Brussels, 04/04/2002 (Agence Europe) - At the end of March, the European Commission published a report summarising the decisions it took in 2001 applying the code for state aid for steel, showing that decisions were taken in 24 cases, ten of which authorized aid without recourse to the investigation procedure, ten were final decisions and four decisions launched the investigation procedure.
The cases where the Commission decided to authorise aid without raising any objections covered R&D...