Article 8
This Decision is addressed to the French Republic. Done at Brussels, 16 December 2003. For the Commission Mario Monti Member of the Commission (1) OJ C 284, 21.11.2002, p. 5. (2) OJ C 384, 10.12.1998, p. 3. (3) See point 37 of the notice. (4) See footnote 1. (5) Law No 88-1149 of 23.12.1988, Official Journal of the French Republic, 28 December 1988, p. 16320. (6) Judgment in Case C-143/99 Adria-Wien Pipeline [2001] ECR 8365, paragraph 38. (7) Article 206.1, last paragraph, of the General Tax Code. (8) Case 30/59 Steenkolenmijnen [1961] ECR 1. (9) See, most recently, the judgment in Case C-280/00 Altmark Trans, not yet reported, paragraph 81. (10) Point 11 of the notice. (11) See paragraph 14 of this Decision. (12) Case C-143/99 Adria-Wien Pipeline, cited above, paragraphs 39 et seq. (13) Joined Cases T-92/00 and T-103/00 Territorio Histórico de Álava [2002] ECR II-1385, paragraphs 48 and 49. (14) OJ C 213, 19.8.1992, p. 2. (15) OJ C 68, 6.3.1996, p. 9. (16) OJ L 10, 13.1.2001, p. 30. (17) See, inter alia, Commission Decision 2003/626/EC of 27 November 2002 on the aid scheme implemented by Germany - Thuringia loan programme for small and medium-sized enterprises (OJ L 223, 5.9.2003, p. 32). (18) OJ C 119, 22.5.2002, p. 22. (19) These criteria, which result from the interpretation of Commission Regulation (EC) No 70/2001 of 12 January 2001 on the application of Articles 87 and 88 of the EC Treaty to State aid to small and medium-sized enterprises (OJ L 10, 13.1.2001, p. 33) and from the abovementioned notice, are henceforth set out expressly in paragraph 1a of Article 10, inserted by the regulation adopted in principle by the Commission on 10 December 2003. (20) OJ C 368, 23.12.1994, p. 12. (21) OJ C 288, 9.10.1999, p. 2. (22) Point 2.1. (23) Point 2.1. (24) OJ C 31, 3.2.1979, p. 9. (25) OJ C 74, 10.3.1998, p. 9. (26) As listed in Annex 1 to Decree No 76/325 of 14 April 1976 - Official Journal of the French Republic No 90 of 14 April 1976. (27) OJ L 11, 12.1.1985, p. 28. (28) See inter alia the Commission decisions in Cases N 515/94, N 699/94 and N 45/2000. (29) See point 4.1 of the 1992 Community guidelines on State aid for small and medium-sized enterprises and point 4.2.1 of the 1996 Community guidelines on State aid for small and medium-sized enterprises (OJ C 213, 23.7.1996, p. 4). (30) See the Sixth Report on Competition Policy (1976), points 253 to 255, and the 1992 and 1996 Community frameworks. (31) OJ L 83, 27.3.1999, p. 1.