23.4.2004 [ EN_ Official Journal of the European Union L 119/1 (Acts whose publication is not obligatory) COMMISSION COMMISSION DECISION of 15 October 2003 on the measures implemented by Italy for RAI SpA (notified under document number C(2003) 3528) (Only the Italian text is authentic) (Text with EEA relevance) (2004/339/EC) THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular the first subparagraph of Article 88(2) thereof, Having regard to the Agreement on the European Economic Area, and in particular Article 62(1)(a) thereof, Having called on interested parties to submit their comments pursuant to the provisions cited above (!) and having regard to their comments, Whereas: 1. PROCEDURE (1) By way of a complaint lodged with it on 17 June 1996 by RTI SpA (Reti Televisive Italiane), an undertaking controlling three Italian national television channels and belonging to the Mediaset group (%), the Commission was informed that Italy had implemented a number of measures in favour of RAI-Radiotelevisione Italiana SpA (the national public broadcaster, hereinafter RAI). The () O] C 351, 4121999, p. 20. () In the present decision the Commission will refer to the complainant as ‘Mediaset’ since it is Mediaset SpA that has participated in the Commission’s State aid investigation and since it has made the complaint originally lodged by RTI SpA its own. complaint focused on the licence fee granted to RAI and on a set of measures adopted by the Italian Government in the first half of the 1990s in favour of RAL The Commission requested information from the Italian authorities by letters of 15 July and 4 September 1996, to which the Italian authorities replied by letters of 30 August and 4 November 1996 respectively. On 23 May 1997 Mediaset took over its complaint as its own and submitted further documents. Another letter requesting information was sent by the Commission to the Italian authorities on 1 July 1998. The Italian authorities provided some of the information requested at a meeting on 31 July and by letter of 7 August 1998. Meetings with the complainant were held on several occasions. On 19 October 1998 Mediaset lodged an additional complaint with the Commission concerning the same aid measures mentioned in the original complaint. Mediaset presented further documents by letter of 8 January 1999 and had a meeting at the Commission on 15 February 1999. On 3 February 1999 the Commission enjoined Italy to provide all the information necessary to assess whether