-LSB-...] by granting DEI and maintaining in its favour quasi-monopolistic lignite exploration rights which
ensure that it has privileged access to the most attractive fuel in Greece for the purposes of generating
electricity, the Hellenic Republic thereby created inequality of opportunity between economic operators on the
wholesale electricity market and thus distorted competition, maintaining or reinforcing DEI's dominant position and excluding or hindering any new entrants, despite the liberalisation of the
wholesale electricity market.