Information communicated by Member States regarding State aid granted under Commission Regulation (EC) No 68/2001 of 12 January 2001 on the application of Articles 87 and 88 of the EC Treaty to training aid (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2002-03-05
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Italy, State aid, aid to undertakings, vocational training

5.3.2002

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

C 58/17

Information communicated by Member States regarding State aid granted under Commission
Regulation (EC) No 68/2001 of 12 January 2001 on the application of Articles 87 and 88 of the
EC Treaty to training aid

(2002/C 58/05)

(Text with EEA relevance)

Aid No: XT/16/2001

Member State: Italy

Region: Friuli-Venezia Giulia

Title of aid scheme or name of the company receiving an
individual aid: Training aid

Legal basis: Legge 21.12.1978 n. 845 «Legge quadro in materia
di formazione professionale» e successive modificazioni; Legge
Regionale 16.11.1982 n. 76 «Ordinamento della formazione
professionale»

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of
individual aid granted to the company:
Objective 3 operational programme 2000-2006 for Friuli-
Venezia Giulia

MEASURE D.1

2000
(cid:151) EUR 5 526 088,820 (ITL 10 700 000 000)

2001
(cid:151) EUR 5 681 025,889 (ITL 11 000 000 000)

2002
(cid:151) EUR 5 784 317,269 (ITL 11 200 000 000)

2003
(cid:151) EUR 5 939 254,339 (ITL 11 500 000 000)

2004
(cid:151) EUR 5 422 797,440 (ITL 10 500 000 000)

2005
(cid:151) EUR 5 681 025,889 (ITL 11 000 000 000)

2006
(cid:151) EUR 5 681 025,889 (ITL 11 000 000 000)

MEASURE D.3 (relating only to (cid:145)support measures and training
schemes aimed at recruiting a younger workforce in SMEs(cid:146))

2000 (cid:151) EUR 206 582,759 (ITL 400 000 000)

2001 (cid:151) EUR 206 582,759 (ITL 400 000 000)

2002 (cid:151) EUR 206 582,759 (ITL 400 000 000)

2003 (cid:151) EUR 206 582,759 (ITL 400 000 000)

2004 (cid:151) EUR 206 582,759 (ITL 400 000 000)

2005 (cid:151) EUR 206 582,759 (ITL 400 000 000)

2006 (cid:151) EUR 206 582,759 (ITL 400 000 000)

Maximum aid intensity:

LARGE ENTERPRISES

Specific training: 25 %

General training: 50 %

SMEs

Specific training: 35 %

General training: 70 %

The above rates of intensity are increased by:

(cid:151) 5 percentage points where the measures are aimed at
firms in areas which qualify for regional aid under Article
87(3)(c) of the Treaty

(cid:151) 10 percentage points where the measures are aimed at

training disadvantaged workers:

(cid:151) during the first six months of work, any young person
under 25 who has not previously had a regular paid job

(cid:151) any person with a serious physical or mental disability

who is nevertheless able to enter the job market

(cid:151) any migrant worker who moves or has moved within
the Community or becomes resident in the Community
to take up work and who needs vocational and/or
language training

(cid:151) during the first six months of work, any person wishing
to re-enter working life after a break of at least three
years, and particularly any person who gave up work on
account of the difficulty of reconciling working life and
family life

(cid:151) any person older than 45 who has not attained an
its
educational

qualification or

secondary

upper
equivalent

(cid:151) during the first six months of work, any long-term
i.e. any person out of work for

unemployed person,
12 consecutive months

Where the aid is granted in the maritime transport sector, it
may reach an intensity of 100 %, regardless of whether the
training project
training,
concerns
provided that the following conditions are met:

specific

general

or

(cid:151) the trainee may not be an active member of the crew but

must be supernumerary on board, and

(cid:151) the training must be carried out on board ships on

Community registers

Date of implementation: 31 May 2001

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: The scheme
will be in force up to 31 December 2006, the date when the
Objective 3 operational programme for the region of Friuli-
Venezia Giulia and the period of validity of Regulation (EC) No
68/2001 come to an end

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Official Journal of the European Communities

5.3.2002

Objective of aid: The aid covers both general and specific
training as described in the documents annexed:

(cid:151) Decision No 1118 of the Regional Council of Friuli-Venezia

Giulia dated 6 April 2001

(cid:151) Extract from Annex A to Decision No 1118/01 (cid:145)Regulation
containing rules for the implementation of the Objective 3
regional operational programme(cid:146) Article 21 (cid:145)Specific and
general training(cid:146)

Economic sector(s) concerned: All economic sectors
accordance with Article 1 of Regulation (EC) No 68/2001

in

Name and address of the granting authority:

Regione Autonoma Friuli-Venezia Giulia
Direzione Regionale della Formazione Professionale
Via S. Francesco n. 37
I-34100 Trieste
E-mail: formazione.prof@regione.fvg.it

Aid No: XT/19/2001

Member State: Italy

Region: Piemonte

Title of aid scheme or name of the company receiving an
individual aid: Directive concerning the training of workers (cid:151)
2001

Legal basis: Deliberazione della Giunta regionale del Piemonte
n. 30-2640 del 2.4.2001

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
individual aid granted to the company:
amount of
EUR 51 524 839
which
EUR 25 421 748 has been allocated to the 2000 budget in
the form of reimbursement of eligible expenditures actually
incurred in respect of training programmes and supported by
documentary evidence

(ITL 99 766

million),

of

Maximum aid intensity: In accordance with Article 4(2) to (6)
of Regulation (EC) No 68/2001, the maximum admissible aid
intensities (as %) are:

Large enterprises

Specific training

General training

Non-assisted areas

areas under Article

Assisted
87(3)(c)

SMEs

25

30

50

55

Specific training General training

Non-assisted areas

Assisted
87(3)(c)

areas under Article

35

40

70

75

The intensities specified are increased by 10 percentage points
if
the training for which aid is granted is given to disad-
vantaged workers as referred to in Article 2(g) of Regulation
(EC) No 68/2001

Date of implementation: 14 May 2001

Duration of
December 2001

scheme or

individual

aid award: Until

Objective of aid: The aid scheme covers general and specific
training. Under Article 2(e) of Regulation (EC) No 68/2001:

(cid:151) general training means training of a general nature which
is not applicable only to the employee’s present or future
position in the assisted firm and provides
transversal
qualifications that are largely transferable to other firms
or fields of work

(cid:151) specific training means training involving theoretical and
tuition applicable to the specific employee’s

practical
present or future position in the assisted firm

For the purposes of implementing this aid scheme, it should be
pointed out that:

(cid:151) (cid:145)general training(cid:146)

includes courses where there is already
provision for final public certification on the qualification
or professional or vocational licence and training courses
organised for more than one firm, i.e. providing tuition for
workers and/or owners from two or more firms, even if
they are in the same productive sector

(cid:151) (cid:145)specific training(cid:146) includes courses aimed at workers and/or

owners of the same firm

With regard to (cid:145)general training(cid:146), see section 24 of Regional
Law No 63 of 13 April 1995 and section 14 of Law No 845 of
21 December 1978, referred to therein

Economic sector(s) concerned:

All sectors

All services

Name and address of the granting authority:

Regione Piemonte
Direzione regionale alla Formazione Professionale (cid:151) Lavoro
Settore Attivit(cid:224) Formativa
Via Magenta 12
I-10128 Torino

Other information: The total public contribution that may be
allocated to a single firm for training programmes under this
Directive may not
in any event exceed EUR 1 million
(ITL 1 936 270 000)