I sin beslutning om indledning af nærværende procedure lod man dog dette spørgsmål stå åbent, da Kommissionen tog hensyn til Tysklands argumenter om, at denne støtteordning også kan vurderes på en anden måde.
However, in its decision to initiate the present formal investigation procedure this matter was left undecided as the Commission took into consideration the arguments put forward by Germany in order to demonstrate that the present aid measure could be finally assessed in a different way.