Article 1

Article 45 of Regulation (EC) No 1828/2006 is replaced by the following:

‘Additional provisions applicable to financial engineering instruments for enterprises

Article 45

Financial engineering instruments for enterprises referred to in Article 43(1)(a) shall invest only in activities which the managers of the financial engineering instruments judge potentially economically viable.

They shall not invest in firms in difficulty within the meaning of the Community Guidelines on State aid for rescuing and restructuring firms in difficulty^f1 as of 10 October 2004.’.