136As to the second point, it should be borne in mind that operating aid – that is to say, aid which, like that at issue here, is intended to release an undertaking from costs which it would normally have to bear in its day-to-day management or normal activities – in principle distorts the conditions of competition (see Case C-156/98 Germany v Commission [2000] ECR I-6857, paragraph 30).
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