Authorisation for State aid pursuant to Articles 87 and 88 of the EC Treaty — Cases where the Commission raises no objections (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2002-04-13
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Italy, Netherlands, Spain, State aid, application of EU law, control of State aid

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the principal

24. The number of Eurocard-MasterCard cards that must be
issued and maintained is set out in the principal licensee's
consolidated business plan and is based on, inter alia, the
size and capabilities of
licensee and its
affiliates and of the characteristics of the market and the
area of use. Moreover, principal licensees that wish to start
acquiring businesses must be able to demonstrate that
their card issuance programme has been irrevocably
launched and that
their
subsidiaries have issued a number of cards which is
consistent with the business plan approved by Europay.
According to the amended Europay Rules, a member
that holds licences for more than one western European
country has to meet these requirements in only one such
country.

they and/or one or more of

4.2.7. The ‘honour all cards’ Rule

valid

Eurocard-MasterCard

25. Merchants are obliged to honour without discrimination
all
cards when properly
presented as payment by customers for transactions, and
to maintain a policy of not discriminating among
customers seeking to make purchases through use of a
Eurocard-MasterCard. Merchants must honour without
discrimination all valid Maestro cards when properly
presented as payment from customers for transactions.

5. CONCLUSION

26. In view of

it

the preceding paragraphs,

the Commission
intends to adopt a favourable position concerning the
provisions in the notified agreements referred to above.
Before doing so,
invites interested third parties to
submit their observations within one month of the publi-
cation of this notice in the Official Journal of the European
Communities.
Interested third parties are requested to
their observations contain
indicate which passages of
business secrets or other confidential material, which in
their opinion ought not
to be divulged, and to state
their reasons. In the event of such an indication being
interested parties are requested to submit both a
made,
confidential and a non-confidential version of their obser-
vations. These observations should be submitted quoting
reference cases COMP/34.324 — Maestro, COMP/34.579
— Eurocard-MasterCard, COMP/35.578 — Europay
Membership Rules and Licensing, by post to:

European Commission,
Directorate-General Competition,
Direction D, Unit D1 (Financial Services)
B-1049 Brussels,
or by fax (32-2) 296 98 07.

Authorisation for State aid pursuant to Articles 87 and 88 of the EC Treaty

Cases where the Commission raises no objections

(2002/C 89/08)

(Text with EEA relevance)

Date of adoption of the decision: 27.2.2002

Member State: Italy (Venezia)

Aid No: N 599/A/01

Other information: Requirement
report to the Commission

to submit

implementing

The authentic text(s) of the decision, from which all confi-
dential information has been removed, can be found at

Title: Housing aid for non-Community workers

http://europa.eu.int/comm/secretariat_general/sgb/state_aids

Objective: To provide housing for non-Community workers

Legal basis: Deliberazione della Giunta regionale n. 2801 del 3
agosto 1999 e altri progetti di deliberazione della Giunta re-
gionale

Date of adoption of the decision: 5.3.2002

Member State: Italy (Calabria)

Budget: EUR 1 934 433,63

Aid No: N 648/2000

Aid intensity or amount: Estimated to be
EUR 10 000 per firm

less

than

Title: Regional aid scheme for large firms (measures under the
2000-2006 regional operational programme)

Duration: 36 months

Objective: Regional development

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Legal basis:

Duration: Until December 2004

— Legge regionale 10.12.2001, n. 36, articolo 8 recante di-
sposizioni per la variazione al bilancio annuale 2001 e
pluriennale 2001/2003 della Regione

The authentic text(s) of the decision, from which all confi-
dential information has been removed, can be found at

http://europa.eu.int/comm/secretariat_general/sgb/state_aids

— Progetto di regolamento della Giunta regionale relativo
all'erogazione di aiuti di Stato alle grandi imprese a valere
sulle misure del POR della regione Calabria 2000-2006

Budget: EUR 400 million for the entire period

Date of adoption of the decision: 18.2.2002

Member State: The Netherlands

Aid intensity or amount: Maximum intensity: 48,35 % nge

Aid No: N 831/01

Duration: Until end of 2006

Title: Modification regional
2000-2006)

investment projects 2000 (PR

The authentic text(s) of the decision, from which all confi-
dential information has been removed, can be found at

Objective: Regional development

http://europa.eu.int/comm/secretariat_general/sgb/state_aids

Date of adoption of the decision: 20.12.2001

Member State: Spain (region of Extremadura)

Aid No: N 698/01

Title: Scheme of State aid for cinema and other audiovisual
production

Legal basis: Ministeriële uitvoeringsregeling ressorterende on-
der het Besluit subsidies regionale investeringsprojecten 2000
(Staatscourant 2000, nr. 172)

Budget: Not changed (the average annual budget amounts to
EUR 20,42 million)

Aid intensity or amount: Not changed

For the selected communes of:

— Groningen, Friesland and Drenthe and the communes of
Steenwijk and Hardenberg: 20 % gross grant equivalent
(gge); with the
the
NUTS 3 of Overig Groningen which are at 10 % net
grant equivalent (nge). SMEs in Overig Groningen could
claim however the regional SME top up of 10 % gge

communes of

exception of

the

Objective: To promote the production of
audiovisual works (production of films)

films and other

— Overijssel: 15 % nge

Legal basis: «Decreto sobre ayudas a la producción cinemato-
gráfica y audiovisual de la Comunidad Autónoma de Extrema-
dura»

Budget: Approximately EUR 181 000 per year

— Midden-Limburg: 10 % nge

— Zuid-Limburg: 15 % gge

Duration: Not changed (until 31 December 2006)

The authentic text(s) of the decision, from which all confi-
dential information has been removed, can be found at

Aid intensity or amount: A maximum of 50 % of production
costs

http://europa.eu.int/comm/secretariat_general/sgb/state_aids