4.2.2010 Official Journal of the European Union L 331 (Acts adopted before 1 December 2009 under the EC Treaty, the EU Treaty and the Euratom Treaty) COMMISSION DECISION of 6 November 2008 on State aid C 17/05 (ex N 194/05 and PL 34/04) granted by Poland to Stocznia Gdynia (notified under document C(2008) 6771) (Only the Polish text is authentic) (Text with EEA relevance) (2010/47EC) 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 regard to the Agreement on the European Economic Area, and in particular Article 62(1)(a) thereof, Having called on interested parties to submit their comments (') pursuant to the provisions cited above and having regard to their comments, Whereas: I. PROCEDURE (1) Pursuant to the provisions of point 3 of Annex IV to the Accession Treaty governing the interim mechanism procedure, on 29 April 2004 Poland notified restruc- turing measures in favour of Stocznia Gdynia S.A. (here- inafter Gdynia Shipyard). The case was registered as PL 34/2004. (2) By letter of 19 May 2004 the Commission asked Poland to submit certain missing documents. These were provided on 16 June 2004. The Commission requested further information by letters of 30 July 2004, 8 October 2004, 23 November 2004 and 4 March 2005, to which Poland replied, respectively, by letters of 3 September 2004, registered on 7 September 2004, 10 November 2004, registered on 15 November 2004, 17 February 2005, registered on 21 February 2005, 30 March 2005, registered on 1 April 2005 and 18 April 2005, registered on 20 April 2005. By letter of 22 April 2005 registered on the same day, Poland accepted that the Commission would treat PL 34/2004 dated 29 April 2004 as a notifi- cation under Article 88(2) of the EC Treaty with regard to any measures which were found to constitute new aid. The case was attributed a new number: N 194/2005. () O] C 220, 8.9.2005, p. 7. (3)  On 1 June 2005 the Commission adopted a decision to open a formal investigation, which was published in the Official Journal (?), and invited Poland and interested parties to submit comments. (4)  Having been granted an extension of the deadline for submitting comments (letter of 9 August 2005), Poland submitted its comments by letter of 2 September 2005, registered on 5 September 2005. In its reply Poland submitted to the Commission the restructuring plan for Gdynia Shipyard Update, dated 4 March 2004 (here- inafter ‘the 2004 restructuring plan’). (5)  Poland submitted additional comments by letter of 3 November 2005, registered on 7 November 2005. (6)  Gdynia Shipyard submitted comments by letter of 10 October 2005, registered on 14 October 2005. Comments were also submitted by Ray Car Carriers (by letter of 7 October 2005, registered on 10 October 2005), by the Office of the Permanent Representative of Denmark to the European Union (by letter of 7 October 2005, registered on 11 October 2005), by the Danish shipbuilding association Danish Maritime (by letter of 7 October 2005, registered on the same day), by the Solidarity trade union (by letter of 7 October 2005, registered on 10 October 2005) and by the Polish shipbuilding association (by letter of 10 October 2005, registered on 11 October 2005). (7)  The Commission forwarded these comments to Poland by letters of 26 October 2005 and 12 December 2005 (}). Poland responded to the comments provided by Gdynia Shipyard by letter of 16 January 2006, registered on 18 January 2006. Poland did not provide any comments on the submissions of other third parties. () 0] C 220, 8.9.2005, p. 7. () By letter of 17 November 2005, registered on 18 November 2005, the Polish authorities asked for selected excerpts in English from the third parties’ submissions to the Commission to be translated into Polish. The Commission forwarded these translations by letter of 12 December 2005.