Contribution to the public electricity service: The Council of State states that the contribution to the public electricity service is not an integral part of a State aid (Stop Hôtel Villeneuve d’Ascq)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. EC, 9 November 2011, Stop Hôtel Villeneuve d'Ascq, n° 323273 Final consumers of electricity installed on the national territory participate, as a contribution to the national public electricity service, in the financing of the additional production costs borne by electricity operators in areas not interconnected to the continental metropolitan network on the basis of the provisions of Article 5 of the Law of 10 February 2000 (since codified in the Energy Code), since the law provides that electricity consumers located in these areas pay the same price for the energy they consume as in the rest of the national territory. The sums collected as part of this