166In the present case, an examination of the correspondence exchanged in the course of the administrative procedure shows that the Italian authorities never stated, let alone demonstrated, to the Commission that the project set up aid designed to make good the damage referred to in Article 87(2)(b) EC. On the contrary, they always presented it as being intended to set up an aid scheme for restructuring firms in difficulty. As such, it had to be analysed in the light of the Guidelines, which, in the first paragraph of point 2.4, expressly exclude aid referred to in Article 87(2)(b) EC from their ambit.
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