1.Articles 1 and 2 of this Decision shall not apply to individual aid granted on the basis of the aid schemes referred to in Article 1 or on the basis of the tax rulings referred to in Article 2 if, at the time the individual aid was granted, it fulfilled the conditions laid down by the Regulation adopted pursuant to Article 2 of Council Regulation (EC) No 994/98(1) which was applicable at the time the aid was granted.
2.For the purposes of this Article and Article 5, individual aid is deemed to be put at a beneficiary's disposal, with respect to each tax year, on the day that the tax foregone for that tax year as a result of the aid schemes referred to in Article 1 or the tax rulings referred to in Article 2 would have fallen due in the absence of that scheme or ruling.
Council Regulation (EC) No 994/98 of 7 May 1998 on the application of Articles 92 and 93 of the Treaty establishing the European Community to certain categories of horizontal State aid (OJ L 142, 14.5.1998, p. 1).