Control mechanism: The ECJ holds that the European Commission can, provided it has sufficient information, issue either a conditional decision or a negative one, at its discretion (Sardinia)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. – CFI, 15 June 2005, Regione autonoma della Sardegna v. Commission, case T-171/02 The Commission decided by decision of 13 November 2001 that the draft aid scheme notified by Italy in January 1998 and which the region of Sardinia intended to implement for small agricultural enterprises in difficulty was incompatible with the common market and could not be implemented. In particular, the Commission took the view that the eligibility criteria for firms covered by the scheme did not ensure that it would be applied to firms in difficulty within the