5.12.2002 Official Journal of the European Communities L 329/1 (Acts whose publication is not obligatory) COMMISSION COMMISSION DECISION of 14 May 2002 on the State aid granted to Grupo de Empresas Alvarez (notified under document number C(2002) 1805) (Only Spanish text is authentic) (Text with EEA relevance) (2002/935[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 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 (1) pursuant to Article 88(2) of the EC Treaty and Article 6(1) of Council Regulation (EC) No 659/1999 (%) and having regard to their comments, Whereas: I. PROCEDURE (1) On 15 July 1997 the Commission adopted Decision 98/364/EC on the State aid granted to Grupo de Empresas Alvarez (GEA) (%) (hereinafter the Decision), notified under number (C(1997)2615, authorising restructuring aid for GEA, a Spanish manufacturer of porcelain and china in Vigo (Galicia). (2)  The positive assessment was made on the basis of a restructuring plan that provided for drastic capacity ()) OJ C 336, 30.11.2001, p. 6. () OJ L 83, 27.3.1999, p. 1. () OJ L 164, 9.6.1998, p. 30. G) reductions plus an undertaking from the Spanish authorities to refrain from granting further State aid to GEA, including its wholly-owned subsidiary Vidrios Automdticos del Norte (Vanosa). The last recital of the decision reads as follows: ‘The Spanish authorities will be informed accordingly that any new State aid in favour of this company will be considered incompatible with the common market and at odds with the undertaking given and it will consequently have repercussions on the aid being approved by this Decision.’ Article 1(1) of the Decision states that a number of measures constitute unlawful State aid. The measures: ...] comply, however, with the Community guidelines on State aid for rescuing and restructuring firms in difficulty and are therefore compatible with the common market under Article 92(3)(c) of the Treaty and Article 61(3)(c) of the EEA Agreement, on condition that the Spanish authorities refrain, as they undertook in their letter of 22 May 1997, from granting any new aid to the company in the future and that they fully implement the agreed restructuring plan’ The Decision also required the Spanish authorities to submit a series of reports to the Commission to enable the latter to check compliance with the restructuring plan and that the Spanish authorities were refraining from granting further aid to the firm.