{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2005-163/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2005-163/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "eudn/2005/163",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Decision of 16 March 2004 on the State aid paid by Italy to the Adriatica, Caremar, Siremar, Saremar and Toremar shipping companies (Tirrenia Group) (notified under document number C(2004) 470) (Only the Italian text is authentic) (Text with EEA relevance) (2005/163/EC)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2005-163",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "1. The aid granted by Italy to Caremar as of 1 January 1992 as compensation for providing a public service is compatible with the common market having regard to Article 86(2) of the Treaty.\n2. Italy shall give an undertaking that, by no later than 1 September 2004, it will:\n(a) abolish the aid granted to Caremar for the provision of scheduled high-speed passenger transport services on the Naples/Capri route;\n(b) reduce, in terms of places on offer, the capacity of the scheduled high-speed passenger transport services on the Naples/Procida/Ischia route from 1 142 260 to 633 200 places during the winter period and from 683 200 to 520 400 places during the summer period;\n(c) limit the aid granted to Caremar for the provision of scheduled high-speed passenger transport services on the Naples/Procida/Ischia route to covering the net operating loss on the services;\n(d) have separate accounts kept for all the public service activities imposed by Italy on Caremar on each of the routes concerned.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2005/163/article/3",
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  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}