Furthermore, the Court declared in the EDF case that, ‘[…] for the purposes of showing that, before or at the same time as conferring the advantage, the Member State took that decision as a shareholder, it is not enough to rely on economic evaluations made after the advantage was conferred, on a retrospective finding that the investment made by the Member State concerned was actually profitable, or on subsequent justifications of the course of action actually chosen.’ [81].
Comme indiqué au considérant 293, s'il convient de considérer FFHG comme une entreprise aux fins de l'article 107, paragraphe 1, du traité, il y a néanmoins lieu de rappeler que toutes les activités exercées par le propriétaire ou l'exploitant d'un aéroport ne sont pas nécessairement de nature économique [99].