Social Services of General Interest (SSGI)

solidarity which are not comparable with the features that characterise compulsory social security schemes, it nevertheless carries on an economic activity in competition
with life assurance companies. 35
The activity of a pension fund charged with the management of a supplementary pension scheme set up by a collective agreement concluded between organisations
representing employers and workers in a given sector, to which affiliation has been made compulsory by the public authorities for all workers in that sector, and which is
independent in deciding about the level of contributions paid and pension entitlements granted, and applies the principle of capitalisation. 36
12
Medical activities are economic activities even if such activities are not for profit. 37
Owing to their sovereign character the following activities are non-economic:
Air navigation safety services as they are connected to the exercise of powers relating to the control and supervision of air space which are typically those of a
public authority 38
An anti-pollution surveillance with which a body governed by private law has been entrusted by the public authorities in an oil port of a Member State, as such an
activity is connected with the exercise of powers relating to the protection of the environment which are typically those of a public authority, even where port users must pay
dues to finance that activity 39
The allocation, by auction by the national regulatory authority responsible for spectrum assignment, of rights such as rights to use frequencies in the electromagnetic
spectrum with the aim of providing the public with mobile telecommunication services, as the authority exclusively carries out the activity of controlling and regulating the
use of the electromagnetic spectrum which has been expressly delegated to it, even if the issuing of the licences in question gives rise to a payment. 40
Funding of functions belonging to the tasks of public safety and security or their related infrastructure 41
Maritime traffic control and safety 42
35
ECJ, Case C-244/94, FFSA, ECR 1995, I-4013, par. 21.
36
ECJ, Case C-67/96, Albany International, ECR 1999, I-5751, par. 85; Joined Cases C-115/97 to C-117/97, Brentjens' Handelsonderneming BV, ECR 1999, I-06025, par. 85
f; Case C-219/97, Maatschappij Drijvende Bokken BV, ECR 1999, I-6121, par. 75 f.
37
Case C-157/99, Smits and Peerbooms, ECR 2001, I-5437, par. 50-52.
38
ECJ, Case C-364/92, SAT/Eurocontrol, ECR 1994, I-43, par. 30.
39
ECJ, Case 343/95, Porto do Genova, ECR 1997, 1547, par. 22-25.
40
ECJ, Case C-369/04, Hutchison 3G and Others, ECR 2007, I-5247, par. 43; ECJ, C-284/04, T-Mobile Austria, ECR 2007, I-5189, par. 44-46.
41
See also Commission Decision of 7-3-2007, State aid no. N 619/2006, Germany – development of Augsburg airport, par. 24, retrievable from: http://ec.europa.eu/community_law/state_aids/transports-2006/n619-06.pdf.