15It must be stated at the outset that, while categorisation as State aid within the meaning of Article 107(1) TFEU presupposes that four conditions are met, namely, that there is an intervention by the State or through State resources, that the intervention is liable to affect trade between Member States, that it confers a selective advantage on the beneficiary and that it distorts or threatens to distort competition (see, to that effect, Joined Cases C-72/91 and C-73/91 Sloman Neptun [1993] ECR I-887, paragraph 18, and Case C‑677/11 Doux Élevage and Coopérative agricole UKL-ARREE [2013] ECR, paragraph 25), the present question concerns the first of those conditions only.
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