62As regards the possible classification by the referring court of the measure at issue in the main proceedings as ‘State aid’, within the meaning of Article 107(1) TFEU, it follows from the settled case-law of the Court that such a classification requires all of the following conditions to be fulfilled. First, there must be an intervention by the State or through State resources. Second, that intervention must be liable to affect trade between Member States. Third, it must confer a selective advantage on the beneficiary. Fourth, it must distort or threaten to distort competition (judgment of 27 January 2022, Fondul Proprietatea, C‑179/20, EU:C:2022:58, paragraph 86 and the case-law cited).
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