Sådan en kompensation som må betragtes som en økonomisk fordel, som den støttemodtagende virksomhed ikke ville have opnået på normale markedsvilkår«. Ifølge myndighederne åbner denne udtalelse op for, at der kan skelnes mellem »omkostninger, der afholdes i forbindelse med selskabets normale drift, og omkostninger, der er blevet pålagt selskabet, men som ikke er afholdt i forbindelse med selskabets normale drift«.
Such compensation is to be regarded as an economic advantage which the recipient undertaking would not have obtained under normal market conditions. According to the authorities the statement warrants an approach according to which a distinction should be drawn between ‘costs that have been incurred in the running of the company and costs that have been imposed on the Company, but which have not been incurred in the normal course of the Company’s budget’.