Luxembourg, 09/02/2006 (Agence Europe) - Advocate General Philippe Léger has reached a decision in the case involving the Belgian tax authority's coordination centre system. A coordination centre is a company created by a group of multinational companies which provides services, particularly financial, to these companies. Philippe Léger considers that the Commission had reached the correct decision on 17 February 2003 (EUROPE 8448) in ruling that the fiscal system at these centres constituted state aid that was incompatible with the common market. Nonetheless, the Advocate General believes that this decision should be overturned by the Court because it prevents Belgium from renewing, even temporarily, ongoing agreements at the time of notification of this decision and which expire before 31 December 2010. In this regard, Mr Léger considers that Belgium has put a brake on one of the major principles of legitimate expectations.