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

(2001/C 340/02)

(Text with EEA relevance)

Aid No: XS/02/2001

Member State: Germany

Region: Baden-Württemberg

Title: Financing of business start-ups and growth - joint scheme involving the Federal Government, the Land of Baden-Württemberg, the DtA and L-Bank

Legal basis: Gesetz über die Landeskreditbank Baden-Württemberg vom 11.4.1972 (Gesetzblatt für Baden-Württemberg vom 1.4.1972, S. 129 ff), zuletzt geändert durch Gesetz vom 11.11.1998 (GBl. S. 581) i. V. m. Mittelstandsförderungsgesetz Baden-Württemberg vom 19.12.2000 (GBl. S. 745); §§ 23, 44 Landeshaushaltsordnung Baden-Württemberg und § 49a Landesverwaltungsverfahrensgesetz

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme: It is planned to make avialable interest subsidies totalling an expected DEM 40 to 50 million a year

Maximum aid intensity: 15 % in the case of small enterprises; 7,5 % in the case of medium-sized enterprises

Date of implementation: 3 February 2001

Duration of scheme: Until 30 June 2007

Objective: The scheme involves horizontal aid

- to secure the viability and diversity of the Baden-Württemberg economy by promoting and consolidating self-employment,

- to encourage individuals to set up in business on their own, to take over a firm or practice or to acquire an active holding,

- to create new jobs

Economic sectors concerned: All economic sectors not excluded under Community regulations or directives on the granting of State aid in specific sectors

Name and address of the granting authority: Landeskreditbank Baden-Württemberg Förderbank Postfach 10 29 43 D - 70025 Stuttgart

Other information: Where ERP equity loans and/or ERP start-up loans are used, the Land budgetary resources are granted by the German Equalisation Bank in Bonn

Aid No: XS/05/2001

Member State: Germany

Region: Hessen

Title: Hessen structural programme for SMEs (HSPM)

Legal basis: Gesetz zur Förderung der kleinen und mittleren Unternehmen der hessischen Wirtschaft vom 23. September 1974 (GVBl. S. 458), zuletzt geändert am 22. August 1986 (BVBl. S. 265). Förderrichtlinien HSPM

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme: Total credit of approximately DEM 100 million (EUR 50 million)

Maximum aid intensity: The gross grant equivalent of the loan is under 7,5 %

Date of implementation: 3 February 2001

Duration of scheme: Until 30 June 2007 in accordance with European Commission requirements

Objective: For selected areas, the Hessen Investment Bank, acting on behalf of the Hessen Ministry of Economics, Transport and Regional Development, grants loans to investments in SMEs within the meaning of the Commission Recommendation of 3 April 1996 (OJ L 107, 30.4.1996, p. 4) with a view to creating and safeguarding jobs

Economic sectors concerned: All economic sectors, apart from agricultural and forestry undertakings and the medical and nursing sector

Name and address of the granting authority: InvestitionsBank Hessen AG Opernplatz 2 D - 60313 Frankfurt am Main

Aid No: XS/06/2001

Member State: Germany

Region: Hessen

Title: Hessen growth programme for SMEs (HWPM)

Legal basis: Gesetz zur Förderung der kleinen und mittleren Unternehmen der hessischen Wirtschaft vom 23. September 1974 (GVBl. S. 458), zuletzt geändert am 22. August 1986 (GVBl. S. 265). Förderrichtlinien HWPM

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme: Total credit of approximately DEM 80 million (EUR 41 million)

Maximum aid intensity: The gross grant equivalent of the loan is under 7,5 %

Date of implementation: 8 February 2001

Duration of scheme: Until 30 June 2007 in accordance with European Commission requirements

Objective: In selected areas, the Hessen Investment Bank, acting on behalf of the Hessen Ministry of Economics, Transport and Regional Development, grants loans to investments in SMEs within the meaning of the Commission Recommendation of 3 April 1996 (OJ L 107, 30.4.1996, p. 4) with a view to creating and safeguarding jobs

Economic sectors concerned: All economic sectors apart from agricultural and forestry undertakings and the medical and nursing sector, without prejudice to special rules in regulations and directives concerning State aid in certain sectors

Name and address of the granting authority: InvestitionsBank Hessen AG Opernplatz 2 D - 60313 Frankfurt am Main

Aid No: XS/21/2001

Member State: Spain

Region: Autonomous community of the Basque country

Title: Gauzatu foreign establishments

Legal basis: Orden de 27 de diciembre de 2000, del Consejero de Industria, Commercio y Turismo de modificación de la orden de 28 de junio de 2000, del consejero de Industria, Comercio y Turismo por la que se regulan el programa Gauzatu implantaciones exteriores de impulso a la creación y desarrollo de implantaciones de empresas vascas en el exterior (BOPV n° 249 de 30 de diciembre de 2000), y Resolución de 27 de febrero de 2001 del Viceconsejero de Política Industrial por la que se hace pública la convocatoria de concesión de las mencionadas ayudas (BOPV n° 47 de 7 de marzo de 2001)

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme: EUR 6010121,04

Maximum aid intensity: 6,44 % for small firms; 5,37 % for medium-sized firms

Date of implementation: 8 March 2001

Duration of scheme: Financial year 2001; deadline for applications: 29 June 2001

Objective: To support the consolidation of Basque SMEs by increasing productive investment in the export market as a way of enhancing their competitiveness and hence their future viability

Economic sectors concerned: SMEs in industry, mining or processing and those providing ancillary technical services. Under the scheme, the aid granted will be subject to the sectoral rules issued by the European Union for the steel industry (non-ECSC), the synthetic fibres industry and the automobile industry

Name and address of the granting authority: Sr. D. José Ignacio Telletxea Fernández

Viceconsejero de Política Industrial

Departamento de Industria, Comercio y Turismo

Gobierno Vasco

C/Donostia - San Sebastián, 1 E - 01010 Vitoria-Gasteiz