The level of legal detail for the exact law under which these benefits were granted, if there was any legal basis for them at all, was not disclosed although the Commission was sometimes given a copy of a document issued by a government authority which accompanied the grant of funds (referred to as ‘the notice’).
Ce régime constitue une subvention au sens de l'article 3, paragraphe 1, point a) ii), et de l'article 3, paragraphe 2, du règlement de base sous la forme d'un abandon de recettes publiques conférant un avantage aux sociétés bénéficiaires.