L 219/30 Official Journal of the European Union 24.8.2007 COMMISSION DECISION of 10 May 2007 on State aid C 4/2006 (ex N 180/2005) — Portugal — Aid to Djebel (notified under document number C(2007) 1959) (Only the Portuguese text is authentic) (Text with EEA relevance) (2007/582[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 pursuant to those provisions () and having regard to their comments, Whereas: I. PROCEDURE By letter of 5 April 2005 (sent via their Permanent Representation), — registered as received by the Commission on 7 April, the Portuguese authorities notified the Commission of their intention to grant aid to Djebel — S.G.P.S., S.A. (hereinafter Djebel) in order to help finance an investment by the company in Brazil. At the Commission’s request, Portugal submitted additional information by letters of 25 July, 26 September and 23 December 2005 (sent via their Permanent Represen- tation), registered as received by the Commission on 27 July and 28 September 2005 and 3 January 2006. By letter of 22 February 2006, the Commission informed Portugal that it had decided to initiate the procedure laid down in Article 88(2) of the EC Treaty in respect of the aid. By letter of 31 March 2006 (registered as received on 4 April), the Portuguese authorities presented their comments in the context of the abovementioned procedure. () O C 91, 19.4.2006, p. 25. (®) See footnote 1. (4) ) 0 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. There were no comments from third parties. II. DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE AID The companies involved Djebel is a company located in Madeira, Portugal. The company is part of the Pestana Group, which is the main hotel group in Portugal and is not covered by the definition of an SME. It does not comply with the the Commission Recommendation of 3 April 1996 concerning the definition of small and medium-sized enterprises (}) or autonomy criteria set out in Article 3 of the Annex to the Recommendation of 6 May 2003 concerning the definition of micro, small and medium- sized enterprises (¥). It is therefore a large company. Djebel manages a holding company in Brazil that invests in and manages hotels and tourist activities. The Pestana Group had already acquired a hotel in Mozambique before 1999 and has acquired a further four hotels in Brazil in addition to the one covered by the present notification. The project The project consists in the acquisition by Djebel of shares in the capital of RASH — Administracio de Hotéis de Turismo, Lda, a Brazilian company whose only asset is the Hotel Rio Atlantico, located in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The capital of RASH was acquired in October 1999 and the hotel was already fully operational at the time of the acquisition. L 107, 30.4.1996. L 124, 20.5.2003.