1By application lodged at the Court Registry on 9 October 1999, the Kingdom of trie Netherlands brought an action under the first paragraph of Article 230 EC for partial annulment of Commission Decision 1999/705/EC of 20 July 1999 on the State aid implemented by the Netherlands for 633 Dutch service stations located near the German border (OJ 1999 L 280, p. 87; ‘the Decision’), in so far as it states that the aid granted to certain categories of service stations is incompatible with the common market and the functioning of the Agreement on the European Economic Area of 2 May 1992 (OJ 1994 L 1, p. 3; ‘the EEA Agreement’), and requires the recovery of aid already granted.