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 (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2001-12-04
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Germany, State aid, aid to undertakings, control of State aid, small and medium-sized enterprises

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Official Journal of the European Communities

4.12.2001

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)

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

Aid No: XS/02/2001

Member State: Germany

Region: Baden-W(cid:252)rttemberg

Title: Financing of business start-ups and growth (cid:151) joint
scheme involving the Federal Government, the Land of Baden-
W(cid:252)rttemberg, the DtA and L-Bank

Legal basis: Gesetz (cid:252)ber die Landeskreditbank Baden-W(cid:252)rttem-
berg vom 11.4.1972 (Gesetzblatt f(cid:252)r Baden-W(cid:252)rttemberg vom
1.4.1972, S. 129 ff), zuletzt ge(cid:228)ndert durch Gesetz vom
11.11.1998 (GBl. S. 581) i. V. m. Mittelstandsf(cid:246)rderungsgesetz
Baden-W(cid:252)rttemberg vom 19.12.2000 (GBl. S. 745); §§ 23, 44
Landeshaushaltsordnung Baden-W(cid:252)rttemberg und § 49a Lan-
desverwaltungsverfahrensgesetz

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme:
planned to make avialable interest
expected DEM 40 to 50 million a year

subsidies

is
totalling an

It

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

(cid:151) to secure the viability and diversity of the Baden-W(cid:252)rt-
temberg economy by promoting and consolidating self-
employment,

(cid:151) to encourage individuals to set up in business on their own,
to take over a firm or practice or to acquire an active
holding,

(cid:151) 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-W(cid:252)rttemberg
F(cid:246)rderbank
Postfach 10 29 43
D-70025 Stuttgart

Aid No: XS/05/2001

Member State: Germany

Region: Hessen

Title: Hessen structural programme for SMEs (HSPM)

Legal basis: Gesetz zur F(cid:246)rderung der kleinen und mittleren
Unternehmen der hessischen Wirtschaft vom 23. September
1974 (GVBl. S. 458), zuletzt ge(cid:228)ndert am 22. August 1986
(BVBl. S. 265). F(cid:246)rderrichtlinien 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,
the Hessen Ministry of Economics,
acting on behalf of
Transport
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

and Regional Development,

grants

loans

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

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Aid No: XS/06/2001

Member State: Germany

Region: Hessen

Title: Hessen growth programme for SMEs (HWPM)

Legal basis: Gesetz zur F(cid:246)rderung der kleinen und mittleren
Unternehmen der hessischen Wirtschaft vom 23. September
1974 (GVBl. S. 458), zuletzt ge(cid:228)ndert am 22. August 1986
(GVBl. S. 265). F(cid:246)rderrichtlinien 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

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 modificaci(cid:243)n de la or-
den de 28 de junio de 2000, del consejero de Industria, Co-
mercio y Turismo por la que se regulan el programa Gauzatu
implantaciones exteriores de impulso a la creaci(cid:243)n y desarrollo
de implantaciones de empresas vascas en el exterior (BOPV no
249 de 30 de diciembre de 2000), y Resoluci(cid:243)n de 27 de
febrero de 2001 del Viceconsejero de Pol(cid:237)tica Industrial por
la que se hace pœblica la convocatoria de concesi(cid:243)n de las
mencionadas ayudas (BOPV no 47 de 7 de marzo de 2001)

Annual
EUR 6 010 121,04

expenditure

planned

under

the

scheme:

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

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

Date of implementation: 8 March 2001

In selected areas,

the Hessen Investment Bank,
Objective:
the Hessen Ministry of Economics,
acting on behalf of
Transport
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

and Regional Development,

grants

loans

Economic sectors concerned: All economic sectors apart
from agricultural and forestry undertakings and the medical
and nursing sector, without prejudice to special rules in regu-
lations 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

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,
to the
sectoral rules issued by the European Union for the steel
industry (non-ECSC), the synthetic fibres industry and the auto-
mobile industry

the aid granted will be subject

Name and address of the granting authority:

Sr. D. JosØ Ignacio Telletxea FernÆndez
Viceconsejero de Pol(cid:237)tica Industrial
Departamento de Industria, Comercio y Turismo
Gobierno Vasco
C/Donostia (cid:151) San SebastiÆn, 1
E-01010 Vitoria-Gasteiz