61As argued by the Estonian Government and by the Commission, the objectives of ensuring efficient supervision of the competition rules concerning State aid, simplifying administration and increasing transparency and legal certainty, no less than the necessity of ensuring a consistent application throughout the European Union of the prescribed conditions for exemption, mean that the criteria for the application of an exemption must be clear and easily enforceable by the national authorities.
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