45According to the case-law of the Court, the method by which an aid is financed may render the entire aid scheme incompatible with the common market. Therefore, the aid cannot be considered separately from the effects of its method of financing. On the contrary, consideration of an aid measure by the Commission must necessarily also take into account the method of financing the aid where that method forms an integral part of the measure (see Joined Cases C-261/01 and C-262/01 Van Calster and Others [2003] ECR I-12249, paragraph 49).
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