Brussels, 10/05/2007 (Agence Europe) - On 10 May, the European Commission closed an in-depth investigation, which concluded that a number of measures taken to help the Spanish confectionary producer Chupa Chups S.A., in particular a €35 million loan granted by a financial entity belonging to the Catalonian Region in 2003, did not constitute state aid because the conditions under which they were granted would have been accepted by a market economy investor (see EUROPE 9119). The Commission...