33The financial resources of a private-law company such as Friulia, 87% of which is held by a public authority such as the Region of Friulia-Venezia Giulia and which acts under the control of that authority, may be regarded as State resources within the meaning of Article 87(1) EC (see, to that effect, Case 323/82 Intermitís v Commission [1984] ECR 3809, paragraph 32, and Joined Cases 67/85, 68/85 and 70/85 Van der Kooy v Commission [1988] ECR 219, paragraphs 36 and 38). The fact that Friulia participated using its own funds is irrelevant in that regard. For those funds to be categorised as State resources, it is sufficient that, as in the present case, they constantly remain under public control and therefore available to the competent national authorities (see, to that effect, Case C-482/99 France v Commission [2002] ECR v-4397, paragraph 37).
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