Hvis den forelæggende ret efter sin undersøgelse måtte konkludere, at provenuet af det omtvistede tillæg faktisk var beregnet til finansiering af omkostninger, der direkte eller indirekte var forbundet med den nationale elproduktion, og at det gav elproducenterne mulighed for at anvende dette tillæg til udligning af afgifter, som faktisk påhvilede dem, må den afgøre, om denne udligning var fuldstændig, hvilket synes at fremgå af artikel 9 i OEPS, eller kun delvis.
If, on completion of its analysis, the national court concludes that the revenue from the contested surcharge was actually intended to finance costs directly or indir -ectly affecting domestic electricity and that this allowed the producers of the latter to offset financial burdens which they had actually borne as a result of that surcharge, it will have to assess whether those burdens were offset in full, as the wording of Article 9 of the OEPS would seem to indicate, or merely in part.