2000/580/EC: Commission Decision of 30 March 1999 on the State aid which the Region of Sardinia (Italy) granted to the milk sector (notified under document number C(1999) 902) (Only the Italian text is authentic)

• Articles: 5

Article 1

The State aids in favour of cooperatives and producer groups in the sheep's and goat's milk sector granted by the Sardinia Region for the 1995/1996 marketing year on the basis of Article 16 of Law No 9/62, as implemented by Decision No 47/17 of 24 October 1997 are incompatible with the common market.

Article 2

Italy shall withdraw the aid referred to in Article 1.

Article 3

Italy shall provide the Commission, within two months following notification of this Decision, with full details of all other aids which have been granted on the basis of Article 16 of Law No 9/62 for periods before the 1995/1996 marketing year.

Article 4

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

Article 5

This Decision is addressed to the Italian Republic.

Done at Brussels, 30 March 1999.

For the Commission

Franz Fischler

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ C 87, 18.3.1997, p. 6.

(2) See footnote 1.

(3) OJ L 148, 28.6.1968, p. 13.

(4) OJ L 206, 16.8.1996, p. 21.

(5) OJ C 44, 16.2.1996, p. 2.

(6) OJ C 273, 9.9.1997, p. 3.

(7) OJ L 208, 24.7.1992, p. 1.

(8) OJ L 156, 13.6.1997, p. 10.

(9) Case C-177/78, Pigs and Bacon Commission v Mc Carren, [1979] ECR 2161, point 14 of the decision.

(10) See footnote 3.

(11) Case C-301/87, French Republic v Commission, [1990] ECR 1-307.