68First of all, as was observed by the Advocate General in points 138 and 139 of his Opinion, in order to determine whether the sale of land by the public authorities to a private individual constitutes State aid, the Commission must apply the private investor test, to determine whether the price paid by the presumed recipient of the aid corresponds to the selling price which a private investor, operating in normal competitive conditions, would be likely to have fixed. As a rule, the application of that test requires the Commission to make a complex economic assessment (see, to that effect, Case C-56/93 Belgium v Commission [1996] ECR-I 723, paragraphs 10 and 11, and Joined Cases C-328/99 and C-399/00 Italy and SIM 2 Multimedia v Commission [2003] ECR I-4035, paragraphs 38 and 39).
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