Details of arrangement for the electronic transmission of State aid notifications — Article 3(6) of the Efta Surveillance Authority Decision of 14 July 2004 on the implementing provisions referred to under Article 27 in Part II of Protocol 3 to the Agreement between the EFTA States on the Establishment of a Surveillance Authority and a Court of Justice (hereinafter Decision 195/04/COL )
Date: 2006-11-23
Institutions: EFTA Surveillance Authority
Subjects: EFTA, Internet, State aid, consultation of information, control of State aid, data transmission, electronic document

23.11.2006

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 286/9

EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AREA

EFTA SURVEILLANCE AUTHORITY

Details of arrangement for the electronic transmission of State aid notifications

Article 3(6) of the Efta Surveillance Authority Decision of 14 July 2004 on the implementing provisions referred to
under Article 27 in Part II of Protocol 3 to the Agreement between the EFTA States on the Establishment of a
Surveillance Authority and a Court of Justice (hereinafter ‘Decision 195/04/COL’) (1)

(2006/C 286/07)

The present notice sets out the detailed arrangements for the transmission of electronic notifications,
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which are compulsory as of 1 January 2006. It is based on Article 3(6) of Decision 195/04/COL. Article
3(6) requests the EFTA Surveillance Authority to publish details of the arrangements for the electronic
transmission of notifications. The Advisory Committee on State aid has been consulted.

The notification forms and supplementary information sheets annexed to Decision 195/04/COL have

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been made available as Word documents at the following web address:

http://www.eftasurv.int/fieldsofwork/fieldstateaid/saenotification/

For electronic transmission of State aid notifications and related correspondence, the Authority has

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made available a web portal at the following address:

https://eea.eftasurv.int/portal/

The EFTA States have been requested to designate a single contact point for the purpose of electronic

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submission of State aid notifications and related correspondence.

The portal has two user levels. User-id and the password only give read access. In order for the desig-
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nated contact point to submit a document, the Efta Surveillance Authority has supplied a code calculator
and log-on instructions that ensures both authentication of sender and secure exchange of the document.

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The EFTA State will immediately be able to verify the receipt of documents sent to the EFTA Surveil-
lance Authority. A document submitted to the EFTA State from the EFTA Surveillance Authority can be
viewed and processed internally within the EFTA State by using the web portal.

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All subsequent correspondence between the EFTA State and the EFTA Surveillance Authority will be
exchanged by use of the web portal. Withdrawal of notifications shall be done by use of the web portal.
Decisions of the EFTA Surveillance Authority relating to notifications shall also be communicated to the
EFTA State concerned by use of the web portal.

(1) As amended by Decision 319/05/COL (not yet published). Article 3(6) of Decision No 195/04/COL corresponds to
Article 3(6) of Commission Regulation (EC) No 794/2004 of 21 April 2004 implementing Council Regulation (EC)
No 659/1999 laying down detailed rules for the application of Article 93 of the Treaty.