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2014-6 Reports of Cases before the Court of Justice and the Court of First Instance 1 (2014)

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Reports of Cases


                            Joined Cases C-533/12  P and C-536/12  P

                  Soci6t6 nationale maritime  Corse-M6diterranbe  (SNCM)   SA

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                                        French  Republic
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                                   Corsica Ferries France SAS


(Appeals -  Restructuring aid - European Commission's  margin of assessment - Scope of review by
the General Court of the European Union -  Market economy  private investor test - Requirement for
a  sectoral and geographical analysis - Sufficiently well-established practice - Long-term economic
                      rationale - Making of additional redundancy payments)


              Summary   -  Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber), 4 September 2014


1.  State aid  -  Meaning  -  Legal  nature
    Complex  evaluation of economic matters -


- Interpretation on the basis of objective factors
Judicial review - Scope


     (Art. 107(1) TFEU)

2.  State  aid -  Meaning   -  Assessment  according  to the criterion of the private investor -
     Capital contribution - State acting as shareholder of an undertaking - State acting as a public
     authority - Distinction in the light of the application of the private investor test - Factors for
     assessing that criterion

     (Art. 107(1) TFEU)

3.  State aid -  Meaning  - Private investor test - Capital contribution - Capital contributions of
    private and public investors made at the same time - Criteria for assessment

    (Art. 107(1) TFEU)

1. See the text of the decision.

                                                                                    (see para. 15)

2. It follows from the principle of equal treatment of public undertakings and private undertakings
that capital placed  directly or indirectly at the disposal of an  undertaking  by  the State in
circumstances which correspond to normal market  conditions cannot be regarded as State aid.


ECLI:EU:C:2014:2142


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