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: 2002-05-04
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Austria, Germany, Greece, State aid, United Kingdom, application of EU law, control of State aid

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Official Journal of the European Communities

4.5.2002

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

Cases where the Commission raises no objections

(2002/C 108/02)

(Text with EEA relevance)

Date of adoption of the decision: 11.7.2001

Legal basis: Richtlinie zur Förderung der Aufarbeitung von
Altöl zu Basisöl

Member State: Greece

Aid No: E 4/2000

Title: Taxation of
covered by Act No 89/67

foreign commercial and industrial

firms

Objective: To encourage the establishment of offices of foreign
companies in Greece for the purpose of monitoring their
business activities outside Greece

Legal basis: Νόµος αριθ. 89/67 αναφορικά µε τη σύσταση στην
Ελλάδα ξένων εµπορικών και βιοµηχανικών επιχειρήσεων

Duration: Unlimited

Other information:

— Pursuant to Article 88(1) of the EC Treaty, the Commission
has decided to propose appropriate measures in respect of
aid scheme No E 4/2000 granted by Greece. Greece has
accepted these measures

— Enterprises approved under Act No 89/67 are exempt from
corporation tax and other direct
taxes. The appropriate
measures include closure of the scheme to new entrants
and the ending of benefits under the scheme by the end
of 2005

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

Date of adoption of the decision: 19.9.2001

Member State: Germany

Aid No: N 387/01

Title: Subsidies for the regeneration of waste oils

Objective: Compensation for the regeneration of waste oils

Budget: DEM 20 million (EUR 10,226 million)

Aid intensity or amount: Operating aid to cover actual losses
for a service rendered

Duration: 2007

Other information: The Commission requests the German
authorities to submit an annual report on the application of
the scheme

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

Date of adoption of the decision: 12.3.2002

Member State: Austria (Steiermark)

Aid No: NN 131/2000

Title: Investment aid to Böhler Bleche GmbH, ECSC steel

Objective: ECSC steel

Budget: EUR 4 402 760

Other information: All the aid has been recovered accrued
with the due
interests. Recovered aid: EUR 3 781 591.
Interests paid on the aid received: EUR 621 169

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

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Date of adoption of the decision: 23.10.2001

Limited, Global
Treasury, AON Limited, Willis
Aerospace Underwriting Limited and Alnery No 2190 Limited

Faber

Member State: United Kingdom

Aid No: NN 90/01

Title: Airine insurance

Budget: Guarantee and premium entered into the regulatory
capital of an insurer

Duration: 30 days

Objective: Continued provision of
insurance cover to air
carriers and service providers in the UK for certain war and
terrorist-related risks, following the attacks in the USA on 11
September 2001

Other information: Re-notification for any extension or modi-
fication of the scheme

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

Legal basis: ‘Relationship agreement’ signed on 23 September
2001 between The Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's

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

Implementation of Articles 3(4) and 4(4) of Council Regulation (EC) No 82/2001 of 5 December
2000 concerning the definition of the concept of ‘originating products’ and methods of adminis-
trative cooperation in trade between the customs territory of the Community and Ceuta and
Melilla

List of countries and the date on which the cumulation either in the Community or in Ceuta and
Melilla may be applied

(2002/C 108/03)

Articles 3 and 4 of Council Regulation (EC) No 82/2001 of 5 December 2000 concerning the definition of
the concept of ‘originating products’ and methods of administrative cooperation in trade between the
customs territory of the Community and Ceuta and Melilla (published in OJ L 20, 20.1.2001) have
introduced a possibility of cumulation of origin between the Community, Ceuta and Melilla or any
other country with which the Community has signed a reciprocal agreement whose protocol on rules
of origin lays down special provisions for Ceuta and Melilla.

Articles 3(4) and 4(4) provide for a publication by the Commission of the list of countries and the date on
which such a cumulation may be applied.

The countries concerned are mentioned, by cumulation zone, in the following table. Cumulation between
the Community, Ceuta and Melilla, and one or several of those countries may be applied only in the
framework of one single cumulation zone which the Community belongs to and according to the
cumulation system and the rules of origin to be applied by the countries of this zone. It means that
exporters either from Ceuta and Melilla or from the Community have to choose only one cumulation
system for those products obtained, either in Ceuta and Melilla or in the Community, from materials
originating in different partner countries (1).

The countries with which the Community has preferential agreements but have not signed on a reciprocal
basis and/or whose protocols on rules of origin do not include special provisions for Ceuta and Melilla are
not mentioned in the list.

(1) Example: Carpets produced in Melilla, using Moroccan textile pulps and Polish natural fibres cannot take benefit
simultaneously of ‘PanEuropean’ diagonal cumulation and full cumulation with Morocco. The exporter to EU should
choose between applying cumulation to Moroccan textile pulps and considering Polish fibres as non-originating or
applying cumulation to the Polish natural fibres and considering Moroccan textile pulps as non-originating.