G/SCM/N/253/EU/Add.10  
 
2 August 2013  
(13-4167)  Page: 1/10  
Committee on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures  Original: English  
 
SUBSIDIES 
NEW AND FULL NOTIFICATION PURSUANT TO ARTICLE XVI:1 OF 
THE GATT 1994 AND ARTICLE 25 OF THE AGREEMENT ON 
SUBSIDIES AND COUNTERVAILING MEASURES 
EUROPEAN UNION 
Addendum 
The following addendum to the notification of the European Union relates to the subsidy 
programmes of Germany . 
 
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  GERMANY  
 
 
TABLE OF CONTENTS 
 
1   GERMAN SHIPYARD S (WERFTHI LFEN) ........................................................................ 3  
2   GERMAN SHIPYARDS (I NNOVATIONSBEIHILFE) ......................................................... 3  
3   REGIONAL PROGRAMMES IN SUPPORT OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY (LAND 
BAYERN) ....................................................................................................................... ... 4 
4   JOINT TASK ON "IMPROVING THE REGIONAL ECONOMIC STRUCTURE" ...................... 5  
5   REGIONAL ECONOMIC SUPPORT PROGRAMME (LAND NORDRHEIN 
WESTFALEN) ....................................................................................................................  6 
6   REGIONAL IMPROVEM ENT PROGRAMME HESSE .......................................................... 6  
7   REGIONAL AID PROGRAMME (LAND RHEINLAN D-PFALZ) ........................................... 7  
8   NATIONAL PROGRAMME FOR CI VIL AERONAUTICAL  RESEARCH ................................. 8  
9   REGIONAL PROGRAMME TO MODERNIZE MARKETING FACILITIES .............................. 8  
10   OPTIMIZING OF THE CONVER SION OF CELLULOSE CONTAINING 
AGRICULTURAL RESIDUAL MATERIALS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF BIOGAS 
(LAND NIEDERSA CHSEN) ................................................................................................. 9  
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  1  GERMAN SHIPYARDS (WERFTHILFEN) 
1. Name of the subsidy scheme or ad hoc subsidy 
 
Interest Rate Grants to Finance Orders to German Shipyards ("Werfthilfen"). 
 
2. Form of the subsidy 
 
Grant. 
 3. Subsidy per unit 
 
Total amount of assistance provided in 2011: €0.1 million. 
Total amount of assistance provided in 2012: €0 million.  
4. Objective and/or purpose of the subsidy 
 
The eighth shipyard assistance programme (VIII. Werfthilfeprogramm) exists to provide 
non-repayable interest rate grants under the relevant OECD Understanding on Export Credits for 
Ships (1981). In the frame of this Export Credit Agreement, which expired in April 2002, only legal 
obligations from previous years will be completed.  
Legal basis: Commitment authorizations in the Federal budget from previous years. 
 Guidelines from the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology. 
 
Modes of payment: Support is given to the constr uction and reconstruction of high technology 
marine vessels (merchant vessels), respecting the OECD Understanding on Export Credits for 
Ships: 
 - 8.5 year term; - 20% advance payment; 
- minimum interest rate of 8% p.a.. 
 5. Duration of subsidy and other time-limits attached to it 
 No new commitments.  
6. Statistical data permitting an assessment of the trade effects of a subsidy 
 
N.A.  
2  GERMAN SHIPYARDS (INNOVATIONSBEIHILFE) 
1. Name of the subsidy scheme or ad hoc subsidy 
 
Aid granted for innovation in existing shipbuilding, ship repair or ship conversion yards, provided 
that it relates to the industrial application of innovative products and processes ("Innovationsbeihilfen"). 
 
2. Form of the subsidy 
 Grant (refundable in case of continued successful application). 
 
3. Subsidy per unit 
 
Total amount of assistance provided in 2011: €9.5 million. 
Total amount of assistance provided in 2012: €8.6 million.  G/SCM/N/253/EU/Add.10 
 
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  4. Objective and/or purpose of the subsidy 
 
Certain features make shipbuilding unique and distinguish it from other industries such as small production series, the size, value and complexity of the units produced as well as the fact that 
prototypes are generally used commercially. As a consequence, shipbuilding is the only sector 
eligible for innovation aid, as an incentive to technological risk taking. (EU Framework of state aid to shipbuilding). 
 
Legal basis: Commitment authorizations in the Federal budget from previous years.  Guidelines from the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology. 
 
Modes of payment: 20% gross limited to expend iture on investments, design, engineering and 
testing activities directly and exclusively related to the innovative part of the project. 
 
5. Duration of subsidy and other time-limits attached to it 
 
The aid for innovation to shipbuilding applies until 31 December 2013. 
 6. Statistical data permitting an assessment of the trade effects of a subsidy 
 
N.A. 
 3  REGIONAL PROGRAMMES IN SUPPORT OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY (LAND BAYERN) 
1. Name of the subsidy scheme or ad hoc subsidy 
 
Directive on the promotion of the Bavarian regional programmes for trade, commerce and 
industry, promulgated by the Bavarian Ministry of  Economic Affairs, Transport and Technology on 
27 August 2008 (AllMBl S. 523).  2. Form of the subsidy 
 Investment grant. Interest rate subsidy (to subsidize loans). 
 
3. Subsidy per unit 
 
Total support (million Euros). 
 
 2011 2012 
Investment grant 61.1 73.7 
Interest rate subsidy 7.2 6.0 
Assisted investment volume 633.6 712.3 
Number of assisted companies 378 416 
 
4. Objective and/or purpose of the subsidy 
 Aid to finance investments in trade, industry and tourism to create and secure jobs and training places in assisted areas. 
 
Objective: Improving regional economic structures and tourism offers;   Increasing the economic strength of structurally weak areas.  
5. Duration of subsidy and other time-limits attached to it 
 
Until 31 December 2013. 
 
6. Statistical data permitting an assessment of the trade effects of a subsidy 
 
Not available. Outside the assisted areas pursuant to the Joint Federal Government/Laender 
Scheme for the Improvement of Regional Economic Structures, support is restricted to small and G/SCM/N/253/EU/Add.10 
 
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  medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) within the meaning of articles 1-12 and 15 of the Commission 
Regulation (EC) No. 800/2008 of 6 August 2008 declarin g certain categories of aid compatible with 
the common market in application of Articles  87 and 88 of the Treaty (EC L 214 dated 
9 August 2008). 
 
4  JOINT TASK ON "IMPROVING THE REGIONAL ECONOMIC STRUCTURE" 
1. Title of the subsidy programme 
 
Joint Federal Government/Federal State Scheme for the Improvement of Regional Economic Structures (hereinafter referred to as Joint Task ). 
 
2. Period covered by the notification 
 
2011, 2012. 
 
3. Policy objective and /or purpose of the subsidy 
 
The Joint Task  is a regional policy instrument. The primary objective of regional policy is to enable 
structurally weak regions to keep pace with the general economic development by balancing locational disadvantages and by reducing regi onal development differences. Regional policy 
focuses on supporting regional development activi ties with a view to raising the levels of 
employment and income in assisted areas. Assist ed areas are redefined in multi-annual intervals 
on the basis of regional indicators (unemployment rate, level of income, infrastructural development, employment forecast). 
 
4. Background and authority for the subsidy (including identification of the legislation under 
which it is granted) 
 On the basis of the federal German Constitution , the Federation (Bund) has, in 1969, passed the 
Federal Act on the Joint Task (Federal Law Gazette 1969 part I, p. 1861). The Federal Act on the Joint Task was last modified by act of 7 September 2007 (Federal Law Gazette 2007 part I, 
p. 2246). 
 On the basis of the Federal Act on the Joint Ta sk, Bund and Länder have, since 1969, commonly 
conceived the Joint Task Framework. The Joint Ta sk Framework sets out the preconditions under 
which Joint Task subsidies may be granted.  
The Joint Task Framework is executed by the Länd er alone. If a Land decides to grant a subsidy 
under the terms of the Joint Task, the Bund co-fin ances the funding in the amount of 50% of the 
funding granted by the Land.  
5. Form of the subsidy 
 
Investment grants. 
 
6. To whom and how the subsidy is provided 
 
A Joint Task subsidy consists of a non-recurring payment in the form of an investment grant. The 
payment may be granted by the respective "Land" to eligible projects in assisted areas.  Projects in commerce and industry are eligible for subsidies under the Joint Task if they take place 
in an assisted area and if they generate additional income in the region so that, in the long run, 
the region's total level of income is raised in a non-insignificant manner (so called "primary effect"). 
 
7. Subsidy per unit, or in cases where this is not possible, the total amount or the annual 
amount budgeted for that subsidy 
 Generally speaking, budget allocations for the Joint Task  decreased sharply over the last two 
decades. In 2011 (2012), a total amount of €993 million (€1,011 million) was granted by the Joint 
Task in order to promote commercial and industrial investments in assisted areas.  G/SCM/N/253/EU/Add.10 
 
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  8. Duration of the subsidy and/or any other time-limits attached to it, including date of 
inception/commencement 
 
Regional assistance under the Joint Task consists of a non-recurring subsidy payment granted to 
eligible projects in assisted areas. The Euro pean Commission has authorized the Joint Task 
assisted areas map until 2013. This authorization no twithstanding, the Joint Task is under no time-
limit. 
 
9. Statistical data permitting an assessment of the trade effects of the subsidy. The specific 
nature and scope of such statistics is left to the judgement of the notifying Member. To the 
extent possible, relevant and/or determinable, however, it is desirable that such information 
include statistics of production, consumption, imports and exports of the subsidized 
product(s) or sector(s) 
 
Regional assistance under the Joint Task is aimed at balancing domestic investment disadvantages 
in structurally weak regions (assisted areas). The Joint Task contributes to raising employment and income levels in these regions. In terms of competition, regional assistance under the Joint 
Task is therefore neutral. It has no effect on competition in international trade. 
 5  REGIONAL ECONOMIC SUPPORT PROGRAMME (LAND NORDRHEIN WESTFALEN) 
1. Name of the subsidy scheme or ad hoc subsidy 
 
Regional Economic Support Programme.  
2. Form of the subsidy 
 
Grants towards investment projects of trade and industry and local infrastructure. 
 
3. Subsidy per unit 
 The total amount budgeted for 2011:  €45,1million 
Total number of recipients:   305 
 The total amount budgeted for 2012:  €47,6million 
Total number of recipients:   353 
 4. Objective and/or purpose of the subsidy 
 Improving the regional economic structure and supporting small and medium-sized businesses. 
 5. Duration of subsidy and other time-limits attached to it 
 Not limited.  
6. Statistical data permitting an assessment of the trade effects of a subsidy 
 
Given the objectives of the programme, trade effects cannot be assessed. 
 
6  REGIONAL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAMME HESSE 
1.  Title of the subsidy programme 
 
Programme to improve the economic structure of the Land Hesse. 
 2.  Period covered by the notification 
 2011, 2012.  G/SCM/N/253/EU/Add.10 
 
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  3. Policy objective and/or purpose of the subsidy 
 
Improving the regional economic structure and su pporting small and medium-sized enterprises. 
 
4. Form of the subsidy 
 
Investment grant. 
 
5. To whom and how the subsidy is provided  
 The subsidy is provided to producers in small and medium-sized enterprises with a fluctuating 
amount. 
 6.  Subsidy per unit 
 The total amount budgeted for 2011:  €1.3 million Total number of recipients:    8 
 
The total amount budgeted for 2012:  €1.5 million Total number of recipients:   13  
7. Duration of subsidy and other time-limits attached to it 
 
Not limited. 
 
8. Statistical data permitting an assessment of the trade effects of a subsidy 
 
In 2011 creation of 100 jobs by providing financial assistance to 8 individual promotional cases. 
In 2012 creation of 151 jobs by providing financial assistance to 13 individual promotional cases. 
 7  REGIONAL AID PROGRAMME (LAND RHEINLAND-PFALZ) 
1. Name of the subsidy scheme or ad hoc subsidy 
 
Regional aid programme of the Land Rheinland-Pfalz. 
 
2. Form of the subsidy 
 
Investment grant. 
 3. Subsidy per unit 
 
Up to 10% for medium-sized industries, 20% for small-sized industries. 
 Disbursement in 2011: €20.941 million. 
Disbursement in 2012: €18.186 million. 
 4. Objective and/or purpose of the subsidy 
 Promotion of investment in small and medium-sized industries.  5. Duration of subsidy and other time-limits attached to it 
 Unlimited.  
6. Statistical data permitting an assessment of the trade effects of a subsidy 
 
In 2011: creation of 762 jobs by providing financia l assistance to 130 individual promotional cases. 
In 2012: creation of 658 jobs by providing financia l assistance to 111 individual promotional cases. 
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  8  NATIONAL PROGRAMME FOR CIVIL AERONAUTICAL RESEARCH 
1. Title of the subsidy programme 
 
National programme for civil aeronautical research and technology. 
 
2. Period covered by the notification 
 
2011, 2012. 
 3. Policy objective and/or purpose of the subsidy 
 
The programme's intention is to contribute to strengthening innovative medium and long-term 
research and technology in one of the most important key technologies with spin-off effects to other sectors. The programme aim is part of th e Federal government's research and technology 
policy. 
 The priorities of the programme are encouraging sustainable research in the fields: low-pollutant 
and safe aircrafts of the next generation, lo w noise all-weather helicopters, efficient and 
ecologically friendly engines in line with the ecological goals of the ACARE Vision 2020 and Flightpath 2050.  
4. Background and authority for the subsidy (including identification of the legislation under 
which it is granted) 
 The subsidies are granted by the Federal governme nt and the Federal states. The legal basis are 
the Federal government's and the Federal states' budget acts.  
5. Form of the subsidy (i.e. grant, loan, tax concession, etc.) 
 
Non-repayable grants.  
6. To whom and how the subsidy is provided 
 
Subsidies are provided to producing enterprises, universities and research institutes for research 
and development expenditures. Grants for basic research cover up to 100%, grants for industrial 
research up to 75% of research and development expenditures.  
7. Subsidy per unit, or in cases where this is not possible, the total amount or the annual 
amount budgeted for that subsidy (indicating, if possible, the average subsidy per unit in the 
previous year). Where provision of per unit subsidy information (for the year covered by the 
notification, for the previous year, or both) is not possible, a full explanation 
 
Total annual amount budgeted for the subsidy:  
2011: €129.64 million. 
2012: €120.84 million.  
9  REGIONAL PROGRAMME TO MODERNIZE MARKETING FACILITIES 
1. Title of the subsidy 
 
Financial contribution to the modernization of marketing facilities in the area of Niedersachsenhalle 
Verden within Konjunkturprogramm II / Aufstockungsprogramm "Initiative Niedersachsen". 
 2. Covered period/duration of the subsidy 
 1 March 2010 to 15 December 2011.  G/SCM/N/253/EU/Add.10 
 
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  3. Purpose of the subsidy  
 
Reconstruction of the auction hall; reconstruction and new construction of the stable facility (cattle and horses). 
 
4. Background for the subsidy  
 
Subsidy X 87/2010 in accordance to regulation (EC) No 800/2008 (GBER); administrative 
regulation to § 44 Landeshaushaltsordnung (Nds. MBl. 1996, S. 1868).   Authority: Ministry of Food, Agriculture, Consumer Protection and Regional Development of Lower 
Saxony. 
 5. Form of the subsidy  
 Grant.  
6. Beneficiary 
 
Niedersachsenhalle Verden GmbH, 27283 Verden.  
7. Subsidy mechanism 
 
Fixed amount. 
 
8. Aid intensity 
 
35%. 
 9. Total subsidy amount 
 
Expenditure in 2011: 1,180,000 EUR; individual aid. 
 10. Statistical data  
 
Is not available for this individual subsidy.  
10  OPTIMIZING OF THE CONVERSION OF CELLULOSE CONTAINING AGRICULTURAL 
RESIDUAL MATERIALS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF BIOGAS (LAND NIEDERSACHSEN) 
1.  Title of the subsidy  
 
The procedural and microbiological optimization of the conversion of cellulose containing 
agricultural residual materials for the production of biogas.  
2.  Covered period/duration of the subsidy 
 
15 November 2008 to 15 November 2011. 
 
3. Purpose of the subsidy  
 
The project shall improve the RUMEN-technology in regard to process engineering. A lot of 
agricultural residual materials and by-products could be utilized by this technology for the 
production of biogas. Within this supported project the technology shall be tested in a pilot scheme as a prerequisite for a later use in a bigger scale. 
 
4. Background for the subsidy  
 
Subsidy X 124/2008 in accordance to regulation (EC) No 800/2008 (GBER); administrative 
regulation to § 44 Landeshaushaltsordnung (Nds. MBl. 1996, S. 1868).  G/SCM/N/253/EU/Add.10 
 
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  Authority: Ministry of Food, Agriculture, Consumer Protection and Regional Development of Lower 
Saxony.  5. Form of the subsidy 
 Grant.  
6. Beneficiary 
 
ARES Consultant GbR, 30169 Hannover.  
7. Subsidy mechanism 
 
Fixed amount. 
 
8. Aid intensity  
 
80%. 
 9. Total subsidy amount  
 
Expenditure in 2011: 64.200 EUR; individual aid. 
 10. Statistical data  
 
Is not available for this individual subsidy.  
 
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