8.6.2000 Official Journal of the European Communities L1371 (Acts whose publication is not obligatory) COMMISSION COMMISSION DECISION of 20 July 1999 on aid granted by Italy to Sangalli Manfredonia Vetro (notified under document number C (1999) 2895) (Only the Italian text is authentic) (Text with EEA relevance) (2000/369/EC) THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Com- munity, 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 in accordance with the abovementioned Articles given interested parties notice to submit their comments ('), and having regard to those comments, Whereas: [. PROCEDURE By letter of 10 February 1998, registered as incoming mail on 11 February 1998 under A[/31060, the Com- mission received a complaint from a competitor concern- ing aid which the Italian authorities allegedly intended to grant to Sangalli Vetro SpA to build a flat-glass factory in Manfredonia in southern Italy. According to the complainant, the aid was in the form of a land sale at below the market price, provision of infrastructure free of charge, the grant of investment aid at an intensity higher than that allowed under the regional aid scheme applicable, the grant of employment subsidies, and tax (1) O] C 92,1.4.1999, p. 5. concessions and reductions in social security contri- butions. A further complaint about the same aid measures was received by letter of 25 September 1998 from another flat-glass producer. By letters of 18 February, 27 April, 17 July and 27 Octob- er 1998 the Commission asked the Italian authorities for detailed information on the measures in question. The Italian authorities replied by letter of 6 May 1998. In view of the lack of sufficiently detailed information from the Italian authorities, and its doubts about the compatibility of the aid measures with the common market, the Commission decided on 22 December 1998 to initiate the procedure laid down in Article 88(2) of the Treaty and to require the Italian Government to answer its questions. The Italian Government was informed of this by letter of 27 January 1999 (SG(99) D/686), which was published in the Official Journal of the European Communities with an invitation to interested third parties to submit their comments on the aid in question (3). (3 See footnote 1.