The State aid for training awarded to Sabena as notified to the Commission on 5 August 1997 and implemented by Belgium as outlined in its letter dated 26 November 1999, is compatible with the common market within the meaning of Article 87(3)(c) of the EC Treaty and Article 61(3)(c) of the EEA Agreement.
This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of Belgium.
Done at Brussels, 18 July 2001.
For the Commission
Loyola De Palacio
Vice-President
(1) OJ L 83, 27.3.1999, p. 1.
(2) OJ C 351, 4.12.1999, p. 12.
(3) See footnote 2.
(4) See the Judgment of the Court of Justice in Case 78/76, Steinike and Weinlig v the Federal Republic of Germany, of 22 March 1977, [1977] ECR, p. 596, paragraph 21.
(5) OJ L 240, 24.8.1992, p. 1.
(6) OJ L 240, 24.8.1992, p. 8.
(7) OJ L 240, 24.8.1992, p. 15.
(8) See the Judgment of the Court of Justice in Case C-241/94, French Republic v Commission of the European Communities ("Kimberly Clark"), of September 1996, [1996] ECR 1-4551.
(9) Moniteur belge, 27.4.1994, p. 11211.
(10) OJ C 343, 11.11.1998, p. 10.
(11) OJ L 10, 13.1.2001, p. 20.
(12) OJ C 350, 10.12.1994, p. 5.