L 191/30 Official Journal of the European Communities 27.7.2000 COMMISSION COMMISSION DECISION of 29 March 2000 on the aid scheme implemented by Belgium under Article 29ter of the Economic Expansion Act of 30 December 1970, as amended by the Decree of 25 June 1992 (notified under document number C(2000)1007) (Only the Dutch and French texts are authentic) (Text with EEA relevance) (2000/472[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 regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 659/1999 of 22 March 1999 laying down detailed rules for the application of Article 93 of the EC Treaty (!), and in particular Article 14 thereof, Having called on interested parties to submit their comments pursuant to Article 88(2) of the EC Treaty and Article 62(1) of the EEA Agreement, Whereas: I. PROCEDURE (1) On 11 March 1991, pursuant to Article 88(3) of the EC Treaty, Belgium notified a draft decree amending the Belgian Economic Expansion Act of 30 December 1970 (N 144/91) (3. Articles 17 to 19 of the draft decree introduced new aid instruments to support Walloon firms participating in European industrial programmes for which specific international agreements had been concluded. () OJ L 83, 27.3.1999, p. 1. (%) Letter P11/91/533/26.864 dated 11 March 1991, registered by the Commission on 14 March 1991 as aid N 144/91. (2) By letter dated 9 July 1991(}), the Commission approved Articles 1 to 16 of the Walloon decree of 25 June 1992, explicitly excluding Articles 17 to 19 from its decision. The Commission indicated that the Articles in question were too imprecise and that the situations which they covered were too diverse for it to take a position. It had therefore taken the view that the notification was incomplete and had reserved the right to examine whether the Articles were compatible with the Treaty in the light of implementation arrangements, which were to be notified to it on a case-by-case basis, as Belgium had undertaken to do. (3)  In August 1992 the Belgian authorities transmitted to the Commission for information purposes the final text, as approved by the Walloon Regional Council on 25 June 1992, of the decree amending the Economic Expansion Act of 30 December 1970 (*). A reading of the final text showed that certain provisions had been changed compared with the version of the draft decree on which the Commission had taken a position in its letter of 9 July 1991 (%). Some of the changes were of a purely linguistic nature and involved no changes of substance, while others affected the substance of the text. (4)  In the final text of the decree, Articles 17 to 19 of the draft decree were merged into a single Article 19. Article 19 of the decree provided for the insertion of a new Article 29ter in the Economic Expansion Act of 30 December 1970. Article 29ter of the Economic Expansion Act of 30 December 1970, as amended by the decree of 25 June 1992 (referred to hereinafter as ‘Article 29ter'), made provision for aid instruments to support Walloon firms participating in European industrial programmes for which specific international agreements had been concluded, as referred to in recital (1). (®) Letter SG(91) D[12925. (* Letter P11/91/533/35.050 dated 7 August 1992. (%) See footnote 3.