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the SNCM purchaser will not have to give back the received aids of State from the company
The minister of the Transports has announced, Alain Vidalies
May 21, 2015
The purchaser of the company of Maritime French navigation Société Nationale Run Méditerranée (SNCM), than at the end last year is placed in controlled administration ( on 28 November 2014), it will not have to reimburse the total aids for 440 million euros received indebtedness from the State.
Last Tuesday, answering in Parliament to the interrogations of the deputies on the future of the SNCM and in particular to those of Paul Giacobbi, Prime Minister of the Territorial Collectivity of the Corsica, the minister of the Transports, Alain Vidalies, remembering that next 27 May the court of the commerce of Marseilles will examine the public offers for the purchase of the SNCM, three offered new that they are deposited after the decision of the Administrative court of Fortification that 7th April has cancelled the convention of delegation of public service to the SNCM (let alone to the company of navigation CMN) necessary in order to operate marine services that guarantee the continuity territorial between the Corsica and the continent, he has announced that the EU commission considers that the legal discontinuity between the precedence and the current administration of the company is time established and that therefore - has specified Vidal - "the chosen purchaser from the court of the commerce will not be exposed to the reimbursement of 440 million euros of aids publics".
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