State aid : Advocate General Geelhoed looks at the implementation of the rules on State aid to the provisions adopted by the Member States in the field of direct taxation

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. On 20 October 2005, Advocate General Geelhoed presented his findings in a State aid case raising an issue concerning the scope of Article 87(1) EC and, more specifically, to on the application of state aid rules to the provisions adopted by Member States in the field of taxation direct. In the present case, the Portuguese Republic had brought an action for annulment of the decision of the annulment of a decision of the Commission classifying as 'unlawful the tax reductions in force in the