Prescription : The Court of Justice considers that a request for information by the Commission to national authorities who have agreed to support a company validly interrupts prescription, even if the beneficiary of the measure, which is not a party to the proceedings, would not have been informed of the request

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. Statute of limitations, it was today, by the way. of a State aid case, in the judgment delivered on the same day, 6 October 2005 by the Court of Justice of the European Communities (Case C-276/03). The question raised was whether the limitation period laid down in State aid procedures under Article 15 of the Procedural Regulation (EC) No 659/1999 of the Council of 22 March 1999 laying down detailed rules for the application of Article 93 of the EC Treaty ([now