6.2.2001 Official Journal of the European Communities L 35/39 COMMISSION COMMISSION DECISION of 20 September 2000 on the aid scheme which Italy is planning to implement pursuant to Article 14 of the Sardinia Region Law of 4 February 1998 laying down rules for speeding up expenditure of EAGGF Guidance Section funds and on urgent measures for agriculture (notified under document number C(2000) 2753) (Only the Italian text is authentic) (2001/95/EC) THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular the first subparagraph of Article 88(2) thereof, Having called on interested parties to submit their comments pursuant to that Article and having regard to their comments (?), Whereas: Procedure (1) By letter of 18 March 1998 Italy notified the Commission of the aid measures which it planned to grant pursuant to the Sardinia Regional Law of 4 February 1998 laying down rules for speeding up expenditure of EAGGF Guidance Section funds and on urgent measures for agriculture (hereinafter referred to as the Regional Law). By letters of 11 August and December 1998 and 4 March 1999 Italy forwarded further information to the Commission. (2) By letter SG (99) D/3464 of 17 May 1999 the Commission informed Italy that it had decided to initiate the procedure laid down in Article 88(2) of the EC Treaty in respect of the aid measures provided for in Article 14 of the Regional Law. By the same letter the Commission took formal note of the Italian authorities' undertaking to repeal Articles 10 to 13 and 15, 17, 19 and 21 of the Regional Law and it informed Italy that it had no objections to the measures provided for in Articles 6, 16, 18, 20, 22 and 23. (3)  The Commission's decision to initiate the procedure was published in the Official Journal of the European Communities (). The Commission invited interested parties to submit their comments on the aid scheme concerned. (4)  The Commission received no comments from interested parties. Italy submitted its comments by letter of 22 June 1999. () O] C 220, 31.7.1999, p. 4. () See footnote 1.