In the Commission's opinion, the introduction of reductions for ships between zero and 10 years old may disrupt the current balance among Member States with a flat-rate taxation .

Finally, Pentland Ferries was unable to prove with concrete figures that it has been financially hit by this discount .

The Commission stresses that by allowing diverging criteria for different tonnage tax schemes, a risk exists that unfair advantages are created and that there might be a competition between Member States on the level of tonnage tax .

Accordingly, although there is a principle according to which economic operators may not, in general, rely on the principle of the protection of legitimate expectations as far as concerns unlawful State aid, the Commission notes that, in the present case, until the publication of the notice of acceptance of the appropriate measures, on 11 November 2005, a circumspect and prudent economic operator could properly be entitled to consider that the State aid in question was still an existing scheme and it had not therefore become a new aid .

According to settled case law, the application of Article 87(1) of the Treaty only requires it to be determined whether under a particular statutory scheme a state measure is such as to favour ‘certain undertakings or the production of certain goods’ over others which are in a legal and factual situation that is comparable in the light of the objective pursued by that .

The legal basis of this aid does not seem to allow other airlines access to the aid .

In addition, all cooperating exporting producers have received a detailed calculation sheet explaining how the benefits were established under each .

Further, firms in a specific sector of the economy benefit from that aid .

None of the sampled companies received benefits under this .

All banks, saving banks and credit institutions which have been granted a licence to operate in Iceland, whatever their size, are in principle eligible to apply for support under the Mortgage Loan .

Given that these are basic rights acquired after affiliation, RATP and its staff are to pay statutory pension contributions in exchange for the intervention of the general scheme and supplementary .

The United Kingdom authorities have undertaken to adapt the scheme to the new environmental guidelines when they enter into force and to inform the Commission of the appropriate measures taken to adapt the .

Quantitative indication of the potential environmental benefits related to the product group, including consideration of the benefits from other similar European and national or regional EN ISO 14024 type I ecolabelling ,

These concern in particular the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (hereinafter referred to as ‘ECDC’), established by Regulation (EC) No 851/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council [4], the recommendations issued by the Commission on Community Influenza pandemic preparedness and response planning, the European Union Early Warning and Response System and the establishment of the European Influenza Surveillance .

family members of persons referred to in (i) and (iii) or of an employed or self-employed person resident in Liechtenstein who is insured under the Liechtenstein sickness insurance ;

Government employee pension

Concerning the sales tax exemption, the subsidy amount was calculated on the basis of the amount of the sales tax normally due during the review investigation period but which remained unpaid under the .

Concerning the tax exemption, the subsidy amount was calculated on the basis of the amount of sales tax normally due during the review investigation period, but which remained unpaid under the .

Traffic separation

Export Promotion Capital Goods ,