Article 4
This Decision is addressed to the Federal Republic of Germany. Done at Brussels, 10 October 2001. For the Commission Mario Monti Member of the Commission (1) OJ C 133, 5.5.2001, p. 3. (2) OJ L 83, 27.3.1999, p. 1. (3) See footnote 1. (4) OJ L 107, 30.4.1996, p. 4; see in particular Annex, Article 1(1) and (6). (5) According to Germany, the workforce agreed to work for another three years without any increase in salary (saving of DEM 600000) and without any Christmas or holiday bonus (saving of DEM 1,5 million). As quid pro quo, they would become shareholders in the firm. (6) Panorama of EU Industry 1999. (7) On 28 March 2001 the Commission took a partly negative decision on aid for LINTRA and its subsidiaries. Germany was required to recover from them an amount of DEM 34,978 million. The amount of misused aid granted to ZEMAG totals DEM 6,37 million. (8) See inter alia Joined Cases T-132/96 and T-143/96 Freistaat Sachsen v Commission [1999] ECR II-3663. (9) Community guidelines on State aid for rescuing and restructuring firms in difficulty (OJ C 368, 23.12.1994): the guidelines were revised in 1999 (OJ C 288, 9.10.1999, p. 2). The new version of the guidelines is not applicable here since all the aid was granted before the revised guidelines were published (see Section 7 of the 1999 version). (10) 24th general plan of the Federal Government/Länder joint programme for improving regional economic structures (Aid N 531/95). (11) To this end, the two guarantees granted in 1997 by the BvS should be converted into a guarantee of the Land of Saxony-Anhalt. This guarantee should be granted on the basis of an aid scheme previously approved by the Commission.