Judgment_paragraph 56 · Land Burgenland (C‑214/12 P), Grazer Wechselseitige Versicherung AG (C‑215/12 P) and Republic of Austria (C‑223/12 P) v European Commission (C-214/12 P, C-215/12 P, C-223/12 P)

56In those circumstances, and since, by granting aid, a Member State pursues, by definition, objectives other than that of making a profit from the resources granted to an undertaking belonging to it, it must be held that those resources are, in principle, granted by the State exercising its prerogatives as a public authority.