There is currently no basis yet for talks about Spain's contribution of financial aid for Austrian-Canadian car-parts maker Magna International Inc. (MGA) in its move to take over carmaker Adam Opel GmbH because the industrial plan has priority and it isn't yet viable, Spanish Industry Minister Miguel Sebastian said Friday.

"The industrial dimension is prior to any discussion about financial support," Sebastian told reporters.

He said, "we are not at this stage yet" to talk about European governments' aid to a European Opel company.

But he said Spain is in principle willing to provide aid if conditions for all European Opel countries are the same. So far, however, Magna has failed to convince Spain about its project for Opel's Spanish plant, and there has been a "communication problem," Sebastian said.

He also said that Magna must provide a long-term goal for the Spanish plant in Figueruelas, near Saragossa. He said Spain would be willing for short-term sacrifices if the long-term goal is convincing.

Magna will meet with officials from the Spanish government, the regional government of Aragon and union representatives in Madrid on Tuesday, he said.

His comments come after Sebastian met with Magna's Co-Chief Executive Siegfried Wolf in Berlin earlier Friday. Spain, like the U.K., is concerned that the current plan could favor German jobs and plants at the expense of their workers and have threatened to give no aid.

Some European countries in which Opel factories are located were meeting Friday in Berlin with German government officials to discuss their potential aid contributions to Magna in its bid to take over Opel, a unit of General Motors Co.

Germany's federal and state governments have promised a total of EUR4.5 billion in loans and guarantees, but want to gradually reduce that contribution with support from other European countries where the carmaker has operations. Opel has plants in Spain, Belgium and Poland. Vauxhall has plants in the U.K.

Sebastian said Spain didn't attend the meeting with government officials "because we have very little to offer" at the present stage.

"To have a meeting to talk on financial support when we are not even convinced about an industrial project is...to talk about the restaurant bill without having had the menu," he said. "But that doesn't mean that we are not willing to provide financial support within the European rules if needed. But the necessary prerequisite is that we are convinced on the industrial project," he added.

Sebastian is due to meet German Economics Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg later Friday afternoon. The Spanish minister said he expects that talks will lead to a viable solution.

He said, "there is room for everybody. This is a European project and everybody can fit in."

-By Andrea Thomas, Dow Jones Newswires; +49 30 2888 410; andrea.thomas@dowjones.com