
Article 1 
The State aid scheme ‘Real Estate Transfer Tax Exemption for Housing Companies in the Neue Länder’ is incompatible with the common market as far as the labour market region Berlin is concerned.
The aid may accordingly not be implemented.
Article 2 
Germany shall inform the Commission, within two months of notification of this decision, of the measures taken to comply with it.
Article 3 
This decision is addressed to the Federal Republic of Germany.
Done at Brussels, 23 November 2005.
For the Commission
Neelie KROES
Member of the Commission