natgillin/translations-raw huggingface dataset:
Therefore, the Commission considers that this aid was compatible with the common market.
Uppmaning enligt artikel 108.2 i fördraget om Europeiska unionens funktionssätt att inkomma med synpunkter om statligt stöd nr SA.15836 av den 12 juni 2012, K(2012) 3760 final, EUT C 301, 5.10.2012, s. 22.
As regards the technical support for undertakings active in processing and marketing, the 2007-2013 Guidelines have introduced substantive changes as compared to the previous rules; therefore, a separate assessment is necessary for this category.
Mål C-47/10 P, Republiken Österrike mot Scheucher-Fleisch GmbH m.fl., ECLI:EU:C:2011:698.
From the information available at the stage of the opening decision, it was unclear whether in 2007 the Austrian authorities brought the technical support measures under examination in line with the above conditions of the Guidelines.
Mål T-375/04, Scheucher-Fleisch GmbH m.fl. mot Europeiska kommissionen, ECLI:EU:T:2009:445.
The Austrian authorities were therefore invited to submit additional information in order to prove that in the period 1 January 2007 to 31 December 2008 the measures complied with the new rules.
Samma typ av argument används i ett rättsligt utlåtande som bifogades de uppgifter som inkom den 26 februari 2015.
In particular, the Commission drew the attention of the Austrian authorities to the following substantive modifications:
EGT C 28, 1.2.2000, s. 2.
the differentiation between primary production and processing and marketing of agricultural products,
EGT C 252, 12.9.2001, s. 5.
In their submission of 14 September 2012 the Austrian authorities argued that the obligation to adapt to the new State aid rules applied as from 1 January 2008 and not from 1 January 2007, as noted by the Commission (see also recitals 172-175).
Se fotnot 1.
In the request for information of 19 February 2014, the Commission again invited Austria to provide the necessary information on this point.
Akt om villkoren för Konungariket Norges, Republiken Österrikes, Republiken Finlands och Konungariket Sveriges anslutning till de fördrag som ligger till grund för Europeiska unionen och om anpassning av fördragen (EGT C 241.
In their reply of 30 April 2014, the Austrian authorities maintained the view expressed in their submission of 2012 and provided no further information for the compatibility assessment.
29.8.1994, s. 21, i dess ändrade lydelse enligt EGT L 1, 1.1.1995, s. 1).
Reference is made to the reasoning in recitals 322-326 above, which equally applies to the type of aid referred to in this section.
Dvs. hänvisningen till kommissionens beslut N88/98.
For the reasons stated above, insofar as the technical support aid granted to undertakings active in the processing and marketing of agricultural products in the period 1 January 2007 to 31 December 2008 did not comply with the new conditions stipulated for this category of aid in the 2007-2013 Guidelines (i.e. aid for large undertakings, aid for first participation in fairs, an aid rate over 50 % for any service but consultancy services and participation in fairs over 50 % or compensation in kind) (recital 350, the Commission considers that such aid was incompatible with the common market pursuant to Article 87(3)(c) EC (now: Article 107(3)(c) TFEU).
Se skäl 145 och följande.
For measures other than those referred to in the recital above the compatibility criteria have not changed as compared to the 2000-2006 Guidelines.
Dessa rapporter lämnades in som bilaga till de österrikiska myndigheternas skrivelse av den 16 oktober 2000, vilken utgjorde svaret på kommissionens begäran av den 19 juni 2000 om ytterligare upplysningar.
Reference is made to the compatibility assessment in recital 328 and following.
Dessa rapporter lämnades in tillsammans med de österrikiska myndigheternas skrivelse av den 14 september 2012.
These measures are therefore compatible.
Rådets direktiv 92/50/EEG av den 18 juni 1992 om samordning av förfarandena vid offentlig upphandling av tjänster (EGT L 209, 24.7.1992, s. 1).
PARAFISCAL LEVIES AND HYPOTHECATION OF THE AID
Europaparlamentets och rådets direktiv 2004/18/EG av den 31 mars 2004 om samordning av förfarandena vid offentlig upphandling av byggentreprenader, varor och tjänster (EUT L 134, 30.4.2004, s. 114).
Since the measures object of the present decision are financed by a parafiscal charge, the Commission must examine both the measures financed, i.e. the aid actually awarded, and the way it is financed.
Bilaga till punkterna 31 och 47 i inlagan av den 14 september 2012.
According to a settled jurisprudence of the Court of Justice, where the method of financing the aid, in particular through compulsory contributions, forms an integral part of the aid measure, the Commission must take that method of financing into account when examining the aid [102].
Inlagan innehåller ett huvuddokument och bilagor till detta.
For a tax or part of a tax to be considered as forming an integral part of an aid measure, it must be hypothecated to the aid measure under the relevant national rules, in the sense that the revenue from the tax must be necessarily allocated for the financing of the aid measure [103] and the amount of the tax should have a direct impact on the amount of State aid [104].
Dessa märkningar visades i skäl 13 i kommissionens beslut NN 34A/2000.
PERIOD 1995-2001
Denna märkning användes också under perioden 1999–2002.
According to recital 235 of the opening decision, the application of these criteria to the measures under examination led the Commission to the following, preliminary conclusions: the first criterion appeared to be fulfilled since according to the Austrian authorities the collected levies exclusively benefited the aid measures covered by the decision (see recital 53).
Märkningen används i produktdirektiven från år 2000 (Richtlinien für Frischfleisch, Fleischerbetriebe, Fleischwaren, Frischeier, Putenfleisch, Milch und Milchprodukte, Obst, Gemüse und Speisekartoffeln, Speisefette, Speiseöle, Diverse Lebensmittel).
As regards the question whether the amount of the levy had a direct impact on the amount of State aid, at the stage of the opening decision the Commission did not possess all the necessary information to assess whether this criterion was fulfilled.
Europaparlamentets och rådets direktiv 2000/13/EG av den 20 mars 2000 om tillnärmning av medlemsstaternas lagstiftning om märkning och presentation av livsmedel samt om reklam för livsmedel (EGT L 109, 6.5.2000, s. 29).
To this end the Austrian authorities were invited to explain whether the aid amount at stake was directly linked to the revenue from the levy, i.e. whether it was established up-front or whether it depended on the concrete AMA marketing needs.
Rådets förordning (EEG) nr 2092/91 av den 24 juni 1991 om ekologisk produktion av jordbruksprodukter och uppgifter därom på jordbruksprodukter och livsmedel (EGT L 198, 22.7.1991, s. 1).
The Commission also indicated that, should it conclude after the submission of the necessary information that the levies form an integral part of the aid measure, it would have to examine whether the financing of the scheme discriminates between imported products and products produced in Austria [105], or between exported national products and national products marketed on the domestic market [106] (recital 236 of the opening decision).
Rådets förordning (EG) nr 1257/1999 av den 17 maj 1999 om stöd från Europeiska utvecklings- och garantifonden för jordbruket (EUGFJ) till utveckling av landsbygden och om ändring och upphävande av vissa förordningar (EGT L 160, 26.6.1999, s. 80).
The Austrian authorities were invited to provide information on these points.
Dessa standarder beskrivs i skäl 59 i kommissionens beslut NN 34A/2000.
In particular, they were invited to indicate whether § 21c(2) of the AMA Act, according to which goods originating outside Austria are exempted from the levy (see recital 58, was in force already in 1995 or whether it was inserted by a later amendment of the law.
AMA-Gütesiegel Richtlinie Frischfleisch från april 1999, Richtlinien Frischfleisch från april 1997, Richtlinien Frischfleisch från april 1997 (Anpassung entsprechend Beiratsbeschluss av den 22 januari 1998), Richtlinien Frischfleisch från februari 1996, Richtlinien diverse Lebensmittel.
Further, the Member State was invited to explain whether products of Austrian origin marketed outside Austria could benefit from the measure to the same extent as products marketed in Austria.
Från februari 1997.
In recital 237 of the opening decision the Commission underlined that it also had to verify whether charging the levy did not run counter to the objectives of the common market organisation in the agricultural sector.
Enligt de österrikiska myndigheterna användes detta formulär till och med den 31 december 2000.
In this respect it had to be assessed whether the levies did not interfere with the price of the end products and thus whether domestic products were not discriminated against compared to imported products.
AMA:s verksamhetsrapport (Tätigkeitsbericht) för 1996, sidan 3.
In this regard, in the opening decision the Austrian authorities were invited to provide data showing the percentage of the respective sales prices to which the levy amounted and to explain to which extent a possible negative impact caused by the levy was compensated by the positive effects of the measures financed by the same levy.
AMA:s verksamhetsrapport (Tätigkeitsbericht) för 1996, sidan 12.
In addition, the Austrian authorities were invited to explain whether the prices of the relevant products are largely market driven.
AMA:s verksamhetsrapport (Tätigkeitsbericht) för 1996, sidan 35.
In their submission of 14 September 2012, the Austrian authorities informed the Commission that foreign products were exempted from paying the levy according to Article 2c paragraph 2 of the AMA Act.
[…] Omfattas av tystnadsplikt.
This exemption applied since 1 January 1994 and therefore for the entire period of assessment.
AMA:s verksamhetsrapport (Tätigkeitsbericht) för 1996, sidan 15.
As regards the relationship with the objectives of the common market organisation in the agricultural sector, in their submission of 14 September 2012, the Austrian authorities stated that due to the fact that the prices were formed by supply and demand on the relevant markets and that there was no intervention from the side of the authorities, it was not possible to calculate the percentage of sales prices to which the levy amounted.
Båda exemplen nämns i AMA:s verksamhetsrapport (Tätigkeitsbericht) för 1996, sidan 17.
In the same reply the Austrian authorities argued that the amount of the levy did not have a direct impact on the amount of State aid.
AMA:s verksamhetsrapport (Tätigkeitsbericht) för 1996, sidan 19.
In addition to the revenue from the AMA levy, additional sources of financing existed.
AMA:s verksamhetsrapport (Tätigkeitsbericht) för 1996, sidan 13.
Namely, aside from the ‘net revenue’ deriving from the levy, and EU funds (for co-financed actions), other revenues were collected from economic operators by way of licence fees and from the proceeds from the royalties paid in the AMA-shop (cookery books, etc.) to finance the measures.
AMA:s verksamhetsrapport (Tätigkeitsbericht) för 1996, sidan 26.
In fact, the Austrian authorities demonstrated that a part of the financing for the AMA measures was not covered by the levy [107] and thus the amount of the aid spent (which in turn influenced the scope of the measures actually carried out) did not exclusively depend on the levy revenue; in addition, the revenue from the levy was not exclusively allocated for the financing of the aid [108].
AMA:s verksamhetsrapport (Tätigkeitsbericht) för 1997, sidan 3.
Hence, the Commission considers that the criteria for hypothecation within the meaning of the case-law were not fulfilled for the period 1995 to 2001.
”Die österreichische Naturqualität hat sich mit der Unterstützung der AMA auch 1997 am Heimmarkt eine Position gesichert, mit der es gelungen ist, Eintrittsbarieren gegenüber EU-Anbietern aufzubauen und gleichzeitig den heimischen Produkten Unverwechselbarkeit zu garantieren.
PERIOD 2002-2008
Dass der ’Geschmack der Natur’ am Heimmarkt sogar Marktanteile zurückgewonnen hat, ist im Marktsegment Fruchtjoghurt klar abzulesen.
The Austrian authorities were also invited to provide the necessary information to allow the Commission to assess whether the parafiscal financing of the measure (levy) formed an integral part of the aid measures for the period 2002 to 2008 (recital 238 of the opening decision).
So konnten 1997 von den heimischen Herstellern 15 % Marktanteil von ausländischen Anbietern zurückgewonnen werden”.
For the reasons stated above, and given that the sources of funding remained the same, the Commission considers that no hypothecation between the levy and the State aid measures existed also for the period 2002 to 2008.
Omfattas av tystnadsplikt.
For the reasons stated above, and notwithstanding recital 378 below, the AMA marketing measures constitute State aid.
Detta reklamexempel kan återfinnas på sidan 10 av AMA:s verksamhetsrapport (Tätigkeitsbericht) för 1999.
For the reasons stated above, and notwithstanding recital 378 below, the aid measures referred to in recitals 208, 213, 327, third sentence and 355 are incompatible with the internal market.
AMA:s verksamhetsrapport (Tätigkeitsbericht) för 2000, sidan 9.
The other measures assessed above are compatible with the internal market.
AMA:s verksamhetsrapport (Tätigkeitsbericht) för 2000, sidan 10.
Any compensation which at the time of the granting fulfilled the conditions stipulated in the de minimis Regulation [109] is deemed not to constitute aid.
AMA:s verksamhetsrapport (Tätigkeitsbericht) för 2000, sidan 11.
Any aid which, at the time of the granting fulfilled the conditions of a block exemption or an approved aid scheme is compatible with the internal market, up to the maximum aid intensities applicable to that type of aid.
AMA:s verksamhetsrapport (Tätigkeitsbericht) för 2000, sidan 12.
RECOVERY
Domarna av den 13 mars 2001 i mål C-379/98, Preussen Elektra, ECLI:EU:C:2001:160, punkt 58, och av den 20 november 2003 i mål C-126/01, GEMO, ECLI:EU:C:2003:622, punkt 23.
In accordance with the Treaty and the Court of Justice's established case-law, the Commission is competent to decide that the Member State concerned must abolish or alter aid [110] when it has found that it is incompatible with the internal market.
Inlaga av den 14 september 2012.
The Court has also consistently held that the obligation on a State to abolish aid regarded by the Commission as being incompatible with the internal market is designed to re-establish the previously existing situation [111].
Artikel 21i i AMA-förordningen.
In this context, the Court has stated that that objective is attained once the recipient has repaid the amounts granted by way of unlawful aid, thus forfeiting the advantage which it had enjoyed over its competitors on the market, and the situation prior to the payment of the aid is restored [112].
Artikel 21k i AMA-förordningen.
Following that case-law, Article 16 of Council Regulation (EU) 2015/1589 [113] (hereinafter Procedural Regulation) lays down that ‘where negative decisions are taken in respect of unlawful aid, the Commission shall decide that the Member State concerned shall take all necessary measures to recover the aid from the beneficiary.’
Artikel 21l i AMA-förordningen.
According to Article 17 of the Procedural Regulation, the powers of the Commission to recover incompatible aid are subject to a limitation period of 10 years.
Artikel 21l.2 i AMA-förordningen.
The limitation period begins on the day on which the unlawful aid was awarded to the beneficiary.
Artiklarna 21a.1, 21c respektive 21d.
Any action taken by the Commission with regard to the unlawful aid interrupts the limitation period.
Se fotnot 47.
The limitation period is suspended for as long as the decision of the Commission is the subject of proceedings before the ECJ.
Artikel 11.1 i AMA-förordningen.
The complaint which triggered the present procedure was received on 21 September 1999 (see recital 4) and the Commission registered the scheme as a non-notified aid in the year 2000 (see recital 8).
Domstolens dom av den 15 juli 2004 i mål C-345/02, Pearle, ECLI:EU:C:2004:448, punkterna 35–38.
Furthermore, the 2004 decision acknowledges the fact that the Commission has decided, for administrative reasons, to split the procedure (see recital 10) and assess the measures before and after the year 2003 separately.
Dom av den 30 maj 2013 i mål C-677/11, Doux Élevage SNC och Coopérative agricole GBP-ARREE mot Ministère de l'Agriculture, ECLI:EU:C:2013:348, punkterna 32, 35 och 38.
This splitting of the procedure had been a request of the Austrian authorities dated from 8 March 2004.
Domstolens dom i mål C-280/00, Altmark, ECLI:EU:C:2003:415, punkt 84.
The above cited actions (splitting of procedure acknowledged by 2004 decision) and letters (Austrian request of 8 March 2004) are interrupting events in the meaning of Article 17 Council Regulation (EU) 2015/1589.
Domstolens dom i mål C-355/00, Freskot AE mot Elliniko Dimosio, ECLI:EU:C:2003:298, punkt 83.
This means that the Commission has the power to order recovery as of 1 January 1995, the date of Austria's accession to the European Union.
Domstolens dom av den 22 mars 1977 i mål 78/76, Steinike & Weinlig, ECLI:EU:C:1977:52, punkt 22.
The Commission decision NN 34A/2000 was challenged before the General Court on 30 June 2004 and its ruling was appealed before the Court of Justice on 27 January 2010.
Domstolens dom i mål C-75/97, Belgien mot kommissionen, ECLI:EU:C:1999:311, punkt 31.
The judgment of the Court was pronounced on 27 October 2011 (see above recital 22).
Domstolens dom i mål 730/79, Philip Morris Holland BV mot kommissionen, ECLI:EU:C:1980:209, punkterna 11 och 12.
According to Article 15 paragraph 2, third sentence of Regulation (EC) No 659/1999, the limitation period was therefore suspended between 30 June 2004 and 27 October 2011.
Se i synnerhet domstolens dom i mål 102/87, Republiken Frankrike mot kommissionen, ECLI:EU:C:1988:391.
For the reasons stated above the 10 years limitation period for recovery with regard to the measures assessed in this decision has not expired.
Källa: Eurostat.
The incompatible State aid specified at recital 374 above must therefore be recovered by the Austrian authorities.
Enligt artikel 1.b iii jämfört med artikel 4.6 i rådets förordning (EG) nr 659/1999 av den 22 mars 1999 om tillämpningsföreskrifter för artikel 93 i EG-fördraget (EGT L 83, 27.3.1999, s. 1) får den berörda medlemsstaten, om kommissionen inte har fattat ett beslut inom två månader efter anmälan, genomföra åtgärden efter att i förväg ha anmält detta till kommissionen, såvida inte kommissionen fattar ett beslut inom 15 arbetsdagar från mottagandet av denna anmälan.
Article 16(1) of the Procedural Regulation specifies that ‘where negative decisions are taken in cases of unlawful aid, the Commission shall decide that the Member State concerned shall take all necessary measures to recover the aid from the beneficiary’.
N 175/2006, N 589/2008 och N 496/2009.
Article 16(3) of the Procedural Regulation specifies that ‘recovery shall be effected without delay and in accordance with the procedures under the national law of the Member State concerned, provided that they allow the immediate and effective execution of the Commission's decision.’
Mål T-375/04, Scheucher-Fleisch GmbH m.fl. mot Europeiska kommissionen, ECLI:EU:T:2009:445, punkterna 86 och 87.
The means according to national law established by the Member States, by which they implement recovery decisions, should give full effect to the recovery decision.
Denna hänvisning återfinns sedan 1995 i alla artiklar om produkters ursprung i de bestämmelser som reglerar färskt kött-märkningen.
It is therefore necessary that the national measures taken by Member States lead to an effective and immediate execution of the Commission decision.
EGT C 119, 22.5.2002, s. 22.
According to a settled jurisprudence, in the case of negative decisions for non-notified aid, particularly where a significant period of time has elapsed, the Commission may resort to approximate evaluations of the sums to be recovered [114].
EUT C 319, 27.12.2006, s. 1.
The Commission would like to point out that, according to the jurisprudence ‘no provision of Community law requires the Commission, when ordering the recovery of aid declared incompatible with the common market, to fix the exact amount of the aid to be recovered.
Dom i mål C-199/06, CELF mot SIDE, ECLI:EU:C:2008:79, punkt 68.
It is sufficient for the Commission's decision to include information enabling the recipient to work out himself, without overmuch difficulty, that amount.’ [115]
EGT C 272, 28.10.1986, s. 3.
Given the nature of some of the measures concerned (i.e. measures concerning indirect aid to a large number of beneficiaries) the Commission is not in a position to determine in the present decision the exact aid amount per beneficiary for each measure for which recovery has been ordered.
EGT C 302, 12.11.1987, s. 6.
The Commission would therefore point out that the sums communicated by the Austrian authorities during the investigation period (see recitals 43-45) constitute the starting point for the calculation of the aids to be recovered from the respective beneficiaries.
EGT C 252, 12.9.2001, s. 5.
The categories of incompatible aid, as well as the relevant periods have been identified in the decision.
Punkt 1.1 i 1987 års reklamramverk.
Therefore, the Commission considers that, in the framework of the recovery procedure, a reasonable method of calculating the aid per beneficiary needs to be provided by the Austrian authorities, and communicated to the Commission, in a spirit of loyal cooperation with the Commission,
Punkt 5 b i 2001 års reklamriktlinjer.
HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
Punkt 7 i 2001 års reklamriktlinjer.
Article 1
Punkt 152 a i 2007–2013 års riktlinjer.
The State aid which Austria has implemented for the following measures and periods is compatible with the internal market within the meaning of Article 107(3)(c) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union:
Det bör noteras att punkt 2.1.1 (med fotnot 1) i reklamramverket innehåller en direkt hänvisning till kommissionens riktlinjer i 1986 års meddelande.
aid for generic advertising in the period 1 January 2000 to 31 December 2001,
Som klargörs i texten i 1986 års meddelande är den ett försök till vägledning som skulle säkerställa att marknadsföringskampanjer som bedrivs av medlemsstaterna håller sig inom ramen för vad som är tillåtet enligt domstolens rättspraxis, i synnerhet mål 222/82, Apple & Pear Development Council mot K.J.
advertising aid in the period 1 January 2002 to 31 December 2006,
Lewis Ltd m.fl., EU:C:1983:370.
aid for/by way of advertising campaigns outside Austria and generic advertising in Austria, in the period 1 January 2002 to 1 January 2004,
Med hänvisning till 1986 års meddelande.
quality advertising aid in the period 1 January 2007 to 31 December 2008,
Se även skäl 65.
aid for/by way of promotion measures in a broader sense and technical support measures in the period 1 January 1995 to 31 December 1999,
Perioden efter 2004 omfattas av beslut N 239/2004.
aid in the form of technical assistance, advisory services and control measures relating to quality products in the period 1 January 1995 to 31 December 1999,
Se skäl 39.
aid for quality products in the period 1 January 2000 to 31 December 2006,
Rådets förordning (EG) nr 1698/2005 av den 20 september 2005 om stöd för landsbygdsutveckling från Europeiska jordbruksfonden för landsbygdsutveckling (EJFLU) (EUT L 277, 21.10.2005, s. 1).
aid in the form of technical support in the period 1 January 2000 to 31 December 2006,
Se i detta avseende till exempel kommissionens beslut i ärendena N 570/1998 (som redan citerats i skäl 41), N 662/1998 (kommissionens beslut av den 30 april 1999, SG(99) D/3095), och K(1999) 4227 (kommissionens beslut 2000/132/EG av den 25 november 1999 om den åtgärd som Tyskland planerar att genomföra till förmån för jordbruksprodukter i Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (EGT L 37, 12.2.2000, s. 31)).