1999/651/EC: Commission Decision of 9 December 1998 on the measure which Ireland is planning to implement in favour of employers for the refund of social security contributions paid in respect of seafarers employed on certain categories of ships not being required to be registered in a Member State (notified under document number C(1998) 4278) (Text with EEA relevance) (Only the English text is authentic)
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The state aid which Ireland is planning to implement in favour of employers in respect of the employment of seafarers on ships engaged in merchant shipping at sea which are the subject of a letting on charter without crew by a lessor not resident in Ireland is incompatible with Article 92 of the EC Treaty. That aid may accordingly not be implemented.
Ireland shall inform the Commission, within two months following notification of this Decision, of the measures taken to comply with it.
This Decision is addressed to Ireland. Done at Brussels, 9 December 1998. For the Commission Neil KINNOCK Member of the Commission (1) OJ C 205, 5.7.1997, p. 5. (2) OJ C 103, 4.4.1998, p. 15.
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