14.6.2014 Official Journal of the European Union L 176/1 II (Non-legislative acts) DECISIONS COMMISSION DECISION of 3 September 2013 State aid SA.32554 (09/C) Restructuring aid for Hypo Group Alpe Adria implemented by Austria (notified under document C(2013) 5648) (Only the German text is authentic) (Text with EEA relevance) (2014/341[EV) 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, Having regard to the Agreement on the European Economic Area, and in particular Article 62(1)(a) thereof, Having called on Member States and other interested parties to submit their comments pursuant to those provisions (1), Whereas: 1. PROCEDURE (1) In December 2008, Hypo Alpe Adria Group (HGAA’ or ‘the bank)) received EUR 900 million in Tier-1 Partizipa- tionskapital (2) from the Republic of Austria on the basis of the Austrian emergency bank support scheme (‘the bank support scheme’) (3). (2)  On 29 April 2009 Austria provided the Commission with a viability plan for HGAA. (3)  Inits decision of 12 May 2009 in case N 254/2009 (‘the 2009 opening decision’) () the Commission instigated the formal investigation procedure pursuant to Article 16 of Council Regulation (EC) No 659/1999 of 22 March 1999 laying down detailed rules for the application of Article 108 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (°), raising doubts about the compatibility with the internal market of the restructuring aid which Germany had granted to HGAA’s majority stakeholder, BayernLB, in December 2008. In the same decision, the Commission questioned whether HGAA was fundamentally sound. () OJ C 116, 23.4.2013, p. 13. (?) Partizipationskapital has no voting rights. (}) That scheme had been approved by Commission Decision of 9 December 2008 in case N 557/2008, O] C 3, 8.1.2009, p. 2, Mafnahmen nach dem Finanzmarksstabilitits- und dem Interbankmarktstirkungsgesetz fiir Kreditinstitute und Versicherungsunternehmen in Osterreich. (*) OJ C 134, 13.6.2009, p. 31. () O] L 83, 27.3.1999, p. 1.