114In any event, as stated by the Advocate General in point 147 of his Opinion, the mere fact that national rules on limitation are, in principle applicable to the recovery of unlawfully granted aid by national authorities on their own initiative, does not detract from the possibility of that aid being recovered subsequently, in implementation of a decision to that effect by the Commission which, where it has in its possession information on the alleged unlawfulness of that aid, whatever the source of that information, after the national limitation periods have expired, remains free to assume, within the period of 10 years referred to in Article 15 of Regulation No 659/1999, an examination of that aid.
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