New State Aid - De minimis: The ECJ holds that the European Council has no jurisdiction under Art. 87.3 e) to exempt a Member State to notify new State aid and that the "de minimis" does not apply in order to assess the effect on trade between Member States (Xunta de Galicia)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. – ECJ, 21 July 2005, Xunta de Galicia, case C-71/04 A question was referred to the Court for a preliminary ruling on the interpretation to be given to Council Directive 90/684 of 21 December 1990 establishing new rules on aid to shipbuilding, adopted on the basis of Article 87(3)(e) EC. The Autonomous Community of Galicia had adopted a shipbuilding aid scheme for ships with a tonnage below the threshold for the application of the Directive on aid to