22Nevertheless, as the Commission recalled in its decision to initiate the procedure, regional aid should not give rise to a sectoral overcapacity at Community level. It is clear, in that regard, that the second indent of the second paragraph of point 1.6 of Communication 88/C 212/02, to the effect that aid must ‘be designed to promote a durable and balanced development of economic activity’ and not give rise at Community level to a ‘sectoral problem ... more serious than the initial regional problem’, may apply to any regional aid, whatever its nature. Such assessments are not incompatible with the aim pursued by Article 92(3)(a). To accept the contrary would encourage the achievement of economically precarious initiatives which, because they do no more than aggravate the imbalances affecting the markets concerned, are ultimately not suited to provide an effective and lasting solution to development problems in the areas concerned. The fact, pointed out by the Commission, that PYRSA has currently suspended payments despite the aid received shows that such a risk is not merely theoretical.
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