L’Autorité rappelle que, selon une jurisprudence constante, la notion d’aide est plus générale que celle de subvention, étant donné qu’elle comprend non seulement des pre
stations positives, telles que les subventions elles-mêmes, mais également des interventions d’État qui, sous des formes div
erses, allègent les charges qui normalement grèvent le budget d’une entreprise et qui, par là, sans être des subventions au sens strict du mot, sont de même nature et ont des effets i
...[+++]dentiques (28).
The Authority recalls that, according to settled case law, the definition of aid is more general than that of subsidy, because it includes not only positive benefits, such as subsidies themselves, but also state measures which, in various forms, mitigate the charges which are normally included in the budget of an undertaking and which thus, without being subsidies in the strict sense of the word, are similar in character and have the same effect (28).