40Nor can the Kingdom of Belgium successfully argue that the General Court also erred in law in finding, in paragraph 81 of the judgment under appeal, that the public health objective of the obligation to carry out BSE screening tests is not sufficient to rule out the categorisation of the State funding of those tests as State aid. It is settled case-law that Article 107(1) TFEU does not distinguish between measures of State intervention by reference to their causes or their aims but defines them in relation to their effects (see, inter alia, judgment of 15 November 2011 in Commission and Spain v Government of Gibraltar and United Kingdom, C‑106/09 P and C‑107/09 P, EU:C:2011:732, EU:C:2011:732, paragraph 87).
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