2003/295/EC: Commission Decision of 5 February 2003 on the ad hoc aid which the United Kingdom is planning to implement for CLYDEBoyd under the Freight Facilities Grant Scheme (FFG) (notified under document C(2003) 388) (Text with EEA relevance)

• Articles: 2

Article 1

The ad hoc aid which the United Kingdom is planning to implement for CLYDEBoyd (Fort William) Ltd under the Freight Facilities Grant Scheme is compatible with the common market within the meaning of Article 87(3)(c) of the Treaty. Implementation of the aid is accordingly authorised.

Article 2

This Decision is addressed to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Done at Brussels, 5 February 2003.

For the Commission

Loyola de Palacio

Vice-President

(1) OJ C 269, 5.11.2002, p. 3.

(2) OJ C 269, 5.11.2002, p. 3.

(3) Oslo, 1 March 2001.

(4) Scottish Executive, Meeting notes - Visit to Corpach, 31 August 2001.

(5) Commission Decision of 31 January 2001, N 597/2000 - The Netherlands; Commission Decision of 14 September 2001, N 208/2000, NL - SOIT; Commission Decision of 15 November 2000, N 755/1999 IT - Bozen.

(6) Case C-41/90 Höfner and Elser v Macrotron [1991] ECR I-1979, paragraph 21; Case C-35/96 Commission v Italy [1998] ECR I-3851, paragraph 36.

(7) Case 118/85 Commission v Italy [1987] ECR 2599.

(8) Case C-305/89; Italy v Commission [1991] ECR I-1603, paragraph 26, and Joined Cases C-278/92, 279/92 and 280/92, Spain v Commission [1994] ECR I-4103, paragraph 41.

(9) See Commission's Green Paper on Fair and Efficient Pricing, COM (1995) 691 of 20 December 1995; Commission's White Paper on Fair Payment for Infrastructure Use, COM (1998) 466 of 22 July 1998 and Council Resolution of 14 February 2000 on the promotion of intermodality and intermodal freight transport in the European Union, OJ C 56, 29.2.2000, p. 1.

(10) European transport policy for 2010: time to decide. COM (2001) 370.

(11) COM (2002) 54 final.

(12) N 464/99 - The Netherlands: Grant of aid for the building and operation of the "Pilot Transferium Sittard".

(13) State aid N 162/93.

(14) Source:

Institute of Shipping Economics and Logistics, Bremen, Shipping Statistics Yearbook 2001.