Private investor: The Court of Justice of the European Union rejects the appeal of an Italian city, considering that the General Court of the European Union has correctly applied the criterion of private investor to the aid granted in the form of capital increases in a company in charge of ground handling at two airports (Comune di Milano / European Commission)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. On 10 December 2020, the Court of Justice of the European Union delivered its judgment in Case C-160/19 (Comune di Milano v. European Commission).. In that case, which mainly raised the question of the application of the criterion of the private investor acting in a market economy, the Court concludes that the appeal in favour of which the City of Milan sought both the annulment of the contested judgment and the annulment of the contested decision must be dismissed. SEA, the company managing the airports of Milan-Linate and Milan-Malpensa, which was almost exclusively owned by the public authorities between 2002 and 2010, 84.56% of which was owned mainly