30In order to answer the first question, it is therefore necessary to examine whether the legal relationship between the Netherlands State and PFA, under the guarantee contract, is characterised by an exercise of public powers on the part of the State to which the debt is owed, in that it entails the exercise of powers going beyond those existing under the rules applicable to relations between private individuals (on that criterion, see Sonntag, paragraph 22).
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