Article 92
(3) of the Treaty specifies the types of aid which may be considered to be compatible with the common market. Such compatibility must be determined in the context of the Community and not of a single Member State. Article 92 (3) provides for exceptions from the principle set out in Article 92 (1): but in order to ensure that the common market functions properly, and in the light of Article 3 (f) of the Treaty, those exceptions must be strictly construed when an aid scheme or a particular application of such exceptions is being examined. In particular, those exceptions are applicable only in cases where the Commission is able to establish that, without the aid, market forces alone would not be sufficient to persuade the future recipient of aid to act in such a way as to help achieve one of the objectives of those exceptions.