5.9.2001 Official Journal of the European Communities L 236/3 (Acts whose publication is not obligatory) COMMISSION COMMISSION DECISION of 28 March 2001 on State aid implemented by Germany for EFBE Verwaltungs GmbH & Co. Management KG (now Lintra Beteiligungsholding GmbH, together with Zeitzer Maschinen, Anlagen Gerite GmbH; Land- Technik Schliiter GmbH; ILKA MAFA Kiltetechnik GmbH; SKL Motoren- und Systembautechnik GmbH; SKL Spezialapparatebau GmbH; Magdeburger Eisengieferei GmbH; Saxonia Edelmetalle GmbH and Gothaer Fahrzeugwerk GmbH) (notified under document number C(2001) 1028) (Only the German text is authentic) (Text with EEA relevance) (2001/673/EC) THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular the first subparagraph of Article Management KG, now Lintra Beteiligungsholding GmbH, became the Lintra group on privatisation. 88(2) thereof, (2)  The privatisation and the associated restructuring project contained aid measures and the case was registered Having regard to the Agreement on the European Economic under aid N 49/95. The Commission sent questions to . . . Germany by letters dated 7 February 1995, 31 July Area, and in particular Article 62(1)(a) thereof, 1995 and 13 December 1995. Germany submitted . ) ) responses dated 28 April 1995, 12 July 1995, 24 Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 659/1999 of 22 August 1995 and 5 January 1996. By letter dated 23 March 1999 laying down detailed rules. for th.e app11cat1.on of April 1996 () the Commission informed Germany that Article 93 of the EC Treaty (), and in particular Article 9 it had approved restructuring aid in the context of the thereof, privatisation of Lintra Beteiligungsholding GmbH (here- inafter called ‘the decision of 13 March 1996). Having called on interested parties to submit their comments pursuant to the provisions cited above (%), (3)  On the basis of information received in the course of Whereas: notifications of new restructuring aid to subsidiary companies of the Lintra group in 1998, the Commission sent a letter dated 25 June 1998 to Germany with questions. Germany replied by letter dated 8 December L PROCEDURE 1998 and the annexes thereto were submitted on 14 December 1998. The case was then discussed at various (1) By letter dated 19 January 1995 Germany notified aid meetings with the German authorities. for the privatisation of eight companies: Zeitzer Maschinen, Anlagen Gerite GmbH, LandTechnik Schliiter GmbH, ILKA MAFA Kiltetechnik GmbH, SKL 4) By letter dated 22 June 1999 the Commission informed Motoren- und Systembautechnik GmbH, SKL Spezialap- paratebau GmbH, Magdeburger Eisengiefferei GmbH, Saxonia Edelmetalle GmbH and Gothaer Fahrzeugwerk GmbH (hereinafter called ‘the Lintra subsidiaries’) which had been brought together into a single holding owned by the Treuhandanstalt and which, together with the holding company EFBE Verwaltungs GmbH & Co. Germany that it had decided to initiate the procedure laid down in Article 88(2) of the EC Treaty in respect of the aid. The Commission decision to initiate the proce- dure was published in the Official Journal of the European Communities (). The Commission called on interested parties to submit their comments. () Letter to Germany dated 23 April 1996 (SG(96) D/4218), a brief summary of which was published in O] C 168, 12.6.1996, p. 10. 0 83, 27.3.1999, p. 1. ( (*) See footnote 1. 0] L %) 0] C 238, 21.8.1999, p. 4.