Keywords

• Appeal
• State aid
• Article 107(1) TFEU
• Burden of proof
• Distortion of evidence.
• Private operator principle
• Private investor test
• Air transport sector
• Ground handling services at Milan-Linate and Milan-Malpensa airports (Italy)
• Injections of capital by the company managing those airports into its wholly owned subsidiary providing those services
• Public ownership of the managing company
• Decision declaring those State aid measures unlawful and incompatible with the internal market
• Concepts of ‘State resources’, ‘measure imputable to the State’ and ‘economic advantage’
• Complex economic assessments
• Intensity of judicial review