No L 316/24 Official Journal of the European Communities 5. 12. 96 (Acts whose publication is not obligatory) COMMISSION COMMISSION DECISION of 30 July 1996 concerning certain aid proposed by Italy as part of a programme for the restructuring of its private steel industry (Only the Italian text is authentic) (Text with EEA relevance) (96/678/ECSC) THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Coal and Steel Community, and in particular Article 4 (c) thereof, Having regard to Commission Decision No 3855/91/ ECSC of 27 November 1991 establishing Community rules for aid to the steel industry ('), After giving notice to the parties concerned, in ac- cordance with the abovementioned Decision, to submit their comments and taking into account those comments (%), Whereas: By letters of 15 December 1995 and 2 February 1996 the Commission notified the Italian authorities of its decision to initiate the procedure provided for in Article 6 (4) of Commission Decision No 3855/91/ECSC, hereinafter referred to as the ‘Steel Aid Code’, in respect of aid they plenned to grant, under a programme for the restruc- turing of Italy’s private steel industry, to the following enterprises in the steel sector: () OJ No L 362, 31. 12. 1991, p. 57. () OJ No C 101, 3. 4. 1996, p. 4; O] No C 121, 25. 4. 1996, p. 3. — Ferriera Acciaieria Casilina SpA, — Acciajerie del Sud SpA, — Officine Laminatoi Sebino SpA, — Moccia Irme SpA, — Mini Acciaieria Odolese SpA, — Prolafer Srl, — Dora 81, — Acciaierie San Gabriele SpA, — Montifer Srl. When, by Decision of 12 December 1994, it authorized Italian Law No 481 of 3 August 1994 on the restructuring of Italy’s private steel sector after verifying that the Law complied with the Steel Aid Code and in particular with Article 4 thereof, the Commission requested that the Italian authorities notify it in advance of cases in which the Law was to be applied. The Decision also specified that, in order to qualify for aid for closure, the firms concerned had to have been in operation for on average at least one shift per day, ie. at least eight hours per day, five days per week for the whole of 1993 and up to February 1994, when Decree-Law No 103/94 was notified to the Commission; the provisions of the Decree-Law were subsequently adopted as Law No 481/94. According to information in the possession of the Commission, the firms concerned satisfied the other requirements applicable under Article 4 of the Steel Aid Code governing aid for closures, but were not in regular production at the time of their closure.