Judgment_paragraph 65 · French Republic v European Commission (C-559/12 P)

65As the Advocate General has stated at points 35 and 36 of his Opinion, in order to prove the existence of such a guarantee, which does not result expressly from any legislative or contractual document, it is permissible for the Commission to rely on the method of a firm, precise and consistent body of evidence to determine whether there is, in domestic law, a real obligation on the State to use its own resources for the purposes of covering losses of an EPIC in default and therefore, in accordance with settled case-law, a sufficiently concrete economic risk of burdens on the State budget (see Joined Cases C‑399/10 P Bouygues et Bouygues Télécom v Commission and Others and C‑401/10 P Commission v France and Others [2013] ECR, paragraph 106 and the case-law cited).