55The economic activity that should have been taken into consideration in order to assess the compatibility of the measures at issue is, in its submission, the production of electricity, given that the term ‘economic activity’ relates to a group of undertakings manufacturing interchangeable products, that Commission Regulation (EU) 2015/2282 of 27 November 2015 amending Regulation (EC) No 794/2004 as regards the notification forms and information sheets (OJ 2015 L 325, p. 1) refers, by means of reference to the NACE code, to that sector of activity and not to nuclear power stations, that derogations concerning State aid are to be interpreted narrowly, that the Commission Guidelines on State aid for environmental protection and energy 2014-2020 provide that aid for renewable energy must contribute to the development of the electricity production sector, and that the Commission generally makes its assessment on the basis of the electricity market. If the General Court had assessed the measures at issue in the light of their contribution to the development of the electricity production sector, it would have come to a different conclusion, in particular as regards whether the aid had to be regarded as permissible and proportionate.
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