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soft market
soft market
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- a market in which more people want to sell than want to buy
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- Even if some of those conditions could be considered ‘soft’ conditions, they would still not have been imposed by a market economy investor, as they entail a cost.
- Both the complainant and the aid beneficiary are active in the FMCG sector. This sector can be further split into four sub-sectors: soft discount, hard discount, hypermarkets and supermarkets/service shops/shops at petrol stations. In 2005, the market shares of these sub-sectors were: supermarkets — 68,4 %; hypermarkets — 16,4 %; soft discount — 11,5 %; and hard discount — 3,7 %.
- amending Decision 1999/815/EC concerning measures prohibiting the placing on the market of toys and childcare articles intended to be placed in the mouth by children under three years of age made of soft PVC containing certain phthalates
- With a view to a uniform, transparent, and simple application of the State aid rules, the market rates for the purposes of this Regulation should be deemed to be the reference rates, provided that, in the case of a soft loan, the loan is backed by normal security and does not involve abnormal risks.
- In its letter of 4 April 2003, Germany maintains that aid granted to farmers through the machinery rings falls within the definition of ‘soft aids’ of section 14 of the Guidelines, and complies with the requirements of that section. Therefore, it can be considered compatible with the common market.
- As for the amount of the state aid involved in such guarantee, point 3.2 of the notice on guarantees establishes that the cash grant equivalent for an individual guarantee should be calculated in the same way as the grant equivalent of a soft loan, the interest subsidy representing the difference between the market rate and the rate obtained thanks to the state guarantee after any premiums paid have been deducted.
- The Commission adopted, on 7 December 1999, Decision 1999/815/EC [2] based on Article 9 of Directive 92/59/EEC [3], requiring the Member States to prohibit the placing on the market of toys and childcare articles intended to be placed in the mouth by children under three years of age, made of soft PVC containing one or more of the substances di-iso-nonyl phthalate (DINP), di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP), dibutyl phthalate (DBP), di-iso-decyl phthalate (DIDP), di-n-octyl phthalate (DNOP), and butylbenzyl phthalate (BBP).