Ryanair v European Commission: The European Court of First Instance's Judgment on Alleged State Aid at Charleroi Airport
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Abstract
The European Union has a regime to control the granting of state aid by its Member States. What if a Member State grants advantages to stimulate activity at a loss-making under-performing regional airport which has failed for many years to attract airlines? The European Commission objected to Belgium granting advantages at Charleroi Airport in Belgium to Ryanair, the Irish airline, because, the Commission argued, the advantages amounted to illegal State aid. Before Ryanair's arrival, the airport had an average of 50 passengers a day; following the arrangements at issue, it handled 2.9 million passengers and was able to open a new larger terminal building. After a long investigation, the Commission formally decided that there was illegal State aid. Ryanair appealed the Commission's decision to the Court of First Instance. Interestingly, only the alleged recipient (i.e., Ryanair) appealed the Commission's negative decision, while the Member State in question (i.e., Belgium) did not. The Association of European Airlines intervened in the court proceedings to support the Commission's case. The Court's judgment was (as is the way of judgments in the Luxembourg court) a single unanimous judgment. The Court annulled the Commission's decision. The Court's judgment was an important statement on the application of the Market Economy Investor Principle to the airline sector and airports. The Commission has accepted the Court's judgment and has not appealed it. The paper discusses the Court's judgment, which sets out some of the thinking on when state aid may be granted to airlines at airports.
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Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.008 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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