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: 2002-03-05
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Greece, Italy, Netherlands, State aid, aid to undertakings, small and medium-sized enterprises

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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

Aid No: XS/23/2001

Member State: Greece

(2002/C 58/06)

(Text with EEA relevance)

Other information: The aid is co-financed by the CFS
2000-06

Title of aid scheme or name of the company receiving an
individual aid: Support and creation of innovative SMEs for
the exploitation of RTD results

Legal basis: Presidential Decree 17-30/01/01 (14A)

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

Aid No: XS/29/2001

Member State: Italy

Region: Calabria

Year

2001

2002

2003

2004

2005

2006

Annual expenditure (in euro)

5 038 885

6 641 232

8 384 446

8 384 446

7 052 100

264 123

Maximum aid intensity: The aid intensity must not exceed
the ceiling of regional investment aid specified in the regional
aid map approved for Greece by the Commission and will
cover up to 50 % of eligible costs

Date of implementation: April 2001

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: April 2001 to
December 2006

Objective of aid: The objective of the aid is to support the
creation of
innovative SMEs (mainly micro-enterprises) by
researchers, academics, research centres or enterprises for the
commercial exploitation of RTD results. The main eligible costs
concern tangible and intangible investment for the start-up of
the new company. The scheme is in full accordance with the
EU policy
innovation and
employment in the European Union

entrepreneurship,

foster

to

Economic sector(s) concerned: All sector, all services

Name and address of the granting authority:

General Secretariat for Research and Technology
Ave Messogion 14-18
GR-115 10 Athens

Title of aid scheme or name of the company receiving an
individual aid: Regional aid scheme for SMEs

Legal basis: Legge regionale 2 maggio 2001, n. 7, art. 37
quater, commi 1-6. Programma Operativo Regionale Calabria
n. 1999 IT 16 1 PO006. Decisione Comunit(cid:224) Europea C(2000)
2345 dell’8.8.2000

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of individual aid granted to the company: The
indicative budget available for the entire programming period
2000-2006 is around EUR 800 million of public money
(excluding the private share), 50 % of which is Community
part-financing (ERDF)

Maximum aid intensity: The maximum admissible intensity is
50 % nge with an additional 15 percentage points, expressed in
gge. The overall net intensity of the aid must not exceed 75 %

The aid for tangible and intangible investment is granted on
condition that the investment is maintained in the region for at
least
the recipient’s contribution to its
five years and that
financing is at least 25 %

the eligible costs of

The ceilings apply to an aid intensity calculated either as a
percentage of
the investment or as a
percentage of the wage costs of jobs created as a result of
the investment (aid to job creation) or a combination of the
two, provided that the aid does not exceed the most favourable
amount resulting from the application of either calculation

Date of implementation: March 2001

Duration of
December 2006

scheme or

individual

aid award: Until

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Objective of aid: The objective of the aid is to facilitate the
growth of SMEs in Calabria. These firms play a crucial role in
the development of the region, as they are a vital means of
creating new jobs and generating new investments. At present,
they have serious difficulty in gaining access to capital and
credit because of the reluctance on the part of the financial
system to take on risks backed by the limited guarantees they
their resources therefore
are able to offer. The scarcity of
reduces
investments and
accessing information, in particular on new technologies and
potential markets

the possibility of carrying out

In view of the above, the region of Calabria intends to facilitate
investments by granting financial aid, always provided that
such aid does not adversely affect trading conditions to an
extent contrary to the common interest

Economic sector(s) concerned: The scheme applies to all
sectors, without prejudice to Community Regulations or
Directives on State aid in specific sectors such as shipbuilding
and the steel industry

The scheme does not apply to activities
linked to the
production, processing or marketing of products listed in
Annex 1 to the Treaty

Name and address of the granting authority:

Regione Calabria, Dipartimento Industria, Commercio e Arti-
gianato

Other information:

Person in overall charge: Mr Domenico Pecoraro
Tel. (39) 0961 616 47

Aid No: XS/35/2001

Member State: Netherlands

Region: The provinces of Friesland, Groningen and Drenthe
are responsible for implementing the aid scheme. They have
implementation to the Samen-
decided to entrust actual
werkingsverband
Netherlands
Cooperation Association), a public body set up under the
Wet Gemeenschappelijke Regelingen (Joint Arrangements Law)

Noord-Nederland

(North

Title of aid scheme or name of the company receiving an
individual
resource
aid:
managment 2001

Subsidy

scheme

human

for

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of individual aid granted to the company: The
annual budget is EUR 2 722 681 (NLG 6 million)

Maximum aid intensity:

Small enterprises: 50 % gross

Medium-sized enterprises: 50 % gross

Date of
70/2001 will be granted as from 15 March 2001

implementation: Aid under Regulation (EC) No

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: The scheme
will end on 31 December 2006

Objective of aid: To contribute to the costs of enlisting
introducing or
the purpose of
for
external
improving strategic personnel management

expertise

The costs of permanent or recurrent services are excluded, as is
normal business expenditure

Economic sector(s) concerned: All
the
primary sector. This means that agriculture, fisheries and aqua-
culture are excluded from the scheme. The rules enacted for
the following sectors will continue to be applied in full:

sectors

except

(cid:151) the processing and sale of agricultural products, as referred

to in Annex 1 to the EC Treaty

(cid:151) the processing and sale of

fisheries and aquaculture

products, as referred to in Annex 1 to the EC Treaty

(cid:151) the transport sector

(cid:151) the iron and steel sector, as referred to in Commission
Decision No 2496/96/ECSC of 18 December 1996 estab-
lishing Community rules for State aid to the steel industry
(OJ L 218, 1997) and the framework for certain steel sectors
not covered by the ECSC Treaty (OJ C 320, 1988)

28 December

(cid:151) the coal sector, as referred to in Commission Decision No
establishing
1993
3632/93/ECSC of
Community rules for State aid to the coal
industry (OJ
L 329, 1993) and Commission Decision No 341/94/ECSC
of
implementing Decision No
3632/93/ECSC establishing Community rules for State aid
to the coal industry (OJ L 49, 1994)

February

1994

8

Legal basis: Besluit van de drie noordelijke Provinciale Staten
d.d. 31 december 2000 en besluit van het Dagelijks Bestuur
van het Samenwerkingsverband Noord-Nederland d.d. 27 maart
2001

(cid:151) shipbuilding, as referred to in Council Regulation (EC) No
1540/98 of 29 June 1998 establishing new rules on aid to
shipbuilding (OJ L 202, 1998)

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(cid:151) the synthetic fibres sector, as referred to in the Code on aid
to the synthetic fibres industry (96/C 94/07) and the notice
on the extension of the period of its validity (OJ C 24,
1999)

Date of implementation: Once the European Commission has
announced that it has no objection to its introduction, the
scheme will be published and will enter into force on that date

(cid:151) the motor vehicle industry, as referred to in the Community
framework for State aid to the motor vehicle industry
(OJ C 279, 1997)

Name and address of the granting authority:

Samenwerkingsverband Noord-Nederland
c/o Postbus 779
9700 AT Groningen
Netherlands

Aid No: XS/38/2001

Member State: Netherlands

Region: Province of Flevoland

Title of aid scheme or name of the company receiving an
individual aid: SME scheme Flevoland 2000

Legal basis: Provinciale verordening gebaseerd op de Provin-
ciewet

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
individual aid granted to the company:
amount of
EUR 5 070 994 (budget
the entire period up to 31
December 2006)

for

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: Until 31
December 2006

Objective of aid: To stimulate general investment in the muni-
cipalities of Almere, Zeewolde, Dronten and Noordoostpolder

Economic sector(s) concerned:

All sectors except:

(cid:151) the transport sector

(cid:151) public utilities

(cid:151) agriculture, fisheries and aquaculture

(cid:151) the iron and steel industry

(cid:151) the coal sector

(cid:151) shipbuilding

(cid:151) the synthetic fibres sector

(cid:151) the motor vehcile industry

Name and address of the granting authority:

Maximum aid intensity:

New plant: maximum EUR 1 000 000

Provincie Flevoland
Visarenddreef 1,
Lelystad
Netherlands

Expansion or restructuring: maximum EUR 600 000

Contact person: Ms S.R. Dijkstra (31) 320-26 56 78