2007/253/EC: Commission Decision of 19 January 2005 on the Rivesaltes plan and CI... (32007D0253)
2007/253/EC: Commission Decision of 19 January 2005 on the Rivesaltes plan and CIVDN parafiscal charges operated by France (notified under document number C(2005) 50)
- COMMISSION DECISION
- of 19 January 2005
- on the Rivesaltes plan and CIVDN parafiscal charges operated by France
- (notified under document number C(2005) 50)
- (Only the French text is authentic)
- (2007/253/EC)
- I. PROCEDURE
- II. DESCRIPTION
- 1. THE ‘RIVESALTES PLAN’
- 1.1. THE ‘SET-ASIDE PREMIUM’
- 1.2. CONVERSION AID
- 2. INTER-BRANCH CONTRIBUTIONS FOR PUBLICITY AND PROMOTION AND FOR OPERATING CERTAIN AOCS.
- 3. POINTS RAISED BY THE COMMISSION IN THE CONTEXT OF INITIATING AN EXAMINATION PROCEDURE
- III. THIRD PARTY COMMENTS
- IV. COMMENTS FROM FRANCE
- 1. THE ‘RIVESALTES PLAN’
- 1.1. THE ‘SET-ASIDE PREMIUM’
- 1.2. CONVERSION AID
- 2. INITIATIVES FOR PROMOTION AND PUBLICITY AND FOR OPERATING AOCs
- 3. COMMENTS ON THE OBSERVATIONS MADE BY THIRD PARTIES
- V. ASSESSMENT
- 1. ARTICLE 87(1) OF THE TREATY.
- 1.1. EXISTENCE OF A SELECTIVE ADVANTAGE FINANCED BY STATE RESOURCES
- 1.2. EFFECTS ON TRADE
- 1.3. CONCLUSIONS REGARDING THE NATURE OF THE ‘AID’ UNDER ARTICLE 87(1) OF THE TREATY
- 2. ASSESSMENT OF THE COMPATIBILITY OF THE AID
- 2.1. UNLAWFULNESS OF AID
- 2.2. IDENTIFYING THE GUIDELINES APPLICABLE TO THE NON-NOTIFIED MEASURES
- 2.3. ANALYSIS IN THE LIGHT OF THE APPLICABLE RULES
- 2.3.1. The aid measures
- 2.3.1.1. The ‘set-aside premium’
- 2.3.1.2. Conversion aid
- 2.3.1.3. Aid for publicity and promotion and for operating the AOCs concerned
- 2.3.2. Financing the aid
- VI. CONCLUSION
- Article 1
- Article 2
- Article 3
- Article 4
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