No L 335/82 Official Journal of the European Communities 23. 12. 94 (Acts whose publication is not obligatory) COMMISSION COMMISSION DECISION of 27 July 1994 concerning aid to French pig farmers — Stabiporc adjustment fund (Only the French text is authentic) (94/813/EC) THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular the first subparagraph of Article 93 (2) thereof, ' Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2759/75 of 29 October 1975 on the common organization of the market in pigmeat ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1249/89 (3, and in particular Article 21 thereof, Having, in accordance with Article 93 (2) of the Treaty, given notice to the parties concerned to submit their comments (%), Whereas : (1) By letter dated 19 April 1993, recorded on 20 April 1993, the French Permanent Representative to the European Communities notified the Commission of the abovementioned measure in reply to a request by the Commission on 9 March 1993 seeking its notifica- tion. : In reply to requests from the Commission on 10 June and 18 August 1993, the French authorities supplied further information by letters dated 30 July and 20 () OJ No L 282, 1. 11. 1975, p. 1. () O] No L 129, 11. 5. 1989, p. 12. () OJ No C 107, 15. 4. 1994, p. 2. September 1993 and 24 January 1994, receipt of which was recorded on 2 February 1994. (2) On 16 February 1994, the Commission decided to initiate the procedure laid down in Article 93 (2) of the Treaty with regard to the aid paid by the Caisse Professionelle de Régulation Porcine (hereinafter ‘Stabiporc’) from the financial benefits received by it under the agreement with the Office National Inter- professionnel des Viandes, de I'Elevage et de I'Avicul- ture (Ofival), for the following reasons: — the loans granted by Stabiporc were aid in the form of cash advances at a reduced rate of interest (Pibor — Paris interbank offer rate ‘12 months’ +0,5 %). They must therefore be considered operating aids producing no long-term structural improvements in the sector concerned, — there was no guarantee of full or partial repayment of the cash advances made to pig farmers, — the regulatory mechanism is in breach of the rules of the common otganization of the market in pigmeat, — the Commission had no information on other agreements between Stabiporc and various banking institutions (Caisse Nationale de Crédit Agricole, Crédit Mutuel) and the Union Financiére pour le Développement de I'Economie  Céréalicre (‘Unigrains’). The French authorities were informed of this Decision by a Commission letter dated 22 February 1994.