Aid scheme - Preliminary ruling: The ECJ answers a request for preliminary ruling in interpretation of the validity of two Commission decisions by judging that a decision has the effect of authorising an aid scheme but does not impose it on the Member State concerned, which is not under an obligation to implement it (Todaro Nunziatina)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. – CJEU, 20 May 2010, Todaro Nunziatina & C, aff. C-138/09 The Court was questioned by a court in Palermo on the interpretation and validity of two Commission decisions, one of 1995 and the other of 2003, concerning an aid scheme for employment in the Region of Sicily. In its 1995 decision, the Commission had not raised any objections to aid to the common market, which was to last two years. It invited Italy to re-notify the measure, should this period be extended. In its 2003 decision, the Commission declared the prolongation of the aid in 1997 and 1998 incompatible with the common market. Todaro Nunziatina, the applicant in the main proceedings, is