After the provisional disclosure and subsequently after the definitive disclosure, with regard to the loans that were countervailed, one sampled exporting producer questioned the Commission's calculation of turnover ratio used in the allocation of benefits to exports of the product concerned to the Union.

4. The aid must not be paid in respect of costs incurred after the fifth year, or paid following the seventh year after recognition of the producer organisation. This is without prejudice to grant aid towards eligible expenses limited to and resulting from a year-on-year increase in turnover of a beneficiary of at least 30 % where this is due to the accession of new members and/or the coverage of new products.

Total European RD is roughly estimated to account for 10% of unconsolidated sales turnover of the EU space sector.

Consequently, the SGA costs and profit rates were calculated on their proportion to the total turnover for each product type.

4. The aid must not be paid in respect of costs incurred after the fifth year, or paid following the seventh year after recognition of the producer organisation. This is without prejudice to grant aid towards eligible expenses limited to and resulting from a year-on-year increase in turnover of a beneficiary of at least 30 % where this is due to the accession of new members and/or the coverage of new products.

(49) In the decision-initiating proceedings, the Commission expressed doubts as to the incentive effect of the aid since it took the view that the indicators which the Basque regional government had when it notified the scheme undertaken to consider for the purpose of examining the incentive effect of the aid for large undertakings (evolution of R D spending, evolution of the number of people assigned to R D activities, evolution of R D spending as a proportion of total turnover) had not been taken into account and would be relevant for the purpose of assessing the incentive effect in the present case.