2002/867/EC: Commission decision of 9 April 2002 on State aid measure C 86/2001 (ex N 334/2001) by which Germany plans to assist Infineon Technologies SC 300 GmbH & Co. KG (Text with EEA relevance.) (notified under document number C(2002) 1346)

• Articles: 2

Article 1

The state aid amounting to EUR 218717884 which Germany plans to grant to Infineon Technologies SC 300 GmbH & Co. KG is compatible with the common market.

Article 2

This Decision is addressed to the Federal Republic of Germany.

Done at Brussels, 9 April 2002.

For the Commission

Mario Monti

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ C 368, 22.12.2001, p. 2.

(2) OJ C 107, 7.4.1998, p. 7.

(3) See footnote 1.

(4) Investitionszulagengesetz, aid measure C 72/98 (ex N 702/97), SG (98) D/12438, 30.12.1998, and SG (2001) D/28651, 2.3.2001.

(5) Federal Government and Länder direct guarantee scheme in the new Länder and East Berlin (Programm für unmittelbare Bürgschaften des Bundes und der Länder in den neuen Bundesländern und Berlin Ost), aid measure N 297/91, SG (91) D/1344, 15.7.1991, and aid measure E 24/95, SG (96) D/5500, 18.6.1996, and SG (98) D/54570, 11.11.1998.

(6) The relevant product market was defined in the same way in the Commission Decision in Hitachi/NEC Case IV/M 0044, Decision of 3.5.2000 (OJ C 153, 1.6.2000, p. 8).

(7) OJ C 340, 27.11.1999, p. 8.

(8) See Wacker Chemie, State aid measure N 783/2000, Commission Decision of 8.5.2001, Kronoply, State aid measure N 813/2000, Commission Decision of 3.7.2001, and Hamburger AG, State aid measure C 72/2001, Commission Decision of 2.10.2000, OJ C 342, 5.12.2001, p. 9.

(9) WSTS, fourth quarter forecast update (February 2002).