25The social character of such State measures is not sufficient to exclude them outright from classification as aid for the purposes of Article 92 of the Treaty (Case C-241/94 France v Commission [1996] ECR I-4551, paragraph 21, and Case C-342/96 Spain v Commission [1999] ECR T 2459, paragraph 23). Article 92(1) of the Treaty does not distinguish between measures of State intervention by reference to their causes or their aims but defines them in relation to their effects (Case C-56/93 Belgium v Commission [1996] ECR I-723, paragraph 79, and Case C-241/94 France v Commission, cited above, paragraph 20).
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