Commission Decision (EU) 2019/1246 of 23 November 2018 on alleged State aid SA.35905(2016/C) (ex 2015/NN)(ex 2012/CP) — Belgium Concessionaires active in the Port of Antwerp (notified under document C(2018) 7690) (Text with EEA relevance.)

The measures which Belgium implemented and which consisted, first, in the reduction of contractual minimum tonnage requirements and the subsequent reduction of compensation payments due by two terminal concessionaires in the Port of Antwerp with a retroactive effect from 2009, and, second, in maintaining the reduced minimum tonnage requirements with regard to one of those concessionaires beyond 2013 do not constitute aid within the meaning of Article 107(1) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union.

This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of Belgium.