Brussels, 17/03/2004 (Agence Europe) - Italian State aid of 2.5 million EUR, to compensate meat processing and marketing undertakings for losses incurred as a consequence of the ovine catarrhal fever in Sardinia has been declared illegal by the European Commission. In its decision, which was returned on Tuesday, the Commission explains that this aid distorted competition in the internal market. Some of the conditions provided by the guidelines on State aid in the agricultural sector were not...