PART III.13.D
Supplementary Information Sheet on aid of a social character under Article 61(2)(a) of the EEA Agreement, for air transport services
It is recommended that this supplementary information sheet is completed, in addition to the “General information” form in PartI, for the notification of any social aid provision covered by the Authority´s Guidelines on State aid to airports and airlines[1].
1. Information on the beneficiary or beneficiaries, the project and the aid
1.1. Please explain the social objective(s) of the notified measure and why you considered that the measure achieves that objective or those objectives.
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1.2. Details on the aid envisaged
1.2.1. Please describe (a) the method of awarding and distributing the aid to final consumers; (b) where applicable, please describe the legal entity or entities receiving the aid or transferring the aid to an intermediate entity responsible of distributing it to eligible final consumers.
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1.2.2. Please describe the categories of eligible final consumers, for instance passengers with particular needs like children, people with disabilities, people on low incomes, students and elderly people, etc.[2].
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1.2.3. Please confirm that the aid will effectively benefit eligible final consumers.
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1.2.4. Please describe the routes eligible for aid.
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1.2.5. Will the aid be granted for passenger transport on a route or on routes linking an airport or airports in a remote region[3] with another airport or other airports within the European Economic Area?
☐ yes / ☐ no1.2.6. If the answer to point 1.2.5 is “yes”, please describe the eligible geographic areas and routes.
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1.2.7. Please specify the costs which are to be compensated by the aid and confirm that eligible costs are limited to the price of a return ticket, including all taxes and charges, invoiced by the carrier to the eligible final consumer.
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1.2.8. Please confirm that the aid will be granted without discrimination between distribution channels, such as travel agencies, airline ground services and websites.
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1.2.9. Please describe (a) the procedure by which the air service operator(s) will be selected, has been or have been selected; (b) eligibility conditions and (c) the selection criteria.
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1.2.10. Please confirm that the aid will be granted without discrimination as to the origin of the services, that is to say irrespective of the airline operating the services.
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1.2.11. Please describe the controls and safeguards in force to ensure that the scheme is only used by eligible final consumers and that there is no overcompensation.
[1]The Authority’s Guidelines on State aid to airports and airlines as adopted by Decision No 216/14/COL, published in OJ L 318, 24.11.2016, p. 17 and EEA Supplement No 66 on the same date).
[2]Where the route concerned links remote regions, such as outermost regions, islands, and sparsely populated areas, the aid could cover the entire population of that region.
[3]Such as outermost regions, islands and sparsely populated areas.