No L 170/36 Official Journal of the European Communities 5.7 94 COMMISSION COMMISSION DECISION of 2 February 1994 on Sicilian Regional Law No 23/1991 concerning extraordinary assistance for industry and Article 5 of Sicilian Regional Law No 8/1991 concerning, in particular, financing for Sitas (Only the Italian text is authentic) (Text with EEA relevance) (94/374/EC) THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Communities and, in particular, the first subparagraph of Article 93 (2) thereof, Having, in accordance with the abovementioned Article, given the interested parties notice to submit their comments, Whereas : When, by letter of 9 February 1993, the Italian Govern- ment was notified that the procedure initiated under Article 93 (2) of the EC Treaty, in respect of aid to the alkaline salts industry (C 35/91) was being terminated (), the Commission reserved the right to decide on Article 5 of Sicilian Regional Law No 8/1991 concerning an alloca- tion of Lit 20 billion to Sitas. The Commission also informed the Italian Government, by letter of 6 May 1992, that it had decided to initiate the Article 93 (2) procedure in respect of Sicilian Regional Law No 23/1991 granting extraordinary assistance to industry. As part of that procedure, the Commission gave the Italian Government notice to present its comments and, as it possessed very little information on the Law in ques- tion, to provide the information it needed to determine () OJ No C 59, 2. 3. 1993, p. 4. whether the provisions in question were compatible with Community law. A notice published in the Official Journal of the Euro- pean Communities(?) informed the other Member States and interested parties of the procedure. No comments were received from them. I The information requested was sent by the Office of the Italian Permanent Representative in letters dated 5 August 1992, 14 September 1992, 15 January 1993 and 2 February 1993. Further details- were obtained at two meetings held in Brusséls ‘on' 15 June 1992 and 19 February 1993 between the Commission departments and a delegation from the Italian administration. i Regional Law No 23/1991 comprises a package of various measures, aimed at public-sector enterprises, private companies, regional public bodies and individuals. The measures may be summarized as follows: Article 1:The Law allocates a further Lit 125 billion (or some ECU 67,57 million) to a special fund managed by Resais, a service company which manages the redundant employees of the enterprises controlled by the regional holding company ESPI and by the two other reglonal holding companies Az.AS. and EMS. The Italian authorities state that Resais is not engaged in production. Its task is to manage workers made redundant by the regional holding companies with a view to integra- ting them, as far as possible and on a case-by-case basis, () OJ No C 137, 27. 5. 1992, p. 4.