State aid — C 25/95 (ex NN 101/94) — Italy (Articles 87 to 89 of the Treaty establishing the European Community) — Communication from the Commission within the meaning of Article 88(2) of the EC Treaty on aid which Italy intended to grant in the agriculture sector (Kenaf production)
Date: 2001-10-25
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Italy, State aid, aid to agriculture, control of State aid

C 299/6

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

25.10.2001

STATE AID

C 25/95 (ex NN 101/94)

Italy

(Articles 87 to 89 of the Treaty establishing the European Community)

Communication from the Commission within the meaning of Article 88(2) of the EC Treaty on aid
which Italy intended to grant in the agriculture sector

(Kenaf production)

(2001/C 299/03)

By means of the following letter the Commission informed the
Italian authorities of its decision to close the procedure laid
down in Article 88(2) of the Treaty.

(cid:145)By letter dated 3 March 1994, recorded as received on 13
March 1994,
Italy to the
the Permanent Representation of
European Union notified the Commission of the text of an
inter-branch
abovementioned
product.

concerning

agreement

the

By letter dated 11 May 1994,
supplementary information, which the
furnished by letter dated 11 August 1994.

the Commission requested
Italian authorities

By letter of 27 July 1995, the Commission informed Italy of its
decision to initiate the procedure laid down in Article 88(2) of
the Treaty in respect of the aid measures provided for in the
agreement.

The Commission called on the other Member States and
interested parties to submit
their comments on the aid in
question but it did not receive any.

the

1995

Italian

authorities

After the procedure had been initiated, by letter dated 13
September
the
Commission that, by the date on which the letter was sent,
the public authorities had not adopted any measures granting
aid either to the growers concerned or to the National Beet-
growers’ Association, the body which was the beneficiary of
the aid, and that the programme, which had been launched
independently and without public aid, had remained practically

informed

unimplemented as it had involved only 42 holdings whose
production, moreover, had not been processed.
In view of
this, according to the Italian authorities, the procedure under
way lacked the necessary justification as there had been no
(cid:147)aid(cid:148) for a programme which had remained substantially unim-
plemented.

By letter dated 16 December 1999, the Commission asked the
Italian authorities to confirm that no aid had been granted in
respect of the measure in question, to repeat their undertaking
not to grant any aid in future in respect of the measure, and
therefore to withdraw the notification. By letter dated 21
January 2000, the Italian authorities confirmed the content
i.e. that no public aid
of the letter of 13 September 1995,
had been granted for the measure in question. In the same
letter the Italian authorities confirmed their undertaking not
to finance the measure in question in future. According to
the Italian authorities,
to a
(Interministerial
by
repeal
Committee for Economic Planning) of 30 November 1995
in addition to the aid notified, also contains other
which,
provisions. Again according to the Italian authorities,
the
therefore to be regarded as having been
notification is
withdrawn.

this undertaking is equivalent
the CIPE

decision

the

of

In view of the above, the Commission finds that it is no longer
necessary to adopt a decision as to whether the aid planned in
the draft notified is compatible with the common market, and
hereby informs Italy of its decision that there is no need to
proceed(cid:146).