15.5.2009 Official Journal of the European Union L 12013 II (Acts adopted under the EC Treaty/Euratom Treaty whose publication is not obligatory) DECISIONS COMMISSION COMMISSION DECISION of 28 January 2009 concerning State aid C 27/05 (ex NN 69/04) granted for the purchase of forage in the Region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia (Article 6 of Regional Law No 14 of 20 August 2003 and call for expressions of interest published by the Chamber of Commerce of Trieste) (notified under document number C(2009) 187) (Only the Italian text is authentic) (2009/382/EC) THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community and in particular the first paragraph of Article 88(2) thereof, Having called on interested parties to submit their comments pursuant to that Article, Whereas: I. PROCEDURE (1)  Having received information and then a complaint that Regional Law No 14 of 20 August 2003 of the Region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia provided for the granting of (5) funding to the Chambers of Commerce of Trieste and Gorizia to provide for the forage needs of holdings affected by the drought of 2003, the Commission asked the Italian authorities for a series of clarifications by letter of 2 April 2004. (2)  Not having received a reply at the end of the four-week period allowed the Italian authorities to provide the requested information, the Commission sent them a reminder by letter of 26 May 2004. (3) By letter of 10 June 2004, registered as received on 15 June 2004, the Italian Permanent Representation to the European Union forwarded to the Commission a letter from the Italian authorities stating that they had sent two letters to the Chambers of Commerce of Trieste and Gorizia, of 30 September 2003 and 12 March 2004 respectively, to draw their attention to the need to publish a call for expressions of interest for the aid provided for by Article 6 of the abovementioned law and to send a copy thereof to the Commission. On the basis of that information, by letter of 28 June 2004, the Commission asked the Italian authorities to send it the text of the two letters concerned and of the calls for expressions of interest drawn up by the two Chambers of Commerce. In addition, the Commission asked whether aid had been granted and, if so, how much and how it had been granted. By letter of 27 September 2004, registered as received on 29 September 2004, the Italian Permanent Represen- tation to the European Union sent the Commission the texts concerned and the information requested in the letter of 28 June 2004. Since it was clear from that information that the call for expressions of interest had already been published by the Chamber of Commerce of Trieste and acted on and that, furthermore, the aid that the Chambers of Commerce could pay or had paid was not provided for in the Chambers” general aid scheme, approved by the Commission under State aid N 241/01, the Commission decided to open an unnotified aid dossier under number NN 69/04.