The EU General Court confirms the compatibility of Polish State aid granted to its postal operator (Inpost Paczkomaty)

The source of this dispute is a Commission decision not to raise objections to the measure notified by Polish authorities concerning the aid granted to Poczta Polska ("PP") in the form of compensation for the net cost of fulfilling its universal postal service obligations for the period between 1 January 2013 and 31 December 2015 (Case SA.38869). The aid scheme concerned, on the one hand, a mechanism for sharing the net cost of universal service obligations and, on the other hand, a compensation fund which was partly financed by contributions from certain postal operators, a system open to Member States under the Postal Directive 97/67/EC, amended in particular by Directive 2008/6/EC (the "Postal Directive"). The Commission considered that the operating principles of the compensation fund