Press Release: Commission examines the financing of the two Spanish agro-food companies El Pozo Alimentacion and J. Garcia Carrion La Mancha.

The European Commission launched two formal investigations under the EC Treaty state aid rules into the investment aids in favour of the two agro-food companies El Pozo Alimentacion and J. Garcia Carrion La Mancha. The Commission expressed its doubts as to the compatibility of the aids for not containing an incentive element required under the applicable legislation.