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: 2002-02-15
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Lower Saxony, State aid, competitiveness, control of State aid, job creation, small and medium-sized enterprises

C 42/4

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

15.2.2002

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

(2002/C 42/03)

(Text with EEA relevance)

Aid No: XS/03/2001

Member State: Germany

Region: Land of Lower Saxony, district of Diepholz

Title of aid scheme or name of the company receiving an
individual aid: Strengthening the local economy by promoting
productive investment by SMEs in Diepholz

Legal basis: § 108 der Nieders(cid:228)chsischen Landkreisordnung
(NLO) in der Fassung vom 22.8.1996 (Nieders(cid:228)chsisches Ge-
setz- und Verordnungsblatt S. 365) i. V. mit § 65 der Nieder-
s(cid:228)chsischen Gemeindeordnung (NGO)
in der Fassung vom
22.8.1996 (Nieders(cid:228)chsisches Gesetz- und Verordnungsblatt S.
382)

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of individual aid granted to the company:
2001: EUR 0,6 million
2002: EUR 0,6 million
2003: EUR 0,4 million
2004: EUR 0,4 million
2005: EUR 0,4 million

Maximum aid intensity:

The aid amounts:

Aid may be granted for the following types of
project:

investment

(cid:151) setting-up of an establishment

(cid:151) extension of an establishment

(cid:151) basic rationalisation of an establishment where this is
needed to maintain it as a going concern and to
safeguard jobs there

The aid is granted in addition to existing regional aid measures
(joint Federal Government/L(cid:228)nder programme for improving
regional economic structures)

It is a precondition for the grant of aid that:

(cid:151) in the case of business start-ups, at least five permanent

jobs be created and filled

(cid:151) in the case of extension projects, the number of permanent

jobs be increased by at least 20 %

The assets for which aid is granted must remain in the assisted
establishment for at least five years after the investment project
is completed unless they are replaced by assets of the same or a
higher value. The assisted investments are subject
to a
public-law requirement that they be earmarked for an appro-
priate purpose

(cid:151) in the case of small enterprises, to up to 15 %

The aid is granted in the form of investment grants

(cid:151) and in the case of medium-sized enterprises, to up to 7,5 %

of eligible investment expenditure

The rules on the combination of aid are complied with

Date of implementation: 1 June 2001

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: From 1 June
2001 to 31 December 2005

Objective of aid: The aid is intended to promote the competi-
tiveness and adaptability of small and medium-sized enterprises
in the district of Diepholz, to encourage the creation of new
jobs and help safeguard existing ones and thereby to bring
about structural improvements

It is made available for the procurement or manufacture of the
physical fixed assets forming part of the investment project

Economic sector(s) concerned: SMEs belonging to the
industrial, commercial, craft and hotel sectors are entitled to
apply. No aid may be granted to firms in sensitive sectors

Name and address of the granting authority:

Landkreis Diepholz
Amt f(cid:252)r Wirtschaftsf(cid:246)rderung
Postfach 1340
D-49343 Diepholz

Other information:

Rescue and restructuring aid to firms in difficulty (within the
meaning of the Community guidelines on State aid for rescuing
and restructuring firms in difficulty (OJ C 288, 9.10.1999)) is
not covered by the measure

Mr Reddig/Mr Klingenberg
Tel. (49-5441) 976 14 55-30
Fax (49-5441) 976 17 26
E-mail: guenter.klingenberg@diepholz.de