However, Germany has recognised that the actual proportion of CO2 costs within a beneficiary's electricity costs will vary according to its supply arrangements, given that the undertakings concerned had typically entered long-term contracts at a given time and on the basis of given electricity and EUA prices.
Cependant, la Commission réfute l'argument selon lequel le régime d'aide n'entraînerait pas de distorsions de concurrence importantes et qu'il aurait au contraire un effet globalement positif.