I forbindelse med behandlingen af to klager, der var indbragt over for Kommissionen på grund af støtteforanstaltninger, som rederierne Sea France og BAI havde draget fordel af, spurgte Kommissionen desuden to gange de franske myndigheder, hvordan visse af deres skibe blev finansieret.
During the course of the investigation into the two complaints made to it denouncing the aid which the shipping companies Sea France and BAI had allegedly received, the Commission twice questioned the French authorities about the method of financing some of those companies’ ships.