79According to settled case-law, Article 92 of the Treaty does not make a distinction according to the causes or aims of the measures of State intervention concerned but defines them according to their effects (Case 173/73 Italy v Commission [1974] ECR 709 and Case 310/85 Deufil v Commission [1987] ECR 901, paragraph 8). Where a practice is objectively justified on commercial grounds, the fact that it also furthers a political aim does not mean to say that it constitutes State aid for the purposes of Article 92 of the Treaty.
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