2002/632/EC: Commission Decision of 12 March 2002 on the State aid which Germany is planning to implement for Flender Werft AG, Lübeck (Text with EEA relevance) (notified under document number C(2002) 913)

• Articles: 4

Article 1

The aid amounting to EUR 869000 which Germany is planning to grant to Flender Werft AG, Lübeck, is compatible with the common market subject to the conditions set out in Article 2.

Article 2

Germany shall ensure that Flender Werft AG uses the floating dock with a lifting capacity of 20000 tonnes only for ship repair and the painting of new vessels.

Germany shall ensure that the floating dock with a lifting capacity of 20000 tonnes, whenever it may be sold by Flender Werft AG, will not be sold to any shipyard that might use it for building new vessels.

Article 3

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

Article 4

This Decision is addressed to the Federal Republic of Germany.

Done at Brussels, 12 March 2002.

For the Commission

Mario Monti

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 202, 18.7.1998, p. 1.

(2) OJ C 191, 7.7.2001, p. 15.

(3) 29th outline plan, State aid E 3/2001; acknowledgement of appropriate measures communicated to Germany by letter D/50559 of 8 February 2001.

(4) See footnote 1.

(5) See footnote 1.

(6) The most frequently encountered vessels in the Baltic are the following: passenger ferries, RoRo vessels, feeder container vessels, general cargo vessels and small tankers.

(7) The internal width of the old dock was 34 m while that of the new dock is 37 m. Panama Canal maximum-sized vessels, like the passenger ferries operating, in the Baltic have a width of some 32 m.