84A reading of the decision of 13 March 1996 shows that the beneficiaries of the authorised aid were the eight Lintra subsidiaries, including the applicant in Case T-111/01, whose economic and social situation and viability were described specifically in pages 1 to 5 of the decision, although not that of the Lintra holding company, whose functions consisted of ensuring the management of the group with a view to enabling the restructuring and privatisation of the subsidiaries as soon as possible. Although the financial measures envisaged by the German authorities were intended for the recapitalisation of the companies and the financing of the restructuring measures, particularly through the participation of the BvS in the losses, investment aid and the covering of the liquidity needs of the companies, the decision of 13 March 1996 did not authorise the aid to be used by the Lintra holding company in order to finance its own activities. Moreover, the fact that that aid may have been paid by the German authorities to the Lintra holding company as part of the management activities of the Lintra group does not prevent the subsidiaries of that group from being considered as deriving a benefit therefrom (see, to that effect, Joined Cases 172/83 and 226/83 Hoogovens Groep v Commission [1985] ECR 2831, paragraph 34) and being, in reality, the beneficiaries of the aid authorised by the decision of 13 March 1996. It follows that, in its decision of 13 March 1996, the Commission authorised only the aid intended for the restructuring of the Lintra subsidiaries, including the applicant in Case T-111/01.
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