L 63/16 Official Journal of the European Union 7.3.2008 COMMISSION COMMISSION DECISION of 10 October 2007 on the State aid implemented by France in connection with the reform of the arrangements for financing the retirement pensions of civil servants working for La Poste (notified under document number C(2007) 4545) (Only the French version is authentic) (Text with EEA relevance) (2008/204[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 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 (1) and having regard to their comments, Whereas: 1. PROCEDURE (),  On 21 December 2005 France presented to the Commission the main features of the draft reform of the arrangements for financing the retirement pensions of civil servants working for La Poste. (20 On 2 March 2006 France sent by e-mail the draft noti- fication of the reform. A pre-notification meeting was held on 29 March at which the Commission stressed that the draft notification was quite incomplete and indicated what information was missing. On 7 April France provided the Commission with some of the missing information. () O] C 296, 6.12.2006, p. 6. (3)  On 23 June 2006 France notified the Commission of the reform of the arrangements for financing the retirement pensions of civil servants working for La Poste (here- inafter the ‘reform’) in accordance with Article 88(3) of the Treaty and stated that, in its view, the reform described in the notification did not contain any element of State aid within the meaning of Article 87(1) of the Treaty. (4 On 20 July 2006 the Commission asked France for further information on both the reform notified and any compensatory measures from which La Poste might have benefited in the past. France replied on 17 August. (5) By letter of 12 October 2006, the Commission informed France of its decision to initiate the procedure provided for in Article 88(2) of the Treaty in respect of the measures linked to the reform of the arrangements for financing the retirement pensions of civil servants working for La Poste. (6)  France submitted its comments on 14 December 2006. (7  The Commission Decision to initiate the procedure was published in the Official Journal of the European Union (%). The Commission called on interested parties to submit their comments on the measures in question. () See footnote 1.