Judgment_paragraph 30 · flyLAL-Lithuanian Airlines AS v Starptautiskā lidosta Rīga VAS and Air Baltic Corporation AS (C-302/13)

30It is true that the Court has held that, although certain actions between a public authority and a person governed by private law may come within the scope of civil and commercial matters, the position is otherwise where the public authority is acting in the exercise of its public powers (judgments in Sapir and Others, EU:C:2013:228, paragraph 33 and the case-law cited, and in Sunico and Others, EU:C:2013:545, paragraph 34 and the case-law cited).