2000/116/EC: Commission Decision of 20 July 1999 concerning State aid, financed by parafiscal charges, which the Netherlands intends to grant for promoting ornamental plants (notified under document number C(1999) 3440) (Only the Dutch text is authentic)

• Articles: 3

Article 1

The aid which the Netherlands intends to grant for promoting ornamental plants and which is financed from a parafiscal charge on products imported from other Member States is incompatible with the common market. The aid scheme must therefore not be implemented.

Article 2

The Netherlands shall inform the Commission, within two months of notification of this Decision, of the measures taken to comply with it.

Article 3

This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

Done at Brussels, 20 July 1999.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 55, 2.3.1968, p. 1.

(2) OJ L 349, 31.12.1994, p. 105.

(3) OJ C 227, 26.7.1997, p. 5.

(4) See footnote 3.

(5) OJ C 302, 12.11.1987, p. 6.

(6) European Court Reports 1970, p. 487.

(7) Judgment in Case 78/76, Steinike & Weinlig v Germany, ECR 1977, p. 595.

(8) OJ L 308, 29.11.1996, p. 7.

(9) OJ L 115, 17.4.1998, p. 5.

(10) See particularly the judgments in Joined Case C-78 to C-83/90, Compagnie Commerciale de l'Ouest and others v Receveur Principal des Douanes de la Pallice Port ECR 1992, p. I-1847, paragraph 27, and Case C-17/91, Georges Lornoy en Zanen NV and others v Belgian State, ECR 1992, p. I-6523, paragraph 21.

(11) Judgment in Case 47/69, already referred to in footnote 6; see also judgments in Cases C-266/91, Celulose Beira GmbH v Fazenda Pública, ECR 1993, p. I-4337, and C-72/92 Firma Herbert Scharbatke GmbH v Federal Republic of Germany, ECR 1993, p. I-5509.

(12) Judgment in Case 8/74, Dassonville, ECR 1974, p. 837.

(13) Judgment in Case 159/78, Commission v Italy, ECR 1979, p. 3247.