Request for a preliminary ruling from the Conseil d’État (France) lodged on 22 July 2019 — Société ECO TLC v Ministre de la transition écologique et solidaire
(Case C-556/19)
Language of the case: French
Referring court
Conseil d’État
Parties to the main proceedings
Applicant: Société ECO TLC
Defendant: Ministre de la transition écologique et solidaire
Other party: Fédération des entreprises du recyclage
Question referred
Must Article 107 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union be interpreted as meaning that a system such as that described in paragraphs 9 to 11, whereby a private, non-profit eco-body, approved by the public authorities, receives contributions from those who place on the market a particular category of product and who enter into a contract with it to that effect, in return for a service consisting in the organisation on their behalf of the treatment of the waste from those products, and redistributes to operators responsible for the sorting and recovery of that waste, subsidies the amount of which is set out in the approval, in the light of environmental and social targets, is to be regarded as State aid within the meaning of that provision?
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