64In accordance with the Court’s settled case-law, for the purpose of categorising a national measure as ‘State aid’, it is not necessary to establish that the aid has a real effect on trade between Member States and that competition is actually being distorted, but only to examine whether that aid is liable to affect such trade and distort competition (judgment of 27 January 2022, Fondul Proprietatea, C‑179/20, EU:C:2022:58, paragraph 100 and the case-law cited).
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