I. Introduction The decision of the ECJ deals with the qualification of a payment as State aid and also repeats the ECJ’s view on several procedural principles. The ECJ confirms the strict principles developed in the case Altmark Trans and Regierungspräsidium Magdeburg for the exclusion of State aid with regard to the provision of services of general economic interest; however, in this case the ECJ found that the Commission had failed to examine the c