The aid scheme adopted by the CIPE (Comitato Interministeriale per la Pianificazione Economica) and implemented as set out in AIMA (Azienda di Stato per gli Interventi nel Mercato Agricolo) No 226/C of 22 January 1988 which provides for the payment of an amount in respect of beef hindquarters in order to offset to a certain extent:
- the loss of value which occurs when fresh meat is frozen, and
- the cost of taking the product to market
is illegal under 93 (3) of the Treaty. It is, moreover, incompatible with the common market.