EPAC v Commission (State aid)

(Action for annulment - State aid - Article 92(1) and (3) of the EC Treaty (now, after amendment, Article 87(1) and (3) EC) - Concept of aid - State guarantee for the financing of a public undertaking - Suspension of the aid - No need to give a decision)

EPAC - Empresa para a Agroalimenta��o e Cerais, SA, established in Lisbon (Portugal), represented by J. Mota de Campos, of the Lisbon Bar, with an addressfor service in Luxembourg at the Chambers of J. Calvo Basaran, 34, boulevard Ernest Feltgen,

Commission of the European Communities, represented by D. Triantafyllou and A.M. Alves Vieira, of its Legal Service, with an address for service in Luxembourg at the office of C. G�mez de la Cruz, of its Legal Service, Wagner Centre, Kirchberg,

defendant, APPLICATION, in Case T-204/97, for the annulment of Commission Decision 97/433/EC of 30 April 1997 requiring the Portuguese Government to suspend the aid in the form of a State guarantee granted to the undertaking EPAC - Empresa para a Agroalimenta��o e Cereais, SA (OJ 1997 L 186, p. 25) and, in Case T-270/97, for the annulment of Commission Decision 97/762/EC of 9 July 1997 on measures taken by Portugal to assist EPAC - Empresa para a Agroalimenta��o e Cereais, SA (OJ 1997 L 311, p. 25), THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (Fifth Chamber, Extended Composition),

composed of: J.D. Cooke, President, R. Garcia-Valdecasas, P. Lindh, J. Pirrung and M. Vilaras, Judges, Registrar: A. Mair, Administrator,