85The Commission and the intervener further contend that the activity in question is not remunerated. The contributions paid to Eurocontrol by its Member States are intended to ensure the general functioning of the organisation and have no bearing on those States' possible requests for assistance. In making a parallel with the case-law of the Court relating to national systems of social security and health, the Commission refers byway of example to the situation in Joined Cases C-159/91 and C-160/91 Poucet and Pistre [1993] ECR I-637, paragraph 18, in which the fact that there was no relation between the contributions paid by the policyholders into the sickness fund and the benefits paid out by that fund led the Court to find that the activities performed by the latter were not economic activities.
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