52While it is settled case-law that the relatively small size of an undertaking's turnover in the Community does not a priori exclude the possibility that State intervention in its favour constitutes aid (Case C-142/87 Belgium v Commission (‘Tubemeuse’) [1990] ECR I-959, paragraph 43), and while in certain cases the very circumstances in which the aid has been granted may show that it is liable to affect trade between Member States and to distort or threaten to distort competition, the Commission must at least set out those circumstances in the statement of the reasons for its decision (Netherlands and Leeuwarder Papierwarenfabriek, paragraph 24).
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