2001/86/EC: Commission Decision of 4 October 2000 on the aid scheme implemented by Portugal in favour of the pigfarming sector (notified under document number C(2000) 2755)
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The State aid that Portugal has granted in favour of the pigfarming sector under Decree-Law No 4/99 of 4 January 1999 in the form of a moratorium on short-term loan agreements and a new short-term credit line are incompatible with the common market.
1. Within two months of notification of this Decision the Portuguese authorities shall take all measures necessary to recover from the beneficiaries the aid referred to in Article 1 and unlawfully made available to them. 2. The aid shall be recovered in accordance with the procedures of Portuguese law. The sums to be recovered shall include interest payable from the date on which they were made available to the beneficiaries until their actual recovery. Interest shall be calculated on the basis of the reference rate used for calculating the grant-equivalent of regional aid.
Within two months of notification of this Decision Portugal shall inform the Commission of the measures it has taken to comply with it.
This Decision is addressed to the Portuguese Republic. Done at Brussels, 4 October 2000. For the Commission Franz Fischler Member of the Commission (1) OJ L 282, 1.11.1975, p. 1. (2) OJ L 156, 29.6.2000, p. 5. (3) OJ C 220, 31.7.1999, p. 19. (4) DiΓ‘rio da RepΓΊblica No 2 (I Series-A), 4.1.1999. (5) See footnote 3. (6) Currently 8 %. (7) OJ C 44, 16.2.1996, p. 2. (8) OJ L 142, 2.6.1997, p. 1. (9) OJ C 29, 2.2.1996, p. 4. (10) OJ C 283, 19.9.1997, p. 2. (11) Judgment of the Court of First Instance in Case T-459/93 Siemens v Commission [1995] ECR II-1675 and the case law cited therein. (12) Source: Eurostat 1997. (13) See footnote 7. (14) OJ C 288, 9.10.1999, p. 2. (15) See footnote 10. (16) [1979] ECR 2161. (17) [1990] ECR I-3125. (18) 20th Report on Competition Policy, 1990, points 337 and 347; 21st Report on Competition Policy, 1991, points 316 and 317; 22nd Report on Competition Policy, 1992, points 503 and 504; 23rd Report on Competition Policy, 1993, points 547 and 548; 25th Report on Competition Policy, 1995, pp. 238 to 240; 26th Report on Competition Policy, 1996, pp. 251 to 255. (19) OJ C 28, 1.2.2000, p. 2. (20) [1973] ECR 611. (21) [1973] ECR 1471. (22) [1977] ECR 595. (23) [1991] ECR I-5505. (24) OJ L 83, 27.3.1999, p. 1. (25) OJ C 74, 10.3.1998, p. 9.
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