asked the Minister for Industry and Commerce whether it is a fact that the EEC Commission has recommended to the Council the abolition of several types of export aids granted to industry by member States; and whether the recent subsidies provided in aid to Irish industry and the tax concessions on profits from exports given to industrialists up to 1983 in the Shannon Industrial Area and to other Irish industrialists to the end of the fiscal year 1973-74 are considered not to contravene this recommendation.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Industrial Export Aids.
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I am aware that, in accordance with the procedures provided for in the Rome Treaty, the Commission of the European Economic Community has been examining the export aids applied by member states and in some cases has recomended to these states that particular aids should be abolished in so far as trade within the EEC area is concerned. As has been stated in reply to previous questions in this matter it is not possible, in advance of an examination of our aids and incentives by the Commission of the EEC, to say whether any of these would be deemed to be incompatible with the Rome Treaty.