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1. Bull considers that any major purchase would fly in the face of the restructuring plan's strategy and would pose problems of integration.
2. ‘The legal consultant's conclusions clearly fly in the face of the Commission's decision-making practice and of Community case law in the field of state aid, which make the existence of aid conditional on proof of a firm, precise and unconditional commitment on the part of the State concerned — something which the Minister's remarks of 12 July 2002 could in no way be construed as being.’‘A state measure, in whatever form, must be sufficiently precise and concrete for the Commission to be able to determine the very existence of an advantage’.
3. ‘The legal consultant's conclusions clearly fly in the face of the Commission's decision-making practice and of Community case law in the field of state aid, which make the existence of aid conditional on proof of a firm, precise and unconditional commitment on the part of the State concerned — something which the Minister's remarks of 12 July 2002 could in no way be construed as being.’‘A state measure, in whatever form, must be sufficiently precise and concrete for the Commission to be able to determine the very existence of an advantage’. ‘To be able to apply the prudent investor test, the Commission must have at its disposal all the necessary information concerning the specific modalities of the measure that is being scrutinised’.