50It is settled case-law that the fact that the number of undertakings able to claim entitlement under a measure is very large, or that they belong to different sectors of activity, is not sufficient to call into question the selective nature of that measure and, therefore, to rule out its classification as State aid (Case C-75/97 Belgium v Commission [1999] ECR I-3671, paragraph 32; Case C-143/99 Adria-Wien Pipeline and Wietersdorfer & Peggauer Zementwerke [2011] ECR I-8365, paragraph 48; and Case C-409/00 Spain v Commission [2003] ECR I-1487, paragraph 48). Where the measure in question is governed by objective criteria of horizontal application, that fact too does not call into question its selective character, since it can serve only to show that the aid at issue falls within an aid scheme and is not individual aid (see, to that effect, Spain v Commission, paragraph 49).
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