120However, the judgments of 14 January 2015 in Eventech (C‑518/13, EU:C:2015:9) and of 16 April 2015 in Trapeza Eurobank Ergasias (C‑690/13, EU:C:2015:235) relate to different factual circumstances. Moreover, the Court has already held that the expression ‘aid’ necessarily implies advantages granted directly or indirectly through State resources or constituting an additional charge for the State or for bodies designated or established for that purpose (see judgment of 1 December 1998 in Ecotrade, C‑200/97, EU:C:1998:579, paragraph 35 and the case-law cited). In that regard, it is clear from settled case-law, recalled in paragraph 35 above, that no distinction should be drawn according to whether the aid is granted directly by the State or by a public or private body designated or established by the State. Since, in the present case, the TSOs were designated to administer collectively the EEG surcharge and it falls to them to manage the financial flows brought about by operation of the mechanisms resulting from the EEG 2012, the Federal Republic of Germany’s line of argument that the scheme supporting the production of EEG electricity does not impose a burden on the State budget does not mean that State resources are not involved in the present case.