Article 4
1. Articles 1 and 2 of this Decision shall not apply to individual aid granted on the basis of the aid schemes referred to in Article 1 or on the basis of the tax rulings referred to in Article 2 if, at the time the individual aid was granted, it fulfilled the conditions laid down by the Regulation adopted pursuant to Article 2 of Council Regulation (EC) No 994/98 ( 116 ) which was applicable at the time the aid was granted. 2. For the purposes of this Article and Article 5, individual aid is deemed to be put at a beneficiary's disposal, with respect to each tax year, on the day that the tax foregone for that tax year as a result of the aid schemes referred to in Article 1 or the tax rulings referred to in Article 2 would have fallen due in the absence of that scheme or ruling.