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Furthermore, these marketing agreements, although nominally made between VFAB and AMS, are explicitly side letters to the 2005 Agreement i.e. to the airport charge agreement of 31 January 2005 between VFAB and Ryanair.
V skladu z ocenami, ki jih je sporočilo švedsko vladno ministrstvo za podjetništvo v poročilu iz leta 1999 o možnostih letališča [45], naj bi se tržni delež nizkocenovnih letalskih prevoznikov v Evropi po pričakovanjih s 3 % povečal na 12 %, kar zadeva število potnikov, to je razvoj, ki naj bi bil posebej pomemben na širšem območju Stockholma z visoko pogostostjo potovanj prebivalcev.
This clearly shows that the both parties did not dissociate between the airport service agreements and the marketing services agreement but considered them to be part of one single commercial arrangement (the Commission also notes that although the two side letters of 1 August are nominally made between VFAB and AMS, they are nevertheless signed on behalf of Ryanair Ltd).
Druga letališča so takrat dejansko opravila enako oceno in svoje poslovne modele preusmerila na podoben način, npr. letališče Skavsta.
Second, the 2010 marketing agreement with AMS states in its first section, entitled ‘Purpose of the Agreement’, that the agreement is ‘[…]’.
Družba VFAB je v tem okviru predvidela sklenitev sporazumov z družbo Ryanair, ki je bila v nasprotju s podjetjem SAS, ki je zmanjševalo svoje delovanje na letališču, pripravljena predvideti dolgoročna pogodbena razmerja in zagotoviti najmanjše število potnikov, ki prispevajo k dodatni dobičkonosnosti letališča.
This formulation establishes an unambiguous direct link between the service agreement and this marketing agreement in the sense that one would not have been concluded without the other.
Komisija ugotavlja, da bi zasebni upravljavec letališča v enakem položaju verjetno upošteval enako strategijo kot družba VFAB, saj se je to zdela edina smiselna možnost za povečanje prometa na letališču in s tem prihodka letališča.
The marketing agreement is based on the conclusion of the airport services agreement and the services provided by Ryanair.
V zvezi s tem je družba Ryanair predložila poročilo, ki ga je naročila pri družbi za svetovanje Oxera, v katerem je ocena pričakovane dobičkonosnosti sporazumov med družbama VFAB in Ryanair na predhodni podlagi.
Indeed, the preamble furthermore states that VFAB intends to target Ryanair passengers in order to promote tourism and business opportunities in the region.
Poročilo proučuje pričakovano dobičkonosnost sporazumov iz let 2001, 2003 in 2005 med družbama VFAB in Ryanair ter sporazum o storitvah trženja med družbama VFAB in AMS.
Third, the marketing agreement states in its preamble that VFAB has decided to ‘actively promote Västmanland and Västerås as a holiday destination for international air travellers and also as an attractive business centre.’
Pričakovana dobičkonosnost se je ocenila v času sklenitve vsakega sporazuma, tj. dodatni prihodki, ki naj bi jih imela družba VFAB na podlagi sporazumov („dodatni prihodki“), so se primerjali z njenimi pričakovanimi dodatnimi stroški zaradi sporazumov („dodatni stroški“).
This is an indication that the conclusion of the marketing agreement has as its primary and specific purpose to promote specifically Västerås Airport (and the surrounding area, Västmanland) among Ryanair's potential customers.
Ta ocena upošteva tudi vpliv skupne ocene dobičkonosnosti sporazumov o letaliških storitvah in sporazumov o trženju, kar je po mnenju Komisije pravilen pristop, razlogi pa so navedeni v uvodnih izjavah 232 do 239.
In conclusion, the marketing service contract concluded by VFAB and AMS are thus indivisibly linked to the airport service agreements signed by Ryanair and VFAB.
Ocena družbe Oxera temelji na dokumentih in podatkih, ki so bili na voljo v času pogajanj za sporazume, pri čemer so se uporabili podatki iz obdobij pred vsakim sporazumom, da bi se obvestilo o predpostavkah glede razumnih pričakovanj v času podpisa.
Indeed, the marketing contract states explicitly that it is based on Ryanair's Västerås-London service, and essentially envisages marketing services aimed at promoting that route.
skupni potniški promet na letališču Västerås (na podlagi skupnega prometa, zabeleženega pred podpisom vsakega sporazuma, z dodano predvideno rastjo evropskega zračnega prometa), potniški promet družbe Ryanair (na podlagi podatkov o poslovnem izidu družbe Ryanair do podpisa posameznega sporazuma), prihodki iz letalskih dejavnosti (na podlagi pristojbin, sprejetih v sporazumih, in pričakovanih obetih v potniškem prometu), prihodki iz neletalskih dejavnosti (obeti na podlagi podatkov o poslovnem izidu pred podpisom posameznega sporazuma), dodatni stroški poslovanja (na podlagi predhodnih ocen družbe VFAB), dodatni stroški trženja in naložbeni stroški (v obsegu, da se je za slednje pričakovalo, da bodo povrnjeni prek poslovnih sporazumov z letalskimi prevozniki).
For these reasons, the Commission considers it appropriate to analyse the airport service Arrangements between VFAB and Ryanair and the marketing agreement of 1 and 17 August 2010 jointly, with a view to determining whether they constitute State aid measures or not.
Za namene preverjanja zanesljivosti teh predhodnih predpostavk je družba VFAB zagotovila podatke o prihodkih iz letalskih dejavnosti, prihodkih iz neletalskih dejavnosti, stroških poslovanja in naložbah v osnovna sredstva v obdobju 2000–2010.
The feasibility of comparing Västerås Airport to other European airports
Občutljivost napovedi je bila preskušena z različnimi preverjanji, da bi se ugotovilo, kako bi na dobičkonosnost na podlagi sporazumov vplivali nekateri negativni dejavniki.
Sweden as well as Ryanair has argued that the MEOP assessment should be performed by comparing the terms of the commercial arrangements between VFAB on the one hand and Ryanair and AMS on the other to the terms of comparable agreements at other airports.
Osnovni scenarij, ki temelji na predpostavkah iz uvodne izjave (258), je bil preskušen glede na naslednje občutljivosti:
Under the new guidelines for applying the MEO principle, the existence of aid to an airline using a particular airport can, in principle, be excluded if the price charged for the airport services corresponds to the market price, or if it can be demonstrated through an ex ante analysis that the airport/airline arrangement will lead to a positive incremental profit contribution for the airport.
dstotna diskontna mera v izračunu neto sedanje vrednosti namesto referenčnih obrestnih mer, določenih v obvestilu Komisije o referenčnih obrestnih merah;
However, as regards the first approach (a comparison with the ‘market price’), the Commission doubts that, at the present time, an appropriate benchmark can be identified to establish a true market price for services provided by airports.
potniški promet (za Ryanair in letališče) na podlagi dejanskih ravni poslovnega izida namesto predhodnih predpostavk;
It therefore considers an ex ante incremental profitability analysis to be the most relevant criterion for the assessment of arrangements concluded by airports with individual airlines.
dodatni stroški poslovanja, ocenjeni na regresijskem pristopu, po katerem se ocene preskusijo in popravijo glede na dejanske učinke sprememb v potniških številkah na stroške poslovanja letališča.
It should be noted that, in general, the application of the MEO principle based on an average price on other similar markets may prove helpful if such a price can be reasonably identified or deduced from other market indicators.
Rezultat ocene je, da se je za vse sporazume v času njihove sklenitve pričakovalo, da bodo dobičkonosni.
However, this method is not as relevant in the case of airport services, as the structure of costs and revenues tends to differ greatly from one airport to another.
Tudi v vseh „stresnih“ scenarijih (tj. ob uporabi preverjanj občutljivosti) je bila neto sedanja vrednost vsakega posameznega sporazuma dejansko pozitivna.
This is because costs and revenues depend on how developed an airport is, the number of airlines which use the airport, its capacity in terms of passenger traffic, the state of the infrastructure and related investments, the regulatory framework which can vary from one Member State to another and any debts or obligations entered into by the airport in the past.
Tudi v primeru najbolj negativnega scenarija je neto sedanja vrednost za sporazum iz leta 2001 znašala 5,8 milijona SEK, za sporazum iz leta 2003 je znašala 8,7 milijona SEK, za sporazum iz leta 2005 (s sporazumom o trženju iz leta 2008) je znašala 15,87 milijona SEK in za sporazum o trženju iz leta 2010 je neto sedanja vrednost znašala 9,9 milijona SEK.
Moreover, as can be seen in the present case, commercial practices between airports and airlines are not always based exclusively on a published schedule of charges.
Skupna ocena kombinirane neto sedanje vrednosti vseh sporazumov (opravljena kot preverjanje) kaže, da bi neto sedanja vrednost po osnovnem scenariju znašala 22,2 milijona SEK, po najbolj negativnem scenariju pa 13,7 milijona SEK.
Rather, these commercial relations are very varied.
Sklep na podlagi ocene je torej, da je bila pričakovana dobičkonosnost različnih sporazumov, zajetih v tej preiskavi, glede na predhodno analizo pozitivna, in sicer tudi ob previdnejših predpostavkah.
They include sharing risks with regard to passenger traffic and any related commercial and financial liability, standard incentive schemes and changing the spread of risks over the term of the agreements.
Komisija meni, da je ta ocena, ki ji ne nasprotujejo nobeni dokazi, predloženi med formalno preiskavo, ustrezna in podpira ugotovitev, da bi v podobnih okoliščinah vlagatelj kot udeleženec v tržnem gospodarstvu verjetno sklenil podobne sporazume.
Consequently, one transaction cannot really be compared with another based on a turnaround price or price per passenger.
Poleg tega Komisija ugotavlja, da je Švedska predložila natančne finančne naknadne informacije, ki med drugim prikazujejo dodatne stroške in prihodke za družba Ryanair in vse ostale letalske prevoznike, ki so delovali na letališču Västerås v obdobju, zajetem v formalni preiskavi.
Finally, assuming that it could be established, based on a valid comparative analysis, that the ‘prices’ involved in the various transactions that are the subject of this assessment are equivalent to or higher than the ‘market prices’ established through a comparative sample of transactions, the Commission would, for all that, not be able to conclude from this that these transactions comply with the MEO test if it emerges that, when they were set, the airport operator had expected them to generate incremental costs higher than the incremental revenues.
Te informacije so povzete v preglednici 6 (v kateri so vsi stroški za sporazume o trženju z družbo Ryanair in AMS razdeljeni kot stroški poslovanja, namenjeni za družbo Ryanair).
An MEO will thus have no incentive to offer goods or services at benchmarked ‘market price’ if doing so would result in an incremental loss.
Komisija ugotavlja, da ti podatki, ki sicer temeljijo na naknadnem stališču, potrjujejo predhodno oceno, da bi posli, sklenjeni z družbo Ryanair, prispevali k dobičkonosnosti letališča Västerås.
In such conditions, the Commission considers that, taking into account all the information available to it, an ex ante analysis of incremental profitability is the best approach to assess whether the commercial relations between VFAB and Ryanair granted Ryanair an advantage for the purpose of Article 107(1) TFEU.
Preglednica 6
Assessment of Incremental Costs and Revenues
Dodatni stroški in prihodki od letalskega prevoznika na letališču Västerås.
In order to assess whether an arrangement concluded by an airport with an airline satisfies the MEO test, expected non-aeronautical revenues stemming from the airline's activity should be taken into consideration together with airport charges, net of any rebates, marketing support or incentive schemes.
Vsi zneski v EUR
Similarly, all expected costs incrementally incurred by the airport in relation to the airline's activity at the airport must be taken into account.
Skupaj (letalski in neletalski) prihodki na letalskega prevoznika
Such incremental costs may encompass all categories of expenses or investments, such as incremental personnel, equipment and investment costs induced by the presence of the airline at the airport.
Stroški poslovanja, namenjeni določenim letalskim prevoznikom [46]
For instance, if the airport needs to expand or build a new terminal or other facilities mainly to accommodate the needs of a specific airline, such costs should be taken into consideration when calculating the incremental costs.
Dodatna dobičkonosnost
In contrast, costs which the airport would have to incur anyway independently from the arrangement with the airline should not be taken into account in the MEO test.
Letalski prevoznik A
In addition, the airport infrastructure must be open to all airlines and not dedicated to a specific airline in order to exclude that the advantage resulting from compatible aid to the airport operator is not passed on to a specific airline.
Letalski prevoznik B
Against this background, the Commission will assess whether the arrangements between VFAB and Ryanair, including the marketing agreements with AMS, will lead to a positive incremental profit contribution for the airport.
Letalski prevoznik C
This assessment has to be made in view of the situation of the airport at the time when the Agreements with Ryanair were made and on the foreseeable development about the business at the time.
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In 2001 Västerås Airport was an airport with significant underutilisation.
Vsi letalski prevozniki
In the 1990s it had relied on a business model where traditional airlines, essentially SAS, ensured regular connections to domestic and some foreign destination, principally Oslo and Copenhagen, which were attractive to business travellers form the Västerås region which put a premium on fast connections but were comparatively price insensitive.
Kar zadeva predhodno predpostavko v času sporazumov med družbama VFAB in Ryanair, je Švedska pojasnila, da se je družba VFAB v tem okviru kljub odsotnosti formalnega in celovitega poslovnega načrta jasno zavedala, da bodo sporazumi privedli do pozitivnega dodatnega prispevka k dobičku.
As an example, in the years 1999 and 2000, SAS ensured 4 daily connections with Copenhagen and Skyways ensured 3 daily connections to Göteborg, 3 daily connections to Malmö and 2 daily flights to Copenhagen.
Glede na premajhno izkoriščenost letališča je bilo za dodatne stroške zaradi delovanja družbe Ryanair dejansko mogoče pričakovati, da bodo sorazmerno omejeni.
This business model failed in early 2000s when firms became more cost-conscious, a situation that was further aggravated by the fall in air travel that followed the terrorist events on 11 September 2001.
Po navedbah Švedske naj bi letališke pristojbine, sprejete v okviru sporazuma iz leta 2001, in neletalski prihodki po predhodnih pričakovanjih pokrili dodatne stroške, nastale v okviru sporazuma, in družbi VFAB zagotovili dobiček v višini […] SEK na leto.
Thus, SAS stopped flying from Västerås altogether in 2002 and Skyways which took over some of SAS's routes, abandoned Västerås in 2004.
Ob sklenitvi sporazuma iz leta 2005 se je družba VFAB lahko oprla na dejanski izid poslovanja družbe Ryanair na letališču med letoma 2001 in 2004, ki je privedel do pozitivnega dodatnega prispevka k dobičku letališča.
Traditional airlines has since only had very limited activity at Västerås Airport, as shown in Table 1 above.
Takratna ocena družbe VFAB je bila, da bi letališke pristojbine skupaj z neletalskimi prihodki, nastalimi na podlagi pogodbe, pokrili stroške, nastale pri poslovanju družbe Ryanair, in od leta 2007 letališču prinesle dobiček v višini […] SEK.
In 2001 Västerås Airport was thus faced with the fact that its traditional airline customers were contemplating to cut down their activities at the airport and unwilling to enter any long-term agreements that would bring the airport stable long-term revenue.
V zvezi z umikom družbe LFV Holding iz družbe VFAB leta 2006 je mesto Västerås opravilo tudi pregled poslovnih možnosti letališča, da bi se odločilo o svoji poslovni strategiji kot edini preostali delničar (kot navedeno v uvodni izjavi 224).
In 2001 Västerås Airport had a very low rate of utilisation.
Takrat je mesto proučilo več scenarijev, zlasti (a) „običajno poslovanje“, tj. nadaljevanje z obstoječo poslovno strategijo in nespremenjenimi stroškovnimi strukturami, ali (b) prizadevanje za obstoječ obseg in usmerjenost letališča – ohranitev delovanja družbe Ryanair – vendar hkrati poskušati zmanjšati stroške osebja v skladu z modelom „osnovnega letališča“.
Available maximum capacity was estimated at about 950000 departing passengers per year, whereas the actual number of passengers was 93487, i.e. less than 10 %.
Ta ocena je pokazala, da bi bil scenarij b, tj. nadaljevanje poslovanja po obstoječem poslovnem vzorcu, vključno s sporazumi z družbo Ryanair, ob hkratnem prizadevanju za zmanjšanje stroškov osebja, finančno najugodnejši, saj bi zmanjšal izgube za mesto v primerjavi z drugimi proučenimi poslovnimi možnostmi.
At the same time, the airport was operating with high fixed costs, the majority of which were, according to the figures submitted by Sweden, imputable to the non-airline-related activity at the airport which, in the years 2000 to 2010, accounted for between 72 % and 92 % of traffic at the airport [44].
Ta analiza je torej potrdila oceno, da so bili sporazumi z družbo Ryanair (vključno s sporazumi o trženju) gospodarsko smiselni.
By contrast, the operation of commercial airlines had always incrementally contributed to the profitability of the airport.
Pri ocenjevanju sporazumov med letališčem in letalskim prevoznikom bi morala Komisija upoštevati tudi, v kakšnem obsegu se lahko sporazumi štejejo za del izvajanja splošne strategije letališča, ki vodi k donosnosti, vsaj z dolgoročnega vidika.
At that time, the natural avenue was to consider a development of low-cost airlines operations at the airport.
V zvezi s tem mora Komisija upoštevati dejanske dokaze, ki so bili na voljo, in razvoj, ki ga je bilo mogoče razumno pričakovati v času sklenitve sporazumov, zlasti pa je treba upoštevati prevladujoče tržne pogoje, predvsem tržne spremembe zaradi liberalizacije na trgu zračnega prometa, vstop na trg in razvoj nizkocenovnih prevoznikov in drugih letalskih prevoznikov na določenih progah, spremembe v organizacijski in gospodarski strukturi letališke industrije, pa tudi stopnjo diverzifikacije in kompleksnosti funkcij, ki jih izvajajo letališča, spodbujanje konkurence med letalskimi družbami in letališči, negotovo gospodarsko okolje zaradi sprememb prevladujočih tržnih pogojev ali katero koli drugo negotovost v gospodarskem okolju.
According to estimates reported by the Swedish government's Ministry of Enterprise in a 1999 report on the prospects of Västerås Airport [45], low-cost airlines' market share in Europe was expected to grow from 3 % to 12 % in terms of passengers, an evolution that was expected to be particularly relevant in the wider Stockholm area which is marked by the high travel frequency of its residents.
Komisija ugotavlja, kot je opisano tudi v uvodnih izjavah 249 do 255, da je letališče Västerås iz več razlogov (kot so izguba poslovne dejavnosti tradicionalnih letalskih prevoznikov in možnost dodatno dobičkonosnih dolgoročnih sporazumov z zajamčenim številom potnikov s poslovno dinamičnimi nizkocenovnimi letalskimi prevozniki) menilo, da so poslovni sporazumi z družbo Ryanair, ki so privedli do pozitivnega prispevka k dobičkonosnosti družbe VFAB, nujen ukrep v strategiji za zagotovitev njegove prihodnje uspešnosti poslovanja in dobičkonosnosti.
Indeed, other airports made the same assessment at the time and reoriented their business models along similar lines, e.g. Skavsta airport.
Komisija nadalje ugotavlja, da je infrastruktura na letališču Västerås odprta za vse letalske prevoznike in ni namenjena le enemu.
It is in this context that VFAB envisaged entering into the Agreements with Ryanair which, contrary to SAS which was reducing its operations at the airport, and other traditional airlines, was prepared to envisage long-term contractual relationships and guarantee a minimum number of passengers that contribute towards the incremental profitability of the airport.
Prav tako ugotavlja, kot je navedeno v tabeli 6, da so bile dejavnosti letalskih prevoznikov na letališču Västerås dodatno dobičkonosne v celotnem obdobju, zajetem v sklepu.
The Commission finds that a private airport operator in the same situation would have probably followed the same strategy as VFAB as it appeared the only reasonable option to increase the traffic at the airport and thus its revenues.
Ob upoštevanju teh preudarkov in da se je za dejavnost na podlagi sporazumov z družbo Ryanair lahko predhodno pričakovalo, da bo ustvarila dodatne prihodke, se Komisija strinja, da je družba VFAB s sklenitvijo sporazumov o letaliških pristojbinah z družbo Ryanair (ukrep 4) in sporazumov o trženju z družbama Ryanair in AMS (ukrep 5) delovala kot udeleženec v tržnem gospodarstvu.
In this connection, Ryanair submitted a report commissioned from the consultancy Oxera which assesses the expected profitability of the VFAB-Ryanair Arrangements on an ex ante basis.
Zato ukrepi družbama Ryanair ali AMS niso zagotovili gospodarske prednosti.
The report examines the expected profitability of the 2001, 2003 and 2005 Agreements between VFAB and Ryanair, as well as the Marketing Service Agreement between VFAB and AMS.
ZAKLJUČEK
Oxera's assessment is based on documents and data that were available at the time of the negotiations of the Agreements using data from the periods prior to each agreement in order to inform the assumptions about reasonable expectations at the time of signing.
Komisija ugotavlja, da najemnina, ki jo je družba VFAB plačala družbi Västerås Flygfastigheter AB (ukrep 2) ne pomeni državne pomoči.
The analysis builds on forecasts concerning several parameters:
Komisija ugotavlja, da je Švedska nezakonito izvedla lokalno letališko shemo med letoma 2001 in 2010 (ukrep 3) ter pri tem kršila člen 108(3) Pogodbe o delovanju Evropske unije.
total passenger traffic at Västerås Airport (based on levels of total traffic observed prior to signing each agreement, uprated by assumed growth in European air traffic), Ryanair passenger traffic (based on outturn data of Ryanair up until the signing of each agreement), aeronautical revenue (based on charges agreed in the arrangements and expected passenger forecasts), non-aeronautical revenue (forecasts based on outturn data prior to the signing of each agreement), incremental operating costs (based on ex ante estimates from VFAB), incremental marketing costs and investment costs (to the extent that the latter were expected to repaid through the commercial arrangements with airlines).
Vendar je ta shema pomoči združljiva z notranjim trgom v skladu s členom 107(3)(c) PDEU.
For the purposes of checking the robustness of these ex ante assumptions, VFAB has provided data on aeronautical revenue, non-aeronautical revenue, operating costs and capital expenditure over the period 2000-2010.
Komisija ugotavlja, da poslovni sporazumi med družbo VFAB na eni strani in AMS na drugi (ukrepa 4 in 5) ne pomenijo državne pomoči –
The sensitivity of the forecasts has been tested through various checks in order to see how the profitability of the arrangements would be affected by certain negative factors.
SPREJELA NASLEDNJI SKLEP:
The base case, which is the scenario based on the assumptions mentioned in recital 258, has been tested against the following sensitivities:
Člen 1
a discount rate of 10 % in the calculation of the NPV instead of the reference rates set out in the Commission's reference rate notice;
Državna pomoč, ki jo je Švedska izvedla v obliki vložkov delničarjev v družbo VFAB med letoma 2003 in 2010 (ukrep 1), je združljiva z notranjim trgom.
passenger traffic (for Ryanair and at the airport) based on actual outturn levels rather than the ex ante assumptions;
Člen 2