21.9.2006   

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 227/6

(1)

In 2003 and 2004, in accordance with the procedure provided for in Annex IV, Chapter 3, paragraph (1)(c) (under Article 22) of the Treaty of Accession of the Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia to the European Union (‘Accession Treaty’), new Member States submitted to the Commission those measures that they wished to be regarded as existing aid within the meaning of Article 88(1) of the EC Treaty but which were not provided for expressly in the Accession Treaty.

(2)

This procedure covered State aid measures to all sectors with the exception of the transport sector and of agricultural activities linked to the production, processing or marketing of products listed in Annex I to the EC Treaty, for which separate provisions applied.

(3)

The Commission has now published the complete list of measures which it accepted as existing aid within the meaning of Article 88(1) and under the procedure mentioned in point (1) above, on the following internet address: http://ec.europa.eu/comm/competition/state_aid/register/.

Measures in the fisheries sector are published on the following internet address: http://ec.europa.eu/fisheries/legislation/state_aid_en.htm.

(4)

The publication referred to in point (3) covers exclusively those measures which were considered as existing aid under the interim procedure for existing aid (1). Some measures were accepted by the Commission as existing aid and already published in the Official Journal of the European Union  (2). These are also included in this publication.

(5)

The new Member States concerned were informed about the relevant Commission decisions by means of letters from the relevant Commissioners.