiji iz let 1996 in 2003, ki sta določali časovni okvir za liberalizacijo poslovnih končnih uporabnikov med letoma 1999 in 2004 (tako da se začne z največjimi), medtem ko je bila liberalizacija za segment gospodinjstev obvezna šele od 1. julija 2007.
CONCLUSION
UL L 176, 15.7.2003, str. 37.
The doubts expressed by the Commission in its opening decision were allayed in the course of the formal investigation.
Člen 3(3) direktive o električni energiji določa:
The Commission is satisfied that the recognition by Spain of the costs borne by electricity distributors in respect of their activity of supplying electricity at regulated tariffs to medium-sized and large business users did not confer an economic advantage on distributors within the meaning of Article 107(1) TFEU.
„Države članice zagotovijo, da vsi gospodinjski odjemalci in, kjer po mnenju držav članice to ustreza, mala podjetja (namreč podjetja z manj kot 50 zaposlenimi in z letnim prometom ali letno bilančno vsoto, ki ne presega 10 milijonov EUR), uživajo univerzalne storitve, to je pravico do oskrbe na njihovem območju z električno energijo določene kakovosti po razumnih, lahko in jasno primerljivih ter preglednih cenah.
Since the criteria set out in Article 107(1) TFEU are cumulative, there is no need to examine whether the remaining criteria are fulfilled.
Da bi države članice zagotovile ponudbo univerzalnih storitev, lahko imenujejo dobavitelja zadnje instance.“
The Commission therefore concludes that the measure does not constitute State aid in favour of electricity distributors.
Dobavitelji so prav tako kupovali električno energijo na veleprodajnem (organiziranem) trgu in bi lahko, čeprav teoretično, sklepali dvostranske sporazume s proizvajalci, vendar slednji (predvsem vertikalno povezane skupine) dejansko niso imeli nobene spodbude za to.