Brussels, 30/11/2004 (Agence Europe) - On Wednesday the Commission will make its decision on the French state's plan to grant new restructuring aid to the Bull group, according to information from the spokesperson for competition. As already indicated, the Commission is not expected to oppose the EUR 517 million the French government intends to pay out as from next year (EUROPE 28 August). Bull obtained restructuring aid in 1994 and in keeping with the non-reoccurrence principle, should not benefit from more aid before 2005. As part of the new plan, aid will allow Bull to reimburse rescue aid of EUR 450 million agreed to by the French government in 2001 and 2002, which the latter has still not attempted to recover (the Commission took the company to court in November 2003 for this failing). Notification of the plan included a loan to be made by a financial body so that the company can reimburse this loan plus interest and secondly, that the EUR 517 government loan would cover its debt to the financial body (EUROPE 12-18 March). This plan accompanies, however, a clause that would see Bull paying the government 23.5% of its pre-tax operating result for eight years, to be counted from the end of 2005. According to calculations from the French authorities, this could account for EUR 400-480 for the whole period.