1999/349/EC: Commission Decision of 14 October 1998 concerning the application by Italy of the aid scheme provided for by Law No 1329/65 (Legge Sabatini) for the processing and marketing of agricultural products (notified under document number C(1998) 3213) (Only the Italian text is authentic)

• Articles: 4

Article 1

The application with regard to the processing and marketing of agricultural products of the investment aid scheme provided for by Law No 1329 of 28 November 1965 is compatible with the common market under the following conditions:

(a) the intensity of the aid, expressed as gross subsidy equivalent (GSE), does not exceed 17 % in Objective 1 regions and 9,5 % in other regions;

(b) the sectoral limits laid down in the Annex to Decision 94/173/EC, as referred to in the implementing provisions for Law No 488 of 19 December 1992, as amended in accordance with the Commission Decision of 22 July 1998, are respected.

Article 2

Before implementing the scheme referred to in Article 1 with respect to the processing and marketing of agricultural products, the Italian Government shall amend its implementing provisions in order to comply with the conditions set out in that Article.

The Italian Government shall notify the Commission of the provisions adopted to comply with the above conditions within fifteen days of their adoption.

Article 3

The Italian Government shall submit to the Commission an annual report giving details of any grant of aid during the year and, in particular, containing all the information necessary to enable the Commission to conclude, without recourse to additional enquiry, that each of the conditions referred to in point 2 of the Annex to Decision 94/173/EC has been met.

Article 3

This Decision is addressed to the Italian Republic.

Done at Brussels, 14 October 1998.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ C 100, 2.4.1998, p. 17.

(2) OJ C 29, 2.2.1996, p. 4.

(3) OJ L 79, 23.3.1994, p. 29.

(4) C(1998) 2407 final, not yet published.