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shetland islands

Voorbeeldzinnen

1. Shetland Islands
2. Investments of Shetland Leasing and Property Developments Ltd in the Shetland Islands (United Kingdom)
3. By letter dated 15 June 2004, the Commission was informed by a citizen of the United Kingdom of unlawful aid granted by the Shetland Islands Council, the public authority in the Shetland Islands of the United Kingdom.
4. The area is defined as the mainland of Scotland, including the islands off the west coast, Orkney and Shetland.
5. In this respect, the United Kingdom made reference to Commission Decision 2003/612/EC of 3 June 2003 on loans for the purchase of fishing quotas in the Shetland Islands (United Kingdom) [5] as well as to Commission Decision 2006/226/EC of 7 December 2005 on investments of Shetland Leasing and Property Developments in the Shetland Islands (United Kingdom) [6], stating that until 3 June 2003 the Shetland Islands Council legitimately considered the funds used to be private rather than public.
6. In that respect, the United Kingdom made reference to Commission Decision 2003/612/EC of 3 June 2003 on loans for the purchase of fishing quotas in the Shetland Islands (United Kingdom) [10] and Commission Decision 2006/226/EC of 7 December 2005 on Investments of Shetland Leasing and Property Developments in the Shetland Islands (United Kingdom) [11], stating that until 3 June 2003 the Shetland Islands Council legitimately considered the funds used for such aid to be private rather than public.
7. All continental and coastal areas within Great Britain, Northern Ireland, Guernsey, the Isle of Man and Jersey except South West Shetland Islands
8. By letter dated 15 June 2004, the Commission was informed by a citizen of the United Kingdom of unlawful aid granted by the Shetland Islands Council, the public authority of the Shetlands Islands of the United Kingdom.
9. Finally, as regards the loan granted to D Watt (Shetland) Ltd in 1998, the United Kingdom stated that although the original interest rate for this loan was 8 %, it had been reduced to 5 % trough an interest reduction grant of GBP 20000 paid directly to the lender by the Shetland Islands Council.
10. The aid has been granted by the Shetland Islands Council from state resources and benefited Shetland Fish Products Limited, which operates in direct competition with other companies in the fisheries sector, both within the United Kingdom and in other Member States.
11. On 3 June 2003 the Commission, by Decision 2003/612/EC, took a negative decision regarding loans granted for the purchase of fishing quotas in the Shetland Islands [8].
12. In January 2004 the Commission was informed by a citizen of the United Kingdom of investments made with the involvement of authorities of the Shetland Islands of the United Kingdom which possibly constituted State aid.
13. As was already pointed out by the Commission in its decision of 3 June 2003 on loans for the purchase of fishing quotas in the Shetland Islands, these monies, which are directly related to the disturbance caused to the Shetland Islands population and not to the actual provision of the harbour facilities, cannot be regarded as private funds but must be regarded as ‘State resources’ for the purposes of Article 87 of the EC Treaty.
14. To reach that conclusion, the Commission observes that, unlike the aids subject to Decisions 2003/612/EC and 2006/226/EC, the scheme in question has been set up as a normal aid scheme and concerns direct grants to fishermen, granted directly by the Shetland Islands Council.
15. The Shetland Islands Council made payments to the fisheries sector under the scope of two general aid measures named ‘Aid to the Fish Catching and Processing Industry’ and ‘Aid to the Fish Farming Industry’, which actually consisted of several different types of aid schemes, one such scheme was the so-called ‘Fish Factory Improvement Scheme’.