34In addition, the Commission states that the Court of First Instance's reference in paragraph 45 of the order in Coillte Teoranta to the different situation obtaining where it is decided that aid is ineligible for financing by the European Social Fund (‘ESF’) must be understood as referring to a period in which, unlike the present situation, there were direct links between the Commission and the recipients of ESF financing. The Commission takes that reference to be directed at the legal scheme defined in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2950/83 of 17 October 1983 on the implementation of Decision 83/516/EEC on the tasks of the European Social Fund (OJ 1983 L 289, p. 1), which regulated the ESF in the programming period 1984 to 1988 and provided for direct legal relations between the Commission and the recipients. According to the Commission, the lack of any direct relationship of that kind clearly distinguishes this legal scheme from that applicable to the structural funds, including the ERDF in the programming period 1985 to 1988.
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