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Information from the Commission - Notification of an aid scheme of minor importance
Date: 1990-02-20
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: State aid, aid system, distribution of aid, industrial development, job creation, terms for aid













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31990Y0220(01)

Information from the Commission - Notification of an aid scheme of minor importance  


Official Journal C 040 , 20/02/1990 P. 0002 - 0002 





Notification  of an aid scheme of minor importance (90/C  40/02)The Commission has decided to modify its  decision of 19 December 1984 regarding the evaluation of aids of minor importance as follows: In  principle the Commission will not object to aid schemes of minor importance notified pursuant to  Article 93 (3) EEC meeting the following criteria:New aid schemes, excluding industrial sectors  covered by specific Community policy statements  (1) as well as aids in the agricultural (as  defined in Annex II of EEC Treaty), fishery, transport and coal sectors, where:-  the beneficiary  enterprise does not employ more than 150 people, has an annual turnover of not more than ECU 15  million,and-where the aid intensity does not exceed 7,5  %,or-when the aid is designed to lead to  job creation, it amounts to not more than ECU 3  000 per job created,or-when, in the absence of  specific investment or job creation objectives the total volume of aid a beneficiary may receive is  not more than ECU 200  000.The first criterion must be satisfied in all cases and at least one of  the following three criteria must be satisfied as well. All the above figures are before any  calculations for tax effects, i.e. gross.Member States must ensure that the beneficiary does not  receive more aid than allowed by the above criteria for the same project through repeated  notification of aid schemes meeting these criteria or such schemes being added to any other aids  under general, regional or sectoral aid schemes.Such aids may be paid on a national, regional or  local basis.All aids to exports in intra-Community trade or operating aids are excluded from the  procedure.Existing aid schemes, which the Commission has previously approved, where there is a  proposed:-  prolongation over time without increase in budgetary resources,-increase in budget  available up to 20  % of original sum but no prolongation,-prolongation over time with budget  increases up to 20  % of original sum,-where the Member State operating the scheme proposes  modifications tightening the criteria of application.A simplified form for notification to be used  for both new and existing schemes is set out below. The Commission will decide on proposals within  20 working days.     (1)  Presently steel, shipbuilding, synthetic fibres and motor  vehicles.