(d)Part III.6 is replaced by the following:‘PART III.6.ASupplementary Information Sheet for State aid granted under the Guidelines on State aid for climate, environmental protection and energy 2022 (hereafter ‘CEEAG’) for measures covered in Section 4.1 of the CEEAG.This supplementary information sheet concerns measures covered in section 4.1 of the CEEAG. If the notification includes measures that are covered by more than one section of the CEEAG, please once available also fill in the respective supplementary information sheet that concerns the respective section of the CEEAG.All documents provided by Member States as annexes to this supplementary information sheet must be numbered and document numbers must be indicated in the relevant sections of this supplementary information sheet.Section A:Summary of the main characteristics of the notified measure(s)1.Background and objective(s) of the notified measure(s).1.1.If not already discussed under section 5.2 of the General Information Form (Part. I), please provide the background and the main objective, including any Union targets for reduction and removal of greenhouse gas emissions that the measure is intended to support.…1.2.Please indicate any other objectives pursued by the measure. For any objectives that are not purely environmental, please explain whether they may result in any distortions to the internal market.…2.Entry into force and duration:2.1.To the extent not already provided under section 5.5 of the General Information Form (Part I), please indicate the date as of which the aid scheme is planned to enter into force;…2.2.Please indicate the duration of the scheme.note…3.Beneficiary(ies)3.1.If not already provided under section 3 of the General Information Form (Part I), please describe the (potential) beneficiary(ies) of the measure(s).…3.2.Please indicate the location of the (potential) beneficiary(ies) (i.e. if only economic entities located in the respective Member States or also in other Member States are eligible to participate in the measure).…3.3.In order to assess the compliance with point 15 of the CEEAG, please specify if aid is granted under the measure(s) in favour of an undertaking (individual or part of a scheme) that is subject to an outstanding recovery order following a previous Commission decision declaring an aid illegal and incompatible with the internal market.In the affirmative, please provide information on the amount of aid still to be recovered so that the Commission takes account of it in the assessment of the aid measure(s).…4.Please confirm that the measure(s) does not involve aid to activities falling outside the scope of application of the ceeag (see point 13 of the ceeag). otherwise, please provide details.…5.Budget and financing of the measure(s).5.1.If not already mentioned in the table under section 7.1 of the General Information Form (Part I), please provide the yearly and/or total budget for the whole duration of the measure(s); if the total budget is not known (for instance because it depends on the results of tenders), please indicate an estimated budget, including the assumptions used to calculate the respective estimated budget.note…5.2.If the measure is financed through a levy, please clarify if:
Section B:Compatibility assessment of the aid1.POSITIVE CONDITION: THE AID MUST FACILITATE THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN ECONOMIC ACTIVITY1.1.Contribution to the development of an economic activityTo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 3.1.1 (points 23-25) and sections 4.1.1. (point 77) and 4.1.2. (points 78 to-88) of the CEEAG.6.Article 107(3), point (c), of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (’the Treaty’) provides that the Commission may declare compatible “aid to facilitate the development of certain economic activities or of certain economic areas, where such aid does not adversely affect trading conditions to an extent contrary to the common interest”. Therefore, compatible aid under that provision of the Treaty must contribute to the development of a certain economic activity.In order to assess the compliance with point 23 of the CEEAG, please identify the economic activities that will be facilitated as a result of the aid and how the development of those activities is supported.…7.In order to assess the compliance with point 25 of the CEEAG, please “describe if and how the aid will contribute to the achievement of objectives of Union climate policy, environmental policy and energy policy and more specifically, the expected benefits of the aid in terms of its material contribution to environmental protection, including climate change mitigation, or the efficient functioning of the internal energy market”.…8.In addition, please highlight to what extent the aid relates to the policies described under point 77 of the CEEAG.…9.Please describe the eligibility requirements applicable to the beneficiary(ies) (for instance by including any technical, environmental (i.e. permits), financial (i.e. collaterals) or other requirements that the beneficiary(ies) need to comply with).…10.Please provide information on the precise scope and precise supported activities of the aid measure(s), as provided in section 4.1.2. (points 78-88) of the CEEAG.1.2.Incentive effectTo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 3.1.2 (points 26-32) of the CEEAG.11.Aid can be considered as facilitating an economic activity only if it has an incentive effect. In order to assess the compliance with point 26 of the CEEAG, please explain how the measure(s) “induces the beneficiary to change its behaviour, to engage in additional economic activity or in more environmentally-friendly economic activity, which it would not carry out without the aid or would carry out in a restricted or different manner”.…12.Pursuant to point 28 of the CEEAG, please provide a comprehensive description of the factual scenario expected to result from the aid measure and the likely counterfactual scenario(s) absent the aid measure.note Where you expect that different categories of beneficiaries may be supported, please ensure that the counterfactual is credible for each of these categories.…13.Please briefly explain the rationale for the choice of the likely counterfactual scenario(s), in view of the proposed different categories of beneficiaries if applicable.14.In order to assess the compliance with point 27 of the CEEAG, please provide information to confirm that the aid does not support the costs of an activity that the aid beneficiary would anyhow carry out and does not compensate for the normal business risk of an economic activity.…15.In order to demonstrate the compliance with points 29 and 31 of the CEEAG:16.In order to demonstrate compliance with point 30 of the CEEAG, please confirm that the aid application includes at least the applicant’s name, a description of the project or activity, including its location, and the amount of aid needed to carry it out.…17.In order to demonstrate compliance with point 32 of the CEEAG, please indicate if there are Union standardsAccording to point 19(89) of the CEEAG, ‘Union standard’ means:applicable to the notified measure(s), mandatory national standards that are more stringent or ambitious than the corresponding Union standards, or mandatory national standards adopted in the absence of Union standards. In that context, please provide information to demonstrate the incentive effect.…18.In cases where the relevant Union standard has already been adopted but is not yet in force, please demonstrate that the aid has an incentive effect because it incentivises the investment to be implemented and finalised at least 18 months before the standard enters into force.1.3.No breach of any relevant provision of Union lawTo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 3.1.3 (point 33 of the CEEAG).19.Please provide information to confirm the compliance with the relevant provisions of EU law, in line with point 33 of the CEEAG.…20.If a levy is used to finance the measure(s), please clarify if the assessment of compliance with Articles 30 and 110 of the Treaty needs to be carried out. In the affirmative, please demonstrate how the measure complies with the provisions of Articles 30 and 110 of the Treaty. In this context, the information submitted under question 5.2 above, where the notified measure(s) is financed through a levy can be referred to.2.NEGATIVE CONDITION: THE AID CANNOT UNDULY AFFECT TRADING CONDITIONS TO AN EXTENT CONTRARY TO THE COMMON INTEREST2.1.Minimisation of distortions of competition and trade2.1.1.Quantification requirements depending on the design of the measureMember States are required to submit quantitative evidence that is relevant for several parts of the sections below, in particular on the necessity and proportionality of aid. In order to simplify the provision of information, the relevant data required is grouped under this section of the notification form and should be referred to in the relevant sections below (see notably questions 30, 32, 39, 42, 43, and 56 below). The level of detail required depends on the specific measure proposed. The following sub-sections 2.1.1.1 to 2.1.1.3 are accordingly alternative: please only provide replies to the relevant sub-section, depending on the design of the proposed measure.2.1.1.1.Schemes without competitive bidding or ad hoc aid notificationsWhere aid will be granted without a competitive bidding procedure, quantitative evidence is required, taking into account the counterfactual situation as well as relevant costs and revenues including those linked to the ETS, demonstrating that the reference project, or each beneficiary’s project if the notified measure benefits only one or a particularly limited number of beneficiaries would not be carried out without the aid. In such situations, a full funding gap assessment will be required to quantify the required net extra costs. Therefore, please provide the following for such types of measures:21.Pursuant to point 51 of the CEEAG, the typical net extra costs can be estimated as the difference between the NPV for the factual scenario and the counterfactual scenario over the lifetime of the project or per reference project where applicable. For this assessment, please submit a quantification, for the factual scenario and a realistic counterfactual scenarionote identified in reply to question 12 above, of all main costs and revenues, the estimated weighted average cost of capital (WACC) of the beneficiaries (or reference projects) to discount future cash flows, as well as the net present value (NPV) for the factual and counterfactual scenarios, over the lifetime of the project/reference project.…22.If the notified measure(s) involves an aid scheme with a duration exceeding 3 years, please confirm that you will update, as required by point 92 of the CEEAG, the analysis of relevant costs and revenues of reference projects, to ensure that aid remains necessary for each category of beneficiary.…2.1.1.2.Schemes with competitive bidding open to all eligible beneficiariesWhile point 49 of the CEEAG clarifies that a detailed assessment of net extra costs will not be required if the aid amounts are determined through a competitive bidding process, it needs to be shown also including quantitative evidence that the bidding process is actually competitive. Pursuant to the first sentence of point 104 of the CEEAG, the bidding process should, in principle, be open to all eligible beneficiaries to enable a cost-effective allocation of aid and reduce competition distortions, where this is the case, please explain the following:23.Please explain the elements on which you based the assumption that the bidding process will be open and properly subscribed, i.e. that it can be expected that not all bidders will receive aid and that the number of expected bidders is sufficient to ensure effective competition for the duration of the scheme (point 49(c) of the CEEAG). In your explanation, please take into account the budget or volume of the scheme. Where relevant, please refer to the evidence provided in reply to questions 12 and 13 above.…24.Please explain whether bid caps will be used. Where the analysis provided in response to questions 12 and 13 above or questions 31 and 43 below shows there may be a significant deviation between the expected bid levels of different categories of beneficiaries, please explain how overcompensation of cheaper technologies will be avoided (see point 106 of the CEEAG). If bid caps are proposed, please provide the relevant quantitative evidence to justify the foreseen levels for example by referring to the evidence already provided in reply to questions 12 and 13 above.…2.1.1.3.Schemes with competitive bidding limited to one or more specific categories of beneficiariesWhile in principle, pursuant to the first sentence of point 104 of the CEEAG, bidding processes should be open to all eligible beneficiaries. However, pursuant to the second sentence of point 104 of the CEEAG, the bidding process may also be limited to one or more specific categories of beneficiary. Where this is the case, please provide the following:25.Please provide in line with point 104(a) of the CEEAG a specific justification why a single bidding process open to all eligible beneficiaries would lead to a suboptimal result or not allow the achievement of the objectives of the measure. In your reply, you may refer to the specific criteria listed in point 96 of the CEEAG.…26.According to point 104(b) and point 105 of the CEEAG, limitations in the bidding process can be justified, if the expected bids diverge by more than 10% between different categories of beneficiaries. Where this is expected to be the case, please describe for each category of beneficiary the expected bid level, using evidence for example as provided in reply to questions 12 and 13 above, justifying the difference between the categories chosen.…27.Please explain the elements on which you based the assumption that the bidding process for each category will be open and properly subscribed, i.e. that it can be expected that not all bidders will receive aid and that the number of expected bidders is sufficient to ensure effective competition for the duration of the scheme (point 49(c) of the CEEAG). In your explanation, please take into account the budget or volume of the scheme. Where relevant, please refer to the evidence provided in reply to questions 12 and 13 above.…28.If the notified measure(s) involves an aid scheme with a duration exceeding 3 years, please confirm that you will update, as required by point 92 of the CEEAG, the analysis of relevant costs and revenues for the different categories, to ensure that aid remains necessary for each category of beneficiary. In addition, please confirm that point 105 of the CEEAG will be respected.…29.Please explain whether bid caps will be used. Where the analysis provided in response to questions 12 and 13 above or questions 31 and 43 below shows there may be a significant deviation between the expected bid levels of different categories of beneficiaries, please explain how overcompensation of cheaper technologies will be avoided (see point 106 of the CEEAG). If bid caps are proposed, please provide the relevant quantitative evidence to justify the foreseen levels for example by referring to the evidence already provided in reply to questions 12 and 13 above.…2.1.2.Necessity of the aidTo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 4.1.3.1. (points 89-92) of the CEEAG.30.In line with point 89 of the CEEAG, please identify any policy measures already in place to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, in particular those that apply to the sectors concerned by the measure(s).…31.In order to assess compliance with the first sentence of point 90 of the CEEAG, please demonstrate, using where relevant also the evidence provided already in reply to question 12 above, that the aid is needed for the proposed activities taking into account the counterfactual situation as well as relevant costs and revenues including those linked to the ETS and related policies and measures provided under question 30 above.…32.In order to assess compliance with the second sentence of point 90 of the CEEAG, please explain whether there is significant uncertainty concerning future market developments related to a large part of the business case. If so, please a) describe the significant uncertainty concerning future market developments, b) describe the form of the support and in particular whether it takes the form of a certain guaranteed remuneration to limit exposure to negative scenarios is envisaged and c) explain whether limits to profitability and/or a claw-back (i.e. a mechanism for recovering potential excess aid as a result of a possible positive scenario e.g. with high future revenues or low future costs) is proposed as part of the measure(s) to ensure proportionality.…33.If the notified measure(s) involves an aid scheme with a duration exceeding 3 years, please confirm that you will update, as required by point 92 of the CEEAG, the analysis of relevant costs and revenues for the different categories, to ensure that aid remains necessary for each category of beneficiary.…2.1.3.AppropriatenessTo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 4.1.3.2 (points 93-94) of the CEEAG.34.If the notified measure(s) involves energy performance contracting, please specify the form of this aspect of the aid (see point 94 of the CEEAG).…2.1.4.EligibilityTo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 4.1.3.3. (points 95-97) of the CEEAG.35.In order to verify the compliance with points 95 and 96 of the CEEAG, for measures which do not include all technologies and projects that are in competition, please give detailed reasons for the limited eligibility.…36.If the notified measure(s) involves a scheme, please confirm that the eligibility rules and any rules related thereto will be kept under review as required by point 97 of the CEEAG.2.1.5.Public consultationTo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 4.1.3.4 (points 98-102) of the CEEAG.37.Please explain whether or not the measure(s) requires a public consultation under Section 4.1.3.4, and if not, why not.…38.If the measure requires a public consultation, please:2.1.6.ProportionalityTo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 3.2.1.3 (points 47-57) and section 4.1.3.5. (points 103-113) of the CEEAG. Please note that the following two sections 2.1.6.1. and 2.1.6.2. are alternative. Please provide replies only to the applicable section, depending on the design of the proposed measure.2.1.6.1.Proportionality of aid granted through a competitive bidding processTo provide the information in this section, please refer to points 49, 50, 103-106 and 111-112 of the CEEAG.39.In order to verify the compliance with points 49, 50 and 103 of the CEEAG, please provide the following:40.Please confirm that, when designing the notified measure(s), the information on support already received from the mass balance system documentation under Article 30 of Directive (EU) 2018/2001 was taken into account (point 111 of the CEEAG).…41.Please explain whether the notified measure(s) involve the transfer of concession rights, grid connection rights or other benefits, and if so how these rights are allocated (point 112 of the CEEAG).2.1.6.2.Proportionality of aid not granted through a competitive bidding processTo provide the information in this section, please refer to points 51-55 and 107-113 of the CEEAG.42.Please explain why a competitive bidding process is not used (pursuant to point 107 of the CEEAG). Please refer to your replies provided in the response to question 21 above as appropriate.…43.Please demonstrate that the aid does not exceed the minimum necessary, i.e. the difference between the NPV for the factual scenario and for the counterfactual scenario over the lifetime of the reference project, by referring to the quantification submitted in the response to question 21 above or in the case of 52 CEEAG that the aid does not exceed the NPV of the factual scenario. Where you expect that different categories of beneficiaries may receive aid under the notified measure, please provide the above-mentioned explanation for each category of beneficiaries.…44.If point 55 of the CEEAG is applicable, please provide information on the compensation models that the Member State might intend to introduce (a mix of ex ante and ex post or ex post claw-back or cost monitoring mechanisms).If point 55 of the CEEAG is not applicable to the measure(s), please provide a justification.…45.Please confirm that, when designing the notified measure(s), the information on support already received from the mass balance system documentation under Article 30 of Directive (EU) 2018/2001 was taken into account (point 111 of the CEEAG).…46.Please explain whether the notified measure(s) involve the transfer of concession rights, grid connection rights or other benefits, and if so how these rights are allocated (point 112 of the CEEAG).…47.If the notified measure(s) takes the form of a competitive certificate or supplier obligation scheme (point 108 of the CEEAG), please:…48.If the notified measure(s) takes the form of a reduction in taxes or parafiscal levies, please:49.Where aid takes the form of a senior loan to the provider of the energy performance improvement measures under an energy performance contract (point 113 of the CEEAG),50.Where the aid is granted in form of a guarantee to the provider of the energy performance improvement measures under an energy performance contract (point 113 of the CEEAG), please:2.1.7.CumulationTo provide the information in this section, please refer to points 56-57 of the CEEAG.51.In as far as not already provided under Part I of the general notification form and in order to verify compliance with point 56 of the CEEAG, please clarify if the aid under the notified measure(s) may be awarded concurrently under several aid schemes or cumulated with ad hoc or de minimis aid in relation to the same eligible costs. If that is the case, please provide details on those aid schemes, ad hoc aid or de minimis aid and how the aid will be cumulated. Please note you may wish to refer to the quantification provided above.…52.If point 56 of the CEEAG is applicable, please justify how the total amount of aid granted under the notified measure(s) for a project or an activity does not lead to overcompensation or exceed the maximum aid amount allowed under point 51 of the CEEAG. For each measure that the aid granted under the notified aid measure(s) can be cumulated with, please specify the method used for ensuring compliance with the conditions set out in point 56 of the CEEAG.…53.In case point 57 of the CEEAG is applicable, i.e. the aid granted under the notified measure(s) is combined with centrally managed Union fundingnote (that does not constitute State aid), please justify how the total amount of public funding granted in relation to the same eligible costs does not lead to overcompensation…2.1.8.TransparencyTo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 3.2.1.4 (points 58-61) of the CEEAG.54.Please confirm that the Member State will comply with the requirements on transparency provided in points 58-61 of the CEEAG.…55.Please provide the internet link where the full text of the approved aid scheme or the individual aid granting decision and its implementing provisions, and information on each individual aid award granted ad hoc or under an aid scheme approved on the basis of the CEEAG and exceeding EUR 100000 will be published.…2.2.Avoidance of undue negative effects on competition and trade and balancingTo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 4.1.4 (points 114-133) of the CEEAG.56.In order to verify compliance with point 115 of the CEEAG,When aid is granted through a competitive bidding process, the estimation above should be based on the evidence provided, in particular in response to questions 12, 13, 25, 26, 31 and 39 above.Where aid is granted without a competitive bidding process, the calculations should take into account the quantification provided in the response to point 21 above.…57.In order to verify compliance with points 116, 127, 128 and 129 of the CEEAG, please:58.If the notified measure(s) may support projects involving energy generation, please confirm the absence of incentives for the generation of energy that would displace less polluting forms of energy (see point 126 of the CEEAG).…59.In order to verify compliance with points 117, 118 and 119 of the CEEAG, please:60.In order to verify compliance with point 120 of the CEEAG, please provide information on:61.In order to verify compliance with points 121 and 122 of the CEEAG, please provide information on:62.In order to verify compliance with point 123 of the CEEAG, please:63.If the notified measure(s) may support projects involving dedicated infrastructure, in order to verify compliance with points 124 and 125 of the CEEAG, please:64.If the notified measure(s) may support projects involving production of biofuels from food and feed crops, in order to verify compliance with points 130 of the CEEAG:65.If the notified measure(s) will only benefit one or a particularly limited number of beneficiaries, in order to verify compliance with points 131 and 132 of the CEEAG, please provide in particular:Section C:EvaluationTo provide the information in this section, please refer to point 76(a), 131 and Section 5 (points 455-463) of the CEEAG.66.If the notified measure(s) exceed the budget/expenditure thresholds in point 456 of the CEEAG, please either explain why in your view the exception in point 457 of the CEEAG should apply, or attach to this notification form an Annex that includes a draft evaluation plan covering the scope mentioned in point 458 of the CEEAG.note…67.If a draft evaluation plan is provided, please:68.In order to verify the compliance with point 459(b) of the CEEAG, in case the aid scheme is not currently subject to an ex post evaluation, and its duration exceeds three years, please confirm that you will notify a draft evaluation plan within 30 working days following a significant modification increasing the budget of the scheme to over EUR 150 million in any given year or EUR 750 million over the total duration of the scheme.…69.In order to verify the compliance with point 459(c) of the CEEAG, in case the aid scheme is not currently subject to an ex post evaluation, please provide below a commitment that the Member State will notify a draft evaluation plan within 30 working days after recording in official accounts expenditures in excess of EUR 150 million in the previous year.…70.In order to verify the compliance with point 461 of the CEEAG:………71.In order to verify the compliance with point 461 of the CEEAG:……Section D:Reporting and monitoringTo provide the information in this section, please refer to Section 6 (points 464-465) of the CEEAG.72.Please confirm that the Member State will comply with the requirements for reporting and monitoring provided in Section 6, points 464 and 465, of the CEEAG.…PART III.6.BSupplementary information sheet for State aid granted under the Guidelines on State aid for climate, environmental protection and energy 2022 (hereafter ‘CEEAG’) - Section 4.2 – Aid for the improvement of the energy and environmental performance of buildings)This supplementary information sheet concerns measures covered in section 4.2 of the CEEAG. If the notification includes measures that are covered by more than one section of the CEEAG, please once available also fill in the respective supplementary information sheet that concerns the respective section of the CEEAG.All documents provided by Member States as annexes to this supplementary information sheet must be numbered and document numbers must be indicated in the relevant sections of this supplementary information sheet.Section A:Summary of the main characteristics of the notified measure(s)1.Background and objective(s) of the notified measure(s):1.1.If not already discussed under section 5.2 of the General Information Form (Part I), please provide the background and the main objective, including any Union targets for energy and environmental performance of buildings that the measure is intended to support.…1.2.Please indicate any other objectives pursued by the measure. For any objectives that are not purely environmental, please explain whether they may result in any distortions of competition in the internal market.…2.Entry into force and duration:2.1.To the extent not already provided under section 5.5 of the General Information Form (Part I), please indicate the date as of which the aid scheme is planned to enter into force;…2.2.Please indicate the duration of the schemenote.…3.Beneficiary(ies):3.1.If not already provided under section 3 of the General Information Form (Part I), please describe the (potential) beneficiary(ies) of the measure(s);…3.2.Please indicate the location of the beneficiary(ies) (i.e. if only economic entities located in the respective Member State or also in other Member States are eligible to participate in the measure).…3.3.In order to assess the compliance with point 15 of the CEEAG, please specify if aid is granted under the measure(s) in favour of an undertaking (individual or part of a scheme) that is subject to an outstanding recovery order following a previous Commission decision declaring an aid illegal and incompatible with the internal market.In the affirmative, please provide information on the amount of aid still to be recovered so that the Commission takes account of it in the assessment of the aid measure(s).…4.Please confirm that the measure(s) does not involve aid for activities falling outside the scope of application of the CEEAG (see point 13 of the CEEAG). Otherwise, please provide details.…5.Budget and financing of the measure(s).5.1.If not already mentioned in the table under section 7.1 of the General Information Form (Part I), please provide the yearly and/or total budget for the whole duration of the measure(s); if the total budget is not known (for instance because it depends on the results of tenders), please indicate an estimated budget, including the assumptions used to calculate the respective estimated budgetnote.…5.2.If the measure(s) is financed through a levy, please clarify if:Section B:Compatibility assessment of the aid1.POSITIVE CONDITION: THE AID MUST FACILITATE THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN ECONOMIC ACTIVITY1.1.Contribution to the development of an economic activityTo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 3.1.1 (points 23-25) and sections 4.2.1 and 4.2.2 (points 136 to 140) of the CEEAG.6.Article 107(3), point (c), of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (’the Treaty’) provides that the Commission may declare compatible ‘aid to facilitate the development of certain economic activities or of certain economic areas, where such aid does not adversely affect trading conditions to an extent contrary to the common interest’. Therefore, compatible aid under that provision of the Treaty must contribute to the development of a certain economic activity.In order to assess the compliance with point 23 of the CEEAG, please identify the economic activities that will be facilitated as a result of the aid and how the development of those activities is supported.…7.In order to assess the compliance with point 25 of the CEEAG, please describe if and how the aid will contribute to the achievement of objectives of Union climate policy, environmental policy and energy policy and more specifically, the expected benefits of the aid in terms of its material contribution to environmental protection, including climate change mitigation, or the efficient functioning of the internal energy market.In addition, please highlight to what extent the aid relates to the policies described under point 135 of the CEEAG.…8.Please describe the eligibility requirements applicable to the beneficiary(ies) (for instance by including any technical, environmental (i.e. permits), financial (i.e. collaterals) or other requirements that the beneficiary(ies) need to comply with).…9.Please provide information on the precise scope and supported activities of the aid measure(s), as provided in section 4.2.2 of the CEEAG. In particular:10.Please indicate whether the aid granted under the measure(s) concerns the renovation of existing buildings, the installation or replacement of just one type of building elementnote, and/or energy efficiency investments in new buildings, as defined in point 139 (letters (a) to (c)) of the CEEAG.…11.Please demonstrate that the aid granted under the aid measure(s) will induce the energy performance improvements required in point 139 (letters (a) to (c), as applicable) of the CEEAG.…12.Please indicate whether the aid is granted under the aid measure(s) to SMEs and small mid-caps that are providers of energy performance improvement measures for the facilitation of energy performance contracting, as provided in point 140 of the CEEAG.…1.2.Incentive effectTo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 3.1.2 (points 26-32) and section 4.2.3 (points 141-143) of the CEEAG.13.Aid can be considered to facilitate an economic activity only if it has an incentive effect. In order to assess compliance with point 26 of the CEEAG, please explain how the measure(s) “induces the beneficiary to change its behaviour, to engage in additional economic activity or in more environmentally friendly economic activity, which it would not carry out without the aid or would carry out in a restricted or different manner”. In addition, in order to assess compliance with point 27 of the CEEAG, please confirm that the measure does “not compensate for the normal business risk of an economic activity” and briefly explain why.…14.Pursuant to point 28 of the CEEAG:15.In order to demonstrate compliance with points 29 and 31 of the CEEAG:16.In order to demonstrate compliance with point 30 of the CEEAG, please confirm that the aid application includes at least the applicant’s name, a description of the project or activity, including its location, and the amount of aid needed to carry it out.…17.In order to demonstrate compliance with points 32 and 142 of the CEEAG:1.3.No breach of any relevant provision of Union lawTo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 3.1.3 (point 33) of the CEEAG.18.Please provide information to confirm the compliance with the relevant provisions of EU law, in line with point 33 of the CEEAG.…19.If a levy is used to finance the measure(s), please clarify if the assessment of compliance with Articles 30 and 110 of the Treaty needs to be carried out. In the affirmative, please demonstrate how the measure complies with the provisions of Articles 30 and 110 of the Treaty. In this context, the information submitted under question 5.2 above, where the notified measure(s) is financed through a levy can be referred to.…2.NEGATIVE CONDITION: THE AID CANNOT UNDULY AFFECT TRADING CONDITIONS TO AN EXTENT CONTRARY TO THE COMMON INTEREST2.1.Minimisation of distortions of competition and trade2.1.1.Necessity of the aidTo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 3.2.1.1 (points 34-38) of the CEEAG.20.Please explain which market failure(s) your authorities have identified that prevent the achievement of a sufficient level of environmental protection. Please specify in which category the market failures identified fall, by making reference to letters (a), (b), (c) or (d) of point 34 of the CEEAG.…21.In accordance with point 35 of the CEEAG, please provide information on any existing policies and measures that your authorities identified, which already target the identified regulatory or market failures.…22.In order to demonstrate compliance with point 36 of the CEEAG, please provide information that demonstrates that the aid effectively targets residual market failures, also taking into account any other policies and measures already in place to address some of the market failures identified.…23.In order to demonstrate compliance with point 37 of the CEEAG, please explain if, to your authorities’ knowledge, projects or activities similar to those covered by the notified measure(s) with respect to their technological content, level of risk and size, are already delivered within the Union at market conditions. In the affirmative, please provide further evidence to demonstrate the need for State aid.…24.In order to demonstrate compliance with point 38 of the CEEAG, please refer to the quantitative evidence already provided under question 14(c) above.…2.1.2.AppropriatenessTo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 3.2.1.2 (points 39-46), section 4.2.4.1 (points 144-145) and points 153 and 157 of the CEEAG.25.In order to verify compliance with point 40 of the CEEAG, please demonstrate that there are no less distortive instruments available that are more appropriate than State aid.…26.In order to verify compliance with point 41 of the CEEAG, please demonstrate that the aid measure is designed in such a way as to not undermine the efficiency of other measures remedying the same market failure, such as market-based mechanism(s) (e.g., the EU ETS).…27.In order to demonstrate compliance with point 42 of the CEEAG, please confirm that none of the beneficiaries of the aid measure(s) could be held liable for the pollution under existing Union or national law (‘polluter pays’ principle).…28.In order to verify compliance with points 43 to 46 of the CEEAG, to demonstrate the appropriateness of the aid among different aid instruments, please provide the following information:29.If aid is granted under the measure(s) to SMEs and small mid-caps that are providers of energy performance improvement measures under energy performance contracts, please confirm that, as required by point 145 of the CEEAG, the aid takes the form of a loan or guarantee to the provider or consists in a financial product aimed at financing the provider (for example, factoring or forfaiting).…30.If aid is granted under the measure(s) in the form of financial instruments, please confirm that:2.1.3.ProportionalityTo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 4.2.4.2 (points 146-153) of the CEEAG.Please note that the following three sections 2.1.3.1., 2.1.3.2. and 2.1.3.3. are alternative. Please provide replies only to the applicable section, depending on the design of the proposed measure.2.1.3.1.Proportionality of the aid when aid is not granted through a competitive bidding process and is not granted in the form of financial instrumentsTo provide the information in this section, please refer to points 146-151 and 153 of the CEEAG.31.In order to verify compliance with point 146 of the CEEAG, please explain which are the eligible costs under the measure(s) and how they are limited to the investment costs directly linked to the achievement of a higher level of energy or environmental performance.…32.Please indicate the maximum aid intensities applicable under the measure and indicate whether any bonuses (as described in points 147-150 of the CEEAG) apply.…33.If applicable, please justify the application of the aid intensity bonus for improvements leading to a reduction in primary energy demand of at least 40 %, in line with point 148 of the CEEAG.…34.If by way of derogation from points 147-150 of the CEEAG, it is considered that aid beyond the maximum aid intensities set in these points is required, please indicate the level of aid considered to be necessary and justify it on the basis of a funding gap analysis, in line with points 51-52 of the CEEAG.For this funding gap analysis, please submit a quantification, for the factual scenario(s) and a realistic counterfactual scenario(s)note identified in reply to question 14(c) above, of all main costs and revenues, the estimated weighted average cost of capital (WACC) of the beneficiaries (or reference projects) to discount future cash flows, as well as the net present value (NPV) for the factual and counterfactual scenarios, over the lifetime of the project/reference project.Please note that for cases of individual aid and schemes benefitting a particularly limited number of beneficiaries, the Member State needs to present the supporting evidence at the level of the detailed project business plan, while for cases of aid schemes, the Member State needs to present the supporting evidence on the basis of one or more reference projects.35.Please demonstrate that the application of a higher aid intensity determined as indicated in question 34 would not result in aid exceeding the funding gap.…36.In case point 52 of the CEEAG is applicable, i.e. the most likely counterfactual scenario consists in the beneficiary not carrying out an activity or investment, or continuing its business without changes, please provide evidence to support this assumptionnote.…2.1.3.2.Proportionality of the aid when aid is granted in the form of financial instrumentsTo provide the information in this section, please refer to points 146 and 153 of the CEEAG.37.In order to verify compliance with point 146 of the CEEAG, please explain which are the eligible costs under the measure(s) and how they are limited to the investment costs directly linked to the achievement of a higher level of energy or environmental performance.…38.Please provide the following information in order to verify to compliance with point 153 of the CEEAG:2.1.3.3.Proportionality of aid granted through a competitive bidding processTo provide the information in this section, please refer to points 49 and 50 of the CEEAG.39.In order to verify the compliance with points 49 and 50 of the CEEAG, please provide the following:2.1.4.CumulationTo provide the information in this section, please refer to points 56-57 of the CEEAG.40.In as far as not already provided under Part I of the general notification form and in order to verify compliance with point 56 of the CEEAG, please clarify if the aid under the notified measure(s) may be awarded concurrently under several aid schemes or cumulated with ad hoc or de minimis aid in relation to the same eligible costs. If that is the case, please provide details on those aid schemes, ad hoc aid or de minimis aid and how the aid will be cumulated.…41.If point 56 of the CEEAG is applicable, please justify how the total amount of aid granted under the notified measure(s) for a project or an activity does not lead to overcompensation or exceed the maximum aid amount allowed under section 4.2.4.2. of the CEEAG. For each measure that the aid granted under the notified aid measure(s) can be cumulated with, please specify the method used for ensuring compliance with the conditions set out in point 56 of the CEEAG.…42.In case point 57 of the CEEAG is applicable, i.e. the aid granted under the notified measure(s) is combined with centrally managed Union fundingnote (that does not constitute State aid), please justify how the total amount of public funding granted in relation to the same eligible costs does not lead to overcompensation.…2.1.5.TransparencyTo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 3.2.1.4 (points 58-62) of the CEEAG.43.Please confirm that the Member State will comply with the requirements on transparency provided in points 58-61 of the CEEAG.…44.Please provide the internet link where the full text of the approved aid scheme or the individual aid granting decision and its implementing provisions and information on each individual aid award granted ad hoc or under an aid scheme approved on the basis of the CEEAG and exceeding EUR 100000 will be published.…2.2.Avoidance of undue negative effects of the aid on competition and trade and balancingTo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 3.2.2 (points 63-70) and section 4.2.4.3 (points 154-157) of the CEEAG.45.In order to verify compliance with point 67 of the CEEAG, please provide information on the possible short and long-term negative effects of the notified measure(s) on competition and trade.…46.Please explain if the measure falls under any of the following situations:47.Should the aid measure focus on a specific technological choice/path, please justify the reason for the technological choice and that it will not discourage the deployment of cleaner technologies.…48.Should the notified measure(s) only benefit one or a particularly limited number of beneficiaries, in order to verify compliance with point 68 of the CEEAG:49.In order to verify compliance with point 69 of the CEEAG, please explain:50.In order to verify compliance with point 70 of the CEEAG:51.If the aid is granted in the form of an endowment, equity, a guarantee or a loan to an energy efficiency fund or renewable energy fund or other financial intermediary, in order to verify compliance with point 157 of the CEEAG:3.WEIGHING THE POSITIVE EFFECTS OF THE AID AGAINST THE NEGATIVE EFFECTS ON COMPETITION AND TRADETo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 3.3 (points 71-76) of the CEEAG.52.In order to verify compliance with point 72 of the CEEAG, please explain whether activities supported under the notified measure(s) meet the criteria for environmentally sustainable economic activities provided in Article 3 of the Regulation (EU) 2020/852 of the European Parliament and of the Councilnote, including the ‘do no significant harm’ principle, or other comparable methodologies.…53.(In case of competitive bidding process) Please explain if the notified measure(s) includes features to facilitate the participation of SMEs in competitive bidding processes. In the affirmative, please provide information on those features and justify how the positive effects of ensuring participation of SMEs in the notified measure(s) outweigh the possible distortive effects.…54.In order to verify compliance with points 74 and 155-156 of the CEEAG:Section C:EvaluationTo provide the information in this section, please refer to Section 5 (points 455-463) of the CEEAG.55.If the notified measure(s) exceed the budget/expenditure thresholds in point 456 of the CEEAG, please either explain why in your view the exception in point 457 of the CEEAG should apply, or else attach to this notification form an Annex that includes a draft evaluation plan covering the scope mentioned in point 458 of the CEEAGnote.…56.If a draft evaluation plan is provided:57.In order to verify compliance with point 459(b) of the CEEAG, in case the aid scheme is not currently subject to an ex post evaluation, and its duration exceeds three years, please confirm that you will notify a draft evaluation plan within 30 working days following a significant modification increasing the budget of the scheme to over EUR 150 million in any given year or EUR 750 million over the total duration of the scheme.…58.In order to verify compliance with point 459(c) of the CEEAG, in case the aid scheme is not currently subject to an ex post evaluation, please provide below a commitment that the Member State will notify a draft evaluation plan within 30 working days after recording in official accounts expenditures in excess of EUR 150 million in the previous year.…59.In order to verify the compliance with point 461 of the CEEAG:Section D:Reporting and monitoringTo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 6 (points 464 and 465) of the CEEAG.60.Please confirm that the Member State will comply with the requirements for reporting and monitoring set out in Section 6, points 464 and 465, of the CEEAG.…PART III.6.CSupplementary information sheet for State aid granted under the Guidelines on State aid for climate, environmental protection and energy 2022 (hereafter ‘CEEAG’) - Section 4.3.1 - Aid for the acquisition and leasing of clean vehicles and clean mobile service equipment and for the retrofitting of vehicles and mobile service equipmentThis supplementary information sheet concerns measures covered in section 4.3.1 of the the CEEAG. If the notification includes measures that are covered by more than one section of the CEEAG, please once available also fill in the respective supplementary information sheet that concerns the respective section of the CEEAG.All documents provided by Member States as annexes to this supplementary information sheet must be numbered and document numbers must be indicated in the relevant sections of this supplementary information sheet.Section A:Summary of the main characteristics of the notified measure(s)1.Background and objective(s) of the notified measure(s).1.1.If not already discussed under section 5.2 of the General Information Form (Part I), please provide the background and the main objective, including any Union targets for the reduction of transport emissions that the measure is intended to support.…1.2.Please indicate any other objectives pursued by the measure. For any objectives that are not purely environmental, please explain whether they may result in any distortions of competition in the internal market.…2.Entry into force and duration:2.1.To the extent not already provided under section 5.5 of the General Information Form (Part I), please indicate the date as of which the aid scheme is planned to enter into force;…2.2.Please indicate the duration of the scheme.note…3.Beneficiary(ies)3.1.If not already provided under section 3 of the General Information Form (Part I), please describe the (potential) beneficiary(ies) of the measure(s);…3.2.Please indicate the location of the (potential) beneficiary(ies) (i.e. if only economic entities located in the respective Member State or also in other Member States are eligible to participate in the measure).…3.3.In order to assess the compliance with point 15 of the CEEAG, please specify if aid is granted under the measure(s) in favour of an undertaking (individual or part of a scheme) that is subject to an outstanding recovery order following a previous Commission decision declaring an aid illegal and incompatible with the internal market.In the affirmative, please provide information on the amount of aid still to be recovered so that the Commission takes account of it in the assessment of the aid measure(s).…4.Please confirm that the measure(s) does not involve aid to activities falling outside the scope of application of the CEEAG (see point 13 of the CEEAG). Otherwise, please provide details.…5.Budget and financing of the measure(s).5.1.If not already mentioned in the table under section 7.1 of the General Information Form (Part I), please provide the yearly and/or total budget for the whole duration of the measure(s); if the total budget is not known (for instance because it depends on the results of tenders), please indicate an estimated budget, including the assumptions used to calculate the respective estimated budget.note…5.2.if the measure is financed through a levy, please clarify if:Section B:Compatibility assessment of the aid1.POSITIVE CONDITION: THE AID MUST FACILITATE THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN ECONOMIC ACTIVITY1.1.Contribution to the development of an economic activityTo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 3.1.1 (points 23-25) and sections 4.3.1.1 (points 160 and 161) and 4.3.1.2 (points 162 and 163) of the CEEAG.6.Article 107(3), point (c), of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (’the Treaty’) provides that the Commission may declare compatible “aid to facilitate the development of certain economic activities or of certain economic areas, where such aid does not adversely affect trading conditions to an extent contrary to the common interest”. Therefore, compatible aid under that provision of the Treatymust contribute to the development of a certain economic activity.In order to assess compliance with point 23 of the CEEAG, please identify the economic activities that will be facilitated as a result of the aid and how the development of those activities is supported.…7.In order to assess compliance with point 25 of the CEEAG, please “describe if and how the aid will contribute to the achievement of objectives of Union climate policy, environmental policy and energy policy and more specifically, the expected benefits of the aid in terms of its material contribution to environmental protection, including climate change mitigation, or the efficient functioning of the internal energy market”.…8.In addition, please highlight to what extent the aid relates to the policies described under points 160 and 161 of the CEEAG.…9.Please describe the eligibility requirements applicable to the beneficiary(ies) (for instance by including any technical, environmental (i.e. permits), financial (i.e. collaterals) or other requirements that the beneficiary(ies) need to comply with).…10.Please provide information on the precise scope and precise supported activities of the aid measure(s), as provided in section 4.3.1.2 (points 162 and 163) of the CEEAG.…1.2.Incentive effectTo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 3.1.2 (points 26-32) and section 4.3.1.3 (points 164-169) of the CEEAG.11.Aid can be considered as facilitating an economic activity only if it has an incentive effect. In order to assess the compliance with point 26 of the CEEAG, please explain how the measure(s) “induces the beneficiary to change its behaviour, to engage in additional economic activity or in more environmentally-friendly economic activity, which it would not carry out without the aid or would carry out in a restricted or different manner”.…12.Pursuant to point 28 of the CEEAG:13.In order to assess compliance with point 27 of the CEEAG, please provide information to confirm that the aid does not support the costs of an activity that the aid beneficiary would anyhow carry out and does not compensate for the normal business risk of an economic activity.…14.In order to demonstrate compliance with points 29 and 31 of the CEEAG:15.In order to demonstrate compliance with point 30 of the CEEAG, please confirm that the aid application includes at least the applicant’s name, a description of the project or activity, including its location, and the amount of aid needed to carry it out.…16.In order to demonstrate compliance with point 32 of the CEEAG, please indicate if there are Union standardsAccording to point 19(89) of the CEEAG, ‘Union standard’ means:applicable to the notified measure(s), mandatory national standards that are more stringent or ambitious than the corresponding Union standards, or mandatory national standards adopted in the absence of Union standards. In that context, please provide information to demonstrate the incentive effect.…17.In cases where the relevant Union standard has already been adopted but is not yet in force, please demonstrate that the aid has an incentive effect because it incentivises the investment to be implemented and finalised at least 18 months before the standard enters into force.…1.3.No breach of any relevant provision of Union lawTo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 3.1.3 (point 33) of the CEEAG.18.Please provide information to confirm the compliance with the relevant provisions of EU law, in line with point 33 of the CEEAG.…19.If a levy is used to finance the measure(s), please clarify if the assessment of compliance with Articles 30 and 110 of the Treaty needs to be carried out. In the affirmative, please demonstrate how the measure complies with the provisions of Articles 30 and 110 of the Treaty. In this context, the information submitted under question 5.2 above, where the notified measure(s) is financed through a levy can be referred to.…2.NEGATIVE CONDITION: THE AID CANNOT UNDULY AFFECT TRADING CONDITIONS TO AN EXTENT CONTRARY TO THE COMMON INTEREST2.1.Minimisation of distortions of competition and trade2.1.1.Necessity of the aidTo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 3.2.1.1 (points 34-38) of the CEEAG.20.Please explain which market failure(s) your authorities have identified that prevent the achievement of a sufficient level of environmental protection. Please specify in which category the market failures identified fall, by making reference to letters (a), (b), (c) or (d) of point 34 of the CEEAG.…21.In accordance with point 35 of the CEEAG, please provide information on any existing policies and measures that your authorities identified, which already target the identified regulatory or market failures.…22.In order to demonstrate compliance with point 36 of the CEEAG, please provide information that demonstrates that the aid effectively targets residual market failures, also taking into account any other policies and measures already in place to address some of the market failures identified.…23.In order to demonstrate compliance with point 37 of the CEEAG, please explain if, to your authorities’ knowledge, projects or activities similar to those covered by the notified measure(s) with respect to their technological content, level of risk and size, are already delivered within the Union at market conditions. In the affirmative, please provide further evidence to demonstrate the need for State aid.…24.In order to demonstrate compliance with point 38 of the CEEAG, please refer to the quantitative evidence already provided under question 12(c) above.…2.1.2.AppropriatenessTo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 3.2.1.2 (points 39-46) and section 4.3.1.4.1 (point 171) of the CEEAG.25.In order to verify compliance with point 41 of the CEEAG, please demonstrate that the aid measure is designed in such a way as to not undermine the efficiency of other measures remedying the same market failure, such as market-based mechanisms (e.g., the EU ETS).…26.In order to verify compliance with point 42 of the CEEAG, please confirm that none of the beneficiaries of the aid measure(s) could be held liable for the pollution under existing Union or national law (‘polluter pays’ principle).…27.In order to verify compliance with points 43 to 46 of the CEEAG, to demonstrate the appropriateness of the aid among different aid instruments, please provide the following information:28.In order to verify compliance with points 40 and 171 of the CEEAG, please explain whether other types of interventions than State aid could not stimulate the development of the clean mobility market and describe their expected impact compared to that of the proposed measure. Such other types of interventions may include the introduction of general measures aimed at promoting the acquisition of clean vehicles such as ecological bonus schemes or scrappage schemes or the creation of low-emission zones in the Member State concerned…2.1.3.ProportionalityTo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 3.2.1.3 (points 47-55) and section 4.3.1.4.2 (points 172-181) of the CEEAG. Please note that the following two sections 2.1.3.1. and 2.1.3.2. are alternative. Please provide replies only to the applicable section, depending on the design of the proposed measure.2.1.3.1.Proportionality of aid granted through a competitive bidding processTo provide the information in this section, please refer to points 49, 50, 173, 174 and 175 of the CEEAG.29.In order to verify compliance with points 49, 50 and 173 of the CEEAG, please provide the following:30.Please explain how the competitive bidding procedure’s design ensures that sufficient incentives remain for applicants to bid for projects concerning the acquisition of zero-emission vehicles, which are generally more expensive than less environmentally friendly alternatives, insofar as these are available for that transport mode. For instance, please explain if the competitive bidding design includes premiums allowing a higher score to be assigned to projects bringing environmental benefits beyond those deriving from the eligibility requirements or the primary objective of the measure (point 175 of the CEEAG).…2.1.3.2.Proportionality of aid not granted through a competitive bidding processTo provide the information in this section, please refer to points 51-55 and 176-181 of the CEEAG.31.Please explain why a competitive bidding process is not used (by reference to the exceptions set out in point 176 of the CEEAG):32.Please identify the net extra costs of the investment. These are calculated as the difference, on the one hand, between the total cost of ownership of the clean vehicle foreseen to be acquired or leased, and on the other hand the total cost of ownership in the counterfactual scenario, excluding costs that are not directly linked to the achievement of a higher level of environmental protection. As regards the retrofitting of vehicles or mobile service equipment, the eligible costs may be the total costs of the retrofitting provided that in the counterfactual scenario the vehicles or mobile service equipment retain the same economic life in the absence of the retrofitting (points 178-179 of the CEEAG).…33.Please indicate the maximum aid intensities applicable under the measure and indicate whether any bonuses (as described in point 177 of the CEEAG) apply.…34.If by way of derogation from points 177-179 of the CEEAG, it is considered that aid beyond the maximum aid intensities set under point 177 of the CEEAG is required, please indicate the level of aid considered to be necessary and justify it on the basis of a funding gap analysis for reference projects in the factual and counterfactual scenarios as identified in reply to question 12(c)(i) above, in line with points 51-52 of the CEEAG.For this funding gap analysis, please submit a quantification, for the factual scenario and a realistic counterfactual scenarionote identified in reply to question 12 above, of all main costs and revenues, the estimated weighted average cost of capital (WACC) of the beneficiaries (or reference projects) to discount future cash flows, as well as the net present value (NPV) for the factual and counterfactual scenarios, over the lifetime of the project/reference project.35.Please also demonstrate that the application of a higher aid determined as indicated in question 34 would not result in aid exceeding the funding gap.…36.In case point 52 of the CEEAG is applicable, i.e. the most likely counterfactual scenario consists in the beneficiary not carrying out an activity or investment, or continuing its business without changes, please provide evidence to support this assumptionnote.…37.In all case where the proportionality is justified by reference to a funding gap analysis, please also confirm that your authorities will conduct an ex post monitoring to verify the assumptions made about the level of aid required and put in place a claw-back mechanism. Please also describe the monitoring and claw-back mechanism that your authorities intend to apply (point 180 CEEAG).…2.1.4.CumulationTo provide the information in this section, please refer to points 56-57 of the CEEAG.38.In as far as not already provided under Part I of the general notification form and in order to verify compliance with point 56 of the CEEAG, please clarify if the aid under the notified measure(s) may be awarded concurrently under several aid schemes or cumulated with ad hoc or de minimis aid in relation to the same eligible costs. If that is the case, please provide details on those aid schemes, ad hoc aid or de minimis aid and how the aid will be cumulated.…39.If point 56 of the CEEAG is applicable, please justify how the total amount of aid granted under the notified measure(s) for a project or an activity does not lead to overcompensation or exceed the maximum aid amount allowed under point 173, point 177 or point 180 of the CEEAG. For each measure that the aid granted under the notified aid measure(s) can be cumulated with, please specify the method used for ensuring compliance with the conditions set out in point 56 of the CEEAG.…40.In case point 57 of the CEEAG is applicable, i.e. the aid granted under the notified measure(s) is combined with centrally managed Union fundingnote (that does not constitute State aid), please justify how the total amount of public funding granted in relation to the same eligible costs does not lead to overcompensation.…2.1.5.TransparencyTo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 3.2.1.4 (points 58-61) of the CEEAG.41.Please confirm that the Member State will comply with the requirements on transparency provided in points 58-61 of the CEEAG.…42.Please provide the internet link where the full text of the approved aid scheme or the individual aid granting decision and its implementing provisions and information on each individual aid award granted ad hoc or under an aid scheme approved on the basis of the CEEAG and exceeding EUR 100000 will be published.…2.2.Avoidance of undue negative effects on competition and trade and balancingTo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 3.2.2 (points 63-70) and section 4.3.1.5. (points 183-189) of the CEEAG.43.In order to verify compliance with point 67 of the CEEAG, please provide information on the possible short and long-term negative effects of the notified measure(s) on competition and trade.…44.Please explain if the measure falls under any of the following situations:45.Should the aid measure focus on a specific technological choice/path, please justify the reason for the technological choice and that it will not discourage the deployment of cleaner technologies.…46.If the notified measure(s) will only benefit one or a particularly limited number of beneficiaries, in order to verify compliance with point 68 of the CEEAG, please:47.In order to verify compliance with point 69 of the CEEAG, please explain:48.In order to verify compliance with point 70 of the CEEAG:49.If the notified measure(s) may incentivise new investments in vehicles and mobile service equipment using natural gas, explain how the measure can be regarded as not having long term lock-in effects and not displacing investments into cleaner alternatives. Therefore, for aid for the acquisition or leasing of CNG and LNG vehicles for waterborne transport and mobile service equipment, please demonstrate that cleaner alternatives to decarbonise the relevant transport mode are not readily available on the market and are not expected to be available in the short term. To this end, please consider a period of between 2 to 5 years following the notification of the aid measure (or a different period, if duly justified) and submit supporting independent market studies or any other appropriate evidence.…50.If the notified measure may incentivise investments in clean aircraft (other than zero-emission aircraft) using fossil fuels, please demonstrate that the aid contributes to the market introduction or accelerated uptake of new, more efficient and substantially more environmentally-friendly aircraft. Please also explain how such investments are in line with a pathway towards climate neutrality, and how the measure avoids the risk of lock in of conventional technologies and displacement of investments into cleaner alternatives.…51.If the measure concerns the air transport service, explain whether your authorities intend to require that the beneficiary decommissions an equivalent number of less environmentally-friendly aircraft of a similar take-off mass as the aircraft acquired or leased with State aid, to mitigate potentially distortive effects of the aid having regard to the market positon of the beneficiary or to increase the positive effects of the aid measure.…52.In relation to aid for the acquisition or leasing of vehicles or mobile service equipment, please explain whether bringing into service new vehicles would result in or aggravate existing market failures, such as overcapacity in the sector concerned.…53.If the notified measure grants targeted support to an individual beneficiary or a limited number of specific beneficiaries in the absence of competitive bidding, please justify the measure’s design and the reasons why it is not open to all competitors willing to deliver the same service, product or benefit and demonstrate it duly addresses the higher risks of competition distortion.…3.WEIGHING THE POSITIVE EFFECTS OF THE AID AGAINST THE NEGATIVE EFFECTS ON COMPETITION AND TRADETo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 3.3 (points 71-76) of the CEEAG.54.In order to verify compliance with point 72 of the CEEAG, please explain whether activities supported under the notified measure meet the criteria for environmentally sustainable economic activities provided in Article 3 of the Regulation (EU) 2020/852 of the European Parliament and of the Councilnote, including the ‘do no significant harm’ principle, or other comparable methodologies.…55.(In case of competitive bidding process) Please explain if the notified measure(s) includes features to facilitate the participation of SMEs in competitive bidding processes. In the affirmative, please provide information on those features and justify how the positive effects of ensuring participation of SMEs in the notified measure(s) outweigh the possible distortive effects.…Section C:EvaluationTo provide the information in this section, please refer to Section 5 (points 455-463) of the CEEAG.56.If the notified measure(s) exceed the budget/expenditure thresholds in point 456 of the CEEAG, please either explain why in your view the exception in point 457 of the CEEAG should apply, or attach to this notification form an Annex that includes a draft evaluation plan covering the scope mentioned in point 458 of the CEEAGnote.…57.If a draft evaluation plan is provided, please:58.In order to verify compliance with point 459(b) of the CEEAG, in case the aid scheme is not currently subject to an ex post evaluation and its duration exceeds three years, please confirm that you will notify a draft evaluation plan within 30 working days following a significant modification increasing the budget of the scheme to over EUR 150 million in any given year or EUR 750 million over the total duration of the scheme.…59.In order to verify compliance with point 459(c) of the CEEAG, in case the aid scheme is not currently subject to an ex post evaluation, please provide below a commitment that the Member State will notify a draft evaluation plan within 30 working days after recording in official accounts expenditures in excess of EUR 150 million in the previous year.…60.In order to verify compliance with point 461 of the CEEAG:61.In order to verify compliance with point 461 of the CEEAG:Section D:Reporting and monitoringTo provide the information in this section, please refer to Section 6 (points 464-465) of the CEEAG.62.Please confirm that the Member State will comply with the requirements for reporting and monitoring set out in Section 6, points 464 and 465, of the CEEAG.…PART III.6.DSupplementary information sheet for State aid granted under the Guidelines on State aid for climate, environmental protection and energy 2022 (hereafter ‘CEEAG’) - Section 4.3.2 - Aid for the deployment of recharging or refuelling infrastructureThis supplementary information sheet concerns measures covered in Section 4.3.2 of the CEEAG. If the notification includes measures that are covered by more than one section of the CEEAG, please once available also fill in the respective supplementary information sheet that concerns the respective section of the CEEAG.All documents provided by Member States as annexes to this supplementary information sheet must be numbered and document numbers must be indicated in the relevant sections of this supplementary information sheet.Section A:Summary of the main characteristics of the notified measure(s)1.Background and objective(s) of the notified measure(s).1.1.If not already discussed under section 5.2 of the General Information Form (Part. I), please provide the background and the main objective, including any Union targets for reduction of transport emissions that the measure is intended to support.…1.2.Please indicate any other objectives pursued by the measure. For any objectives that are not purely environmental, please explain whether they may result in any distortions of competition in the internal market.…2.Entry into force and duration:2.1.To the extent not already provided under section 5.5 of the General Information Form (Part I), please indicate the date as of which the aid scheme is planned to enter into force.…2.2.Please indicate the duration of the scheme.note…3.Beneficiary(ies)3.1.If not already provided under section 3 of the General Information Form (Part I), please describe the (potential) beneficiary(ies) of the measure(s);…3.2.Please indicate the location of the (potential) beneficiary(ies) (i.e. if only economic entities located in the respective Member States or also in other Member States are eligible to participate in the measure).…3.3.In order to assess the compliance with point 15 of the CEEAG, please specify if aid is granted under the measure(s) in favour of an undertaking (individual or part of a scheme) that is subject to an outstanding recovery order following a previous Commission decision declaring an aid illegal and incompatible with the internal market.In the affirmative, please provide information on the amount of aid still to be recovered so that the Commission takes account of it in the assessment of the aid measure(s).…4.Please confirm that the measure(s) does not involve aid to activities falling outside the scope of application of the CEEAG (see point 13 of the CEEAG). Otherwise, please provide details.…5.Budget and financing of the measure(s).5.1.If not already mentioned in the table under section 7.1 of the General Information Form (Part I), please provide the yearly and/or total budget for the whole duration of the measure(s); if the total budget is not known (for instance because it depends on the results of tenders), please indicate an estimated budget, including the assumptions used to calculate the respective estimated budget.note…5.2.if the measure is financed through a levy, please clarify if:Section B:Compatibility assessment of the aid1.POSITIVE CONDITION: THE AID MUST FACILITATE THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN ECONOMIC ACTIVITY1.1.Contribution to the development of an economic activityTo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 3.1.1 (points 23-25) and sections 4.3.2.1 (points 190 and 191) and 4.3.2.2 (points 192 and 193) of the CEEAG.6.Article 107(3), point (c), of the Treaty provides that the Commission may declare compatible “aid to facilitate the development of certain economic activities or of certain economic areas, where such aid does not adversely affect trading conditions to an extent contrary to the common interest”. Therefore, compatible aid under that provision of the Treatymust contribute to the development of a certain economic activity.In order to assess compliance with point 23 of the CEEAG, please identify the economic activities that will be facilitated as a result of the aid and how the development of those activities is supported.…7.In order to assess compliance with point 25 of the CEEAG please “describe if and how the aid will contribute to the achievement of objectives of Union climate policy, environmental policy and energy policy and more specifically, the expected benefits of the aid in terms of its material contribution to environmental protection, including climate change mitigation, or the efficient functioning of the internal energy market”.…8.In addition, please highlight to what extent the aid relates to the policies described under points 190 and 191 of the CEEAG.…9.Please describe the eligibility requirements applicable to the beneficiary(ies) (for instance by pointing to any technical, environmental (i.e. permits), financial (i.e. collaterals) or other requirements that the beneficiary(ies) need to comply with).…10.Please provide information on the precise scope and precise supported activities of the aid measure(s), as provided in section 4.3.2.2 (points 192 and 193) of the CEEAG.…1.2.Incentive effectTo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 3.1.2 (points 26-32) of the CEEAG.11.Aid can be considered as facilitating an economic activity only if it has an incentive effect. In order to assess the compliance with point 26 of the CEEAG, please explain how the measure(s) “induces the beneficiary to change its behaviour, to engage in additional economic activity or in more environmentally-friendly economic activity, which it would not carry out without the aid or would carry out in a restricted or different manner”.…12.Pursuant to point 28 of the CEEAG:13.In order to assess compliance with point 27 of the CEEAG, please provide information to confirm that the aid does not support the costs of an activity that the aid beneficiary would anyhow carry out and does not compensate for the normal business risk of an economic activity.…14.In order to demonstrate compliance with points 29 and 31 of the CEEAG:15.In order to demonstrate compliance with point 30 of the CEEAG, please confirm that the aid application includes at least the applicant’s name, a description of the project or activity, including its location, and the amount of aid needed to carry it out.…16.In order to demonstrate compliance with point 32 of the CEEAG, please indicate if there are Union standardsAccording to point 19(89) of the CEEAG, ‘Union standard’ means:applicable to the notified measure(s), mandatory national standards that are more stringent or ambitious than the corresponding Union standards, or mandatory national standards adopted in the absence of Union standards. In that context, please provide information to demonstrate the incentive effect.…17.In cases where the relevant Union standard has already been adopted but is not yet in force, please demonstrate that the aid has an incentive effect because it incentivises the investment to be implemented and finalised at least 18 months before the standard enters into force.…1.3.No breach of any relevant provision of Union lawTo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 3.1.3 (point 33) of the CEEAG.18.Please provide information to confirm the compliance with the relevant provisions of EU law, in line with point 33 of the CEEAG.…19.If a levy is used to finance the measure(s), please clarify if the assessment of compliance with Articles 30 and 110 of the Treaty needs to be carried out. In the affirmative, please demonstrate how the measure complies with the provisions of Articles 30 and 110 of the Treaty. In this context, the information submitted under question 5.2 above, where the notified measure(s) is financed through a levy can be referred to.…2.NEGATIVE CONDITION: THE AID CANNOT UNDULY AFFECT TRADING CONDITIONS TO AN EXTENT CONTRARY TO THE COMMON INTEREST2.1.Minimisation of distortions of competition and trade2.1.1.Necessity of the aidTo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 4.3.2.3.1 (points 194 and 195) of the CEEAG.20.Please explain whether and how it has been verified that aid is necessary to incentivise the deployment of recharging or refuelling infrastructure of the same category as the infrastructure that would be deployed with State aid, in that similar infrastructure is not likely to be developed on commercial terms in the short term. This can be demonstrated by reference to an ex ante open public consultation, an independent market study or based on any other appropriate evidence as set out in Section 3.2.1.1 of the CEEAG. Where applicable, please provide information on the impact of an ETS. Please provide the supporting documents.…21.If the supported recharging or refuelling infrastructure will be open for access by users other than the aid beneficiary or beneficiaries, please indicate (i) the level of market penetration of the clean vehicles that the infrastructure would serve as compared to the total fleet of registered vehicles in your Member State; and/or (ii) the traffic volumes in the region or regions concerned by the measure.…2.1.2.AppropriatenessTo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 3.2.1.2 (points 39-46) and section 4.3.2.3.2 (points 196 and 197) of the CEEAG.22.In order to verify compliance with point 41 of the CEEAG, please demonstrate that the aid measure is designed in such a way as to not undermine the efficiency of other measures remedying the same market failure, such as market-based mechanisms (e.g, the EU ETS).…23.In order to verify compliance with point 42 of the CEEAG, please confirm that none of the beneficiaries of the aid measure(s) could be held liable for the pollution under existing Union or national law (‘polluter pays’ principle).…24.In order to verify compliance with points 43 to 46 of the CEEAG, to demonstrate the appropriateness of the aid among different aid instruments, please provide the following information:25.In order to verify compliance with point 197 of the CEEAG, please explain whether regulatory (including new) interventions could not stimulate the shift towards clean mobility and describe their expected impact compared to that of the proposed measure.…2.1.3.ProportionalityTo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 4.3.2.3.3 (points198-204) of the CEEAG. Please note that the following two sections 2.1.3.1. and 2.1.3.2. are alternative. Please provide replies only to the applicable section, depending on the design of the proposed measure.2.1.3.1.Proportionality of aid granted through a competitive bidding processTo provide the information in this section, please refer to points 49, 50 and 199 of the CEEAG.26.In order to verify compliance with points 49 and 50 and 199 of the CEEAG, please provide the following:27.Please explain how the competitive bidding procedure’s design ensures that sufficient incentives remain for applicants to bid for projects concerning recharging or refuelling infrastructure supplying only renewable electricity or renewable hydrogen. For instance, please explain if the competitive bidding design includes premiums allowing a higher score to be assigned to projects bringing environmental benefits beyond those deriving from the eligibility requirements or the primary objective of the measure (point 199 of the CEEAG).…2.1.3.2.Proportionality of aid not granted through a competitive bidding processTo provide the information in this section, please refer to points 200-204 of the CEEAG.28.Please explain why a competitive bidding process is not used (by reference to the exemptions set out in point 200 CEEAG):2.1.3.2.1.Proportionality of aid granted through a funding gap analysis29.If the aid is determined based on a funding gap analysis, in order to verify compliance with point 201 of the CEEAG, please justify the aid amount on the basis of a funding gap analysis in line with points 48, 51-52 of the CEEAG for reference projects in the factual and counterfactual scenarios as identified in reply to question 12 above.…30.For this funding gap analysis, please submit a quantification, for the factual scenario and a realistic counterfactual scenarionote identified in reply to question 12 above, of all main costs and revenues, the estimated weighted average cost of capital (WACC) of the beneficiaries (or reference projects) to discount future cash flows, as well as the net present value (NPV) for the factual and counterfactual scenarios, over the lifetime of the project/reference project.31.In case point 52 of the CEEAG is applicable, i.e. the most likely counterfactual scenario consists in the beneficiary not carrying out an activity or investment, or continuing its business without changes, please provide evidence to support this assumptionnote.…32.In all case where the proportionality is justified by reference to a funding gap analysis, please also confirm that your authorities will conduct an ex post monitoring to verify the assumptions made about the level of aid required and put in place a claw-back mechanism. Please also describe the claw-back mechanism that your authorities intend to apply (point 201 of the CEEAG).…2.1.3.2.2.Proportionality of aid granted on the basis of eligible costs and aid intensities33.If the amount of aid is determined on the basis of the eligible costs and aid intensities, please describe the eligible costs under the measure, noting that under point 202, 203 and 204 CEEAG, the eligible costs are all the investment costs for the construction, installation, upgrade or extension of recharging or refuelling infrastructure. For instance, these may include the costs of:34.Please indicate the maximum aid intensities applicable under the measure and indicate whether any bonuses (as described in point 202 of the CEEAG) apply.…2.1.4.CumulationTo provide the information in this section, please refer to points 56-57 of the CEEAG.35.In as far as not already provided under Part I of the general notification form and in order to verify compliance with point 56 of the CEEAG, please clarify if the aid under the notified measure(s) may be awarded concurrently under several aid schemes or cumulated with ad hoc aid or de minimis aid in relation to the same eligible costs. If that is the case, please provide details on those aid schemes, ad hoc aid or de minimis aid and how the aid will be cumulated.…36.If point 56 of the CEEAG is applicable, please justify how the total amount of aid granted under the notified measure(s) for a project or an activity does not lead to overcompensation or exceed the maximum aid amount allowed under point 199, point 201 or point 202 of the CEEAG. For each measure that the aid granted under the notified aid measure(s) can be cumulated with, please specify the method used for ensuring compliance with the conditions set out in point 56 of the CEEAG.…37.In case point 57 of the CEEAG is applicable, i.e. the aid granted under the notified measure(s) is combined with centrally managed Union fundingnote (that does not constitute State aid), please justify how the total amount of public funding granted in relation to the same eligible costs does not lead to overcompensation.…2.1.5.TransparencyTo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 3.2.1.4 (points 58-61) of the CEEAG.38.Please confirm that the Member State will comply with the requirements on transparency provided in points 58-61 of the CEEAG.…39.Please provide the internet link where the full text of the approved aid scheme or the individual aid granting decision and its implementing provision and information on each individual aid award granted ad hoc or under an aid scheme approved on the basis of the CEEAG and exceeding EUR 100000 will be published.…2.2.Avoidance of undue negative effects on competition and trade and balancingTo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 3.2.2 (points 63-70) and section 4.3.2.4. (points 205-216) of the CEEAG.40.In order to verify compliance with point 67 of the CEEAG, please provide information on the possible short and long-term negative effects of the notified measure(s) on competition and trade.…41.Please explain if the measure falls under any of the following situations:42.Should the aid measure focus on a specific technological choice/path, please justify the reason for the technological choice and that it will not discourage the deployment of cleaner technologies.…43.If the notified measure(s) will only benefit one or a particularly limited number of beneficiaries, in order to verify compliance with point 68 of the CEEAG, please:44.In order to verify compliance with point 69 of the CEEAG, please explain:45.In order to verify compliance with point 70 of the CEEAG:46.Please confirm that new recharging infrastructure that allow for a transfer of electricity with a power output of up to 22 kW is capable of supporting smart recharging functionalities (point 206 of the CEEAG).…47.If aid is granted for refuelling infrastructure for waterborne and air transport and supplies synthetic fuels, including renewable liquid and gaseous transport fuels of non-biological origin, or biofuels, please justify the need for new infrastructure. In the case of drop-in synthetic fuels or biofuels, please consider the extent to which existing infrastructure can be used for the supply of drop-in synthetic fuels or biofuels (point 207 of the CEEAG).…48.If the aid is for the construction, installation, upgrade or extension of CNG and LNG refuelling infrastructure for waterborne transport, please:49.If the aid is for the construction, installation, upgrade or extension of LNG refuelling infrastructure for heavy-duty vehicles, please confirm that it will not be granted after 2025. Please explain how the aid will contribute to achieving targets set out in Union legislation on the deployment of alternative fuel infrastructure (point 210 of the CEEAG).…50.In case of hydrogen refuelling infrastructure, please indicate if aid under the measure is subject to the condition that the hydrogen supplied at the supported refuelling infrastructure is renewable or low-carbon for its entire lifetime. If not, please explain whether and how it will be ensured that beneficiaries have a credible pathway towards the phasing out of hydrogen that is not renewable or low-carbon to supply the refuelling infrastructure by 2035 at the latest (point 212 of the CEEAG).…51.Please explain whether the notified measure contains safeguards against the creation or strengthening of market power positions which may prevent or impair effective competition in nascent or developing markets (for instance, the establishment of a maximum percentage of the budget for the measure that can be allocated to one single undertaking) (point 213 of the CEEAG).…52.Please describe the safeguards that are in place as part of the notified measure to ensure that operators of recharging or refueling infrastructure that offer or allow contract-based payments on their infrastructure do not unduly discriminate between mobility service providers, for example by applying unjustified preferential access conditions, or through unjustified price differentiation (point 214 of the CEEAG).…53.Please confirm that any concession or other entrustment to a third party (other than the beneficiary) to operate the refueling infrastructure would be awarded on a competitive, transparent and non-discriminatory basis, having due regard to the Union public procurement rules, where applicable (point of the 215 of the CEEAG).…54.If the infrastructure will be open for access by users other than the aid beneficiary or beneficiaries please confirm that non-discriminatory access to users will be ensured, including, as appropriate, in relation to tariffs, authentication and payment methods and other terms and conditions of use (point 216 of the CEEAG).…55.Please confirm that the fees charged to users for using the supported recharging or refuelling infrastructure correspond to market prices (point 216 of the CEEAG). Please indicate whether operators of the supported recharging or refuelling infrastructure will be subject to any price caps; if yes, please explain how such price caps were established.…3.Weighing the positive effects of the aid against the negative effects on competition and tradeTo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 3.3 (points 71-76) of the CEEAG.56.In order to verify compliance with point 72 of the CEEAG, please explain whether activities supported under the notified measure meet the criteria for environmentally sustainable economic activities provided in Article 3 of the Regulation (EU) 2020/852 of the European Parliament and of the Councilnote, including the ‘do no significant harm’ principle, or other comparable methodologies.…57.(In case of competitive bidding process) Please explain if the notified measure(s) includes features to facilitate the participation of SMEs in competitive bidding processes. In the affirmative, please provide information on those features and justify how the positive effects of ensuring participation of SMEs in the notified measure(s) outweigh the possible distortive effects.…Section C:EvaluationTo provide the information in this section, please refer to Section 5 (points 455-463) of the CEEAG.58.If the notified measure(s) exceed the budget/expenditure thresholds in point 456 of the CEEAG, please either explain why in your view the exception in point 457 of the CEEAG should apply or attach to this notification form an Annex that includes a draft evaluation plan covering the scope mentioned in point 458 of the CEEAGnote.…59.If a draft evaluation plan is provided, please:60.In order to verify compliance with point 459(b) of the CEEAG, in case the aid scheme is not currently subject to an ex post evaluation, and its duration exceeds three years, please confirm that you will notify a draft evaluation plan within 30 working days following a significant modification increasing the budget of the scheme to over EUR 150 million in any given year or EUR 750 million over the total duration of the scheme.…61.In order to verify compliance with point 459(c) of the CEEAG, in case the aid scheme is not currently subject to an ex post evaluation, please provide below a commitment that the Member State will notify a draft evaluation plan within 30 working days after recording in official accounts expenditures in excess of EUR 150 million in the previous year.…62.In order to verify compliance with point 461 of the CEEAG:63.In order to verify compliance with point 461 of the CEEAG:Section D:Reporting and monitoringTo provide the information in this section, please refer to Section 6 (points 464-465) of the CEEAG.64.Please confirm that the Member State will comply with the requirements for reporting and monitoring set out in Section 6, points 464 and 465 of the CEEAG.…PART III.6.ESupplementary information sheet for State aid granted under the Guidelines on State aid for climate, environmental protection and energy 2022 (hereafter ‘CEEAG’) - Section 4.4 - Aid for resource efficiency and for supporting the transition towards a circular economyThis supplementary information sheet concerns measures covered in Section 4.4 of the CEEAG. If the notification includes measures that are covered by more than one section of the CEEAG, please once available also fill in the respective supplementary information sheet that concerns the respective section of the CEEAG.All documents provided by Member States as annexes to this supplementary information sheet must be numbered and document numbers must be indicated in the relevant sections of this supplementary information sheet.Section A:Summary of the main characteristics of the notified measure(s)1.Background and objective(s) of the notified measure(s).1.1.If not already discussed under section 5.2 of the General Information Form (Part I), please provide the background and the main objective, including any Union targets for the transition to a circular economy that the measure is intended to support.…1.2.Please indicate any other objectives pursued by the measure. For any objectives that are not purely environmental, please explain whether they may result in any distortions of competition in the internal market.…2.Entry into force and duration:2.1.To the extent not already provided under section 5.5 of the General Information Form (Part I), please indicate the date as of which the aid scheme is planned to enter into force;…2.2.Please indicate the duration of the schemenote.…3.Beneficiary(ies)3.1.If not already provided under section 3 of the General Information Form (Part I), please describe the (potential) beneficiary(ies) of the measure(s);…3.2.Please indicate the location of the beneficiary(ies) (i.e. if only economic entities located in the respective Member State or also in other Member States are eligible to participate in the measure).…3.3.In order to assess the compliance with point 15 of the CEEAG, please specify if aid is granted under the measure(s) in favour of an undertaking (individual or part of a scheme) that is subject to an outstanding recovery order following a previous Commission decision declaring an aid illegal and incompatible with the internal market.In the affirmative, please provide information on the amount of aid still to be recovered so that the Commission takes account of it in the assessment of the aid measure(s).…4.Please confirm that the measure(s) does not involve aid to activities falling outside the scope of application of the CEEAG (see point 13 of the CEEAG). Otherwise, please provide details.…5.Budget and financing of the measure(s).5.1.If not already mentioned in the table under section 7.1 of the General Information Form (Part I), please provide the yearly and/or total budget for the whole duration of the measure(s); if the total budget is not known (for instance because it depends on the results of tenders), please indicate an estimated budget, including the assumptions used to calculate the respective estimated budgetnote.…5.2.if the measure is financed through a levy, please clarify if:Section B:Compatibility assessment of the aid1.POSITIVE CONDITION: THE AID MUST FACILITATE THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN ECONOMIC ACTIVITY1.1.Contribution to the development of an economic activityTo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 3.1.1 (points 23-25) and sections 4.4.1. (points 217 - 219) and 4.4.2. (points 220 - 224) of the CEEAG.6.Article 107(3), point (c), of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (’the Treaty’) provides that the Commission may declare compatible “aid to facilitate the development of certain economic activities or of certain economic areas, where such aid does not adversely affect trading conditions to an extent contrary to the common interest”. Therefore, compatible aid under that provision of the Treaty must contribute to the development of a certain economic activity.In order to assess compliance with point 23 of the CEEAG, please identify the economic activities that will be facilitated as a result of the aid and how the development of those activities is supported.…7.In order to assess compliance with point 25 of the CEEAG, please “describe if and how the aid will contribute to the achievement of objectives of Union climate policy, environmental policy and energy policy and more specifically, the expected benefits of the aid in terms of its material contribution to environmental protection, including climate change mitigation, or the efficient functioning of the internal energy market”.…8.In addition, please highlight to what extent the aid relates to the policies described under points 217 to 219 of the CEEAG.…9.Please describe the eligibility requirements applicable to the beneficiary(ies) (for instance by including any technical, environmental (i.e. permits), financial (i.e. collaterals) or other requirements that the beneficiary(ies) need to comply with).…10.For individual aid and aid schemes benefitting a particularly limited number of beneficiaries or an incumbent beneficiary, please provide a quantification of the environmental benefits expected from the measure (resources saved/avoided consumption of resources) and explain the method followed to quantify them.…11.Please provide information on the scope and supported activities of the aid measure(s) and indicate to which of the activities listed in points 220 and 221 of the CEEAG they correspond.…12.Please note that the following investment aid measures are not assessed under Section 4.4:Please refer to the notification form for Section 4.1 for investments listed in points a to d as such measures will be assessed as set out in Section 4.1 of the CEEAG and to the notification form for Section 4.10 for the investment described in point e as that will be assessed as set out in Section 4.10 of the CEEAG…13.Please indicate whether the aid measure also covers operating costs for separate collection and sorting of waste and if yes, for which waste streams or types of waste.…1.2.Incentive effectTo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 3.1.2 (points 26-32) and section 4.4.3. (points 225-233) of the CEEAG.14.Aid can be considered as facilitating an economic activity only if it has an incentive effect. In order to assess compliance with point 26 of the CEEAG, please explain how the measure(s) “induces the beneficiary to change its behaviour, to engage in additional economic activity or in more environmentally-friendly economic activity, which it would not carry out without the aid or would carry out in a restricted or different manner”.…15.Pursuant to point 28 of the CEEAG:15.1.Please provide a comprehensive description of the factual scenario expected to result from the aid measure and the likely counterfactual scenario(s) absent the aid measure.note Where you expect that different categories of beneficiaries may be supported, please ensure that the counterfactual is credible for each of these categories. Please take into account the requirements on the counterfactual included in points 226-230 and point 239 of the CEEAG, notably:When describing the factual scenario and the likely counterfactual scenario(s), please specify the capacity, lifetime and other technical characteristics of the investment for both the factual and the counterfactual scenario(s).…15.2.Please briefly explain the rationale for the choice of the likely counterfactual scenario(s), in view of the proposed different categories of beneficiaries if applicable…15.3.Please quantify the costs and revenues of factual and counterfactual scenarios and justify the change of behaviour where relevant for each category of beneficiary, based on:16.In order to assess compliance with point 27 of the CEEAG, please provide information to confirm that the aid does not support the costs of an activity that the aid beneficiary would anyhow carry out and does not compensate for the normal business risk of an economic activity.…17.In order to demonstrate compliance with points 29 and 31 of the CEEAG:…18.In order to demonstrate compliance with point 30 of the CEEAG, please confirm that the aid application includes at least the applicant’s name, a description of the project or activity, including its location, and the amount of aid needed to carry it out.…19.In order to demonstrate compliance with points 32, 232 and 233 of the CEEAG:20.In order to demonstrate compliance with Section 4.4.3 of the CEEAG, please indicate whether projects with payback period of less than 5 years are eligible for aid under the aid measure. If that is the case, please explain why that aid is needed to trigger a change in behaviour in line with point 231 of the CEEAG.…1.3.No breach of any relevant provision of Union lawTo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 3.1.3 (point 33) of the CEEAG.21.Please provide information to confirm the compliance with the relevant provisions of EU law, in line with point 33 of the CEEAG.…22.If a levy is used to finance the measure(s), please clarify if the assessment of compliance with Articles 30 and 110 of the Treaty needs to be carried out. In the affirmative, please demonstrate how the measure complies with the provisions of Articles 30 and 110 of the Treaty. In this context, the information submitted under question 5.2 above, where the notified measure(s) is financed through a levy can be referred to.…2.NEGATIVE CONDITION: THE AID CANNOT UNDULY AFFECT TRADING CONDITIONS TO AN EXTENT CONTRARY TO THE COMMON INTEREST2.1.Minimisation of distortions of competition and trade2.1.1.Necessity of the aidTo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 3.2.1.1 (points 34--38) and section 4.4.4.1 (points 234-236) of the CEEAG.23.Please explain which market failure(s) your authorities have identified that prevent the achievement of a sufficient level of environmental protection. Please specify in which category the market failures identified fall, by making reference to letters (a), (b), (c) or (d) of point 34 of the CEEAG.…24.In accordance with point 35 of the CEEAG, please provide information on any existing policies and measures that your authorities identified, which already target the identified regulatory or market failures.…25.In order to demonstrate compliance with point 36 of the CEEAG, please provide information that demonstrates that the aid effectively targets residual market failures, also taking into account any other policies and measures already in place to address some of the market failures identified.…26.In order to demonstrate compliance with point 37 of the CEEAG, please explain if, to your authorities’ knowledge, projects or activities similar to those covered by the notified measure(s) with respect to their technological content, level of risk and size, are already delivered within the Union at market conditions. In the affirmative, please provide further evidence to demonstrate the need for State aid.…27.In order to demonstrate compliance with point 38 of the CEEAG, please refer to the quantitative evidence already provided under question 15 above.…28.In addition, please describe, in line with point 235 of the CEEAG what the established commercial practices in the concerned sector are and show that the project goes beyond these established commercial practices generally applied throughout the Union and across technologies.…29.In order to demonstrate compliance with point 236 of the CEEAG:2.1.2.AppropriatenessTo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 3.2.1.2 (points 39-46) and section 4.4.4.2 (point 238) of the CEEAG.30.In order to verify compliance with point 40 of the CEEAG, please demonstrate that there are no less distortive instruments available that are more appropriate.31.In order to verify compliance with point 41 of the CEEAG, please demonstrate that the aid measure is designed in such a way as to not undermine the efficiency of other measures remedying the same market failure, such as market-based mechanisms (e.g., the EU ETS).…32.In order to verify compliance with point 42 of the CEEAG, please confirm that none of the beneficiaries of the aid measure(s) could be held liable for the pollution under existing Union or national law (‘polluter pays’ principle).…33.In order to verify compliance with point 238 of the CEEAG, please demonstrate that the aid does not relieve undertakings that generate waste from any costs or obligations relating to the treatment of waste for which they are liable under Union or national law, including under extended producer responsibility schemes; and that the aid does not relieve undertakings from costs that should be considered as normal costs for an undertaking.…34.In order to verify compliance with points 43 to 46 of the CEEAG, to demonstrate the appropriateness of the aid among different aid instruments, please provide the following information:2.1.3.ProportionalityTo provide the information in this section, please refer to points 239-244 of the CEEAG. Please note that the following three sections 2.1.3.1., 2.1.3.2. and 2.1.3.3. are alternative. Please provide replies only to the applicable section, depending on the design of the proposed measure [for operating aid for collection, see section 2.1.3.3].2.1.3.1.Aid based on aid intensities set out in points 240-244 of the CEEAG35.In order to describe the eligible costs in line with point 239 of the CEEAG, please identify the extra investment costs directly linked to the achievement of a higher level of environmental protection.…36.Please explain how the investment costs of the factual and the less environmentally friendly scenarios will be determined and verified.…37.For products, substances or materials that would constitute waste unless reused and when there is no legal requirement for that products, substances or materials to be disposed of or otherwise be treated, please confirm that the eligible costs will correspond to the investment necessary to recover the products, substances or materials concerned.…38.Please indicate the maximum aid intensities applicable under the measure and indicate whether any bonuses apply (points 241 – 244 of the CEEAG).…39.For eco-innovation activities, please demonstrate that the following cumulative conditions are fulfilled (point 244 of the CEEAG):40.If by way of derogation from points 241-244 of the CEEAG, it is considered that aid beyond the maximum aid intensities is required, please indicate the level of aid considered to be necessary and justify it on the basis of a funding gap analysis for reference projects in the factual and counterfactual scenarios as identified in reply to question 15 above, in line with points 51-52 of the CEEAG.For this funding gap analysis, please submit a quantification, for the factual scenario(s) and realistic counterfactual scenario(s)note identified in reply to question 15 above, of all main costs and revenues, the estimated weighted average cost of capital (WACC) of the benefic4iaries (or reference projects) to discount future cash flows, as well as the net present value (NPV) for the factual and counterfactual scenarios, over the lifetime of the project/reference project.41.Please also demonstrate that the application of a higher aid determined as indicated in question 40 would not result in aid exceeding the funding gap.…42.In case point 52 of the CEEAG is applicable, i.e. the most likely counterfactual scenario consists in the beneficiary not carrying out an activity or investment, or continuing its business without changes, please provide evidence to support this assumption.…43.In line with point 245 of the CEEAG, please confirm that if a higher aid intensity is required based on question 40, your authorities will conduct an ex post monitoring to verify the assumptions made about the level of aid required and to put in place a claw-back mechanism and describe the monitoring and claw-back mechanisms that the Member State intends to introduce.…2.1.3.2.Proportionality of the aid granted through a competitive bidding processTo provide the information in this section, please refer to points 49, 50 and 246 of the CEEAG.44.In order to verify the compliance with points 49, 50 and 246 of the CEEAG, please provide the following:2.1.3.3.The proportionality of aid covering operating costs of separate collection and sorting of waste45.According to point 247 of the CEEAG, the aid may cover operating costs where it relates to the separate collection and sorting of waste or other products, materials or substances in relation to specific waste streams or types of waste with a view to the preparing for re-use or recycling. Where you plan such aid, please:2.1.4.CumulationTo provide the information in this section, please refer to points 56-57 of the CEEAG.46.In as far as not already provided under Part I of the general notification form and in order to verify compliance with point 56 of the CEEAG, please clarify if the aid under the notified measure(s) may be awarded concurrently under several aid schemes or cumulated with ad hoc or de minimis aid in relation to the same eligible costs. If that is the case, please provide details on those aid schemes, ad hoc aid or de minimis aid and how the aid will be cumulated.…47.If point 56 of the CEEAG is applicable, please justify how the total amount of aid granted under the notified measure(s) for a project or an activity does not lead to overcompensation or exceed the maximum aid amount allowed under points 241-245 of the CEEAG. For each measure that the aid granted under the notified aid measure(s) can be cumulated with, please specify the method used for ensuring compliance with the conditions set out in point 56 of the CEEAG.…48.In case point 57 of the CEEAG is applicable, i.e. the aid granted under the notified measure(s) is combined with centrally managed Union fundingnote (that does not constitute State aid), please justify how the total amount of public funding granted in relation to the same eligible costs does not lead to overcompensation.…2.1.5.TransparencyTo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 3.2.1.4 (points 58-61) of the CEEAG.49.Please confirm that the Member State will comply with the requirements on transparency provided in points 58-61 of the CEEAG.…50.Please provide the internet link where the full text of the approved aid scheme or the individual aid granting decision and its implementing provisions and information on each individual aid award granted ad hoc or under an aid scheme approved on the basis of the CEEAG and exceeding EUR 100000 will be published.…2.2.Avoidance of undue negative effects of the aid on competition and tradeTo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 3.2.2 (points 63-70) and section 4.4.5. (points 248-252) of the CEEAG.51.In order to verify compliance with point 67 of the CEEAG, please provide information on the possible short and long-term negative effects of the notified measure(s) on competition and trade.…52.Please explain if the measure falls under any of the following situations:53.Should the aid measure focus on a specific technological choice/path, please justify the reason for the technological choice and that it will not discourage the deployment of cleaner technologies.…54.If the notified measure(s) will only benefit one or a particularly limited number of beneficiaries, in order to verify compliance with point 68 of the CEEAG, please:55.In order to verify compliance with point 69 of the CEEAG, please explain:56.In order to verify compliance with point 70 of the CEEAG:57.In order to verify compliance with point 249 of the CEEAG, please provide justification that the aid will not incentivise the generation of waste or increase the use of resources.…58.In order to verify compliance with point 250 of the CEEAG, please demonstrate that where the aid increases demand for the waste or other materials and resources intended to be re-used, recycled or recovered, the collection capacity of such waste, other materials and resources will be increased accordingly to meet the increased demand.…59.In order to verify compliance with point 251 of the CEEAG, please indicate if the aid will have any potential effects on the functioning of the markets for primary and secondary materials relating to the products concerned, and what these potential effects could result in.…60.In order to verify compliance with point 252 of the CEEAG, where the aid covers operating costs relating to separate collection and sorting of waste or other products, materials or substances in relation to specific waste streams or types of waste in view of preparing for re-use or recycling, please indicate if the aid may potentially interact with any extended producer responsibility schemes in your Member State, please describe any such schemes and specify how it may interact.…3.WEIGHING THE POSITIVE EFFECTS OF THE AID AGAINST THE NEGATIVE EFFECTS ON COMPETITION AND TRADETo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 3.3 (points 71-76) of the CEEAG.61.In order to verify compliance with point 72 of the CEEAG, please explain whether activities supported under the notified measure meet the criteria for environmentally sustainable economic activities provided in Article 3 of the Regulation (EU) 2020/852 of the European Parliament and of the Councilnote, including the ‘do no significant harm’ principle, or other comparable methodologies.…62.(In case of competitive bidding process) Please explain if the notified measure(s) includes features to facilitate the participation of SMEs in competitive bidding processes. In the affirmative, please provide information on those features and justify how the positive effects of ensuring participation of SMEs in the notified measure(s) outweigh the possible distortive effects.Section C:EvaluationTo provide the information in this section, please refer to Section 5 (points 455-463) of the CEEAG.63.If the notified measure(s) exceed the budget/expenditure thresholds in point 456 of the CEEAG please either explain why in your view the exception in point 457 of the CEEAG should apply, or attach to this notification form an Annex that includes a draft evaluation plan covering the scope mentioned in point 458 of the CEEAG)note.…64.If a draft evaluation plan is provided, please:65.In order to verify compliance with point 459(b) of the CEEAG, in case the aid scheme is not currently subject to an ex post evaluation, and its duration exceeds three years, please confirm that you will notify a draft evaluation plan within 30 working days following a significant modification increasing the budget of the scheme to over EUR 150 million in any given year or EUR 750 million over the total duration of the scheme.…66.In order to verify compliance with point 459(c) of the CEEAG, in case the aid scheme is not currently subject to an ex post evaluation, please provide below a commitment that the Member State will notify a draft evaluation plan within 30 working days after recording in official accounts expenditures in excess of EUR 150 million in the previous year.…67.In order to verify compliance with point 461 of the CEEAG,68.In order to verify compliance with point 461 of the CEEAG:Section D:Reporting and monitoringTo provide the information in this section, please refer to Section 6 (points 464 and 465) of the CEEAG.69.Please confirm that the Member State will comply with the requirements for reporting and monitoring set out in Section 6, points 464 and 465, of the CEEAG.…PART III.6.FSupplementary information sheet for State aid granted under the Guidelines on State aid for climate, environmental protection and energy 2022 (hereafter ‘CEEAG’) - Section 4.5 – Aid for the prevention or reduction of pollution other than from greenhouse gasesThis supplementary information sheet concerns measures covered in Section 4.5 of the CEEAG. If the notification includes measures that are covered by more than one section of the CEEAG, please once available also fill in the respective supplementary information sheet that concerns the respective section of the CEEAG.All documents provided by Member States as annexes to this supplementary information sheet must be numbered and document numbers must be indicated in the relevant sections of this supplementary information sheet.Section A:Summary of the main characteristics of the notified measure(s)1.Background and objective(s) of the notified measure(s).1.1.If not already discussed under section 5.2 of the General Information Form (Part I), please provide the background and the main objective, including any Union targets for the environmental objective(s) the measure is intended to support.…1.2.Please indicate any other objectives pursued by the measure. For any objectives that are not purely environmental, please explain whether they may result in any distortions of competition in the internal market.…2.Entry into force and duration:2.1.To the extent not already provided under section 5.5 of the General Information Form (Part I), please indicate the date as of which the aid scheme is planned to enter into force;…2.2.Please indicate the duration of the schemenote.…3.Beneficiary(ies)3.1.If not already provided under section 3 of the General Information Form (Part I), please describe the (potential) beneficiary(ies) of the measure(s);…3.2.Please indicate the location of the beneficiary(ies) (i.e. if only economic entities located in the respective Member State or also in other Member States are eligible to participate in the measure).…3.3.In order to assess the compliance with point 15 of the CEEAG, please specify if aid is granted under the measure(s) in favour of an undertaking (individual or part of a scheme) that is subject to an outstanding recovery order following a previous Commission decision declaring an aid illegal and incompatible with the internal market.In the affirmative, please provide information on the amount of aid still to be recovered so that the Commission takes account of it in the assessment of the aid measure(s).…4.Please confirm that the measure(s) does not involve aid to activities falling outside the scope of application of the CEEAG (see point 13 of the CEEAG). Otherwise, please provide details.…5.Budget and financing of the measure(s).5.1.If not already mentioned in the table under section 7.1 of the General Information Form (Part I), please provide the yearly and/or total budget for the whole duration of the measure(s); if the total budget is not known (for instance because it depends on the results of tenders), please indicate an estimated budget, including the assumptions used to calculate the respective estimated budgetnote.…5.2.if the measure is financed through a levy, please clarify if:Section B:Compatibility assessment of the aid1.POSITIVE CONDITION: THE AID MUST FACILITATE THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN ECONOMIC ACTIVITY1.1.Contribution to the development of an economic activityTo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 3.1.1 (points 23-25) and sections 4.5.1 (points 253-254), and 4.5.2 (points 255-259) of the CEEAG.6.Article 107(3), point (c), of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (’the Treaty’) provides that the Commission may declare compatible ‘aid to facilitate the development of certain economic activities or of certain economic areas, where such aid does not adversely affect trading conditions to an extent contrary to the common interest’. Therefore, compatible aid under that provision of the Treatymust contribute to the development of a certain economic activity.In order to assess compliance with point 23 of the CEEAG, please identify the economic activities that will be facilitated as a result of the aid and how the development of those activities is supported.…7.In order to assess compliance with point 25 of the CEEAG, please “describe if and how the aid will contribute to the achievement of objectives of Union climate policy, environmental policy and energy policy and more specifically, the expected benefits of the aid in terms of its material contribution to environmental protection, including climate change mitigation, or the efficient functioning of the internal energy market”.…8.In addition, please highlight to what extent the aid relates to the policies described under points 253-254 of the CEEAG.…9.Please describe the eligibility requirements applicable to the beneficiary(ies) (for instance by including any technical, environmental (i.e. permits), financial (i.e. collaterals) or other requirements that the beneficiary(ies) need to comply with).…10.Please provide information on the precise scope and supported activities of the aid measure(s), as provided in section 4.5.2 (points 255-259) of the CEEAG. Please indicate which one(s) of the following categories of investments are eligible under the aid measure:…11.If the aid is in the form of tradable permitsnote:12.Please confirm that the aid targets the prevention or reduction of pollution directly linked to the beneficiary(-ies)’s own activities.…13.Please describe how it will be ensured that the aid will not merely displace pollution from one sector to another or from one environmental medium to another and that it will achieve an overall reduction of pollution.…14.For individual aid and aid schemes benefitting a particularly limited number of beneficiaries or an incumbent beneficiary and aiming at decreasing their pollution other than from greenhouse gases, please provide a quantification of the emission/pollutants savings expected from the measure and explain the method followed to quantify them.…15.Please indicate whether the aid measure also contributes to the prevention or reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.If yes, please provide a comparison of the expected results of the measure in terms of the prevention or reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and of emissions of other pollutants on the basis of credible, detailed quantifications.…If the prevention or reduction of greenhouse gas emissions is the predominant objective of the aid measure, please refer to the supplementary information sheet for section 4.1 as its compatibility will be assessed on the basis of section 4.1. However, if the predominant objective of the measure is the prevention or reduction of pollution other than from greenhouse gas emissions, it will be assessed on the basis of section 4.5 (point 259 of the CEEAG).1.2.Incentive effectTo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 3.1.2 (points 26-32) and section 4.5.3 (points 260-262) of the CEEAG.16.Aid can be considered as facilitating an economic activity only if it has an incentive effect. In order to assess compliance with point 26 of the CEEAG, please explain how the measure(s) “induces the beneficiary to change its behaviour, to engage in additional economic activity or in more environmentally-friendly economic activity, which it would not carry out without the aid or would carry out in a restricted or different manner”.…17.Pursuant to point 28 of the CEEAG:17.1.Please provide a comprehensive description of the factual scenario expected to result from the aid measure and the likely counterfactual scenario(s) absent the aid measure.note Where you expect that different categories of beneficiaries may be supported, please ensure that the counterfactual is credible for each of these categories.Please take into account the requirements on the counterfactual included in points 266 and 226-230 CEEAG, notably:When describing the factual scenario and the likely counterfactual scenario(s), please specify the capacity, lifetime and other technical characteristics of the investment for both the factual and the counterfactual scenario(s).…17.2.Please briefly explain the rationale for the choice of the likely counterfactual scenario(s), in view of the proposed different categories of beneficiaries if applicable;…17.3.Please quantify the costs and revenues of factual and counterfactual scenarios and justify the change of behaviour, where relevant for each category of beneficiary, based on:18.In order to demonstrate compliance with points 29 and 31 of the CEEAG:19.In order to demonstrate compliance with point 30 of the CEEAG, please confirm that the aid application includes at least the applicant’s name, a description of the project or activity, including its location, and the amount of aid needed to carry it out.…20.In order to demonstrate compliance with points 32, 261 and 262 of the CEEAG:1.3.No breach of any relevant provision of Union lawTo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 3.1.3 (point 33) of the CEEAG.21.Please provide information to confirm the compliance with the relevant provisions of EU law, in line with point 33 of the CEEAG.…22.If a levy is used to finance the measure(s), please clarify if the assessment of compliance with Articles 30 and 110 of the Treaty needs to be carried out. In the affirmative, please demonstrate how the measure complies with the provisions of Articles 30 and 110 of the Treaty. In this context, the information submitted under question 5.2 above, where the notified measure(s) is financed through a levy can be referred to.…2.NEGATIVE CONDITION: THE AID CANNOT UNDULY AFFECT TRADING CONDITIONS TO AN EXTENT CONTRARY TO THE COMMON INTERES2.1.Minimisation of distortions of competition and trade2.1.1.Necessity of the aidTo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 3.2.1.1 (points 34-38) and section 4.5.4.1 (point 264) of the CEEAG.23.Please explain which market failure(s) your authorities have identified that prevent the achievement of a sufficient level of environmental protection. Please specify in which category the market failures identified fall, by making reference to letters (a), (b), (c) or (d) of point 34 of the CEEAG.…24.In accordance with point 35 of the CEEAG, please provide information on any existing policies and measures that your authorities identified, which already target the identified regulatory or market failures.…25.In order to demonstrate compliance with point 36 of the CEEAG, please provide information that demonstrates that the aid effectively targets residual market failures, also taking into account any other policies and measures already in place to address some of the market failures identified.…26.In order to demonstrate compliance with point 37 of the CEEAG, please explain if, to your authorities’ knowledge, projects or activities similar to those covered by the notified measure(s) with respect to their technological content, level of risk and size, are already delivered within the Union at market conditions. In the affirmative, please provide further evidence to demonstrate the need for State aid.…27.In order to demonstrate compliance with point 38 of the CEEAG, please refer to the quantitative evidence already provided under question 17 above.…28.If the aid is in the form of tradable permits, please provide evidence showing that the following cumulative conditions are fulfilled, in line with point 264 of the CEEAG:2.1.2.AppropriatenessTo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 3.2.1.2 (points 39-46) of the CEEAG.29.In order to verify compliance with point 40 of the CEEAG, please demonstrate that there are no less distortive instruments available that are more appropriate.…30.In order to verify compliance with point 41 of the CEEAG, please demonstrate that the aid measure is designed in such a way as to not undermine the efficiency of other measures remedying the same market failure, such as market-based mechanisms (e.g., the EU ETS).…31.In order to verify compliance with point 42 of the CEEAG, please confirm that none of the beneficiaries of the aid measure(s) could be held liable for the pollution under existing Union or national law (‘polluter pays’ principle).…32.In order to verify compliance with points 43 to 46 of the CEEAG, to demonstrate the appropriateness of the aid among different aid instruments, please provide the following information:2.1.3.ProportionalityTo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 3.2.1.3 (points 47-57) and section 4.5.4.2 (points 265-273) of the CEEAG. Please note that the following three sections 2.1.3.2., 2.1.3.3. and 2.1.3.4. are alternative. Please provide replies only to the applicable section, depending on the design of the proposed measure. For aid granted in the form of tradable permits, please also reply to question 33 (section 2.1.3.1).2.1.3.1.Proportionality of aid granted in the form of tradable permits33.If the aid is in the form of tradable permits, in line with point 273 please explain how:2.1.3.2.Proportionality of aid based on aid intensities set out in points 265-273 of the CEEAG34.In order to describe the eligible costs under the measure, please identify the extra investment costs directly linked to the achievement of a higher level of environmental protection. For this purpose, please refer to the relevant counterfactual scenario, as identified in the response to question 17 and to points 266 and 226 to 230 CEEAG.…35.Please explain how the investment costs of the factual and the counterfactual scenarios will be determined and verified.…36.Please indicate the maximum aid intensities applicable under the measure and indicate whether any bonuses apply (points 267-270 of the CEEAG).…37.For eco-innovation activities, please demonstrate that the following cumulative conditions are fulfilled (point 270 of the CEEAG):38.If by way of derogation from points 267-270 of the CEEAG, it is considered that aid beyond the maximum aid intensities set under Section 4.5.4.2 is required, please indicate the level of aid considered to be necessary and justify it on the basis of a funding gap analysis for reference projects in the factual and counterfactual scenarios as identified in reply to question 17(c) above, in line with points 51-52 of the CEEAG.For this funding gap analysis, please submit a quantification, for the factual scenario(s) and a realistic counterfactual scenario(s)note identified in reply to question 17 C) above, of all main costs and revenues, the estimated weighted average cost of capital (WACC) of the beneficiaries (or reference projects) to discount future cash flows, as well as the net present value (NPV) for the factual and counterfactual scenarios, over the lifetime of the project/reference project.39.Please also demonstrate that the application of a higher aid determined as indicated in question 38 would not result in aid exceeding the funding gap.…40.In case point 52 of the CEEAG is applicable, i.e. the most likely counterfactual scenario consists in the beneficiary not carrying out an activity or investment, or continuing its business without changes, please provide evidence to support this assumptionnote.…41.In all case where the proportionality is justified by reference to a funding gap analysis, please confirm that your authorities will conduct an ex post monitoring to verify the assumptions made about the level of aid required and will put in place a claw-back mechanism. Please also describe the monitoring and claw-back mechanism that your authorities intend to apply (point 271 CEEAG).…2.1.3.3.Proportionality of the aid granted through a competitive bidding processTo provide the information in this section, please refer to points 49, 50 and 272 of the CEEAG.42.In order to verify the compliance with points 49 and 50 of the CEEAG, please provide the following:43.Please explain the elements on which you based the assumption that the bidding process will be open and properly subscribed, i.e. that it can be expected that not all bidders will receive aid and that the number of expected bidders is sufficient to ensure effective competition for the duration of the scheme (point 49(c) of the CEEAG). In your explanation, please take into account the budget or volume of the scheme. Where relevant, please refer to the evidence provided in the replies under question 17.…44.Please provide information on the number of bidding rounds envisaged and expected number of bidders in the first round and over time.…45.In case of one or more undersubscribed bidding processes, please explain how the design of bidding processes will be corrected during the implementation of the scheme in order to restore effective competition, and when (point 49(c) of the CEEAG).…46.Please confirm that ex post adjustments to the bidding process outcome (such as subsequent negotiations on bid results or rationing) are avoided (point 49(d) of the CEEAG).…47.In case there is a possibility of ‘zero subsidy bids’, please explain how proportionality will be ensured (please see point 49, footnote 42, of the CEEAG).…48.Please clarify if the authorities foresee the use of price floors or caps in the competitive bidding process. In the affirmative, please justify their use and explain how they do not constrain the competitive bidding process (point 49 and footnote 42 of the CEEAG).…2.1.4.CumulationTo provide the information in this section, please refer to points 56-57 of the CEEAG.49.In as far as not already provided under Part I of the general notification form and in order to verify compliance with point 56 of the CEEAG, please clarify if the aid under the notified measure(s) may be awarded concurrently under several aid schemes or cumulated with ad hoc or de minimis aid in relation to the same eligible costs. If that is the case, please provide details on those aid schemes, ad hoc aid or de minimis aid and how the aid will be cumulated.…50.If point 56 of the CEEAG is applicable, please justify how the total amount of aid granted under the notified measure(s) for a project or an activity does not lead to overcompensation or exceed the maximum aid amount allowed under points 267-273 of the CEEAG. For each measure that the aid granted under the notified aid measure(s) can be cumulated with, please specify the method used for ensuring compliance with the conditions set out in point 56 of the CEEAG.…51.In case point 57 of the CEEAG is applicable, i.e. the aid granted under the notified measure(s) is combined with centrally managed Union fundingnote (that does not constitute State aid), please justify how the total amount of public funding granted in relation to the same eligible costs does not lead to overcompensation.…2.1.5.TransparencyTo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 3.2.1.4 (points 58-62) of the CEEAG.52.Please confirm that the Member State will comply with the requirements on transparency provided in points 58-61 of the CEEAG.…53.Please provide the internet link where the full text of the approved aid scheme or the individual aid granting decision and its implementing provisions, and information on each individual aid award granted ad hoc or under an aid scheme approved on the basis of the CEEAG and exceeding EUR 100000 will be published.…2.2.Avoidance of undue negative effects of the aid on competition and trade and balancingTo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 3.2.2 (points 63-70) and section 4.5.5 (points 274-275) of the CEEAG.54.In order to verify compliance with point 67 of the CEEAG, please provide information on the possible short and long-term negative effects of the notified measure(s) on competition and trade.…55.Please explain if the measure falls under any of the following situations:56.Should the aid measure focus on a specific technological choice/path, please justify the reason for the technological choice and that it will not discourage the deployment of cleaner technologies.…57.If the notified measure(s) will only benefit one or a particularly limited number of beneficiaries, in order to verify compliance with point 68 of the CEEAG, please:58.In order to verify compliance with point 69 of the CEEAG, please explain:59.In order to verify compliance with point 70 of the CEEAG:60.If the aid is in the form of tradable permits, in order to verify compliance with point 275 of the CEEAG, please confirm that the measure complies with all of the following criteria:3.WEIGHING THE POSITIVE EFFECTS OF THE AID AGAINST THE NEGATIVE EFFECTS ON COMPETITION AND TRADETo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 3.3 (points 71-76) of the CEEAG.61.In order to verify compliance with point 72 of the CEEAG, please explain whether activities supported under the notified measure meet the criteria for environmentally sustainable economic activities provided in Article 3 of the Regulation (EU) 2020/852 of the European Parliament and of the Councilnote, including the ‘do no significant harm’ principle, or other comparable methodologies.…62.(In case of competitive bidding process) Please explain if the notified measure(s) includes features to facilitate the participation of SMEs in competitive bidding processes. In the affirmative, please provide information on those features and justify how the positive effects of ensuring participation of SMEs in the notified measure(s) outweigh the possible distortive effects.…Section C:EvaluationTo provide the information in this section, please refer to Section 5 (points 455-463) of the CEEAG.63.If the notified measure(s) exceed the budget/expenditure thresholds in point 456 of the CEEAG, please either explain why in your view the exception in point 457 of the CEEAG should apply, or attach to this supplementary information sheet an Annex that includes a draft evaluation plan covering the scope mentioned in point 458 of the CEEAGnote.…64.If a draft evaluation plan is provided, please:65.In order to verify compliance with point 459(b) of the CEEAG, in case the aid scheme is not currently subject to an ex post evaluation, and its duration exceeds three years, please confirm that you will notify a draft evaluation plan within 30 working days following a significant modification increasing the budget of the scheme to over EUR 150 million in any given year or EUR 750 million over the total duration of the scheme.…66.In order to verify compliance with point 459(c) of the CEEAG, in case the aid scheme is not currently subject to an ex post evaluation, please provide below a commitment that the Member State will notify a draft evaluation plan within 30 working days after recording in official accounts expenditures in excess of EUR 150 million in the previous year.…67.In order to verify compliance with point 461 of the CEEAG:68.In order to verify compliance with point 461 of the CEEAG:Section D:Reporting and monitoringTo provide the information in this section, please refer to Section 6 (points 464 and 465) of the CEEAG.69.Please confirm that the Member State will comply with the requirements for reporting and monitoring set out in Section 6, points 464 and 465, of the CEEAG.…PART III.6.GSupplementary information sheet for State aid granted under the Guidelines on State aid for climate, environmental protection and energy 2022 (hereafter ‘CEEAG’) - Section 4.6 - Aid for the remediation of contaminated sites, for the rehabilitation of natural habitats and ecosystems and for biodiversity and nature-based solutionThis supplementary information sheet concerns measures covered in Section 4.6 of the CEEAG. If the notification includes measures that are covered by more than one section of the CEEAG, please once available also fill in the respective supplementary information sheet that concerns the respective section of the CEEAG.All documents provided by Member States as annexes to this supplementary information sheet must be numbered and document numbers must be indicated in the relevant sections of this supplementary information sheet.Section A:Summary of the main characteristics of the notified measure(s)1.Background and objective(s) of the notified measure(s).1.1.If not already discussed under section 5.2 of the General Information Form (Part I), please provide the background and the main objective, including any Union targets for remediating contaminated sites, rehabilitating natural habitats and ecosystems and biodiversity and implementing nature-based solutions that the measure is intended to support.…1.2.Please indicate any other objectives pursued by the measure. For any objectives that are not purely environmental, please explain whether they may result in any distortions of competition in the internal market.…2.Entry into force and duration:2.1.To the extent not already provided under section 5.5 of the General Information Form (Part I), please indicate the date as of which the aid scheme is planned to enter into force;…2.2.Please indicate the duration of the scheme.note…3.Beneficiary(ies)3.1.If not already provided under section 3 of the General Information Form (Part I), please describe the (potential) beneficiary(ies) of the measure(s);…3.2.Please indicate the location of the (potential) beneficiary(ies) (i.e. if only economic entities located in the respective Member State or also in other Member States are eligible to participate in the measure).…3.3.In order to assess the compliance with point 15 of the CEEAG, please specify if aid is granted under the measure(s) in favour of an undertaking (individual or part of a scheme) that is subject to an outstanding recovery order following a previous Commission decision declaring an aid illegal and incompatible with the internal market.In the affirmative, please provide information on the amount of aid still to be recovered so that the Commission takes account of it in the assessment of the aid measure(s).…4.Please confirm that the measure(s) does not involve aid to activities falling outside the scope of application of the CEEAG (see point 13 of the CEEAG). Otherwise, please provide details.…5.Budget and financing of the measure(s).5.1.If not already mentioned in the table under section 7.1 of the General Information Form (Part I), please provide the yearly and/or total budget for the whole duration of the measure(s); if the total budget is not known (for instance because it depends on the results of tenders), please indicate an estimated budget, including the assumptions used to calculate the respective estimated budget.note…5.2.if the measure is financed through a levy, please clarify if:Section B:Compatibility assessment of the aid1.POSITIVE CONDITION: THE AID MUST FACILITATE THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN ECONOMIC ACTIVITY1.1.Contribution to the development of an economic activityTo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 3.1.1 (points 23-25) and sections 4.6.1 (points 276-278) and 4.6.2 (points 279-282) of the CEEAG.6.Article 107(3), point (c), of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (’the Treaty’) provides that the Commission may declare compatible “aid to facilitate the development of certain economic activities or of certain economic areas, where such aid does not adversely affect trading conditions to an extent contrary to the common interest”. Therefore, compatible aid under that provision of the Treaty must contribute to the development of a certain economic activity.In order to assess compliance with point 23 of the CEEAG, please identify the economic activities that will be facilitated as a result of the aid and how the development of those activities is supported.…7.In order to assess compliance with point 25 of the CEEAG, please describe “if and how the aid will contribute to the achievement of objectives of Union climate policy, environmental policy and energy policy and more specifically, the expected benefits of the aid in terms of its material contribution to environmental protection, including climate change mitigation, or the efficient functioning of the internal energy market”.…8.In addition, please highlight to what extent the aid relates to the policies described under points 276, 277 and 278 of the CEEAG.…9.Please describe the eligibility requirements applicable to the beneficiary(ies) (for instance by including any technical, environmental (i.e. permits), financial (i.e. collaterals) or other requirements that the beneficiary(ies) need to comply with).…10.Please provide information on the precise scope and precise supported activities of the aid measure(s) to demonstrate that the scheme covers activities falling under one or several of the categories listed under point 281 of the CEEAG.…11.Please confirm that the aid granted under the measure(s) is not awarded for remediation or rehabilitation following the closure of power plants and mining or extraction operations to the extent that the aid in question is covered by Section 4.12 (point 280(a) of the CEEAG). Should the aid for remediation or rehabilitation be directly following the early closure of profitable coal, peat and oil shale activities or the closure of uncompetitive coal, peat and oil shale activities please fill in Supplementary information sheet for State aid granted under Section 4.12 of the CEEAG, as such aid is assessed under Section 4.12.…12.Please confirm that the aid granted under the measure(s) is not awarded to make good the damage caused by natural disasters, such as earthquakes, avalanches, landslides, floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, volcanic eruptions and wild fires of natural origin (point 280(b) of the CEEAG).…13.In order to determine whether the compatibility of the measure will be assessed under Section 4.6 or Section 4.1, please indicate whether the aid granted under the measure(s) also contributes to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.…14.In the affirmative, please provide, in order to determine the predominant objective of the measure in line with point 282 and footnote 124 of the CEEAG, a comparison of the expected results of the measure in terms of the prevention or reduction of emissions of greenhouse gases and of the remediation of environmental damage, the rehabilitation of natural habitats and ecosystems, the protection or restoration of biodiversity and the implementation of nature-based solutions for climate change adaptation and mitigation, on the basis of credible, detailed quantifications.…1.2.Incentive effectTo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 3.1.2 (points 26-32) and section 4.6.3 (points 283-287) of the CEEAG.15.Aid can be considered as facilitating an economic activity only if it has an incentive effect. In order to assess the compliance with point 26 of the CEEAG, please explain how the measure(s) “induces the beneficiary to change its behaviour, to engage in additional economic activity or in more environmentally-friendly economic activity, which it would not carry out without the aid or would carry out in a restricted or different manner”.…16.Pursuant to point 28 of the CEEAG, please provide a comprehensive description of the factual scenario expected to result from the aid measure and the likely counterfactual scenario(s) absent the aid measure.note Where you expect that different categories of beneficiaries may be supported, please ensure that the counterfactual is credible for each of these categories and justify the choice of the counterfactual.…Please justify the change of behaviour where relevant for each category of beneficiary, based on the respective reference projectnote, the corresponding counterfactuals and resulting funding gap.…17.In order to assess compliance with point 27 of the CEEAG, please provide information to confirm that the aid does not support the costs of an activity that the aid beneficiary would anyhow carry out and does not compensate for the normal business risk of an economic activity.…18.In order to demonstrate compliance with points 29 and 31 of the CEEAG:19.In order to demonstrate compliance with point 30 of the CEEAG, please confirm that the aid application includes at least the applicant’s name, a description of the project or activity, including its location, and the amount of aid needed to carry it out.…20.In order to demonstrate compliance with point 32 of the CEEAG, please indicate if there are Union standardsAccording to point 19(89) of the CEEAG, ‘Union standard’ means:applicable to the notified measure(s), mandatory national standards that are more stringent or ambitious than the corresponding Union standards, or mandatory national standards. adopted in the absence of Union standards. In that context, please provide information to demonstrate the incentive effect.…21.In cases where the relevant Union standard has already been adopted but is not yet in force, please demonstrate that the aid has an incentive effect because it incentivises the investment to be implemented and finalised at least 18 months before the standard enters into force.…22.Without prejudice to Directive 2004/35/EC or other relevant Union rulesnote, in order to verify the compliance with points 284 and 285 of the CEEAG and with the ‘polluter pays’ principle:23.In order to verify compliance with point 286 of the CEEAG, please confirm that the aid is not granted for the implementation of compensatory measures referred to in Article 6(4) of Council Directive 92/43/EECnote.…24.Please indicate whether the aid covers extra costs necessary to increase the scope or ambition of the compensatory measures beyond the legal obligations under Article 6(4) of the Council Directive 92/43/EEC.…1.3.No breach of any relevant provision of Union lawTo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 3.1.3 (point 33) of the CEEAG.25.Please provide information to confirm the compliance with the relevant provisions of EU law, in line with point 33 of the CEEAG.…26.If a levy is used to finance the measure(s), please clarify if the assessment of compliance with Articles 30 and 110 of the Treaty needs to be carried out. In the affirmative, please demonstrate how the measure complies with the provisions of Articles 30 and 110 of the Treaty. In this context, the information submitted under question 5.2 above, where the notified measure(s) is financed through a levy can be referred to.…2.NEGATIVE CONDITION: THE AID CANNOT UNDULY AFFECT TRADING CONDITIONS TO AN EXTENT CONTRARY TO THE COMMON INTEREST2.1.Minimisation of distortions of competition and trade2.1.1.Minimisation of distortions of competition and tradeTo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 3.2.1.1 (points 34-38) of the CEEAG.27.Please explain which market failure(s) your authorities have identified that prevent the achievement of a sufficient level of environmental protection. Please specify in which category the market failures identified fall, by making reference to letters (a), (b), (c) or (d) of point 34 of the CEEAG.…28.In accordance with point 35 of the CEEAG, please provide information on any existing policies and measures that your authorities identified, which already target the identified regulatory or market failures.…29.In order to demonstrate compliance with point 36 of the CEEAG, please provide information that demonstrates that the aid effectively targets residual market failures, also taking into account any other policies and measures already in place to address some of the market failures identified.…30.In order to demonstrate compliance with point 37 of the CEEAG, please explain if, to your authorities’ knowledge, projects or activities similar to those covered by the notified measure(s) with respect to their technological content, level of risk and size, are already delivered within the Union at market conditions. In the affirmative, please provide further evidence to demonstrate the need for State aid.…31.In order to demonstrate compliance with point 38 of the CEEAG, please refer to the quantitative evidence already provided under question 16 above.…2.1.2.AppropriatenessTo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 3.2.1.2 (points 39-46) of the CEEAG.32.In order to verify compliance with point 40 of the CEEAG, please demonstrate that there are no less distortive instruments available that are more appropriate.…33.In order to verify compliance with point 41 of the CEEAG, please demonstrate that the aid measure is designed in such a way as to not undermine the efficiency of other measures remedying the same market failure, such as market-based mechanisms (e.g., the Union’s ETS).…34.In order to verify compliance with points 43 to 46 of the CEEAG, to demonstrate the appropriateness of the aid among different aid instruments, please provide the following information:2.1.3.ProportionalityTo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 4.6.4 (points 288-291 of the CEEAG.35.Please describe what costs are eligible under the aid measure and how they will be identified.…36.For investments in the remediation of environmental damage or the rehabilitation of natural habitats and ecosystems:37.For investments in the protection or restoration of biodiversity and in the implementation of nature-based solutions for climate change adaptation and mitigation, please confirm that eligible costs may not exceed the total costs of the works resulting in the contribution to protecting or restoring biodiversity or in the implementation of nature-based solutions for climate change adaptation and mitigation (point 289 of the CEEAG).…38.For aid granted for the implementation of nature-based solutions in buildings, for which an energy performance certificate exists, please demonstrate that these investments do not prevent the implementation of energy efficiency measures recommended in the energy performance certificate (point 290 of the CEEAG).…39.Point 291 of the CCEAG allows the aid intensity to reach up to 100 %. Please indicate the maximum aid intensities applicable under the measure.2.1.4.CumulationTo provide the information in this section, please refer to points 56-57 of the CEEAG.40.In as far as not already provided under Part I of the general notification form and in order to verify compliance with point 56 of the CEEAG, please clarify if the aid under the notified measure(s) may be awarded concurrently under several aid schemes or cumulated with ad hoc or de minimis aid in relation to the same eligible costs. If that is the case, please provide details on those aid schemes, ad hoc aid or de minimis aid and how the aid will be cumulated.…41.If point 56 of the CEEAG is applicable, please justify how the total amount of aid granted under the notified measure(s) for a project or an activity does not lead to overcompensation or exceed the maximum aid amount allowed under point 291 of the CEEAG. For each measure that the aid granted under the notified aid measure(s) can be cumulated with, please specify the method used for ensuring compliance with the conditions set out in point 56 of the CEEAG.…42.In case point 57 of the CEEAG is applicable, i.e. the aid granted under the notified measure(s) is combined with centrally managed Union fundingnote (that does not constitute State aid), please justify how the total amount of public funding granted in relation to the same eligible costs does not lead to overcompensation.…2.1.5.TransparencyTo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 3.2.1.4 (points 58-61) of the CEEAG.43.Please confirm that the Member State will comply with the requirements on transparency provided in points 58-61 of the CEEAG.…44.Please provide the internet link where the full text of the approved aid scheme or the individual aid granting decision and its implementing provisions and information on each individual aid award granted ad hoc or under an aid scheme approved on the basis of the CEEAG and exceeding EUR 100000 will be published.…2.2.Avoidance of undue negative effects on competition and trade and balancingTo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 3.2.2 (points 63-70) of the CEEAG.45.In order to verify compliance with point 67 of the CEEAG, please provide information on the possible short and long-term negative effects of the notified measure(s) on competition and trade.…46.Please explain if the measure falls under any of the following situations:47.Should the aid measure focus on a specific technological choice/path, please justify the reason for the technological choice and that it will not discourage the deployment of cleaner technologies.…48.If the notified measure(s) will only benefit one or a particularly limited number of beneficiaries, in order to verify compliance with point 68 of the CEEAG, please:49.In order to verify compliance with point 69 of the CEEAG, please explain:50.In order to verify compliance with point 70 of the CEEAG:3.WEIGHING THE POSITIVE EFFECTS OF THE AID AGAINST THE NEGATIVE EFFECTS ON COMPETITION AND TRADETo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 3.3 (points 71-76) of the CEEAG.51.In order to verify compliance with point 72 of the CEEAG, please explain whether activities supported under the notified measure meet the criteria for environmentally sustainable economic activities provided in Article 3 of the Regulation (EU) 2020/852 of the European Parliament and of the Councilnote, including the ‘do no significant harm’ principle, or other comparable methodologies.…Section C:EvaluationTo provide the information in this section, please refer to Section 5 (points 455-463) of the CEEAG.52.If the notified measure(s) exceed the budget/expenditure thresholds in point 456 of the CEEAG, please either explain why in your view the exception in point 457 of the CEEAG should apply, or attach to this notification form an Annex that includes a draft evaluation plan covering the scope mentioned in point 458 of the CEEAGnote.…53.If a draft evaluation plan is provided, please:54.In order to verify compliance with point 459(b) of the CEEAG, in case the aid scheme is not currently subject to an ex post evaluation and its duration exceeds three years, please confirm that you will notify a draft evaluation plan within 30 working days following a significant modification increasing the budget of the scheme to over EUR 150 million in any given year or EUR 750 million over the total duration of the scheme.…55.In order to verify compliance with point 459(c) of the CEEAG, in case the aid scheme is not currently subject to an ex post evaluation, please provide below a commitment that the Member State will notify a draft evaluation plan within 30 working days after recording in official accounts expenditures in excess of EUR 150 million in the previous year.…56.In order to verify compliance with point 461 of the CEEAG:57.In order to verify compliance with point 461 of the CEEAG:Section D:Reporting and monitoringTo provide the information in this section, please refer to Section 6 (points 464-465) of the CEEAG.58.Please confirm that the Member State will comply with the requirements for reporting and monitoring set out in Section 6, points 464 and 465, of the CEEAG.…PART III.6.HSupplementary information sheet for State aid granted under the Guidelines on State aid for climate, environmental protection and energy 2022 (hereafter ‘CEEAG’) - Section 4.7.1 – Aid in the form of reductions in environmental taxes and parafiscal leviesThis supplementary information sheet concerns measures covered in Section 4.7.1 of the CEEAG. If the notification includes measures that are covered by more than one section of the CEEAG, please once available also fill in the respective supplementary information sheet that concerns the respective section of the CEEAG.All documents provided by Member States as annexes to this supplementary information sheet must be numbered and document numbers must be indicated in the relevant sections of this supplementary information sheet.Section A:Summary of the main characteristics of the measure(s)1.Background and objective(s) of the measure(s):1.1.If not already discussed under section 5.2 of the General Information Form (Part. I), please provide the background and the main objective, including the relation to any Union environmental targets that the measure is intended to support.…1.2.If not already discussed under section 5.2 of the General Information Form (Part. I), please indicate any other objectives pursued by the measure. For any objectives that are not purely environmental, please explain whether they may result in any distortions to the internal market.…2.Entry into force and duration:2.1.To the extent not already provided under section 5.5 of the General Information Form (Part I), please indicate:3.Beneficiary(ies):3.1.If not already provided under section 3 of the General Information Form (Part I), please describe the (potential) beneficiary(ies) of the measure(s).…3.2.Please indicate the location of the beneficiary(ies) (i.e. if only economic entities located in the respective Member States or also in other Member States are eligible to participate in the measure).…3.3.In order to assess the compliance with point 15 of the CEEAG, please specify if aid is granted under the measure(s) in favour of an undertaking (individual or part of a scheme) that is subject to an outstanding recovery order following a previous Commission decision declaring an aid illegal and incompatible with the internal market.…In the affirmative, please provide information on the amount of aid still to be recovered so that the Commission takes account of it in the assessment of the aid measure(s).…4.Please confirm that the measure(s) does not involve aid to activities falling outside the scope of application of the CEEAG (see point 13 CEEAG). Otherwise, please provide details.…5.Budget and financing of the measure(s):5.1.If not already mentioned in the table under section 7.1 of the General Information Form (Part I), please provide the yearly and/or total budget for the whole duration of the measure(s); if the total budget is not known (for instance it depends on the results of tenders), please indicate an estimated budget, including the assumptions used to calculate the respective estimated budget.note…5.2.As the measure concerns an environmental tax/parafiscal levynote, please clarify if:Section B:Compatibility assessment of the aid1.POSITIVE CONDITION: THE AID MUST FACILITATE THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN ECONOMIC ACTIVITY1.1.Contribution to the development of an economic activity, incentive effect, rationale for the aid and scope of supported activitiesTo provide the information in this section, please refer to sections 3.1.1 and 3.1.2, to the extent they are applicable to the measure(s), and sections 4.7.1.1.and 4.7.1.2 (points 293-296) of the CEEAG.6.Article 107(3), point (c), of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (’the Treaty’) provides that the Commission may declare compatible ‘aid to facilitate the development of certain economic activities or of certain economic areas, where such aid does not adversely affect trading conditions to an extent contrary to the common interest’. Therefore, compatible aid under that provision of the Treaty must contribute to the development of a certain economic activity.In order to assess the compliance with point 23 of the CEEAG, please identify the economic activities that will be facilitated as a result of the aid and how the development of those activities is supported.…7.Aid can be considered as facilitating an economic activity only if it has an incentive effect. In order to assess the compliance with section 3.1.2 of the CEEAG, please explain how the measure(s) ‘induce[s] the beneficiary to change its behaviour, to engage in additional economic activity or in more environmentally-friendly economic activity, which it would not carry out without the aid or would carry out in a restricted or different manner’, in light of the rationale for the aid as explained in section 4.7.1.1 of the CEEAG.…8.In order to assess the compliance with point 293 of the CEEAG, please describe (i) why ‘reductions in environmental taxes or parafiscal levies [that] may adversely impact the environmental protection objective, (…) may nonetheless be needed’, and (ii) why ‘the beneficiaries would otherwise be placed at such a competitive disadvantage that it would not be feasible to introduce the environmental tax or parafiscal levy in the first place’.…9.In order to assess the compliance with point 294 of the CEEAG please describe:10.In order to assess compliance with point 295 of the CEEAG, please provide the information as described in point 296 of the CEEAG:1.2.No breach of any relevant provision of Union lawTo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 3.1.3 (point 33) of the CEEAG.11.Please provide information to confirm the compliance with the relevant provisions of EU law, in line with point 33 of the CEEAG.…12.If a levy is used to finance the measure(s), please clarify if the assessment of compliance with Articles 30 and 110 of the Treaty needs to be carried out. In the affirmative, please demonstrate how the measure complies with the provisions of Articles 30 and 110 of the Treaty. In this context, the information submitted under question 5.2 above can be referred to.…2.NEGATIVE CONDITION: THE AID CANNOT UNDULY AFFECT TRADING CONDITIONS TO AN EXTENT CONTRARY TO THE COMMON INTEREST2.1.Minimisation of distortions of competition and tradePlease note that sections 2.1.1 and 2.1.2 are alternative. For cases that are eligible for a simplified approach in line with section 2.1.1 below, replies under section 2.1.2 are not required.2.1.1.Simplified approach for harmonised environmental taxesTo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 4.7.1.3 (points 297-300) of the CEEAG. When environmental taxes are harmonised, the Commission may apply a simplified approach to assess the necessity and proportionality of the aid. In the context of Directive 2003/96/EC, the Commission may apply a simplified approach for tax reductions respecting the Union minimum tax level set out in points 298 and 299.13.Please clarify whether the measure(s) falls in the scope of Directive 2003/96/EC.…14.In the affirmative, and in order to assess compliance with point 298 of the CEEAG, please provide the following information:15.In order to assess compliance with point 299 of the CEEAG:2.1.2.In-depth assessment of the measure(s)When environmental taxes are non-harmonised or the beneficiaries pay less than the Union minimum level of the harmonised tax where allowed by Directive 2003/96/EC, an in-depth assessment of the necessity and proportionality of the aid is needed.2.1.2.1.Necessity of the aidTo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 3.2.1.1, to the extent it is applicable to the measure(s), and section 4.7.1.3.1 (points 301-303) of the CEEAG.16.In order to assess the compliance with the applicable requirements of section 3.2.1.1 of the CEEAG, please describe how the measure(s) is targeted towards a situation where it can bring about a material development that the market alone cannot deliver. In your reply, please refer to market failures as described in point 34 of the CEEAG as applicable and explain why other policies and measures already in place as mentioned in point 35 of the CEEAG are not sufficient to address these.…17.In order to assess compliance with point 302 of the CEEAG, please describe whether the following conditions are met:18.For tax reductions for biofuels, bioliquids and biomass fuels, in order to assess compliance with point 303 of the CEEAG, please:2.1.2.2.Appropriateness of the aidTo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 3.2.1.2, to the extent it is applicable to the measure(s), and section 4.7.1.3.2. (points 304-306) of the CEEAG.19.In order to assess the compliance with the applicable requirements of section 3.2.1.2 of the CEEAG, please describe why the measure(s) is an appropriate policy instrument to achieve the intended objective of the aid, that is to say there must not be a less distortive policy and aid instrument capable of achieving the same results, taking into account other policy instruments and different aid instruments that could be implemented as an alternative.…20.In order to assess compliance with point 305 of the CEEAG, please confirm that (i) the duration of the measure(s) is of maximum 10 years and (ii) any re-notification will be based on a re-evaluation of the appropriateness of the measure(s).…21.If (part of) the aid is in the form of a tax refund, in order to assess compliance with point 306 of the CEEAG, please confirm that the amount of the tax refund will be calculated on the basis of historical data, that is to say the level of production, and the consumption or pollution observed for the undertaking in a given base year.…2.1.2.3.Proportionality of the aidTo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 4.7.1.3.3. (points 307-309) of the CEEAG.22.In order to assess the compliance with point 308 of the CEEAG (requiring that at least one of the following conditions is fulfilled), please provide either of the following information:23.If option ii. of question 22 is relied upon, in order to assess the compliance with point 309 of the CEEAG, please describe:2.2.CumulationTo provide the information in this section, please refer to points 56-57 of the CEEAG.24.In as far as not already provided under Part I of the general notification form and in order to verify compliance with point 56 of the CEEAG, please clarify if the aid under the measure(s) may be awarded concurrently under several aid schemes or cumulated with ad hoc or de minimis aid in relation to the same eligible costs. If that is the case, please provide details on those aid schemes, ad hoc aid or de minimis aid and how the aid will be cumulated.…25.If point 56 of the CEEAG is applicable, please justify how the total amount of aid granted under the measure(s) for a project or an activity does not lead to overcompensation or exceed the maximum aid amount allowed under point 308 of the CEEAG. For each measure that the aid granted under the notified aid measure(s) can be cumulated with, please specify the method used for ensuring compliance with the conditions set out in point 56 of the CEEAG.…26.If point 57 of the CEEAG is applicable, i.e. the aid granted under the measure(s) is combined with centrally managed Union fundingnote (that does not constitute State aid), please justify how the total amount of public funding granted in relation to the same eligible costs does not lead to overcompensation.…2.3.TransparencyTo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 3.2.1.4 (points 58-62) of the CEEAG.27.Please confirm that the Member State will comply with the requirements on transparency provided in points 58-61 of the CEEAG.…28.Please provide the internet link(s) where the full text of the approved aid scheme or the individual aid granting decision and its implementing provisions, and information on each individual aid award granted ad hoc or under an aid scheme approved on the basis of these guidelines and exceeding EUR 100000 will be published.…2.4.Avoidance of undue negative effects on competition and tradeTo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 3.2.2 of the CEEAG, to the extent it is applicable to the measure(s).29.In order to assess the compliance with the applicable requirements of section 3.2.2 of the CEEAG, please describe how the measure(s) mitigates any manifestly negative effects on competition and trade.…30.In order to assess compliance with point 70 of the CEEAG:3.WEIGHING THE POSITIVE EFFECTS OF THE AID AGAINST THE NEGATIVE EFFECTS ON COMPETITION AND TRADETo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 3.3 (points 71-76) of the CEEAG, to the extent it is applicable to the measure(s).31.In order to assess compliance with the applicable requirements of section 3.3. of the CEEAG:Section C:EvaluationTo provide the information in this section, please refer to point 76(a) and Section 5 (points 455-463) of the CEEAG.32.If the measure(s) exceed the budget/expenditure thresholds in point 456 of the CEEAG, please either explain why in the view of the Member State the exception in point 457 of the CEEAG should apply, or attach to this supplementary information sheet an annex that includes a draft evaluation plan covering the scope mentioned in point 458 of the CEEAG.note…33.If a draft evaluation plan is provided, please:34.In order to assess the compliance with point 459(b) of the CEEAG, in case the aid scheme is not currently subject to an ex post evaluation, and its duration exceeds three years, please confirm that the Member State will notify a draft evaluation plan within 30 working days following a significant modification increasing the budget of the scheme to over EUR 150 million in any given year or EUR 750 million over the total duration of the scheme.…35.In order to assess the compliance with point 459(c) of the CEEAG, in case the aid scheme is not currently subject to an ex post evaluation, please provide below a commitment that the Member State will notify a draft evaluation plan within 30 working days after recording in official accounts expenditures in excess of EUR 150 million in the previous year.…36.In order to assess the compliance with point 461 of the CEEAG:37.In order to further assess the compliance with point 461 of the CEEAG:Section D:Reporting and monitoringTo provide the information in this section, please refer to Section 6 (points 464-465) of the CEEAG.38.Please confirm that the Member State will comply with the requirements for reporting and monitoring provided in Section 6, points 464 and 465, of the CEEAG.…PART III.6.ISupplementary information sheet for State aid granted under the Guidelines on State aid for climate, environmental protection and energy 2022 (hereafter ‘CEEAG’) - Section 4.7.2 – Aid for environmental protection in the form of reductions in taxes or parafiscal leviesThis supplementary information sheet concerns measures covered in Section 4.7.2 of the CEEAG. If the notification includes measures that are covered by more than one section of the CEEAG, please once available also fill in the respective supplementary information sheet that concerns the respective section of the CEEAG.All documents provided by Member States as annexes to this supplementary information sheet must be numbered and document numbers must be indicated in the relevant sections of this supplementary information sheet.Section A:Summary of the main characteristics of the notified measure(s)1.Background and objective(s) of the notified measure(s).1.1.If not already discussed under section 5.2 of the General Information Form (Part I), please provide the background and the main objective, including any Union targets for environmental protection that the measure is intended to support.…1.2.Please indicate any other objectives pursued by the measure. For any objectives that are not purely environmental, please explain whether they may result in any distortions of competition in the internal market.…2.Entry into force and duration:2.1.To the extent not already provided under section 5.5 of the General Information Form (Part I), please indicate the date as of which the aid scheme is planned to enter into force;…2.2.Please indicate the duration of the schemenote.…3.Beneficiary(ies)3.1.If not already provided under section 3 of the General Information Form (Part I), please describe the (potential) beneficiary(ies) of the measure(s);…3.2.Please indicate the location of the beneficiary(ies) (i.e. if only economic entities located in the respective Member State or also in other Member States are eligible to participate in the measure).…3.3.In order to assess the compliance with point 15 of the CEEAG, please specify if aid is granted under the measure(s) in favour of an undertaking (individual or part of a scheme) that is subject to an outstanding recovery order following a previous Commission decision declaring an aid illegal and incompatible with the internal market.In the affirmative, please provide information on the amount of aid still to be recovered so that the Commission takes account of it in the assessment of the aid measure(s).…4.Please confirm that the measure(s) does not involve aid to activities falling outside the scope of application of the CEEAG (see point 13 of the CEEAG). Otherwise, please provide details.…5.Budget and financing of the measure(s).5.1.If not already mentioned in the table under section 7.1 of the General Information Form (Part I), please provide the yearly and/or total budget for the whole duration of the measure(s); if the total budget is not known (for instance because it depends on the results of tenders), please indicate an estimated budget, including the assumptions used to calculate the respective estimated budgetnote.…5.2.if the measure (i.e. the tax/parafiscal reduction) is financed through a levy, please clarify if:Section B:Compatibility assessment of the aid1.POSITIVE CONDITION: THE AID MUST FACILITATE THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN ECONOMIC ACTIVITY1.1.Contribution to the development of an economic activityTo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 3.1.1 (points 23-25) and sections 4.7.2.1 (point 310) and 4.7.2.2 (points 311-313) of the CEEAG.6.Article 107(3), point (c), of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (’the Treaty’) provides that the Commission may declare compatible ‘aid to facilitate the development of certain economic activities or of certain economic areas, where such aid does not adversely affect trading conditions to an extent contrary to the common interest’. Therefore, compatible aid under that provision of the Treaty must contribute to the development of certain economic activity.In order to assess compliance with point 23 of the CEEAG, please identify the economic activities that will be facilitated as a result of the aid and how the development of those activities is supported.…7.In order to assess compliance with point 25 of the CEEAG, please “describe if and how the aid will contribute to the achievement of objectives of Union climate policy, environmental policy and energy policy and more specifically, the expected benefits of the aid in terms of its material contribution to environmental protection, including climate change mitigation, or the efficient functioning of the internal energy market”.…8.In addition, depending on the Section of the CEAAG under which the supported activities fall, please highlight to what extent the aid relates to the objectives and/or policies described under point 135 of the CEEAG (for Section 4.2), points 160-161 of the CEEAG (for Section 4.3.1), points 190-191 of the CEEAG (for Section 4.3.2), points 217-219 of the CEEAG (for Section 4.4), points 253-254 of the CEEAG (for Section 4.5) or points 276-278 of the CEEAG (for Section 4.6).…9.Pursuant to point 311 of the CEEAG, and depending on the Section of the CEEAG under which the supported activities fall, please provide information on the precise scope and precise supported activities of the aid measure(s) by filling in the following question(s) of the relevant supplementary information sheet. For activities falling under Section:…10.Please indicate whether the supported activities primarily pursue a decarbonisation objective. If the prevention or reduction of greenhouse gas emissions is the predominant objective of the aid measure, please refer to the supplementary information sheet for Section 4.1 of the CEEAG in line with point 312 of the CEEAG, as such aid is assessed on the basis of Section 4.1 of the CEEAG.…11.Please provide a detailed description of the taxes and/or parafiscal levies that will be reduced (including their purpose, how they are charged across the base, the rate and the entities involved in setting and reviewing the rate as well as in collecting and managing the revenues raised). On this basis, in order to ensure compliance with point 313 of the CEEAG, please demonstrate that the proposed measure does not involve reductions in taxes or levies reflecting the essential costs of providing energy or related services, such as network charges or charges financing capacity mechanisms. In addition, please confirm that the measure does not cover reductions from levies on electricity consumption that finance an energy policy objective.…12.Please describe the eligibility requirements applicable to the beneficiary(ies) (for instance by including any technical, environmental (i.e. permits), financial (i.e. collaterals) or other requirements that the beneficiary(ies) need to comply with).…1.2.Incentive effectTo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 3.1.2 (points 26-32) and section 4.7.2.3 (points 315-316) of the CEEAG.13.Aid can be considered as facilitating an economic activity only if it has an incentive effect. In order to assess compliance with point 26 of the CEEAG, please explain how the measure(s) “induces the beneficiary to change its behaviour, to engage in additional economic activity or in more environmentally-friendly economic activity, which it would not carry out without the aid or would carry out in a restricted or different manner”.…14.Pursuant to point 28 and 315 of the CEEAG:14.1.Please provide a comprehensive description of the factual scenario expected to result from the aid measure and the likely counterfactual scenario(s) absent the aid measure.note Where you expect that different categories of beneficiaries may be supported, please ensure that the counterfactual is credible for each of these categories.Please take into account the requirements regarding the counterfactual included in points 165-169 of the CEEAG (for projects and activities that fall within the scope of Section 4.3.1) and 226-230 of the CEEAG (for projects and activities that fall within the scope of Sections 4.4 and 4.5) and fill in the questions from the respective supplementary information sheet for Sections 4.3.1, 4.4 or 4.5.…14.2.Please briefly explain the rationale for the choice of the likely counterfactual scenario(s), in view of the proposed different categories of beneficiaries, if applicable;…14.3.Please quantify the costs and revenues of factual and counterfactual scenarios and justify the change of behaviour, where relevant for each category of beneficiary, by comparing the profitability of the reference projectnote or activity with and without the tax or parafiscal levy reductionnote, based on:15.In order to assess compliance with point 27 of the CEEAG, please provide information to confirm that the aid does not support the costs of an activity that the aid beneficiary would anyhow carry out and does not compensate for the normal business risk of an economic activity.…16.In order to demonstrate compliance with points 29, 31 and 316 of the CEEAG, please indicate if the project or activity already started prior to a written aid application by the beneficiary to the national authorities.…17.For projects or activities that started before the aid application is submitted, please:18.In order to demonstrate compliance with point 30 of the CEEAG, please confirm that the aid application includes at least the applicant’s name, a description of the project or activity, including its location, and the amount of aid needed to carry it out.…19.In order to demonstrate compliance with point 32 of the CEEAG:1.3.No breach of any relevant provision of Union lawTo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 3.1.3 (point 33) of the CEEAG.20.Please provide information to confirm the compliance with the relevant provisions of EU law, in line with point 33 of the CEEAG.…21.If a levy is used to finance the measure(s), please clarify if the assessment of compliance with Articles 30 and 110 of the Treaty needs to be carried out. In the affirmative, please demonstrate how the measure complies with the provisions of Articles 30 and 110 of the Treaty. In this context, the information submitted under question 5.2 above, where the notified measure(s) is financed through a levy can be referred to.…2.NEGATIVE CONDITION: THE AID CANNOT UNDULY AFFECT TRADING CONDITIONS TO AN EXTENT CONTRARY TO THE COMMON INTEREST2.1.Minimisation of distortions of competition and trade2.1.1.Necessity of the aidTo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 3.2.1.1 (points 34-38) of the CEEAG.22.Please explain which market failure(s) your authorities have identified that prevent the achievement of a sufficient level of environmental protection. Please specify in which category the market failures identified fall, by making reference to letters (a), (b), (c) or (d) of point 34 of the CEEAG.…23.In accordance with point 35 of the CEEAG, please provide information on any existing policies and measures that your authorities identified, which already target the identified regulatory or market failures.…24.In order to demonstrate compliance with point 36 of the CEEAG, please provide information that demonstrates that the aid effectively targets residual market failures, also taking into account any other policies and measures already in place to address some of the market failures identified.…25.In order to demonstrate compliance with point 37 of the CEEAG, please explain if, to your authorities’ knowledge, projects or activities similar to those covered by the notified measure(s) with respect to their technological content, level of risk and size, are already delivered within the Union at market conditions. In the affirmative, please provide further evidence to demonstrate the need for State aid.…26.In order to demonstrate compliance with point 38 of the CEEAG, please refer to the quantitative evidence already provided under question 14(c) above.…2.1.2.AppropriatenessTo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 3.2.1.2 (points 39-46) of the CEEAG.27.In order to verify compliance with point 40 of the CEEAG, please demonstrate that there are no less distortive instruments available that are more appropriate.…28.In order to verify compliance with point 41 of the CEEAG, please demonstrate that the aid measure is designed in such a way as to not undermine the efficiency of other measures remedying the same market failure, such as market-based mechanisms (e.g., the EU ETS).…29.In order to verify compliance with point 42 of the CEEAG, please confirm that none of the beneficiaries of the aid measure(s) could be held liable for the pollution under existing Union or national law (‘polluter pays’ principle).…30.In order to verify compliance with points 43 to 46 of the CEEAG, to demonstrate the appropriateness of the aid among different aid instruments, please provide the following information:2.1.3.ProportionalityTo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 4.7.2.4 (points 318-320) of the CEEAG.31.In order to verify the compliance with point 318 of the CEEAG, please provide information to demonstrate that the aid does not exceed the normal amount of the tax or levy that would otherwise be applicable.…32.In cases where the tax or parafiscal levy reduction is linked to investment costs, depending on the Section of the CEAAG under which the supported activities fall, please describe in line with point 319 of the CEEAG how it will be ensured that the aid will not exceed the applicable aid intensities and maximum aid amounts:Please fill in for the maximum aid intensities and maximum aid amounts the questions from the respective supplementary information sheet for the relevant Section.33.In cases where the tax or parafiscal levy reduction reduces recurrent operating costs, in order to verify compliance with point 320 of the CEEAG, please describe how it will be ensured that the aid amount will not exceed the difference between the costs of the environmentally-friendly project or activity and of the less environmentally-friendly counterfactual scenario. Please also detail how potential cost savings and/or additional revenues of the more environmentally friendly project will be taken into account.…2.1.4.TransparencyTo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 3.2.1.4 (points 58-62) of the CEEAG.34.Please confirm that the Member State will comply with the requirements on transparency provided in points 58-61 of the CEEAG.…35.Please provide the internet link where the full text of the approved aid scheme or the individual aid granting decision and its implementing provisions, and information on each individual aid award granted ad hoc or under an aid scheme approved on the basis of the CEEAG and exceeding EUR 100000 will be published, whereby the individual aid amounts may be published in ranges as set out in point 60 of the CEEAG.…2.2.Avoidance of undue negative effects of the aid on competition and trade and balancingTo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 3.2.2 (points 63-70) and section 4.7.2.5 (points 322-324) of the CEEAG.36.In order to verify compliance with point 67 of the CEEAG, please provide information on the possible short and long-term negative effects of the notified measure(s) on competition and trade.…37.Please explain if the measure falls under any of the following situations:38.Should the aid measure focus on a specific technological choice/path, please justify the reason for the technological choice and that it will not discourage the deployment of cleaner technologies.…39.If the notified measure(s) will only benefit one or a particularly limited number of beneficiaries, in order to verify compliance with point 68 of the CEEAG, please:40.In order to verify compliance with point 69 of the CEEAG, please explain:41.In order to verify compliance with point 70 of the CEEAG:42.Please describe how it is ensured that aid is granted, in line with point 322 of the CEEAG, in the same way for all eligible undertakings operating in the same sector of economic activity that are in the same or similar factual situation in respect of the aims or objectives of the aid measure.…43.For schemes that run for more than 3 years, please describe in line with point 323 of the CEEAG the monitoring that will be undertaken to ensure that aid remains necessary and confirm that the scheme will be subject to a verificationexercise at least every 3 years.…44.Pursuant to point 324 of the CEEAG, and depending on the Section of the CEEAG under which the supported activities fall, please fill in the following question(s) of the relevant supplementary information sheet. For projects falling under Section:…3.WEIGHING THE POSITIVE EFFECTS OF THE AID AGAINST THE NEGATIVE EFFECTS ON COMPETITION AND TRADETo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 3.3 (points 71-76) of the CEEAG.45.In order to verify compliance with point 72 of the CEEAG, please explain whether activities supported under the notified measure meet the criteria for environmentally sustainable economic activities provided in Article 3 of the Regulation (EU) 2020/852 of the European Parliament and of the Councilnote, including the ‘do no significant harm’ principle, or other comparable methodologies.…Section C:EvaluationTo provide the information in this section, please refer to Section 5 (points 455-463) of the CEEAG.46.If the notified measure(s) exceed the budget/expenditure thresholds in point 456 of the CEEAG, please either explain why in your view the exception in point 457 of the CEEAG should apply, or attach to this supplementary information sheet an Annex that includes a draft evaluation plan covering the scope mentioned in point 458 of the CEEAGnote.…47.If a draft evaluation plan is provided, please:48.In order to verify compliance with point 459(b) of the CEEAG, in case the aid scheme is not currently subject to an ex post evaluation, and its duration exceeds three years, please confirm that you will notify a draft evaluation plan within 30 working days following a significant modification increasing the budget of the scheme to over EUR 150 million in any given year or EUR 750 million over the total duration of the scheme.…49.In order to verify compliance with point 459(c) of the CEEAG, in case the aid scheme is not currently subject to an ex post evaluation, please provide below a commitment that the Member State will notify a draft evaluation plan within 30 working days after recording in official accounts expenditures in excess of EUR 150 million in the previous year.…50.In order to verify compliance with point 461 of the CEEAG:51.In order to verify compliance with point 461 of the CEEAG:Section D:Reporting and monitoringTo provide the information in this section, please refer to Section 6 (points 464 and 465) of the CEEAG.52.Please confirm that the Member State will comply with the requirements for reporting and monitoring set out in Section 6, points 464 and 465, of the CEEAG.…PART III.6.JSupplementary information sheet for State aid granted under the Guidelines on State aid for climate, environmental protection and energy 2022 (hereafter ‘CEEAG’) - Section 4.8 – Aid for the security of electricity supplyThis notification form concerns measures covered in Section 4.8 of the CEEAG. If the notification includes measures that are covered by more than one section of the CEEAG, please also fill in the respective notification form that concerns the respective section of the CEEAG.All documents provided by Member States as annexes to the notification form must be numbered and document numbers must be indicated in the relevant sections of this notification form.Section A:Summary of the main characteristics of the notified measure(s)1.Background and objective(s) of the notified measure(s).1.1.If not already discussed under section 5.2 of the General Information Form (Part. I), please provide the background and the main objective of the measure.…1.2.Please indicate any other objectives pursued by the measure. For any objectives which do not concern the security of electricity supply or environmental protection, please explain whether they may result in any distortions to the internal market.…2.Entry into force and duration:2.1.To the extent not already provided under section 5.5 of the General Information Form (Part I), please indicate the date as of which the measure(s) is planned to enter into force;…2.2.Please indicate the duration of measure(s).note…3.Beneficiary(ies)3.1.If not already provided under section 3 of the General Information Form (Part I), please describe the (potential) beneficiary(ies) of the measure(s).…3.2.Please indicate the location of the beneficiary(ies) (i.e. if only economic entities located in the respective Member States or also in other Member States are eligible to participate in the measure).…3.3.In order to assess the compliance with point 15 of the CEEAG, please specify if aid is granted under the measure in favour of an undertaking (individual or part of a scheme) that is subject to an outstanding recovery order following a previous Commission decision declaring an aid illegal and incompatible with the internal market.In the affirmative, please provide information on the amount of aid still to be recovered so that the Commission takes account of it in the assessment of the notified measure.…4.Please confirm that the measure(s) does not involve aid to activities falling outside the scope of application of the CEEAG (see point 13 of the CEEAG). Otherwise, please provide details.…5.Budget5.1.If not already mentioned in the table under section 7.1 of the General Information Form (Part I), please provide the yearly and/or total budget for the whole duration of the measure(s); if the total budget is not known (for instance because it depends on the results of tenders), please indicate an estimated budget, including the assumptions used to calculate the respective estimated budget.note…Section B:Compatibility assessment of the aid1.POSITIVE CONDITION: THE AID MUST FACILITATE THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN ECONOMIC ACTIVITY1.1.Contribution to the development of an economic activityTo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 3.1.1 (points 23-25) and sections 4.8.1 and 4.8.2 (points 325-328) of the CEEAG.6.Article 107(3), point (c), of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (’the Treaty’) provides that the Commission may declare compatible “aid to facilitate the development of certain economic activities or of certain economic areas, where such aid does not adversely affect trading conditions to an extent contrary to the common interest”. Therefore, compatible aid under that provision of the Treaty must contribute to the development of a certain economic activity.In order to assess the compliance with point 23 of the CEEAG, please identify the economic activities that will be facilitated as a result of the aid and how the development of those activities is supported. Point 328 of the CEEAG provides examples of such economic activities concerning measures aimed at increasing the security of electricity supply.…7.In order to assess the compliance with point 25 of the CEEAG, please “describe if and how the aid will contribute to the achievement of objectives of Union climate policy, environmental policy and energy policy and more specifically, the expected benefits of the aid in terms of its material contribution to environmental protection, including climate change mitigation, or the efficient functioning of the internal energy market”.…8.Please describe the requirements applicable to the beneficiary(ies) (for instance by including any technical, environmental (i.e. permits), financial (i.e. collaterals) or other requirements that the beneficiary(ies) need to comply with).…9.Please provide information on the rationale of the measure, as provided in section 4.8.1. (point 325) of the CEEAG.…10.Please provide information on the scope of the measure, as provided in section 4.8.2. (points 326-327) of the CEEAG.…1.2.Incentive effectTo provide the information in this section, please refer to point 329 and section 3.1.2 (points 29, 30, 31 and 32) of the CEEAG.11.In order to demonstrate the compliance with points 29 and 31 of the CEEAG:12.In order to demonstrate compliance with point 30 of the CEEAG, please confirm that the aid application includes at least the applicant’s name, a description of the project or activity, including its location, and the amount of aid needed to carry it out.…13.In order to demonstrate the compliance with point 32 of the CEEAG, please indicate if there are Union standardsAccording to point 19(89) of the CEEAG, ‘Union standard’ means:applicable to the notified measure, mandatory national standards that are more stringent or ambitious than the corresponding Union standards, or mandatory national standards adopted in the absence of Union standards. In that context, please provide information to demonstrate the incentive effect.…14.In cases where the relevant Union standard has already been adopted but is not yet in force, please demonstrate that the aid has an incentive effect because it incentivises the investment to be implemented and finalised at least 18 months before the standard enters into force.…1.3.No breach of any relevant provision of Union lawTo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 3.1.3 (point 33 of the CEEAG).15.Please provide information to confirm the compliance with the relevant provisions of EU law, in line with point 33 of the CEEAG (see e.g. question 49 regarding compliance with Regulation (EU) 2019/943).…16.If a levy is used to finance the measure(s) (see question 54 below), please clarify if:…2.NEGATIVE CONDITION: THE AID CANNOT UNDULY AFFECT TRADING CONDITIONS TO AN EXTENT CONTRARY TO THE COMMON INTEREST2.1.Minimisation of distortions of competition and trade2.1.1.Necessity of the aidTo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 4.8.4.1 (points 331-339 of the CEEAG).17.Point 331 of the CEEAG provides that the nature and causes of the security of electricity supply problem, and therefore of the need for State aid to ensure security of electricity supply, must be properly analysed and quantified, including when and where the problem is expected to arise with reference where applicable to the reliability standard as defined in Article 25 of Regulation (EU) 2019/943.Please provide an analysis identifying and quantifying the security of electricity supply problem. Please provide in the answer details in view of the considerations set out in points 331-333 of the CEEAG.…18.In line with point 334 of the CEEAG and for measures related to the risk of electricity crises, please provide the national risk-preparedness plan provided for in Article 11 of Regulation (EU) 2019/941 in which the proposed measure should be identified.…19.In line with point 335 of the CEEAG and in case of a proposal to introduce several measures targeting security of electricity supply, please clearly explain how they interact with one another in ensuring the overall cost effectiveness of the combined measures for ensuring security of supply, for example as regards capacity mechanisms by explaining how they reach (but do not go beyond) the reliability standard referred to in point 331.…20.In line with point 336 of the CEEAG, please identify the regulatory or market failure(s), along with any other issues preventing a sufficient level of security of electricity supply (and of environmental protection if relevant) being achieved in the absence of intervention.…21.In line with point 337 of the CEEAG, please identify existing measures that already target the market or regulatory failure(s) or other issues identified in point 336. In as far as appropriate you may refer to the evidence already provided in response to question 16 above.…22.In line with point 338 of the CEEAG, please demonstrate the reasons why the market cannot be expected to deliver security of electricity supply in the absence of State aid, taking account of market reforms and improvements planned by the Member State and technology developments.…23.Please provide the following information set out in point 339 of the CEEAG:2.1.2.AppropriatenessTo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 4.8.4.2 (points 341-342) of the CEEAG.24.In order to assess the compliance with point 341 of the CEEAG:25.For network congestion measures, in addition please explain how the efficiency of redispatch measures is being improved in line with Article 13 of Regulation (EU) 2019/943 (point 342 of the CEEAG).…2.1.3.EligibilityTo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 4.8.4.3 (points 343-346) of the CEEAG.26.To demonstrate compliance with point 343 of the CEEAG, please confirm that the measure will be open to all beneficiaries or projects technically capable of contributing efficiently to the achievement of the security of supply objective (e.g. generation, storage, demand response, aggregation of small units into larger blocks).…27.In line with point 344 of the CEEAG, please explain whether there are any limitations on participation in the proposed security of supply measure that aim to ensure that the measure does not undermine environmental protection.…28.If the notified security of supply measure includes additional criteria or features to promote the participation of greener technologies (or reduce the participation of polluting technologies) necessary to support the delivery of the Union’s environmental protection objectives, please demonstrate that such additional criteria or features are objective, transparent and non-discriminatory in relation to clearly identified environmental protection objectives, and will not result in the overcompensation of beneficiaries (point 345 of the CEEAG).…29.In line with point 346 of the CEEAG:2.1.4.Public consultationTo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 4.8.4.4 (points 348-351) of the CEEAG.30.Please explain whether or not the measure requires a public consultation under Section 4.8.4.4, and if not, why not.…31.If the measure requires a public consultation, please:2.1.5.ProportionalityTo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 3.2.1.3 (points 49-53 and 55) and section 4.8.4.5. (points 353-357) of the CEEAG. Please note that the following two sections 2.1.5.1. and 2.1.5.2. are alternative. Please provide replies only to the applicable section, depending on the design of the proposed measure2.1.5.1.Proportionality of aid granted through a competitive bidding processTo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 3.2.1.3 (points 49, 50, 51, 52, 53 and 55) and points 353, 354 and 356 of the CEEAG.For aid granted without a competitive bidding process, this section is not applicable. For such measures, please go directly to section 2.1.5.2.32.In order to assess compliance with point 353 CEEAG, and in case not already provided in response to question 16 above, please provide an analysis used to set the level of demand in the notified security of supply measure based on the reliability standard or cost benefit analysis. Please confirm that the analysis used to set the level of demand is at most 12 months old at the point in time when the demand level is set.…33.In line with point 354 of the CEEAG, please demonstrate that the lead-time between the granting of the aid and the deadline by when projects must be delivered will allow effective competition between the various eligible projects.…34.In line with point 356 of the CEEAG, please demonstrate that the beneficiaries of security of supply measures will have efficient incentives to contribute to security of supply during the delivery period. These incentives should in general be related to the value of lost load (VoLL) as determined according to Article 11 of Regulation (EU) 2019/943.…35.In order to verify the compliance with points 49 and 50 of the CEEAG, please provide the following:2.1.5.2.Proportionality of aid not granted through a competitive bidding processTo provide the information in this section, please refer to points 51-55 and 353 to 357 of the CEEAG.This section does not apply to measures in which aid is granted through a competitive bidding process. For such measures, please reply to section 2.5.1.1 above instead.36.In order to assess compliance with point 353 of the CEEAG, and in case not already provided in response to question 16 above, please provide an analysis used to set the level of demand in the notified security of supply measure based on the reliability standard or cost benefit analysis. Please confirm that the analysis used to set the level of demand is at most 12 months old at the point in time when the demand level is set.…37.In line with point 354 of the CEEAG, please demonstrate that the lead-time between the granting of the aid and the deadline by when projects must be delivered will allow effective competition between the various eligible projects.…38.In line with point 356 of the CEEAG, please demonstrate that the beneficiaries of security of supply measures will have efficient incentives to contribute to security of supply during the delivery period. These incentives should in general be related to the value of lost load (VoLL) as determined according to Article 11 of Regulation (EU) 2019/943.…39.Please explain why a competitive bidding process is not used (pursuant to point 355 of the CEEAG).…40.In the case of aid schemes, please provide a list of reference projects and an explanation for why these have been defined (for example, explaining that within each reference project the costs and revenues can be expected to be broadly similar). For the avoidance of doubt, a reference project is an example project that is representative of the average project in a category of eligible beneficiaries for an aid scheme (point 19(63) of the CEEAG).…41.Pursuant to point 51 of the CEEAG, for each reference project (in the case of aid schemes) or for each beneficiary (in the case of individual aid), please demonstrate that the aid does not exceed the minimum necessary, i.e. the difference between the net present value (NPV) for the factual scenario and the NPV for the counterfactual scenario over the lifetime of the reference project or the project. For this assessment, please submit a quantification, for the factual scenario and for a realistic counterfactual scenario,note of all main costs and revenues, the estimated weighted average cost of capital (WACC) of the beneficiaries (or of the reference projects in the case of aid schemes) to discount future cash flows, as well as the NPV for the factual and counterfactual scenarios, over the lifetime of the project/reference project.42.If point 55 of the CEEAG is applicable, please provide information on the compensation models that the Member State might intend to introduce (a mix of ex ante and ex post or ex post claw-back or cost monitoring mechanisms).If point 55 of the CEEAG is not applicable for the measure(s), please provide a justification.…43.If the notified measure(s) takes the form of a competitive certificates or supplier obligation scheme (point 357 of the CEEAG), please:2.1.6.CumulationTo provide the information in this section, please refer to points 56 and 57 of the CEEAG.44.In as far as not already provided under Part I of the general notification form and in order to verify compliance with point 56 of the CEEAG, please clarify if the aid under the notified measure may be awarded concurrently under several aid schemes or cumulated with ad hoc or de minimis aid in relation to the same eligible costs. If that is the case, please provide details on those aid schemes, ad hoc aid or de minimis aid and how the aid will be cumulated. Please note that you may wish to refer to the quantification provided above.…45.If point 56 of the CEEAG is applicable, please justify how the total amount of aid granted under the notified measure(s) for a project or an activity does not lead to overcompensation or exceed the maximum aid amount allowed under the CEEAG. The maximum aid amount allowed under the CEEAG is either the amount of aid factored in the successful bid or, in the absence of a competitive process, the funding gap taking into account all main revenues including other sources of aid (point 51 of the CEEAG). For each measure that the aid granted under the notified aid measure(s) can be cumulated with, please specify the method used for ensuring compliance with the conditions set out in point 56 of the CEEAG.…46.In case point 57 of the CEEAG is applicable, i.e. the aid granted under the notified measure(s) is combined with centrally managed Union fundingnote (that does not constitute State aid), please justify how the total amount of public funding granted in relation to the same eligible costs does not lead to overcompensation…2.1.7.TransparencyTo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 3.2.1.4 (points 58-61) of the CEEAG.47.Please confirm that the Member State will comply with the requirements on transparency provided in points 58-61 of the CEEAG.…48.Please provide the internet link where the full text of the approved aid scheme or the individual aid granting decision and its implementing provisions, and information on each individual aid award granted ad hoc or under an aid scheme approved on the basis of the CEEAG and exceeding EUR 100000 will be published.…2.2.Avoidance of undue negative effects on competition and trade and balancingTo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 4.8.5 (points 359-370) and section 3.3 (points 71-76) of the CEEAG.49.In order to verify compliance with points 359, 360 and 361 of the CEEAG, please:50.Please provide evidence that the measure meets any applicable design conditions in Article 22 of Regulation (EU) 2019/943 (point 362 of the CEEAG).…51.For strategic reserves and any other measure(s) for resource adequacy, including interruptibility schemes, where capacity is held outside the market, to ensure market price formation is not distorted, please demonstrate, in line with point 363 of the CEEAG, that the following cumulative conditions are met:52.For network congestion measures, where resources are held outside the market, please confirm that those resources will not receive remuneration from the wholesale electricity market or balancing markets and that they will be held outside the energy markets for at least the duration of the contractual period (point 364 of the CEEAG).…53.For capacity mechanisms other than strategic reserves, please demonstrate, in line with point 365 of the CEEAG, that the measure:54.In order to verify compliance with point 366 of the CEEAG, please demonstrate that the measure will not:55.In order to verify compliance with point 367 of the CEEAG, please demonstrate that the costs of the notified measure will be borne by the market participants who contribute to the need for the measure(s). If you consider that such a cost allocation is not required, please explain why this is the case and provide evidence, including that gathered in the public consultation.note…56.Pursuant to point 72 of the CEEAG, please justify the compliance of the notified measure with the criteria for environmentally sustainable economic activities provided in Article 3 of the Regulation (EU) 2020/852 of the European Parliament and of the Councilnote, including the ‘do no significant harm’note principle, or other comparable methodologies.…57.Pursuant to point 75 of the CEEAG, in cases where the Member State chooses to implement a competitive bidding procedure, please clarify if the notified measure includes features to facilitate the participation of SMEs or renewable energy communities. In the affirmative, please provide information on those features and justify how the positive effects of ensuring participation and acceptance of SMEs in the notified measure(s) outweigh the possible distortive effects.…58.In order to verify compliance with points 368 and 369 of the CEEAG, please:59.For individual aid measures or schemes benefitting only a particularly limited number of beneficiaries or an incumbent beneficiary, in addition, please demonstrate that the proposed aid measure will not lead to increased market power (point 370 of the CEEAG).…Section C:EvaluationTo provide the information in this section, please refer to point 76(a) and Section 5 (points 455-463) of the CEEAG.60.If the notified measure(s) exceed the budget/expenditure thresholds in point 456 of the CEEAG, please either explain why in your view the exception in point 457 of the CEEAG should apply, or attach to this notification form an Annex that includes a draft evaluation plan covering the scope mentioned in point 458 of the CEEAG.note…61.If a draft evaluation plan is provided, please:62.In order to verify the compliance with point 459(b) of the CEEAG, in case the aid scheme is not currently subject to an ex post evaluation, and its duration exceeds three years, please confirm that you will notify a draft evaluation plan within 30 working days following a significant modification increasing the budget of the scheme to over EUR 150 million in any given year or EUR 750 million over the total duration of the scheme.…63.In order to verify the compliance with point 459(c) of the CEEAG, in case the aid scheme is not currently subject to an ex post evaluation, please provide below a commitment that the Member State will notify a draft evaluation plan within 30 working days after recording in official accounts expenditures in excess of EUR 150 million in the previous year.…64.In line with the provisions of point 461 of the CEEAG:65.In line with the provisions of point 461 of the CEEAG:Section D:Reporting and monitoringTo provide the information in this section, please refer to Section 6 (points 464-465) of the CEEAG.66.Please confirm that the Member State will comply with the requirements for reporting and monitoring provided in Section 6, points 464 and 465, of the CEEAG.…PART III.6.KSupplementary information sheet for State aid granted under the Guidelines on State aid for climate, environmental protection and energy 2022 (hereafter ‘CEEAG’) - Section 4.9 – Aid for energy infrastructureThis supplementary information sheet concerns measures covered in Section 4.9 of the CEEAG. If the notification includes measures that are covered by more than one section of the CEEAG, please once available also fill in the respective supplementary information sheet that concerns the respective section of the CEEAG.All documents provided by Member States as annexes to this supplementary information sheet must be numbered and document numbers must be indicated in the relevant sections of this supplementary information sheet.Section A:Summary of the main characteristics of the notified measure(s)1.Background and objective(s) of the notified measure(s).1.1.If not already discussed under section 5.2 of the General Information Form (Part. I), please provide the background and the main objective, including any Union targets for reduction and removal of greenhouse gas emissions that the measure is intended to support.…1.2.Please indicate any other objectives pursued by the measure. For any objectives that are not purely environmental, please explain whether they may result in any distortions to the internal market.…2.Entry into force and duration:2.1.To the extent not already provided under section 5.5 of the General Information Form (Part I), please indicate the date as of which the measure is planned to enter into force;…2.2.If the measure concerns an aid scheme, please indicate its duration.note…3.Beneficiary(ies)3.1.If not already provided under section 3 of the General Information Form (Part I), please describe the (potential) beneficiary(ies) of the measure(s).…3.2.Please indicate the location of the (potential) beneficiary(ies) (i.e. if only economic entities located in the respective Member States or also in other Member States are eligible to participate in the measure).…3.3.In order to assess the compliance with point 15 of the CEEAG, please specify if individual aid is granted under the measure(s) in favour of an undertaking (as part of a scheme or not) that is subject to an outstanding recovery order following a previous Commission decision declaring an aid illegal and incompatible with the internal market.In the affirmative, please provide information on the amount of aid still to be recovered so that the Commission takes account of it in the assessment of the aid measure(s).…3.4.Please confirm that the measure(s) does not involve aid to activities falling outside the scope of application of the CEEAG (see point 13 of the CEEAG). Otherwise, please provide details.…Points 373 and 374 of the CEEAG provide that “support to energy infrastructure within the framework of a legal monopoly is not subject to State aid rules”. This could be the case where the construction and operation of certain infrastructures is exclusively reserved by law for the TSO or DSO. Similarly, point 375 CEEAG provides that “the Commission considers that there is no State aid involved in investments where the energy infrastructure is run under a ‘natural monopoly’”.Is the project notified within the framework of a legal monopoly or is it run under a “natural monopoly”?…3.5.If the answer to the previous question is Yes, please explain why the notified project falls within the framework of a legal and/or natural monopoly, with reference to each cumulative criterion laid down in point 374 for legal monopolies and/or in point 375 for natural monopolies of the CEEAG.…4.Budget and financing of the measure(s).4.1.If not already mentioned in the table under section 7.1 of the General Information Form (Part I), please provide the yearly and/or total budget for the whole duration of the measure(s); if the total budget is not known (for instance because it depends on the results of tenders), please indicate an estimated budget, including the assumptions used to calculate the respective estimated budget.note…4.2.If the measure is financed through a levy, please clarify if:Section B:Compatibility assessment of the aid1.POSITIVE CONDITION: THE AID MUST FACILITATE THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN ECONOMIC ACTIVITY1.1.Contribution to the development of an economic activityTo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 3.1.1 (points 23-25) and sections 4.9.1 and 4.9.2 of the CEEAG.5.Article 107(3), point (c), of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (’the Treaty’) provides that the Commission may declare compatible ‘aid to facilitate the development of certain economic activities or of certain economic areas, where such aid does not adversely affect trading conditions to an extent contrary to the common interest’. Therefore, compatible aid under that provision of the Treaty must contribute to the development of certain economic activity.In order to assess the compliance with point 23 of the CEEAG, please identify the economic activities that will be facilitated as a result of the aid and how the development of those activities is supported.…6.In order to assess the compliance with point 25 of the CEEAG, please “describe if and how the aid will contribute to the achievement of objectives of Union climate policy, environmental policy and energy policy and more specifically, the expected benefits of the aid in terms of its material contribution to environmental protection, including climate change mitigation, or the efficient functioning of the internal energy market”.…7.In addition, please highlight to what extent the aid relates to policies described under points 371 and 372 CEEAG.…8.Please provide information on the scope and supported activities of the aid measure(s), as provided in point 376 CEEAG. By doing so, please also:…1.2.Incentive effectTo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 3.1.2 (points 26-32) of the CEEAG.9.Aid can be considered as facilitating an economic activity only if it has an incentive effect. In order to assess the compliance with point 26 of the CEEAG, please explain how the measure(s) “induces the beneficiary to change its behaviour, to engage in additional economic activity or in more environmentally-friendly economic activity, which it would not carry out without the aid or would carry out in a restricted or different manner”.…10.In order to assess the compliance with point 27 of the CEEAG, please provide information to confirm that the aid does not support the costs of an activity that the aid beneficiary would anyhow carry out and does not compensate for the normal business risk of an economic activitynote.…11.In order to demonstrate the presence of an incentive effect, point 28 of the CEEAG requires the identification of the factual scenario and the likely counterfactual scenario in the absence of aid. For aid to energy infrastructure, as explained in point 52, the counterfactual scenario is presumed to be the situation in which the project would not take place.Please note that those documents need to be contemporary to the decision-making process concerning the investment/operation decision.If such documents are attached to the notification form, please provide below a list of those documents, specifying the author, the date when they were drafted and the context when they were used.…12.In order to demonstrate the compliance with points 29 and 31 of the CEEAG:13.In order to demonstrate compliance with point 30 of the CEEAG, please confirm that the aid application includes at least the applicant’s name, a description of the project or activity, including its location, and the amount of aid needed to carry it out.…14.In order to demonstrate compliance with point 32 of the CEEAG, please indicate if there are Union standardsAccording to point 19(89) of the CEEAG, ‘Union standard’ means:applicable to the notified measure(s), mandatory national standards that are more stringent or ambitious than the corresponding Union standards, or mandatory national standards adopted in the absence of Union standards. In that context, please provide information to demonstrate the incentive effect.…15.In cases where the relevant Union standard has already been adopted but is not yet in force, please demonstrate that the aid has an incentive effect because it incentivises the investment to be implemented and finalised at least 18 months before the standard enters into force.…1.3.No breach of any relevant provision of Union lawTo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 3.1.3 (point 33 of the CEEAG).16.Please provide information to confirm the compliance with the relevant provisions of EU law, in line with point 33 of the CEEAG.…17.If a levy is used to finance the measure(s), please clarify if the assessment of compliance with Articles 30 and 110 of the Treaty needs to be carried out. In the affirmative, please demonstrate how the measure complies with the provisions of Articles 30 and 110 of the Treaty. In this context, the information submitted under question 4.2. above, where the notified measure(s) is financed through a levy can be referred to.…2.NEGATIVE CONDITION: THE AID CANNOT UNDULY AFFECT TRADING CONDITIONS TO AN EXTENT CONTRARY TO THE COMMON INTEREST2.1.Minimisation of distortions of competition and trade2.1.1.The necessity and the appropriateness of State aid interventionTo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 4.9.3.1 (points 379 and 380) of the CEEAG.18.Point 379 of the CEEAG provides that, regarding energy infrastructure, market failures are usually addressed/financed by means of compulsory user tariffs subject to regulation. Nevertheless, as point 380 of the CEEAG mentioned, this may not always be the case. Please explain to what extent the measure addresses market failures that cannot be addressed by means of compulsory user tariffs.…19.In order to demonstrate the necessity and the appropriateness of the State aid, please specify under which of the different situations the notified project has to be assessed:20.If the notified project falls within the situation mentioned in point 19(b) above, in order to justify the necessity and the appropriateness of the measure, please explain to what extent:…21.If the project is in the situation mentioned in point 19©, please explain if (i) for the part of the infrastructure located on Union territory, the project is built and operated in line with Union legislation, particularly Directives 2009/73/EC and (EU) 2019/944, and (ii) for the part located in third country or countries involved, the project has a high level of regulatory alignment and supports the overall objectives of the Union, in particular to ensure:…2.1.2.The proportionality of the aidTo provide the information in this section, please refer to points 51-52 and 381 of the CEEAG.22.Pursuant to point 51 of the CEEAG, the typical net extra costs can be estimated as the difference between the NPV for the factual scenario and the counterfactual scenario over the lifetime of the project or per reference project where applicable. Where the counterfactual scenario is that the project will not be implemented (see point 52 of the CEEAG), the negative NPV of the factual scenario is equal to the net extra costs.Please provide the following in an Annex to this notification form (using an Excel file where all formulas are visible):23.Pursuant to point 53 of the CEEAG, for cases of individual aid and schemes benefitting a particularly limited number of beneficiaries, the Member State needs to present the supporting evidence at the level of the detailed project business plan.For cases of aid schemes, the Member State needs to present the supporting evidence on the basis of one or more reference projects.24.In order to allow the Commission to verify that the aid amount does not exceed the minimum necessary for the aided project to be sufficiently profitablenote, please provide the following information:…25.Pursuant to point 381 of the CEEAG, if the aid is close to the maximum allowed and where there is a risk of windfall profits, a monitoring and claw-back mechanism may be necessary, while keeping incentives for the beneficiaries to minimise their costs and develop their business in a more efficient manner over time. Please explain if there is any monitoring and claw-back mechanism in place. If not, please explain why.…2.1.3.CumulationTo provide the information in this section, please refer to points 56-57 of the CEEAG.26.In so far as not already provided under section 7.4 of the General Information Form (Part I), and in order to verify compliance with point 56 of the CEEAG, please clarify if the aid under the notified measure(s) may be awarded concurrently under several aid schemes or cumulated with ad hoc or de minimis aid in relation to the same eligible costs. If that is the case, please provide details on those aid schemes, ad hoc aid or de minimis aid and how the aid will be cumulated. Please note that you may wish to refer to the quantification provided above.…27.If aid is awarded concurrently under several aid schemes or cumulated with ad hoc or de minimis aid in relation to the same eligible costs, please justify how the total amount of aid granted under the notified measure(s) for a project or an activity does not lead to overcompensation or exceed the maximum aid amount allowed under points 51 and 381 of the CEEAG. Please specify, for each measure, that the aid granted under the notified aid measure(s) can be cumulated, the method used for ensuring compliance with the conditions set out in point 56 of the CEEAG.…28.If the aid granted under the notified measure(s) is combined with centrally managed Union funding pursuant to point 57 of the CEEAGnote, please justify how the total amount of public funding granted in relation to the same eligible costs does not lead to overcompensation.…2.1.4.TransparencyTo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 3.2.1.4 (points 58-62) of the CEEAG.29.Please confirm that the Member State will comply with the requirements on transparency provided in points 58-61 of the CEEAG.…30.Please provide the internet link where the full text of the approved aid scheme or the individual aid granting decision and its implementing provisions, and information on each individual aid award granted ad hoc or under an aid scheme approved on the basis of the CEEAG and exceeding EUR 100000 will be published.…2.2.Avoidance of undue negative effects of the aid on competition and trade and balancingTo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 4.9.4. (points 382 et seq. of the CEEAG).31.If the project notified is exempted, in whole or in part, from internal energy market legislation, please explain:…32.If the project notified is a natural gas infrastructure, please provide information on how the notified project will fulfil the following conditions:…33.If the project notified is a Project of Common Interest or Project of Mutual Interest not subject to internal market legislation, please explain what the impact of the project will be on related services markets as well as on other services markets.…Section C:EvaluationTo provide the information in this section, please refer to point 76(a) and Section 5 (points 455-463) of the CEEAG.34.If the notified measure(s) exceed the budget/expenditure thresholds in point 456 of the CEEAG, please either explain why in your view the exception in point 457 of the CEEAG should apply, or attach to this notification form an Annex that includes a draft evaluation plan covering the scope mentioned in point 458 of the CEEAG.note…35.If a draft evaluation plan is provided, please:36.In order to verify the compliance with point 459(b) of the CEEAG, in case the aid scheme is not currently subject to an ex post evaluation, and its duration exceeds three years, please confirm that you will notify a draft evaluation plan within 30 working days following a significant modification increasing the budget of the scheme to over EUR 150 million in any given year or EUR 750 million over the total duration of the scheme.…37.In order to verify the compliance with point 459(c) of the CEEAG, in case the aid scheme is not currently subject to an ex post evaluation, please provide below a commitment that the Member State will notify a draft evaluation plan within 30 working days after recording in official accounts expenditures in excess of EUR 150 million in the previous year.…38.In order to verify the compliance with point 461 of the CEEAG:39.In order to verify the compliance with point 461 of the CEEAG:Section D:Reporting and monitoringTo provide the information in this section, please refer to Section 6 (points 464-465) of the CEEAG.40.Please confirm that the Member State will comply with the requirements for reporting and monitoring provided in Section 6, points 464 and 465, of the CEEAG.…PART III.6.LSupplementary information sheet for State aid granted under the Guidelines on State aid for climate, environmental protection and energy 2022 (hereafter ‘CEEAG’) - Section 4.10 – Aid to district heating and coolingThis supplementary information sheet concerns measures covered in Section 4.10 of the CEEAG. If the notification includes measures that are covered by more than one section of the CEEAG, please once available also fill in the respective supplementary information sheet that concerns the respective section of the CEEAG.All documents provided by Member States as annexes to this supplementary information sheet must be numbered and document numbers must be indicated in the relevant sections of this supplementary information sheet.Section A:Summary of the main characteristics of the notified measure(s)1.Background and objective(s) of the notified measure(s).1.1.If not already discussed under section 5.2 of the General Information Form (Part. I), please provide the background and the main objective, including any Union targets for reduction and removal of greenhouse gas emissions that the measure is intended to support.…1.2.Please indicate any other objectives pursued by the measure. For any objectives that are not purely environmental, please explain whether they may result in any distortions to the internal market.…2.Entry into force and duration:2.1.To the extent not already provided under section 5.5 of the General Information Form (Part I), please indicate the date as of which the aid scheme is planned to enter into force;…2.2.Please indicate the duration of the scheme.note…3.Beneficiary(ies)3.1.If not already provided under section 3 of the General Information Form (Part I), please describe the (potential) beneficiary(ies) of the measure(s).…3.2.Please indicate the location of the (potential) beneficiary(ies) (i.e. if only economic entities located in the respective Member States or also in other Member States are eligible to participate in the measure).…3.3.In order to assess the compliance with point 15 of the CEEAG, please specify if aid is granted under the measure(s) in favour of an undertaking (individual or part of a scheme) that is subject to an outstanding recovery order following a previous Commission decision declaring an aid illegal and incompatible with the internal market.In the affirmative, please provide information on the amount of aid still to be recovered so that the Commission takes account of it in the assessment of the aid measure(s).…4.Please confirm that the measure(s) does not involve aid to activities falling outside the scope of application of the CEEAG (see point 13 of the CEEAG). Otherwise, please provide details.…5.Budget and financing of the measure(s).5.1.If not already mentioned in the table under section 7.1 of the General Information Form (Part I), please provide the yearly and/or total budget for the whole duration of the measure(s); if the total budget is not known (for instance because it depends on the results of tenders), please indicate an estimated budget, including the assumptions used to calculate the respective estimated budget.note…5.2.If the measure is financed through a levy, please clarify if:Section B:Compatibility assessment of the aid1.POSITIVE CONDITION: THE AID MUST FACILITATE THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN ECONOMIC ACTIVITY1.1.Contribution to the development of an economic activityTo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 3.1.1 (points 23-25) and sections 4.10.1 and 4.10.2 (points 383-390) of the CEEAG.6.Article 107(3), point (c), of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (’the Treaty’) provides that the Commission may declare compatible ‘aid to facilitate the development of certain economic activities or of certain economic areas, where such aid does not adversely affect trading conditions to an extent contrary to the common interest’. Therefore, compatible aid under that provision of the Treaty must contribute to the development of certain economic activity.In order to assess the compliance with point 23 of the CEEAG, please identify the economic activities that will be facilitated as a result of the aid and how the development of those activities is supported.…7.In order to assess the compliance with point 25 of the CEEAG, please “describe if and how the aid will contribute to the achievement of objectives of Union climate policy, environmental policy and energy policy and more specifically, the expected benefits of the aid in terms of its material contribution to environmental protection, including climate change mitigation, or the efficient functioning of the internal energy market”.…8.In addition, please highlight to what extent the aid relates to policies described under points 383 and 384 CEEAG. By doing so, please also clarify whether the project promotes renewable energy in line with Article 2(1) of Directive 2018/2001/EU. Specifically, please confirm whether the measure develops efficient district heating and cooling systems within the meaning of Article 26 of Directive 2023/1791/EU to promote heating and cooling from renewable energy sources.…9.Points 385 and 386 of the CEEAG provide that support that is limited to district heating distribution networks can, under certain circumstances, be considered to fall outside of State aid control.10.Please provide information on the scope and supported activities of the aid measure(s), as provided in section 4.10.2. (points 388-389) of the CEEAG. By doing so, please also:11.If the aid aims at supporting the upgrade of a district heating and cooling system which however does not lead to system meeting the standard of efficient district heating and cooling within the meaning of Article 26 of Directive 2023/1791/EU as a result of the upgrade supported, please provide a commitment that the beneficiary will start the works to reach that efficiency standard within 3 years following the upgrade works pursuant to point 390 of the CEEAG.…1.2.Incentive effectTo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 3.1.2 (points 26-32) of the CEEAG.12.Aid can be considered as facilitating an economic activity only if it has an incentive effect. In order to assess the compliance with point 26 of the CEEAG, please explain how the measure(s) “induces the beneficiary to change its behaviour, to engage in additional economic activity or in more environmentally-friendly economic activity, which it would not carry out without the aid or would carry out in a restricted or different manner”.…13.In order to assess the compliance with point 27 of the CEEAG, please provide information to confirm that the aid does not support the costs of an activity that the aid beneficiary would anyhow carry out and does not compensate for the normal business risk of an economic activitynote.…14.Please provide a comprehensive description of the factual scenario and the likely counterfactual scenario(s). In case of schemes covering different reference projectsnote, such description needs to be submitted for each reference project. For the construction, upgrade and operation of distribution networks, the counterfactual scenario is presumed to be the situation in which the project would not take place (point 395 of the CEEAG).…15.In order to demonstrate the compliance with points 29 and 31 of the CEEAG:16.In order to demonstrate compliance with point 30 of the CEEAG, please confirm that the aid application includes at least the applicant’s name, a description of the project or activity, including its location, and the amount of aid needed to carry it out.…17.In order to demonstrate compliance with point 32 of the CEEAG, please indicate if there are Union standardsAccording to point 19(89) of the CEEAG, ‘Union standard’ means:applicable to the notified measure(s), mandatory national standards that are more stringent or ambitious than the corresponding Union standards, or mandatory national standards adopted in the absence of Union standards. In that context, please provide information to demonstrate the incentive effect.…18.In cases where the relevant Union standard has already been adopted but is not yet in force, please demonstrate that the aid has an incentive effect because it incentivises the investment to be implemented and finalised at least 18 months before the standard enters into force.…1.3.No breach of any relevant provision of Union lawTo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 3.1.3 (point 33) of the CEEAG.19.Please provide information to confirm the compliance with the relevant provisions of EU law, in line with point 33 of the CEEAG.…20.If a levy is used to finance the measure(s), please clarify if the assessment of compliance with Articles 30 and 110 of the Treaty needs to be carried out. In the affirmative, please demonstrate how the measure complies with the provisions of Articles 30 and 110 of the Treaty. In this context, the information submitted under question 5.2 above, where the notified measure(s) is financed through a levy can be referred to.…2.NEGATIVE CONDITION: THE AID CANNOT UNDULY AFFECT TRADING CONDITIONS TO AN EXTENT CONTRARY TO THE COMMON INTEREST2.1.Minimisation of distortions of competition and trade2.1.1.Necessity and appropriateness for State aid interventionTo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 4.10.3 (points 391-393 of the CEEAG.21.Please explain in detail how the project will contribute to the creation, extension or upgrade of efficient district heating and cooling systems.…22.If the measure exceptionally covers operating costs, please demonstrate that these costs cannot be passed on to district heating/cooling consumers without undermining environmental protection in line with point 392 of the CEEAG. Please show that the supported district heating/cooling systems increase energy efficiency, reduce CO2 emissions and other pollution sources as well as network losses, in comparison to alternative district heating/cooling solutions.…23.In line with point 393 of the CEEAG, if the project is based on waste as input fuel, please explain how it respects the waste hierarchy principle (Article 4 point (1) of Directive 2008/98/EU).…2.1.2.The proportionality of the aidTo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 3.2.1.3 and section 4.10.4 (points 394 and 395) of the CEEAG.24.In order to verify the compliance with point 51 of the CEEAG, please provide the following:25.In case an alternative project is absent, in order to allow the Commission to verify that the aid amount does not exceed the minimum necessary for the aided project to be sufficiently profitablenote, please provide the following information:2.1.3.CumulationTo provide the information in this section, please refer to points 56-57 of the CEEAG.26.In order to verify compliance with point 56 of the CEEAG, please clarify if the aid under the notified measure(s) may be awarded concurrently under several aid schemes or cumulated with ad hoc or de minimis aid in relation to the same eligible costs. If that is the case, please provide details on those aid schemes, ad hoc aid or de minimis aid and how the aid will be cumulated.…27.If point 56 of the CEEAG is applicable to the notified aid measure(s), please justify how the total amount of aid granted under the notified measure(s) for a project or an activity does not lead to overcompensation or exceed the maximum aid amount allowed under point 394 of the CEEAG. For each measure that the aid granted under the notified aid measure(s) can be cumulated with, please specify the method used for ensuring compliance with the conditions set out in point 56 of the CEEAG.…28.In case point 57 of the CEEAG is applicable, i.e. the aid granted under the notified measure(s) is combined with centrally managed Union fundingnote, please justify how the total amount of public funding granted in relation to the same eligible costs does not lead to overcompensation…2.1.4.TransparencyTo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 3.2.1.4 (points 58-61) of the CEEAG.29.Please confirm that the Member State will comply with the requirements on transparency provided in points 58-61 of the CEEAG.…30.Please provide the internet link where the full text of the approved aid scheme or the individual aid granting decision and its implementing provisions, and information on each individual aid award granted ad hoc or under an aid scheme approved on the basis of the CEEAG and exceeding EUR 100000 will be published.…2.2.Avoidance of undue negative effects of the aid on competition and trade and balancingTo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 4.10.5 (points 396-398) of the CEEAG.31.If the district heating and cooling systems rely on most polluting fossil fuels such as coal, lignite, oil and diesel, please explain whether the following cumulative conditions are fulfilled pursuant to point 396 of the CEEAG:…………32.If the project incentivises new investments in natural gas or operation of energy generation assets based on natural gas, please explain whether the project ensures the following, in line with point 397 of the CEEAG :33.In order to verify compliance with point 398 of the CEEAG, please clarify whether the district heating and cooling system is open to third party access and whether using sustainable alternative heating solutions would be possible.…Section C:EvaluationTo provide the information in this section, please refer to point 76(a) and Section 5 (points 455-463) of the CEEAG.34.If the notified measure(s) exceed the budget/expenditure thresholds in point 456 of the CEEAG, please either explain why in your view the exception in point 457 of the CEEAG should apply, or attach to this supplementary information sheet an Annex that includes a draft evaluation plan covering the scope mentioned in point 458 of the CEEAG.note…35.If a draft evaluation plan is provided, please:36.In order to verify the compliance with point 459(b) of the CEEAG, in case the aid scheme is not currently subject to an ex post evaluation, and its duration exceeds three years, please confirm that you will notify a draft evaluation plan within 30 working days following a significant modification increasing the budget of the scheme to over EUR 150 million in any given year or EUR 750 million over the total duration of the scheme.…37.In order to verify the compliance with point 459(c) of the CEEAG, in case the aid scheme is not currently subject to an ex post evaluation, please provide below a commitment that the Member State will notify a draft evaluation plan within 30 working days after recording in official accounts expenditures in excess of EUR 150 million in the previous year.…38.In order to verify the compliance with point 461 of the CEEAG:39.In order to verify the compliance with point 461 of the CEEAG:Section D:Reporting and monitoringTo provide the information in this section, please refer to Section 6 (points 464-465) of the CEEAG.40.Please confirm that the Member State will comply with the requirements for reporting and monitoring provided in Section 6, points 464 and 465, of the CEEAG.…PART III.6.MSupplementary information sheet for State aid granted under the Guidelines on State aid for climate, environmental protection and energy 2022 (hereafter ‘CEEAG’) - Section 4.11 - Aid in the form of reductions from electricity levies for energy-intensive usersThis supplementary information sheet concerns measures covered in Section 4.11 of the CEEAG. If the notification includes measures that are covered by more than one section of the CEEAG, please once available also fill in the respective supplementary information sheet that concerns the respective section of the CEEAG.All documents provided by Member States as annexes to this supplementary information sheet must be numbered and document numbers must be indicated in the relevant sections of this supplementary information sheet.Section A:Summary of the main characteristics of the notified measure(s)1.Background and objective(s) of the notified measure(s).1.1.Please indicate whether this is a new measure or an amendment to an existing measure. If it is an amendment, please provide details on the changes to the scheme.…1.2.If not already discussed under section 5.2 of the General Information Form (Part. I), please provide the background and the main objective, including the relation to any Union environmental targets that the measure is intended to support.…1.3.Please indicate any other objectives pursued by the measure. For any objectives that are not purely environmental, please explain whether they may result in any distortions to the internal market.…2.Entry into force and duration:2.1.To the extent not already provided under section 5.5 of the General Information Form (Part I), please indicate:3.Beneficiary(ies)3.1.If not already provided under section 3 of the General Information Form (Part I), please describe the (potential) beneficiary(ies) of the measure(s).…3.2.Please indicate the location of the (potential) beneficiary(ies) (i.e. if only economic entities located in the respective Member States or also in other Member States are eligible to participate in the measure).…3.3.In order to assess the compliance with point 15 of the CEEAG, please specify if aid is granted under the measure(s) in favour of an undertaking (individual or part of a scheme) that is subject to an outstanding recovery order following a previous Commission decision declaring an aid illegal and incompatible with the internal market.…In the affirmative, please provide information on the amount of aid still to be recovered so that the Commission takes account of it in the assessment of the aid measure(s).…4.Please confirm that the measure(s) does not involve aid to activities falling outside the scope of application of the CEEAG (see point 13 CEEAG). Otherwise, please provide details.…5.Budget and financing of the measure(s).5.1.If not already mentioned in the table under section 7.1 of the General Information Form (Part I), please provide the annual and/or total budget for the whole duration of the measure(s); if the total budget is not known (for instance because it depends on the results of tenders), please indicate an estimated budget, including the assumptions used to calculate the respective estimated budget.note…5.2.As the measure concerns a levy, please specify if:Section B:Compatibility assessment of the aid1.POSITIVE CONDITION: THE AID MUST FACILITATE THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN ECONOMIC ACTIVITY1.1.Contribution to the development of an economic activity and incentive effectTo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 4.11.1 of the CEEAG.6.Article 107(3), point (c), of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (’the Treaty’) provides that the Commission may declare compatible ‘aid to facilitate the development of certain economic activities or of certain economic areas, where such aid does not adversely affect trading conditions to an extent contrary to the common interest’. Therefore, compatible aid under that provision of the Treatymust contribute to the development of certain economic activity.Furthermore, State aid can only be considered to facilitate an economic activity if it has an incentive effect. An incentive effect occurs when the aid induces the beneficiary to change its behaviour towards the development of an economic activity pursued by the aid, and if this change in behaviour would not otherwise occur without the aid.1.2.No breach of any relevant provision of Union lawTo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 3.1.3 (point 33) of the CEEAG.7.Please provide information to confirm the compliance with the relevant provisions of EU law, in line with point 33 of the CEEAG.…2.NEGATIVE CONDITION: THE AID CANNOT UNDULY AFFECT TRADING CONDITIONS TO AN EXTENT CONTRARY TO THE COMMON INTEREST2.1.Minimisation of distortions of competition and trade2.1.1.Necessity and appropriateness for State aid interventionTo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 4.11.2 and point 413 of the CEEAG.8.Point 403 of the CEEAG applies to levy reductions on electricity consumption which finance energy and environmental objectives. For each of the levy on which reductions are envisaged to be granted, please provide a complete and detailed description on the nature, scope and application of the levies by explaining how the levy system works in practice (functioning of the scheme and granting authority) and by making detailed references to its regulatory framework (legal basis).…In particular, please share information about the following elements:9.Point 404 of the CEEAG states that Member States have to include all reductions on potentially multiple electricity levies for energy-intensive users into a single scheme and to inform the Commission of the cumulative effect of all eligible levies and all reductions proposed.10.Please describe whether the aid under the notified measure will be in the form of an ex ante reduction in levies, an ex post compensation amount (refund) or a combination of the two. Please make specific references in your answer to the (draft) legal basis (e.g. Article 7, paragraph 3).…2.2.EligibilityTo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 4.11.3.1 (points 405-407) of the CEEAG.11.Point 405 of the CEEAG defines electro-intensive sectors “at significant risk” (point (a)) and “at risk” (point (b)). In order to verify the compliance with point 405 of the CEEAG, please confirm that all eligible electro-intensive sectors “at risk” and “at significant risk” under the notified measure are listed in related parts of Annex I to the CEEAG and provide in annex to this form the lists of NACE-4 sectors “at risk” and “at significant risk” that are eligible for aid under the measure, indicating where this information can be found in the (draft) legal basis (e.g. Article 7, paragraph 3).…12.Point 406 of the CEEAG states that a sector or subsectornote not included in Annex I of the CEEAG will also be considered eligible provided that it meets the eligibility criteria of point 405. If aid under the notified measure is intended to be granted also to sectors and/or subsectors not included in Annex I to the CEEAG, please:13.Please describe how applicants will have to demonstrate that they operate in an eligible sector, indicating where this information can be found in the (draft) legal basis (e.g. Article 7, paragraph 3).…14.Please list all other conditions to be eligible for aid under the notified measure, indicating where this information can be found in legal basis (e.g. Article 7, paragraph 3). In particular, please explain (a) whether beneficiaries or (sub)sectors in principle eligible under Annex I CEEAG are excluded, (b) whether there are additional eligibility criteria which would apply and are not mentioned in Section 4.11 CEEAG or (c) whether different levy reductions are envisaged for beneficiaries in the same category.…15.In line with point 407 of the CEEAG, it is possible to further restrict the eligible beneficiaries of the measure. If that is the case, please explain for each such additional eligibility condition the underlying rationale and demonstrate that (i) the respective condition is based on objective, non-discriminatory and transparent criteria and that (ii) the aid is granted, in principle, in the same way for all eligible beneficiaries in the same sector if they are in a similar factual situation.…2.3.The proportionality of the aid (aid limited to the minimum necessary to attain its objective), including cumulation2.3.1.The proportionality of the aidTo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 4.11.3.2 and point 407 of the CEEAG.16.With a view to proving compliance with section 4.11.3.2 and point 407 of the CEEAG, please provide a complete and detailed description of the methodology to calculate levy reductions applicable to the eligible beneficiaries, indicating where this information can be found in the (draft) legal basis (e.g. Article 7, paragraph 3). In particular:17.Indicate whether the notified measure foresees, in line with point 410 of the CEEAG, higher aid intensities for those undertakings operating in sectors “at risk” that reduce the carbon footprint of their electricity consumption.In the affirmative:18.If applicable, please describe any further modulation of the levy reduction rate across beneficiaries operating in sectors “at risk” and “at significant risk”, respectively, indicating where this information can be found in the (draft) legal basis (e.g. Article 7, paragraph 3). Please demonstrate that (a) different levy reductions are based on objective, non-discriminatory and transparent criteria and that (b) the aid is granted, in principle, in the same way for all eligible beneficiaries in the same sector if they are in a similar factual situation.…2.3.2.Energy audits and management systemsTo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 4.11.3.4 of the CEEAG.19.In line with point 414 of the CEEAG, please describe how the national authorities will verify under the notified measure that beneficiaries comply with the obligation to conduct an energy audit within the meaning of Article 8 of Directive 2012/27/EU. Please indicate where this information can be found in the (draft) legal basis (e.g. Article 7, paragraph 3).…20.Point 415 of the CEEAG provides that beneficiaries required to conduct an energy audit must comply with at least one of three following options, i.e. (a) implementing audit recommendations, to the extent that the pay-back time is 3 years maximum and that the costs of their investments is proportionate, or (b) covering at least 30% of their electricity consumption from carbon-free sources, or (c) investing at least 50% of the aid in projects that lead to substantial reductions of greenhouse gas emissions. Please describe how the national authorities will monitor under the notified measure that beneficiaries required to conduct an energy audit under Article 8(4) of Directive 2012/27/EU comply with one or more of the three options listed in point 415 of the CEEAG, indicating where this information can be found in the (draft) legal basis (e.g., Article 7, paragraph 3). In particular, please provide details for each option foreseen in the notified measure:2.3.3.CumulationTo provide the information in this section, please refer to points 56-57 of the CEEAG.21.In so far as not already provided under the General Information Form (Part I) and in order to verify compliance with point 56 of the CEEAG, please clarify if the aid under the notified measure(s) may be awarded concurrently under several aid schemes or cumulated with ad hoc or de minimis aid in relation to the same eligible costs. If that is the case, please provide details on those aid schemes, ad hoc aid or de minimis aid and how the aid will be cumulated.…22.If point 56 of the CEEAG is applicable to the notified aid measure(s), please justify how the total amount of aid granted under the notified measure(s) for an activity does not lead to overcompensation or exceed the maximum aid amount allowed under points 408 to 410 of the CEEAG. For each measure that the aid granted under the notified aid measure(s) can be cumulated with, please specify the method used for ensuring compliance with the conditions set out in point 56 of the CEEAG.…23.In case point 57 of the CEEAG is applicable, i.e., the aid granted under the notified measure(s) is combined with centrally managed Union fundingnote, please justify how the total amount of public funding granted in relation to the same eligible costs does not lead to overcompensation.…2.3.4.Transitional rulesTo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 4.11.3.5 of the CEEAG.24.Please indicate whether the present notification encompasses non-notified aid granted in the form of reduced electricity levies for energy-intensive users in the period prior to the publication of the CEEAG. In the affirmative, please explain how the non-notified aid complies with point 419 of the CEEAG, paragraphs (a) and (b).…25.Please indicate whether the notified measure establishes a transitional plan to avoid disruptive changes in the levy burden for individual undertakings that do not meet the eligibility conditions set out in Section 4.11 of the CEEAG. In the affirmative, please reply to the next questions of this section.…26.In line with point 416 of the CEEAG, please explain how eligibility to the transitional plan will be limited to undertakings that (i) met the eligibility criteria of Section 3.7.2 of the Guidelines on State aid for environmental protection and energy 2014-2020, and (ii) received aid in the form of reduced levies in at least one of the 2 years prior to the amendment of existing aid schemes in order to bring them into line with the CEEAG. Please indicate where this information can be found in the (draft) legal basis (e.g. Article 7, paragraph 3)…27.Please describe how the transitional plan will entail a progressive and complete adjustment to the conditions resulting from the application of the eligibility and proportionality criteria of section 4.11 of the CEEAG, and notably how the aid intensity decreases over time and how the GVA cap increases over time in line with the schedule mentioned in point 417 of the CEEAG. Please make specific references to where this information can be found in the (draft) legal basis (e.g. Article 7, paragraph 3).…28.Please indicate whether the transitional plan will exceptionally allow fixed aid intensities throughout the entire transitional period, provided that the undertakings concerned reduce the carbon footprint of their electricity consumption in line with the conditions in point 418 of the CEEAG (i.e. 50 % of electricity consumption from carbon-free sources, of which either at least 10 % from a forward instrument such as a PPA or at least 5 % from on-site or near-site generation). In the affirmative, please indicate where this information can be found in the (draft) legal basis (e.g. Article 7, paragraph 3) and explain how compliance with point 418 of the CEEAG is ensured and monitored by the national authorities.…2.4.TransparencyTo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 3.2.1.4 (points 58-62) of the CEEAG.29.Please confirm that the Member State will comply with the requirements on transparency provided in points 58-61 of the CEEAG.…30.In order to verify compliance with point 61 of the CEEAG, please confirm that the information provided in point 58(b) will be available for at least 10 years from the date on which the aid was granted in order to allow the enforcement of State aid rules under the Treaty,…2.5.Avoidance of undue negative effects of the aid on competition and trade and balancingTo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 3.2.2 of the CEEAG.31.In order to verify compliance with point 70 of the CEEAG:3.WEIGHING THE POSITIVE EFFECTS OF THE AID AGAINST THE NEGATIVE EFFECTS ON COMPETITION AND TRADETo provide the information in this section, please refer to section 3.3 (points 71-76) and points 400-402 of the CEEAG.32.In line with point 75 of the CEEAG, please clarify if the notified measure(s) includes features to facilitate the participation of SMEs. In the affirmative, please provide information on those features and justify how the positive effects of ensuring participation and acceptance of SMEs in the notified measure(s) outweigh the possible distortive effects.…33.As regards the application of point 76(c) of the CEEAG, please specify if the aid measure(s) is subject to a time limitation.…Section C:EvaluationTo provide the information in this section, please refer to point 76(a) and Section 5 (points 455-463) of the CEEAG.34.If the notified measure(s) exceed the budget/expenditure thresholds in point 456 of the CEEAG, please either explain why in your view the exception in point 457 of the CEEAG should apply, or attach to this supplementary information sheet an annex that includes a draft evaluation plan covering the scope mentioned in point 458 of the CEEAG.note…35.If a draft evaluation plan is provided, please:36.In order to verify the compliance with point 459(b) of the CEEAG, in case the aid scheme is not currently subject to an ex post evaluation, and its duration exceeds three years, please confirm that you will notify a draft evaluation plan within 30 working days following a significant modification increasing the budget of the scheme to over EUR 150 million in any given year or EUR 750 million over the total duration of the scheme.…37.In order to verify the compliance with point 459(c) of the CEEAG, in case the aid scheme is not currently subject to an ex-post evaluation, please provide below a commitment that the Member State will notify a draft evaluation plan within 30 working days after recording in official accounts expenditures in excess of EUR 150 million in the previous year.…38.In order to verify the compliance with point 461 of the CEEAG:39.In order to verify the compliance with point 461 of the CEEAG:Section D:Reporting and monitoringTo provide the information in this section, please refer to Section 6 (points 464-465) of the CEEAG.40.Please confirm that the Member State will comply with the requirements for reporting and monitoring provided in Section 6, points 464 and 465, of the CEEAG.…’ Source: EUR-Lex, © European Union, 1998-2026. 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