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Furthermore, they added that, with regard to the overall grant-equivalent of the restructuring, only small amounts of aid had been granted in most cases, and that the restructuring related to previous loans and thus investments which had already been made.
V zvezi s skupnim ekvivalentom dotacije pri prestrukturiranju so dodali, da je bila velika večina pomoči nizka in da je v teh primerih šlo za prestrukturiranje starih dolgov in s tem že izvedenih naložb.
Above all, the explanations offered by the Greek authorities are not sufficient to permit the Commission to rule out the possibility that certain agricultural processing firms received aid under Ministerial Decision No 69836/B1451 and its subsequent amendments because the fact no specific reference was made to the aforementioned firms does not necessarily indicate that they did not belong to the generic category of processing firms (industrial firms) falling within the scope of the Decision.
Pojasnila grških organov oblasti Komisiji ne dovoljujejo, da izključi možnost, da so nekatera predelovalna podjetja v kmetijskem sektorju lahko prejela pomoč v okviru ministrskega sklepa št. 69836/B1451 in njegovih sprememb, ker dejstvo, da ne obstaja natančno sklicevanje na njih, ne pomeni avtomatično, da ne spadajo v splošno kategorijo predelovalnih podjetij (industrijska podjetja), ki spadajo v področje uporabe sklepa.
In terms of compliance with the conditions referred to in recital 90, the Commission finds that Decision No 69836/B1451 and its subsequent amendments concerned the restructuring of either investment or working capital loans.
V zvezi z izpolnjevanjem pogojev, določenih v uvodni izjavi 90, Komisija ugotavlja, da je sklep št. 69836/B1451, kot je bil spremenjen, zajemal prestrukturiranje posojil, ki so se lahko nanašala na naložbe ali na obratni kapital.
With regard to the restructuring of investment loans, on the basis of the information provided by the Greek authorities, the Commission finds that the condition referred to in recital 90(a) has been satisfied, because these loans concerned investments which had already been made.
V zvezi s prestrukturiranjem posojil, povezanih z naložbami, pojasnila s strani grških organov oblasti omogočajo ugotovitev Komisije, da je izpolnjen pogoj iz uvodne izjave 90(a), saj so ta posojila zadevala že realizirane naložbe.
Moreover, the Commission finds that the second alternative condition referred to in recital 90(c) has been complied with, since beneficiary firms must be deemed viable after restructuring on the basis of an assessment by the financial institutions.
Komisija lahko prav tako meni, da je izpolnjena druga alternativna možnost pogoja, ki je naveden v uvodni izjavi 90(c), saj morajo biti upravičena podjetja po oceni kreditnih institucij po prestrukturiranju rentabilna.
However, the information at the Commission’s disposal is not sufficient to establish beyond doubt that the condition referred to in recital 90(b) has been complied with, because the Greek authorities explained in their letter of 9 August 2004 that enterprises engaged in processing and marketing agricultural products were covered by, inter alia, the provisions of Regulations (EEC) No 866/90 and (EC) No 951/97 and that these Regulations were applied in compliance with the provisions thereof, which implies that aid could already have been granted at the maximum intensity provided for in the aforementioned Regulations (75 % for Objective 1 regions, which applies to all of Greece) and that it is possible that the operation of the scheme in question could, as a result of the cumulation of aid, have resulted in this intensity being exceeded.
Komisija na podlagi razpoložljivih informacij ne more ugotoviti, ali je bil nedvomno izpolnjen pogoj, ki je naveden v uvodni izjavi 90(b), saj so grški organi oblasti v dopisu z dne 9. avgusta 2004 pojasnili, da so podjetja za predelavo in trženje kmetijskih proizvodov spadala med drugim na področje določb Uredb (EGS) št. 866/90 in (ES) št. 951/97 ter da je bila uporaba teh uredb izvedena v skladu z njihovimi določbami, kar pomeni, da je mogoče, da so bile pomoči že dodeljene do največje dovoljene zgornje meje, določene v teh uredbah (75 % za regije Cilja 1, v katerega je spadala Grčija), oz. da je mogoče ob uporabi te sheme in zaradi kumuliranja pomoči prišlo do preseganja te meje.
With regard to the restructuring of working capital loans, the scheme could not have been applied in compliance with all the conditions set out in recital 90, as the first condition (point (a)) explicitly states that loans must be linked to investments.
V zvezi s prestrukturiranjem posojil, povezanih z obratnim kapitalom, izvajanje te sheme ni bilo mogoče ob upoštevanju vseh pogojev, ki so navedeni v uvodni izjavi 90, saj prvi od pogojev, ki so tam navedeni (točka (a)), izrecno določa, da morajo biti posojila vezana na naložbo.
From 1 January 1998 to 30 June 2000
Med 1. januarjem 1998 in 30. junijem 2000
In 1997, the conditions set out in recital 90 were replaced by the provisions of Communication from the Commission — Community guidelines on State aid for rescuing and restructuring firms in difficulty (hereinafter ‘the 1997 Guidelines’) [37].
Leta 1997 so pogoje iz uvodne izjave 90 nadomestila pravila v Sporočilu Komisije – Smernice skupnosti o državni pomoči za reševanje in prestrukturiranje podjetij v težavah (v nadaljnjem besedilu: Smernice iz leta 1997) [37].
Point 4.4 of the aforementioned Guidelines stipulates that: ‘As regards the agricultural sector, these Guidelines will enter into force on 1 January 1998 for new State aids. For existing ones, entry into force will be on the same date or, in the event that the Commission has opened the procedure pursuant to Article 93(2) of the [EC] Treaty against one more or more Member States in this context, once the Commission has adopted a final decision vis-à-vis the Member State(s) concerned pursuant to Article 93(2) of the [EC] Treaty.’
Točka 4.4 navedenih smernic določa, da „za kmetijski sektor bodo [te smernice] začele veljati 1. januarja 1998 za nove državne pomoči, za obstoječe pomoči velja enak datum, če pa je Komisija začela v tem okviru postopek člena 93(2) Pogodbe [ES] proti eni ali več državam članicam, pa takrat, ko izda dokončni sklep proti zadevnim državam članicam v skladu s členom 93(2) Pogodbe [ES]“.
The 1997 Guidelines, entirely new for the agricultural sector provided for, inter alia:
Smernice iz leta 1997, ki so vsebovale popolnoma nove določbe za kmetijski sektor, med drugim predvidevajo:
rescue aid: liquidity measures, warranted on the grounds of serious social difficulties and consisting of loan guarantees or loans bearing normal commercial interest rates, restricted to the amount needed to keep a firm in business (for example, covering wage and salary costs and routine supplies), paid only for the time needed to devise the necessary and feasible recovery measures, and having no undue adverse effects on the industrial and agricultural situations in other Member States;
za pomoč pri reševanju: dodelitev pomoči za zagotavljanje likvidnosti, ki je upravičena na podlagi resnih socialnih težav, v obliki jamstev za posojilo ali posojila z običajnimi tržnimi obrestnimi merami, je strogo omejena na znesek za vzdrževanje dejavnosti podjetja (npr. pokritje stroškov za plače in redne dobave) ter je tudi časovno omejena, vendar izključno za čas, ki je potreben za določitev potrebnih in možnih ukrepov okrevanja, brez negativnega vpliva na razmere v industrijskih ali kmetijskih sektorjih v drugih državah članicah;
restructuring aid: the granting of aid linked to a restructuring plan entailing a capacity reduction or irreversible closure of production capacity where there is structural excess capacity in the sector (the capacity reduction must be supplementary to any applicable in the absence of restructuring aid), the only exemption to this being in cases where the totality of decisions taken in favour of all beneficiaries over any consecutive 12-month period does not involve a quantity of product which exceeds a certain percentage of the total annual production of that product in that country (3 % for measures targeted on a particular category of products or operators and 1,5 % for non-targeted measures).
za pomoč pri prestrukturiranju: dodelitev pomoči za izvajanje načrta prestrukturiranja, ki bi vključeval zmanjšanje ali nepreklicno prekinitev delovanja proizvodnih kapacitet v primeru strukturnih presežkov kapacitet v zadevnem sektorju (poleg vseh drugih znižanj, ki se uporabljajo zaradi odsotnosti pomoči za prestrukturiranje), z edino možnostjo odstopanja v primerih, ko tiste odločitve, ko so se sprejele v korist vseh upravičencev v obdobju 12 zaporednih mesecev, ne zadevajo količine proizvoda, ki presega določen odstotek skupne letne proizvodnje izdelkov v tej državi (3 % za ukrepe, katerih cilj je določena skupina proizvodov ali nosilcev, in 1,5 % za ukrepe zunaj konkretnega cilja).
The Member States were permitted to ask for these agricultural provisions to be applied instead of those in the 1997 Guidelines for sectors other than agriculture (stringent conditions applied to these sectors, particularly in respect of the restructuring plan and the beneficiary’s contribution to restructuring — see recitals 109 to 121 of section (b) below, ‘Non-agricultural sector’).
Države članice se lahko odločijo za uporabo zgoraj omenjenih določb v zvezi s kmetijskim sektorjem, namesto tistih iz smernic iz leta 1997, ki so predvideni za druge sektorje(v drugih sektorjih so bila merila zelo stroga, zlasti glede načrta prestrukturiranja in prispevka upravičenca k prestrukturiranju – glej uvodne izjave od 109 do 121 iz oddelka (b) spodaj, „Nekmetijski sektor“).
In their letter of 9 August 2004 the Greek authorities failed to provide any information which might enable the Commission to establish that the aid scheme had been adapted in order to comply with these provisions and that the aid granted during the period in question was therefore granted in accordance with the relevant conditions laid down in the 1997 Guidelines, meaning either the conditions described under recital 99(b) above or the conditions laid down for the sectors other than agriculture (submission of a restructuring plan to restore viability on the basis of realistic assumptions within a reasonable time-scale, mitigation of the effects on competitors, due regard for the ‘one time, last time’ principle, capacity reduction in the case of structural excess capacity in the sector concerned and aid in proportion to the restructuring costs and benefit that also the social costs of restructuring).
V svojem dopisu z dne 9. avgusta 2004 grški organi oblasti niso navedli nobenih podatkov, ki bi Komisiji omogočili ugotovitev, da so bile sheme pomoči prilagojene tem določbam in da so bile zato pomoči, dodeljene med zadevnim obdobjem, dodeljene v skladu z veljavnimi pogoji iz smernic iz leta 1997 oz. z drugimi besedami, s pogoji, določenimi v uvodni izjavi 99(b) zgoraj, ali s pogoji, ki so bili predvideni za druge sektorje, razen kmetijskega (predložitev načrta za prestrukturiranje s potencialom ponovne vzpostavitve rentabilnosti, ki temelji na realističnih predpostavkah in v razumnem času, z ublažitvijo učinkov pomoči na konkurente, z upoštevanjem načela enkratne pomoči, z zmanjševanjem proizvodnih kapacitet v primeru strukturnih presežnih kapacitet zadevnem sektorju, z zagotovitvijo sorazmernosti med pomočjo in stroški ter koristi prestrukturiranja in s kritjem socialnih stroškov prestrukturiranja). IIΙ.
From 1 July 2000 until 30 June 2003
Med 1. julijem 2000 in 30. junijem 2003
The 1997 Guidelines were replaced on 9 October 1999 with the Community Guidelines on State aid for rescuing and restructuring firms in difficulty (hereinafter ‘the 1999 Guidelines’) [38].
Smernice iz leta 1997 so se nadomestile 9. oktobra 1999 s smernicami Skupnosti o državni pomoči za reševanje in prestrukturiranje podjetij v težavah [38] (v nadaljnjem besedilu: smernice iz leta 1999).
Point 6.3 of the 1999 Guidelines states that ‘Member States must adapt their existing rescue and restructuring aid schemes which are to remain in operation after 30 June 2000 in order to bring them into line with [the] Guidelines … after that date.’ Moreover, ‘to enable the Commission to monitor the adaptation process, Member States must let it have a list of all such schemes before 31 December 1999. They must subsequently, and in any event before 30 June 2000, provide it with sufficient information to enable it to check that the schemes have indeed been modified in accordance with [the] Guidelines.’
V skladu z odstavkom 6.3 smernic iz leta 1999 se omenja, da „morajo države članice prilagoditi svoje sheme pomoči za reševanje in prestrukturiranje, ki jih uporabljajo in ki ostanejo v veljavi po 30. juniju 2000 in da jih uskladijo s ... smernicami ... po tem datumu“. Prav tako, „da bi Komisija lahko spremljala potek prilagajanja, [ji morajo posredovati] države članice pred 31. decembrom 1999 seznam vseh teh shem. V nadaljevanju, v vsakem primeru pa pred 30. junijem 2000, ji morajo zagotoviti dovolj podatkov, ki ji bodo omogočali, da ugotovi, ali so bile te sheme spremenjene v skladu s … smernicami“.
The 1999 guidelines also included a specific section on restructuring firms in difficulty in the agricultural sector.
Smernice iz leta 1999 so vključevale tudi posebno poglavje o prestrukturiranju podjetij v težavah v kmetijskem sektorju.
As compared with the 1997 Guidelines, this section provided a definition of structural excess capacity in the sector, limited the exemption referred to in recital 99(b) to firms in the primary sector (with the result that the sub-sector of the processing and marketing of agricultural products automatically faced a capacity reduction requirement) and introduced the ‘one time, last time’ condition which meant that restructuring aid could only be granted once.
V primerjavi s primerljivim poglavjem smernic iz leta 1997 je to poglavje podajalo definicijo strukturne presežne proizvodne zmogljivosti v sektorju, omejevalo je odstopanje iz uvodne izjave 99(b) na podjetja v primarnem sektorju (kar pomeni, da mora podsektor predelave in trženja kmetijskih proizvodov avtomatično izpolnjevati zahteve po zmanjševanju proizvodnih kapacitet) in je uvajalo uporabo načela enkratne pomoči, po kateri se lahko pomoči za prestrukturiranje dodelijo samo enkrat.
In their letter of 9 August 2004, the Greek authorities failed to provide any information which might enable the Commission to establish that the aid scheme had been adapted in order to comply with these provisions and that the aid granted during the period in question was therefore granted in accordance with the relevant conditions laid down in the 1999 Guidelines, in other words following the submission of a restructuring plan entailing closure of capacity in the case of structural excess capacity, applying the limited exemption referred to in recital 103 where necessary, and based on the ‘one time, last time’ principle.
V dopisu z dne 9. avgusta 2004 grški organi oblasti niso posredovali nobene informacije, ki bi Komisiji omogočile, da ugotovi, ali je bila izvedena prilagoditev sheme v skladu s temi določbami in ali je bila pomoč, dodeljena v zadevnem obdobju, dodeljena v skladu z veljavnimi pogoji smernic iz leta 1999 oz. z drugimi besedami, po predložitvi načrta prestrukturiranja, ki predvideva zmanjšanje proizvodnih zmogljivosti v primeru strukturnega presežka in morda z omejenim odstopanjem, navedenim v uvodni izjavi 103, ter v skladu z načelom enkratne dodeljene pomoči.
Another factor in the Commission’s decision to initiate the procedure laid down in Article 108(2) of the Treaty is the issue of the compatibility of any aid granted in the form of guarantees.
Drugo vprašanje, zaradi katerega je Komisija začela postopek v skladu s členom 108(2) Pogodbe, je vprašanje združljivosti kakršne koli pomoči, dodeljene v obliki jamstev.
The Greek authorities made a number of observations in their letter of 9 August 2004 (see recital 57(c) and (g)).
Grški organi oblasti so izrazili nekaj pripomb v svojem dopisu z dne 9. avgusta 2004 (glej uvodno izjavo 57(c) in (g)).
However, the Commission finds it necessary to comment on these observations as follows:
Komisija na to podaja naslednje pripombe:
with regard to point (c), the fact that the granting of guarantees is subject to strict conditions does not in itself exclude the existence of State aid — on the contrary, the rules which applied during the life-span of the scheme in question, as set out in the letters to the Member States ref. SG(89) D/4328 of 5 April 1989 and SG(89) D/12772 of 12 October 1989 and in point 38 of the Commission communication to the Member States on the application of Articles 92 and 93 of the EEC Treaty and of Article 5 of Commission Directive 80/723/EEC to public undertakings in the manufacturing sector [39], clearly state that ‘… all guarantees given by the State directly or by way of delegation through financial institutions [fall] within the scope of Article 92(1) of the EEC Treaty,’ and impose the application of conditions which may include the firm being declared bankrupt.
glede točke (c): dejstvo, da dodelitev jamstva spremljajo strogi pogoji, nikakor ne pomeni odsotnost državne pomoči: nasprotno, pravila, ki so se uporabljala v času veljavnosti te sheme, ki so izražena v dopisih državam članicam SG(89) D/4328 z dne 5. aprila 1989 in SG(89) D/12772 z dne 12. oktobra 1989, kakor tudi v točki 38 Sporočila Komisije državam članicam o izvajanju členov 92 in 93 pogodbe EGS in člena 5 Direktive Komisije 80/723/EGS za javna podjetja v predelovalnem sektorju [39], jasno navajajo, da „[…] vsa jamstva, ki jih je dodelila država, neposredno ali za to pooblastila kreditne institucije, spadajo v področje uporabe člena 92(1) Pogodbe ES“ in uveljavljajo uporabo pogojev, ki lahko vodijo tudi do likvidacije podjetja.
Whilst it is true that the abovementioned letters were replaced in 2000 by the Commission Notice on the application of Articles 87 and 88 of the EC Treaty to State aid in the form of guarantees, which laid down conditions enabling the existence of State aid to be excluded, none of the information provided in the letter from the Greek authorities of 9 August 2004 demonstrates that the guarantees granted met any of these conditions;
Prej omenjene dopise je leta 2000 nadomestilo Obvestilo o uporabi členov 87 in 88 Pogodbe ES za državne pomoči v obliki jamstev, ki je predvidevalo vrsto pogojev, katerih izpolnjevanje zagotavlja odsotnost državne pomoči, vendar grški organi oblasti z dopisom z dne 9. avgusta 2004 niso predložili nobenih dokazov, iz katerih bi izhajalo, da so bile dodeljene pomoči del takšnega scenarija;
even if the Greek authorities had supplied information intended to demonstrate that the guarantees granted fulfilled the conditions for excluding State aid, the Commission would not have been able to accept the justification as, to cite but one example, the exemption only applies if the beneficiary firms are not in financial difficulty;
tudi če bi grški organi oblasti predložili podatke, ki bi lahko dokazali, da pri dodeljevanju jamstev ni šlo za državno pomoč, Komisija tega ne bi mogla potrditi, saj če omenimo samo en primer, to odstopanje velja le, če upravičenci niso v finančnih težavah;
as regards point (g), the fact that the guarantee does not cover certain charges in no way demonstrates that all the conditions under which the aid inherent in the granting of a guarantee can be considered compatible with the internal market have been fulfilled; moreover, it must be acknowledged that none of the other information provided by the Greek authorities in their letter of 9 August 2004 demonstrates that the conditions have been met.
v zvezi s točko (g) dejstvo, da jamstvo ne krije določenih stroškov, v nobenem primeru ne predstavlja dokazila o izpolnjevanju vseh pogojev, ki omogočajo sklep, da je dodelitev jamstva skupaj s pomočjo združljiva z notranjim trgom; poleg tega je treba navesti, da nobena od informacij, ki so jih grški organi oblasti predložili z dopisom z dne 9. avgusta 2004, ni potrdila izpolnjevanja teh pogojev.
That being clear, the Commission therefore considers that the guarantees constituted, during the life-span of the scheme in question, part of a package of instruments for granting aid to firms in difficulty and that as a result their compatibility is linked to the restructuring process as a whole, for which, as sufficiently indicated in the analysis in recitals 94 to 104, the Greek authorities have not provided sufficient information to remove the doubts expressed by the Commission when it initiated the procedure provided for under Article 108(2) of the Treaty (these findings in respect of guarantees apply equally to the three procedures referred to in this Decision and to all the sectors mentioned, with the exception of the guarantees provided for in Ministerial Decision No 2/82257/0025 of 18 December 2000, which, in view of the viability criterion used — viability prior to debt restructuring — will be examined separately).
Glede na ta pojasnila Komisija verjetno meni, da so bila jamstva v času veljavnosti te sheme pomoči eden od elementov paketa ukrepov za dodelitev pomoči podjetjem v težavah in da je zato njihova združljivost povezana z združljivostjo celotnega procesa prestrukturiranja, za katerega, kot je razvidno iz analize, ki je izražena v uvodnih izjavah od 94 do 104, grški organi oblasti niso predložili informacij, s katerimi bi se lahko odpravili dvomi, ki jih je izrazila Komisija, ko je začela postopek v skladu s členom 108(2) Pogodbe (ta analiza se nanaša na jamstva za vse tri postopke, ki so omenjeni v tem sklepu, in za vse obravnavane sektorje, razen v primeru jamstev, ki jih določa ministrski sklep št. 2/82257/0025/18.12.2000, ki bodo glede na kriterije rentabilnosti – rentabilnost pred prestrukturiranjem dolga – predmet posebnega pregleda).
None of the other arguments put forward by the Greek authorities in their letter of 9 August 2004 (the rate of interest applied, the issue of the existence or otherwise of additional expenditure arising from Ministerial Decisions which formed an integral part of the legal basis of the scheme, frequency with which interest is calculated) contain any substance which alters the Commission’s position as outlined above.
Drugi argumenti, ki so jih grški organi oblasti obrazložili v svojem dopisu z dne 9. avgusta 2004 (uporabljena obrestna mera, o nastanku ali ne dodatnih stroškov kot posledici ministrskih sklepov, ki so sestavni del pravne podlage sheme, pogostost izračuna obresti), ne dodajo ničesar, kar bi lahko spremenilo stališče Komisije, kot je opisano zgoraj.
Since the information provided by the Greek authorities does not remove the doubts expressed by the Commission when it initiated the procedure laid down in Article 108(2) of the Treaty, the Commission can only conclude that the scheme in question is incompatible with the common market.
Ker informacije, ki so jih predložili grški organi oblasti, ne zadoščajo za odpravo dvomov, ki jih je Komisija izrazila ob začetku postopka na podlagi člena 108(2) Pogodbe, Komisija sklepa, da je zadevna shema nezdružljiva s skupnim trgom.
Non-agricultural sector
Nekmetijski sektor
As in the case of the agricultural sector, the Commission must examine the aid in question in the light of the rules applicable to aid for rescuing and restructuring firms in difficulty.
Komisija mora, kot je naredila tudi s kmetijskim sektorjem, analizirati zadevne pomoči glede na veljavna pravila o državnih pomočeh za reševanje in prestrukturiranje podjetij v težavah.
At the time of entry into force of Ministerial Decree No 69836/B1461, i.e. 1 October 1993, the rules in question were set out in the Eighth Report on Competition Policy, and in particular under points 177, 227 and 228 of the latter.
Z začetkom veljavnosti sklepa Ministrskega sveta št. 69836/B1461, to je s 1. oktobrom 1993, so bila ta pravila vključena v 8. poročilo o politiki konkurence, zlasti v točkah 177, 227 in 228 poročila.