State imputability: The French Council of State, by reference to the Pearle doctrine, decides that compulsory levies allowing interprofessional agricultural market policies do not belong to the State aid rules (Confédération paysanne)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. – EC, 21 June 2006, Confédération paysanne, No. 271450 With explicit reference to the judgment of the Court of Justice of 15 July 2004 (ECJ, Pearle and others, Case C-345/02, ECR p. 7139 ; see comment A.), the Court of Justice of the European Communities (ECJ, Pearle and others, Case C-345/02, ECR p. 7139 ; see comment A. A., ConcurrencesNo. 1-2004, p. 79.), the Conseil d'État holds that the compulsory levies received by the agricultural inter-branch organisations covered by Article L. 632-3 of the Code rural are not State resources and that the decision to use those resources is not attributable to the State, so that the applicant cannot usefully argue that