Notion of State aid: The Court of Justice considers that the mandatory voluntary contributions are not a State aid (Doux Elevage SNC et Coopérative agricole UKL-ARREE)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. The Court's judgment in this case brings to an end a long debate which had been going on for several years between the French authorities and the Commission at European level and, in France, between the Court of Auditors and the Council of State at national level, concerning the classification as State aid of "compulsory voluntary contributions" introduced in the framework of a professional organisation. This is not a new issue since the jurisprudence of the Council of State on the subject is abundant (see in particular EC, Comité National des Interprofessions des Vins à Appellations, 7 November 2008, see also the Onhiflor case) and State aid rules are