17.2.2015 Official Journal of the European Union L 41/25 COMMISSION DECISION (EU) 201 5/248 of 15 October 2014 on the measures SA.23008 (2013/C) (ex 2013/NN) implemented by Slovak Republic for Spolo¢nd zdravotnd poistoviia, a. s. (SZP) and VSeobecnd zdravotna poistoviia, a. s. (VZP) (notified under document C(2014) 7277) (Only the Slovak text is authentic) (Text with EEA relevance) THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION, Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (hereafter: ‘TFEU’), 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 interested parties to submit their comments pursuant to the provisions cited above (*), Whereas: 1. PROCEDURE (1) On 2 April 2007, the Commission received a complaint from privately-owned health insurer Dovera zdravotnd poistovnia, a. s. (Dovera’ or ‘the complainant) on an alleged State aid measure to State-owned health insurer Spolo¢na zdravotnd poistoviia, a. s. (SZP) in the form of an increase on 26 January 2006 of its registered capital by SKK 450 million (approximately EUR 15 million). (2)  The Commission sent a request for information to the Slovak Republic on 21 August 2009. After an extension of the deadline to reply, the Slovak authorities provided the requested information by their submission dated 24 September 2009. (3) By letter of 26 February 2010, the Commission requested the Slovak Republic to provide further information about this capital injection and asked for clarifications regarding the Slovak Risk Equalisation Scheme (RES), another measure that could possibly be classified as State aid. By letter of 25 March 2010, the Slovak authorities requested an extension of the deadline to reply to this request, which was accepted by the Commission by letter of 31 March 2010. After the Commission had reminded the Slovak Republic on 16 June 2010 to submit the information, the Slovak authorities responded to the request by letter of 9 July 2010. As requested by the Commission in its letter of 4 November 2010, the Slovak Republic submitted a non-confidential version of that reply on 3 December 2010. (4)  On 1 January 2010, SZP merged with the other State-owned Slovak health insurer VSeobecnd zdravotnd poistovnia, a. s. (VZP). From 1998 up until at least 2005, those two State-owned joint stock companies received the insurance portfolios of other health insurance companies. (5) In two meetings between the Commission and Dovera held on 10 October 2010 and 15 March 2011, the subject of the complaint and the functioning of the health insurance sector in Slovakia were discussed. In its submission of 15 July 2011, Dovera provided additional information on the nature of the health insurance sector in Slovakia and extended the scope of its complaint by including three new measures allegedly granted in favour of SZP and VZP: (i) the discharge of SZP's debt by the State-owned company Veritel’ a. s.. in 2004-2005 through two payments of EUR 52,7 million and EUR 28 million; (i) a subsidy of EUR 7,6 million granted in 2006 to SZP by the Ministry of Health; and (iii) a State-financed capital increase totalling EUR 65,1 million granted to VZP on 1 January 2010. Consequently, the Commission invited the Slovak authorities to comment on the extended complaint with its new allegations. After an extension of the reply deadline, the Slovak authorities provided their comments by letter of 11 November 2011. () 0] C278,26.9.2013,p. 28.