Judgment_paragraph 2 · Italian Republic v European Commission (T-527/13)

2By Decision 2003/530/EC of 16 July 2003 on the compatibility with the common market of an aid that the Italian Republic intends to grant to its milk producers (OJ 2003 L 184, p. 15, ‘the Council decision’), the Council authorised that Member State to ‘itself mak[e] payment to the [European Union] of the amount due from them to the [European Union] by virtue of the additional levy on milk and milk products for the period 1995/1996 to 2001/2002’ (Article 1 of the Council decision). The Council also authorised it to ‘[allow the interested parties] to repay their debt [in relation to the Italian Republic] by way of deferred payment over a number of years without interest’ (Article 1 of the Council decision).