224According to the case-law, it was for the Commission, in the contested decision, to put forward the evidence relating to the grant of new aid by comparing, in the circumstances of this case, the rents at issue paid by NOA to those of the market. In fact, it follows from the provisions of Article 88(2) and (3) EC that, in the absence of such a demonstration, the new measures in question cannot be regarded as State aid for the purposes of Article 87(1) EC (Joined Cases C-324/90 and C-342/90Germany and Pleuger Worthington v Commission [1994] ECR I-1173, paragraph 23).