Information communicated by Member States regarding State aid granted under Commission Regulation (EC) No 70/2001 of 12 January 2001 on the application of Articles 87 and 88 of the EC Treaty to state aid to small and medium-sized enterprises

(2003/C 154/09)

(Text with EEA relevance)

Aid No: XS 106/01

Member State: Spain

Region: Autonomous Community of Galicia

Title of aid scheme or name of the company receiving an individual aid: Support for technology-based job creation

Legal basis: Orden de la Consellería de Familia y Promoción de Empleo, Mujer y Juventud de 3 de octubre de 2001 (DOG n°: 209; 29.10.2001)

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall amount of individual aid granted to the company: EUR 1803036,31

Maximum aid intensity: The scheme provides one-off non-refundable grants for each net job created, the amount of which varies and is determined in each specific case having due regard to the population group to which the person hired belongs and a number of criteria used for setting the maximum amount of aid. The aid intensity may not exceed 55 % of the employee's wage costs over a period of two years

Date of implementation: Aid may be granted under the scheme once the implementing rules have been published

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: 31 December 2006

Objective of aid: To promote net job creation in small, scientifically and/or technologically innovative businesses during their first few years after startup. The scheme therefore provides aid for job creation linked to investment

Economic sector(s) concerned: All sectors, although the present aid scheme is subject to the exclusions, limits and conditions laid down in the horizontal and sectoral Community rules applied in each case

Name and address of the granting authority: Xunta de Galicia Consellería de Familia y Promoción de Empleo, Mujer y Juventud Director General de Fomento del Empleo

Justo de Benito Basanta

Edif. Admvo. San Caetano E - 15771 Santiago de Compostela

Other information: The scheme is a tool for promoting entrepreneurship in the areas of research, technology and employment by exploiting the potential of researchers and university graduates with an entrepreneurial profile (there are three universities and seven university campuses in Galicia) who wish to set up their own business, thereby increasing the capacity for transferring knowledged acquired, chiefly in universities and public research centres, to business projects that generate employment and wealth, boosting the development, innovative calibre and competitiveness of the company base and labour market in Galicia

Aid No: XS 56/02

Member State: United Kingdom

Region: West Midlands Objective 2

Title of aid scheme or name of the company receiving an individual aid: Herbert-Mandela Phase One (1/2)

Legal basis: Section 2 of the Local Government Act 2000; Industrial Development 1982, Sections 7 and 11

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall amount of individual aid granted to the company: Total public expenditure is GBP 2733245; By calendar year: GBP 142000 for 2001, GBP 339850 for 2002, GBP 2054831 for 2003 and GBP 196564 for 2004

Maximum aid intensity: 50 %. Approximately 45 SMEs will be assisted by the project. Each individual SME is expected to receive assistance totalling not more than GBP 100000

Date of implementation: July 2002

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: Until October 2004

Objective of aid: To provide consultancy advice on production, participation and presentation in creative media to creative businesses and community enterprises

Economic sector(s) concerned: Creative industries

Name and address of the granting authority: Phil Howard Government Office for the West Midlands 77 Paradise Circus

Queensway

Birmingham, B1 2DT

Other information: Peter Chandler Arts and Heritage Service, Coventry City Council Herbert Art Gallery & Museum

Jordan Well

Coventry, CV1 5QP

Aid No: XS 64/02

Member State: Italy

Region: Liguria

Title of aid scheme or name of the company receiving an individual aid: Measure 3.4(b) "Aid to social enterprises"

Legal basis: - Docup Obiettivo 2 Regione Liguria 2000-2006 approvato con Decisione Commissione Europea C(2001) 2044 del 7.9.2001,

- Complemento di Programmazione del Docup Obiettivo 2 Regione Liguria 2000-2006, approvato con Deliberazione Giunta regionale n. 1404 del 30.11.2001, così come modificato con Deliberazione della Giunta Regionale n. 694 del 2.7.2002,

- Bando della Misura 3.4 "Sostegno economia sociale" - Sottomisura B "Aiuto alle imprese sociali", approvato con Deliberazione della Giunta regionale n. 695 del 2.7.2002

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall amount of individual aid granted to the company: Total expenditure of EUR 7620749, broken down as follows:

- EUR 910474,20 of average annual public expenditure in the period 2002 to 2006 (Objective 2 areas and Art. 87(3)(c) exempted areas),

- EUR 767094,50 of average annual public expenditure in the period 2002 to 2005 (transitional support and phasing-out areas)

Maximum aid intensity: Interest-free repayable aid with a maximum intensity of 15 % gge and 7,5 % gge for small and medium-sized firms in Objective 2 areas and transitional support (phasing-out) areas respectively, 8 % nge + 10 % gge and 8 % nge + 6 % gge for small and medium-sized firms in areas exempted under Article 87(3)(c) of the EC Treaty

Date of implementation: 15 July 2002

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: 31 December 2005 - Transitional support (phasing-out) areas; 31 December 2006 - Objective 2 areas exempted under Article 87(3)(c)

Objective of aid: The sub-measure is intended to support investment aimed at promoting the social inclusion of persons in difficulty who are users of social services and disadvantaged persons on the labour market, pursuant to Article 4 of Law No 381/91

Economic sector(s) concerned: Social cooperatives and their consortia, within the meaning of Law No 381/1991 which, when the application is submitted, are:

- listed in the Regional Register provided for in Article 2 of Law No 23/093 or equivalent regional registers,

- covered by the Community definition of an SME laid down by Ministerial Decrees of 18 September 1997 and 27 October 1997.

Measures to assist the production, processing, and marketing of agricultural and fisheries products listed in Annex I to the EC Treaty, and the coal, steel, shipbuilding, synthetic fibres, motor vehicle and transport industries are excluded

Name and address of the granting authority: FILSE - Finanziaria Ligure per lo Sviluppo Economico Via Peschiera, 16 I - 16122 Genova

Aid No: XS 67/02

Member State: United Kingdom

Region: Cornwall

Title of aid scheme or name of the company receiving an individual aid: Cornwall Film Fund for SMEs

Legal basis: United Kingdom Local Government Act 2000

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall amount of individual aid granted to the company: GBP 425958 ERDF until 2003 granted to the Cornwall Film Fund

Maximum aid intensity: - For development of new scripts: a repayable grant of up to GBP 10000 or maximum 45 % of the applicable fee for the script,

- For production of short films: grants of between GBP 10000 and GBP 50000 (up to maximum 45 % of total production budgets),

- For development of feature films and major television projects: repayable grants (repayable on commencement of filming if and when the project goes into production) up to GBP 50000 or 45 % of the total development budget, whichever is the smaller,

- For the production of feature films and major TV projects: repayable grants (in the event of the project making a profit) up to GBP 200000 or 10 % of the total production budget, whichever is the smaller

Date of implementation: 1 July 2002

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: 31 December 2004

Objective of aid: The scheme seeks to provide funding for SMEs involved in film making in Cornwall. The Fund is intended to support the development of SMEs in the local film and television production sector by providing financial support for:

(i) the development of scripts by writers in Cornwall;

(ii) the production of short films made in Cornwall;

(iii) the development of feature film and major TV projects;

iv) the production of feature films and major television projects in Cornwall.

It is intended that these measures will strengthen the viability and creativity of SMEs in the film production sector in Cornwall, enabling it to be self-sustaining once the Objective 1 programme has ended, making a significant contribution to the Cornish economy

Economic sector(s) concerned: Other services (media sector), without prejudice to special rules in regulations and directives concerning state aid in certain sectors

Name and address of the granting authority: Mr David Pattison

Assistant Chief Executive

08172 322000, Cornwall County Council, New County Hall, Truro, TR1 3AY

Other information: Cornwall is a geographically remote and underdeveloped area where the decline of traditional industries has produced low levels of employment and wealth. Aid is required both to stimulate development of and work in the newer media industries and to overcome the economic and geographical disadvantages suffered by filmmakers in Cornwall when compared with the rest of the UK and EU. It is, more importantly, also required to assist in maintaining the cultural distinctiveness of Cornwall and its people

Aid No: XS 92/02

Member State: Italy

Region: Liguria

Title of aid scheme or name of the company receiving an individual aid: Measure 3.2 "Upgrading of port areas" - Submeasure B "Aid to improve tourism facilities in port areas" - Objective 2 single programming document (SPD) 2000 to 2006 for Liguria

Legal basis: - Docup Obiettivo 2 Regione Liguria 2000-2006 approvato con Decisione Commissione Europea C(2001) 2044 del 7.9.2001,

- Complemento di Programmazione del Docup Obiettivo 2 Regione Liguria 2000-2006, approvato con Deliberazione Giunta regionale n. 1404 del 30.11.2001,

- Modifiche al Complemento di Programmazione del Docup Obiettivo 2 Regione Liguria 2000-2006, approvate con Deliberazione Giunta regionale n. 694 del 2.7.2002,

- Bando della Misura 3.2 "Riqualificazione aree portuali" - Sottomisura B "Aiuti per la valorizzazione a fini turistici delle aree portuali", approvato con Deliberazione della Giunta regionale n. 923 dell'8.8.2002

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall amount of individual aid granted to the company: Total expenditure: EUR 18040435 for the entire period of the programme, with an annual instalment of EUR 5721441 of public expenditure on financing the invitation to tender for 2002

Maximum aid intensity: - non-repayable grant for investment with an intensity equivalent to 15 % gge for small firms and 7,5 % gge for medium-sized firms of eligible investment costs, excluding VAT,

- non-repayable grant for investment with an intensity equivalent to 8 % nge + 10 percentage points gge for small firms and 8 % nge + 6 percentage points gge for medium-sized firms of eligible investment costs, excluding VAT, in areas qualifying for exemption under Article 87(3)(c) of the EC Treaty

Date of implementation: 16 September 2002

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: 31 December 2006 (Objective 2 areas and areas exempted under Article 87(3)(c))

Objective of aid: The submeasure is intended to promote investments in improving tourism facilities for pleasure boats by supporting the Territorial Coordination Plan for Coastal Areas of Liguria

Economic sector(s) concerned: Tourism operators covered by the 1991 ISTAT Code I.63.22.D. (tourist ports, tourist harbours, shipping harbours, pleasureboat centre), either individually or in association, including cooperatives entered in the register of businesses, and covered by the Community definition of SMEs, as provided for in the Decree of 27 October 1997 of the Ministry for Production Activities

Name and address of the granting authority: Regione Liguria Dipartimento Sviluppo Economico Settore Politiche di Sviluppo Industria e Artigianato Via Fieschi, 15 I - 16121 Genova