2000/386/EC: Commission Decision of 8 December 1999 on the measure which the Netherlands intends to implement concerning rationalisation of pig assembly centres (notified under document number C(1999) 5209) (Only the Dutch text is authentic)

• Articles: 2

Article 1

The aid measure which the Netherlands intends to implement concerning rationalisation of pig assembly centres is compatible with the common market within the meaning of Article 87(3)(c) of the Treaty.

The aid measure may therefore be implemented.

Article 2

This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

Done at Brussels, 8 December 1999.

For the Commission

Franz Fischler

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ C 108, 17.4.1999, p. 5.

(2) OJ C 108, 17.4.1999, p. 5.

(3) OJ L 121, 29.7.1964, p. 1977/64.

(4) OJ L 109, 25.4.1997, p. 1.

(5) OJ L 224, 18.8.1990, p. 29.

(6) OJ L 62, 15.3.1993, p. 49.

(7) OJ L 109, 26.4.1983, p. 8.

(8) OJ L 204, 21.7.1998, p. 37.

(9) OJ L 217, 5.8.1998, p. 26.

(10) A pig-equivalent is a unit of account which is used to express the average number of pigs kept at the assembly centre during 1994, 1995 and 1996, on the basis of which different sorts of pigs can be compared: a piglet weighing less than 45 kg represents 0,45 pig-equivalent, a pig weighing 45 kg or more intended for slaughter represents 1 pig-equivalent, a pig weighing 45 kg or more intended for breeding represents 1,82 pig-equivalent.

(11) OJ L 282, 1.11.1975, p. 1.

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

(13) [1988] ECR 5515, paragraph 24.

(14) [1980] ECR 2671.

(15) OJ L 394, 30.12.1989, p. 9.