Brussels, 28/12/2001 (Agence Europe) - The Commission has informed Germany that it must reduce its planned regional investment aid for DaimlerChrysler for the construction of a new engine plant in Kölleda (Thüringen). The new plant (built together with Mitsubishi Motors Corporation) would have an engine production capacity of 300,000 engines/yr, 200,000 of which would be delivered to the Nedcar plant in the Netherlands for small passenger cars for the European markets. After a formal investigation procedure based on a cost-benefits analysis aimed to assess the proportionality of the aid, the Commission found that the regional disadvantage of Kölleda was 30.93% (lower than the level reported by Germany) and therefore maximum aid of EUR 57.22 million could be authorised. The remaining notified aid (EUR 6.58 million) was declared incompatible with the common market.