The State aid which Italy is planning to implement in accordance with Article 14 of the Sardinia Regional Law of 4 February 1998 laying down rules for speeding up expenditure of EAGGF Guidance Section funds and on urgent measures for agriculture in order to compensate for losses caused by past adverse climatic events is incompatible with the common market.
The aid may accordingly not be implemented.
Within two months of notification of this Decision Italy shall inform the Commission of the measures taken to comply with it.
This Decision is addressed to the Republic of Italy.
Done at Brussels, 20 September 2000.
For the Commission
Franz Fischler
Member of the Commission
(1) OJ C 220, 31.7.1999, p. 4.
(2) See footnote 1.
(3) OJ C 288, 9.10.1999, p. 2.
(4) Working Paper for the Working Group on Conditions of Competition in Agriculture on rules governing the grant of national aids in the event of damage to agricultural production or the means of production (Doc. VI/5934/86 Rev. 2).
(5) Now Article 88 (OJ L 83, 27.3.1999, p. 1).
(6) OJ C 28, 1.2.2000, p. 2.
(7) Source:
Italian Ministry for Agricultural Policies.
(8) See footnote 6.
(9) 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.
(10) Judgment of the Court of Justice in Case 177/78 Pigs and Bacon Commission v. McCarren [1979] ECR 2161.