Selective nature: The ECJ recalls that a measure conferring an advantage on a limited part of the territory of a Member State does not constitute in itself State aid, provided that the territory enjoys a sufficient degree of autonomy from the central government (UGT-Rioja)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. – ECJ, 11 September 2008, Unión General de Trabajadores de La Rioja (UGT-Rioja) and Others v Juntas Generales del Territorio Histórico de Vizcaya, and Others, Case C-428/06 to C-434/06. In this judgment, the Court returned to the widely debated question of whether or not measures taken by regional or local authorities within a Member State are selective (see Carlos Urraca Caviedes, La sélectivité régionale, in Liber Amicorum Francisco Santaolalla Gadea, Kluwer Law International, Vol. 36, 2008, pp. 125-144). In its judgment in Portugal v. Commission of the Azores (judgment of 6 September 2006, Case C-88/03 [2006] ECR I-7115, p. I-7115.), the Court held, with