Last month it ordered Olympic Airlines of Greece to repay millions in illegal state aid.
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Even so, it is not exactly unheard-of for political considerations to influence a decision on illegal state-aid.
In response to the disclosure, Huawei denied any dumping practices and said it hasn't benefited from illegal state subsidies.
But Alitalia says that the commission accepts that Fintecna's stake makes genuine commercial sense and is, therefore, not illegal state aid.
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The European Commission revealed that it was preparing to show the red card to illegal state aid for Europe's football clubs .
The competition authorities are taking a hard look at Vivendi's new tax treatment to determine whether it is a hidden form of illegal state aid.
Last December, the commissioner ruled that the Partnership Investment Programme, which aids the clearance and renovation of derelict city sites, was an illegal state aid.
Its transport directorate has all but finalised a ruling that will declare that special deals struck by Ryanair with the local government in Charleroi amount to illegal state subsidies.
But Mr Monti felt the scheme was an illegal state aid because it might give a windfall increase in value to a landowner, a subsidy to a developer, or a hidden subsidy to a renter of the new premises.
New York enacted a law last year that resembles the CDA. In Virginia it's now illegal for state employees--including state-college professors--to access "sexually explicit" materials online.
In 2004, though, the Policemen's Benevolent Association the officers' union filed a grievance with the city's Office of Collective Bargaining, claiming Mr. Marino's was using quotas, which are illegal under state labor law.
While Salazar acknowledged voting against a state bill that would have prohibited illegal immigrants from receiving in-state tuition status, his campaign said he did not support amnesty for illegal immigrants.
Three thousand children begin to smoke every day -- even though it's illegal in every state.
Goldberg said it would be illegal for the state to issue permits before the regulations were finished.
Tiger Pools has become engulfed in a high-profile corruption case--a reminder why betting is often illegal or a state monopoly in the first place.
As CSPI litigation director Stephen Gardner told Bulletproofblog, the suit claims such marketing is illegal under various state consumer protection laws irrespective of the alleged health risks.
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In betting- and soccer-mad Asia, which is hosting the tournament for the first time--and where betting is mostly illegal or a state-authorized monopoly--betting has simply gone offshore and online.
In fact, it would be illegal for the State of Florida to require Medicaid beneficiaries below the poverty line to pay meaningful co-pays and deductibles, like those in the private insurance market.
Dogfighting is illegal in every state and a felony in most. (Cockfighting, however, is still legal in Louisiana.) In May George Bush signed a law making it a felony to transport animals between states for fighting purposes.
Although the status-check provision contains no criminal sanctions or authority for the state to hold illegal immigrants without federal permission, it emerged as the flash point of controversy over effectively enlisting every Arizona law officer in a state campaign to "discourage and deter" the presence of illegal immigrants, as the statute says.
This ballot measure, which passed into law, withdrew social services from illegal immigrants in the state, the bulk of whom were Latinos.
"Make no mistake, the legislature is not going to repeal this law and have Alabama become a sanctuary state for illegal immigrants, " Stacy said.
He said that at the time of the arrest he believed Mr Noonan had committed the offence of membership of an illegal organisation within the state.
Arizona voters approved four separate measures that revealed their frustration with the endless influx of illegal aliens into that state, including one measure that makes English the official language of Arizona.
There was evidence that British agents had used information obtained through torture, questioned suspects knowing they had been torture and that British overseas territories had been involved in illegal transfer or "state kidnapping" of suspects.
Bringing in cuttings from out-of-state is illegal, so he says his company obtained some of the 100 strains it grows from a local grower named Charles Blackton, aka "The Lemon Man, " a six-time winner of the Cannabis Cup that is held in Amsterdam.
Arizona is an overwhelmingly white state, and virtually all illegal immigrants perhaps about half a million in the state are Hispanic.
And in Colorado a measure to legalise civil unions in a state that made gay marriage illegal in 2006 was prevented from coming to a vote in the state legislature.
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