State aid (notion) : The CJEU rules that the decision of a national competition authority extending to all traders in the agricultural industry affected an agreement, concluded in the context of a recognized interprofessional organization, that establishes a ’cotisation volontaire obligatoire’ (contributions which are initially voluntary and later made compulsory by an Inter-ministerial order), does not constitute an element of a State aid (Doux)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. Following the Opinion delivered by Advocate General Melchior Wathelet, the Court of Justice of the European Union delivered a judgment on 30 May 2013 in State aid case C-677/11 (Doux Élevage SNC, Coopérative agricole UKL-ARREE v Ministère de l'agriculture, de l'alimentation, de la pêche, de la ruralité et de l'aménagement du territoire, Comité interprofessionnel de la dinde française (CIDEF)) in which it ruled that Article 107(1), TFEU must be interpreted as meaning that the decision of a national authority extending to all members of the trade in an agricultural sector an agreement which, like the inter-trade agreement at issue in the main proceedings,