regional subsidy programmes are part of an internally consistent and generally applicable regional development policy and that regional development subsidies are not granted in isolated geographical points having no, or virtually no, influence on the development of a region
Subsidies to disadvantaged regions within the territory of the country of origin and/or export, given pursuant to a general framework of regional development, which would be non-specific if the criteria laid down in Article 3 (2) and (3) were applied to each eligible region concerned, shall not be subject to countervailing measures ...
