149The applicants and the Netherlands Government also comment that, owing to a shortage which arose in Spain, the Commission decided in July 1999 to release the stock of 66000 tonnes held by the Spanish undertakings (Commission Decision 1999/444/EC of 7 July 1999 providing for the release of the minimum stocks and the partial release of the carryover stocks held by the sugar undertakings established in Spain, in order to ensure supplies to the southern region of Spain during the period from 1 July to 30 November 1999, OJ 1999 L 174, p. 25). In addition, in Case T-82/96 ARAP and Others v Commission [1999] ECR II-1889, in the context of an action for annulment against the Commission's decision of 11 January 1996 not to raise objections to State aids N11/95 for DAI, the Court of First Instance held that the increase in subsidised sugar production of 70000 tonnes in Portugal had no significant effect on the common market. Therefore, reduced imports of sugar and mixtures under the EC/OCT cumulation of origin regime would not disturb the market either.
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