35As regards the Commission’s argument that the Belgian legislation fails to provide for any examination as to whether the burden resulting from the universal service obligations is unfair, the Kingdom of Belgium submits that the legislature considered the burden to be unfair where a net cost has to be borne and an application for financing is made. Any other assessment of the unfair nature of the burden would result, in the context of the Belgian system, in a distortion of competition between the undertakings concerned, since, whilst they are all subject to the same obligations, only some of them would be entitled to apply for compensation.
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