SPAIN COMPANY AID ROUND-UP
February 1st, 2003
BY KEITH NUTHALLAN INQUIRY into whether national state aid paid to Spanish coal mining company González y Díez was illegal under European rules is to be reopened, seven months after the European Commission ruled on the case. Last July 2, it decided that under the now defunct regulations of the former European Coal and Steel Community that the Spanish government should recover state aid paid to the company between1998 and 2000 and should not pay aid earmarked to cover 2001 costs. However, this ruling has been challenged at the European Court of Justice's Court ...
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