79Article 92(2)(b) of the Treaty provides that aid to make good damage caused by natural disasters or exceptional occurrences is compatible with the common market. Since this is an exception to the general principle that State aid is incompatible with the common market, that provision must be interpreted narrowly. The Court has held that only damage caused by natural disasters or exceptional occurrences may be compensated for under that provision. It follows that there must be a direct link between the damage caused by the exceptional occurrence and the State aid and that as precise an assessment as possible must be made of the damage suffered by the producers concerned (judgment of 11 November 2004 in Case C-73/03 Spain v Commission, not published in the ECR, paragraph 37).
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