Article 6
This Decision is addressed to the Federal Republic of Germany. Done at Brussels, 5 March 2003. For the Commission Mario Monti Member of the Commission (1) OJ C 170, 16.7.2002, p. 2. (2) OJ L 10, 13.1.2001, p. 30. (3) OJ C 68, 6.3.1996, p. 9. (4) OJ L 107, 30.4.1996, p. 4. (5) Export aid is defined as aid directly linked to the quantities exported, to the establishment and operation of a distribution network or to current expenditure linked to the export activity (Article 1(b) of Commission Regulation (EC) No 69/2001 and footnote 3 to the notice on the de minimis rule). (6) Recital 4 to Commission Regulation (EC) No 69/2001 and footnote 3 to the notice on the de minimis rule. (7) OJ L 10, 13.1.2001, p. 33. (8) OJ C 74, 10.3.1998, p. 9. (9) Germany has indicated that, under that subprogramme, each enterprise received an average of EUR 11128 in the period 1998 to 2002. (10) Germany has indicated that, under that subprogramme, each enterprise received an average of EUR 1830 in the period 1998 to 2002. (11) Germany has indicated that, under that subprogramme, each enterprise received an average of EUR 18853 in the period 1998 to 2002. (12) Germany has indicated that, under that subprogramme, each enterprise received an average of EUR 10018 in the period 1998 to 2002. (13) OJ C 213, 19.8.1992, p. 2. (14) OJ C 68, 6.3.1996, p. 9. (15) See, in particular, the judgment in "Tubemeuse" (Case C-142/87, Belgium v Commission [1990] ECR 1-959, paragraphs 31 to 44). (16) The candidate countries are currently the following 13 countries whose applications for accession to the European Union have been accepted by the European Council: Bulgaria, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Turkey. (17) "Third countries" is used below to mean countries other than those in the Community and the EEA and those that have the official status of candidates for accession to the European Union. (18) Regarding aid for initial investment within the meaning of point 4.4 of the regional guidelines, the Commission has previously authorised a German and an Austrian aid scheme which covered only SMEs that were operating in countries that at that time were neither EU Member States, nor EEA member countries, nor countries that have the official status of candidates for accession to the European Union (Commission Decision 97/257/EC, State aid C 49/95 - Germany (OJ L 102, 19.4.1997, p. 36) and Commission Decision 97/241/EC, State aid C 50/95 - Austria (OJ L 96, 11.4.1997, p. 23)). (19) OJ L 83, 27.3.1999, p. 1.