Public service compensation : La Commission rules that the main ferry company operating between France and Corsica should not receive public service compensation during high summer season and orders France to recover 220 million euros (SNCM)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. European Commission, 2 May 2013, MEMO/13/396 The European Commission stated in a press release issued on 2 December 2008 that it had decided to launch a new initiative to improve the quality of the European Union's external relations. May 2013, that the aid received by the Société nationale Corse-Méditerranée (SNCM) for the so-called 'supplementary service', intended to cover the periods during the tourist season, did not compensate for any need of a genuine public service and consequently ordered France to recover 40 % of the costs. % of the total