Examples of using Aid element in English and their translations into Croatian
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Aid element, expressed as full amount in national currency 3.
The Commission does not, however, in that decision, authorise aid elements that might result from the method of calculating compensation.
An estimate of public support measures to heating and cooling, if any, with the annual budget andidentification of the potential aid element.
It follows from this that the authorisation given by the Commission covered only the aid elements falling within that project as notified to it.
It follows that, when assessing whether the aid element contained in the Contract for Difference was necessary, the Commission took account of the aid elements contained in the other two measures at issue.
According to recitals 475 and 476 of that decision,that adjustment was intended to limit the aid element contained in the Credit Guarantee to the minimum.
Consequently, as an aid element, it identified only the existence of a special agreement,‘relieving' NNBG or its investors of any spent fees and time lost in the enforcement of their rights deriving from those general principles in court or out of court.
Furthermore, point 4.1(c)of that notice provides that that criterion must be taken into account when calculating the aid element contained in a guarantee.
According to them, in exceptional circumstances, the aid element may turn out to be as high as the amount effectively covered by the Credit Guarantee.
In the context of the fifth plea,the Republic of Austria maintains that the Commission has not sufficiently determined the aid elements contained in the measures at issue.
The Commission considered, in particular, that the fiscal measures introduced ormodified by that law were not an integral part of the new aid elements established by that law and that any incompatibility of those fiscal measures with Directive 2002/20 therefore did not affect the assessment of the funding scheme's compatibility with the internal market.
In the context of the fifth andeighth pleas, the Republic of Austria submits arguments aimed at establishing that the Commission did not sufficiently determine the aid elements contained in the measures at issue.
In the context of the fifth and eighth pleas,the Republic of Austria claims that the aid element contained in the Credit Guarantee was not sufficiently determined by the Commission.
First of all, as regards the Credit Guarantee, it should be borne in mind that the Commissionrequired the amount of its fee to be amended in order to reduce to the minimum the aid element contained within it.
In essence, they maintain that, contrary to the requirements of that notice,the Commission did not sufficiently determine, in the contested decision, the aid element contained in the Credit Guarantee, and that it did not take all the relevant elements into account in that context.
In that regard, it is sufficient to note that, as is apparent from recitals 460 and 461 of the contested decision, the Commission only took into account cost items for expenditures related to management and disposal of waste, liability fees, and decommissioning which were included in the financial model for Hinkley Point C. The decision does not, however,cover additional aid elements in relation to that type of expenditure.
Accordingly, the Court must reject their argument that, because EDF was a firm in difficulty,the Commission should have found that the aid element contained in the Credit Guarantee was as high as the amount effectively covered by that guarantee.
In the third place, the Republic of Austria argues that the Commission did not determine sufficiently the aid element arising from the compensation, because it did not examine whether the compensation envisaged in connection with aid in the event of the early shutdown of Hinkley Point nuclear power station was intended to compensate for decommissioning and monitoring costs and other similar costs and did not evaluate the advantages arising from the right of transfer.
Second, in common with the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg,it maintains that the Commission did not sufficiently determine the aid elements contained in the various measures at issue.
Next, with regard to the Secretary of State Agreement,it must be noted that the aid element contained in that agreement is limited to a contractual right which, in the event of the early closure of Hinkley Point nuclear power station on political grounds, exempts NNBG's investors from fees or time lost in the enforcement of their rights deriving from the general principles governing compensation where there has been deprivation of a property right see paragraph 277 above.
As is apparent from recital 476 of the contested decision,the Commission considered that that adjustment enabled the aid element contained in that guarantee to be limited to the minimum.
For that reason, in recitals 463 to 477 of that decision, the Commission stated to what extent it was appropriate to amend the fee rate for that guarantee in order to limit the aid element in the Credit Guarantee to the minimum.
In the first place, in so far as, by that argument, the Republic of Austria is again claiming that the Commission was obliged to calculate the precise amount of the grant equivalent of the measures at issue, orthat it did not sufficiently determine the aid element contained in the various measures at issue, that argument must be rejected, and reference made to paragraphs 247 to 349 above.
The Court must take into account the considerations set out in paragraphs 247 to 249 above when examining the arguments of the Republic of Austria aimed at establishing that the Commission did not sufficiently determine the aid elements contained in the measures at issue.
As has already been set outin paragraphs 285 to 349 above, it is sufficiently clear from the contested decision that the Commission adjusted the terms of the Credit Guarantee notified by the United Kingdom in such a way as to reduce the aid element contained in that guarantee to the minimum.
The notice referred to in paragraph(c) of Protocol 27 shall contain a description of the State aid programme or case concerned, including all elements which are necessary for a proper evaluation of the programme orcase depending on the State aid elements concerned, such as type of State aid, budget, beneficiary, duration.