42It should also be observed that in the Air France decision, which concerns State aid granted approximately two months earlier to Air France, a company which, along with KLM, belongs to the same group of undertakings, a decision which constitutes a contextual factor to be taken into consideration for the purpose of examining whether the statement of reasons for the contested decision satisfied the requirements of Article 296 TFEU in accordance with the case-law referred to in paragraph 40 above, the Commission stated, in paragraph 21, inter alia, that the beneficiary of the aid measure which was the subject of that decision was ‘Air France through the Air France-KLM company, the group’s holding company’ and that the French authorities had confirmed that the KLM subsidiary of the Air France-KLM holding company would not benefit from the financing in question.
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