Examples of using Contested aid in English and their translations into Slovak
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The contested aid was abolished by the French authorities in 2002.
Finally, the Commission established that the contested aid did not overcompensate the costs of processing of small orders.
By letter of 7 August 1992, the Commission confirmed to theapplicant that certain aid granted to CELF, including the contested aid, had not been notified.
In this case, it is common ground that the contested aid was not notified in 1988 or in the following years.
First of all, it established the relevance ofsmall orders as a criterion for justifying the granting of the contested aid(recitals 187 to 197).
The first part of the third plea alleges that the contested aid is discriminatory, whereas the second part is based on alleged manifest errors of assessment.
In the light of the foregoing considerations, I do not consider that the Commission,by ordering repayment of the contested aid, could have infringed Salzgitter's legal certainty.
It is therefore necessary only to examine whether the contested aid had become definitively compatible or incompatible at the time when the contested decision was adopted.
In the further alternative, annul the last sentence of Article 1 of thecontested decision in so far as it declares the contested aid compatible before 1 November 1993;
The only subsidy which is the subject of the present case(‘the contested aid') was granted on an annual basis from 1980, although the amount of the subsidy varied as of.
It must be pointed out that the Commission calculated the costs directly associated with processing small orders on the basis ofexplanations provided to it by the French Republic in the procedure in which the contested aid was examined.
The first pleaalleges that there is no legal basis for declaring the contested aid compatible with the common market prior to 1 November 1993.
The applicant submits that, by declaring the contested aid compatible with the common market under Article 87(3)(d) EC in the last sentence of Article 1 of the contested decision, the Commission adopted the decision on an incorrect legal basis.
It is apparent from the lastsentence of Article 1 of the contested decision that the contested aid was declared compatible with the common market under Article 87(3)(d) EC.
The contested aid consisted of a package of annual subsidies, each of which was specifically intended to offset the extra costs incurred each year in handling orders from booksellers established abroad to the value of FRF 500(EUR 76.22) or less, excluding costs of carriage(‘small orders'), which were considered to be below the break-even point.
In the contested decision, the Commission concluded that the contested aid was State aid within the meaning of Article 87(1) EC(recital 127).
Finally, it took the view that the contested aid had a cultural objective for the purpose of Article 87(3)(d) EC, which provides that aid to promote culture and heritage conservation where such aid does not affect trading conditions and competition in the Community to an extent that is contrary to the common interest may be considered to be compatible with the common market(recitals 134 and 139).
In the alternative, annul the last sentence of Article 1 of the contested decision in so far as the Commission declared the contested aid compatible before 1999 or, alternatively, 1997 or 1994;
That is particularly so in the present case, since the contested aid was awarded and granted by the French Republic and used by CELF in order to offset the extra costs of processing small orders on an annual basis.
The applicant is of the view that, since that provision was introduced by the EUTreaty, which entered into force on 1 November 1993, the contested aid could have been declared compatible with the common market only with effect from that date.
Secondly, when examining the compatibility of the contested aid with the common market in coal and steel, it explains why the application of Article 87(2)(c) EC to a steel undertaking is automatically ruled out(paragraphs 110 to 120).
First, it considers that the Commission committed an error by calculating the costs directlyassociated with small orders during the whole period in which the contested aid was paid on the basis of an extrapolation of the data for 1994 alone.
It follows from the foregoing that the Commission erred in law in considering that the contested aid was compatible with the common market under Article 87(3)(d) EC as regards that part of the aid paid to CELF before the date on which the EU Treaty entered into force.
The Commission nevertheless took the view in the contested decision(recital 212) that the effect of the French authorities' error, repeated in its own calculations,was not such as to call into question the proportionate nature of the contested aid, since the financial incidence of the switch of teletransmitted orders and orders not so transmitted amounted to the modest sum of EUR 0.24 per book.
In order to ascertain the effect that errorhad on the Commission's assessment in the contested decision as to whether the contested aid was excessive, the Court asked the Commission to provide it with a calculation of the costs associated with small orders without individual multiplying factors.
If the Commission had calculated the turnover for small orders in accordance with the method it used to calculate the cost of purchasing books for small orders, the resulting turnover would have been much higher than that calculated in the contested decision,which would have had an impact on whether the contested aid was classified as excessive in relation to the cultural objective covered by the derogation in Article 87(3)(d) EC which was identified by the Commission in the contested decision.
It is required that a competitor is substantially affected by the aid to which the contested decision relates.
The contested decision and the aid scheme for investment in the less-favoured regions of Italy authorised for the period from 1 January 2000 to 31 December 2006.
According to the Court, in the absence of any direct or indirect transfer of State resources, the fact that the legislation conferred an undeniable economic advantage on undertakings producing electricity from renewable sources and that the advantage was the consequence of intervention by the publicauthorities was not sufficient to categorise the contested measure as aid. 68.
The Commission took the view(see, in particular, recitals 245 and 275 of the contested decision) that the measure in question would constitute such indirect aid in the absence of the conditions set in Annex II of the contested decision, subject to which direct aid(which was the only subject of the formal investigation procedure) would be rendered compatible with the internal market.