Brussels, 04/03/2004 (Agence Europe) - At the end of February the French government submitted the European Commission with a new restructuring plan for Bull. This information was confirmed on Thursday by Tilman Lueder, spokesperson for Commissioner Monti, who explained that this plan was not expected to enter into force before 1 January 2005. The group has in fact already benefited from an initial restructuring plan and cannot claim new aid of this kind for another ten years, according to European rules in force. This notification does not in any way change Bull's obligations to reimburse the safeguard aid it received in November 2002, which was in the form of a reimbursable loan, stressed the spokesman. In November, the Commission appealed to the Court of Justice against France for having failed to meet its obligation of getting the safeguard aid of EUR 450 million granted a year earlier, back. The Commission still hopes to be able to finish the examination of this new plan before 1 January. Mr Lueder underlined that it would not be unrealistic for the case to be examined before 2005. Lueder added that all depended, however, on the swiftness with which he was provided with the indispensable expertise for obtaining assurances of the viability of the enterprise.