5.5.90 Official - Journal of the European Communities No L 114/25 (Acts whose publication is not obligatory) COMMISSION COMMISSION DECISION | of 3 May 1989 on aid granted by the Italian Government to the newsprint industry (Only the Italian text is authentic) (90/215/EEC) THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and in particular the first subpara- graph of Article 93 (2) thereof, Having given notice in accordance with the above Article to. interested parties to submit their comments, and having regard to those comments, Whereas : I The Ente Nazionale per la Cellulosa e- per la Carta (ENCC) is a corporation under public law consisting of all producers of paper and cellulose as well as undertakings using cellulose in Italy. It was founded by Law No 1453 of 13 June 1935. The ENCC has the statutory task of promoting the deve- lopment of cellulose production in Italy; of. facilitating the production and use of national raw materials for the production of cellulose ; of organizing the production and sale of paper; of collecting and providing information concerning the production of cellulose and paper. In order to achieve these objectives, the ENCC aids silvi- culture and paper-making research and afforestation ; the ENCC also channels aid to publishers, notably to the press, linked — inter alia — to their consumption of newsprint. The ENCC's activities are partly financed by means of levies charged on home-produced cellulose and on certain types of paper and board, as well as on similar imported products, and partly by means of funds provided directly by the Italian Government, which are earmarked for publishers. The modalities of the aid measures granted through the ENCC have repeatedly been altered. The Commission only accepted these alterations after having verified their compatibility. with the common market. Thus, in- November 1974, the Commission closed the - procedure provided for in Article 93 (2) of the EEC Treaty with respect to the ENCC’s- interventions after having _ been assured by the Italian Government that aid to the consumers of Italian newsprint and of newsprint imported by the ENCC would also be granted to publi- shers who import newsprint directly from other Member . States ; that no aid would be granted for publications in other languages than Italian, if such publications were to be exported; that research in paper-making would no longer be financed by means of the yield of the levy on imports from other Member States. ~On 16 June 1976 the Commission took a final Decision 76/574/EEC(*) on a new aid scheme in favour of the press (Law No 172 of 6 June 1975) demanding that the Italian Government publish that these aids are granted, regardless of whether the publisher purchases the paper from the ENCC or imports it directly. In November 1983 the Commission decided to close the Article 93 (2) procedure which it had opened in April 1982 with respect to yet a new aid scheme in favour of - publishers operated via the ENCC (Law No 416 of -§ August 1981). The procedure was closed further to the Italian Government’s statement that aid measures for () O) No L 185, 9. 7. 1976, p. 32.