12.12.2014 Official Journal of the European Union L 357/1 II (Non-legislative acts) DECISIONS COMMISSION DECISION of 20 November 2013 concerning the State aid SA.16237 (C58/02) (ex N118/02) implemented by France in favour of SNCM (notified under document C(2013) 7066) (Only the French text is authentic) (Text with EEA relevance) (2014/882/EU) THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION, Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, and in particular the first subparagraph of Article 108(2) thereof (1), Having regard to the Agreement on the European Economic Area, in particular Article 62(1)(a) thereof, Having called on interested parties to submit their comments pursuant to those articles (), and having regard to their comments, Whereas: I. PROCEDURE (1) On 18 February 2002, France notified the Commission of planned restructuring aid for Société Nationale Maritime Corse-Méditerranée (hereinafter: ‘SNCM’), which notification was supplemented on 3 July 2002 (}). The restruc- turing plan followed the notification by the French authorities on 20 December 2001 of a cash advance of EUR 22,5 million granted by Compagnie Générale Maritime et Financiere (hereinafter: ‘CGMF) (*) to SNCM as rescue aid. By decision of 17 July 2002 (%) (hereinafter: ‘the 2002 decision’), the Commission authorised rescue aid in favour of SNCM under the preliminary examination procedure for aid laid down in Article 88(3) of the EC Treaty. The notified restructuring aid consisted in the recapitalisation of SNCM through CGMF to the tune of EUR 76 million. () With effect from 1 December 2009, Articles 87 and 88 of the EC Treaty have become Articles 107 and 108, respectively, of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU’). The two sets of provisions are, in substance, identical. For the purposes of this Decision, references to Articles 107 and 108 of the TFEU should be understood as references to Articles 87 and 88, respectively, of the EC Treaty, where appropriate. The TFEU also introduced certain changes in terminology, such as the replacement of ‘Com- munity’ by ‘Union’, ‘common market’ by ‘internal market’ and ‘Court of First Instance’ by ‘General Court’. The terminology of the TFEU is used throughout this Decision. 2) O] C 303, 13.12.2006, p. 53. (®) Registered under reference TREN A/61846. (*) CGMF is a financial holding company wholly owned by the French State which acts on the latter’s behalf for all operations concerning maritime transport, fitting out and leasing vessels in the Mediterranean. () OJ C 148, 25.6.2003, p. 7. —