Luxembourg, 14/01/2003 (Agence Europe) - Advocate General Philippe Léger proposes that, in the Altmark Trans case, the Court of Justice should consider public service funding as State aid to be notified to the European Commission, aid which cannot be implemented without the latter's express authorisation. It thus answers the Bundesverwaltungsgericht which is to rule in a matter concerning subsidies granted by a German district (Landkreis) to a transport company, Altmark. The subsidies in...