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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9777

7 November 2008
Contents Publication in full By article 13 / 27
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/state aid
Commission orders reimbursement of state aid to Polish shipyards by end of May 2009

Brussels, 06/11/2008 (Agence Europe) - On Thursday 6 November, the Commission and the Polish authorities closed the file on the thorny issue of state aid to the Gdynia and Szczecin shipyards after several years of standoff. Poland agreed to sell its assets in the crisis-hit yards by the end of May 2009 in order to recover the public aid paid to them since Poland joined the EU in 2004. The Commission deemed the aid to be incompatible with European law, and, with there being no acceptable...

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