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: 2002-05-16
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Denmark, State aid, control of State aid, tourism, vocational training

C 115/8

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

16.5.2002

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 115/03)

(Text with EEA relevance)

Aid No: XT/06/01

Member State: Denmark

Title of aid scheme or name of the company receiving an
individual aid: National initiative to promote tourism in the
form of central government basic financing for
regional
tourism development corporations

Legal basis: Finansloven 2001

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of individual aid granted to the company: Total
central government
financing of
regional tourism development corporations is intended to be
DKK 30 million a year over a five-year period running from
2001 to 2005. The money is to be appropriated in the Finance
Act each year

funding for

the basic

Maximum aid intensity: The Ministry of
Industry and
Commerce will pay out aid to development corporations on
the understanding that a major proportion of their business
the
constitutes a public function, and will
remainder
under
for
Commission Regulation (EC) No 70/2001 on State aid to
small and medium-sized enterprises and Commission Regu-
lation (EC) No 68/2001 on training aid

require that
eligible

activities

used

only

be

Where aid is paid towards specific training, the intensity will
not normally exceed 25 % in the case of large enterprises and
35 % in the case of small and medium-sized enterprises

Where the aid is paid towards general training, the intensity
will not normally exceed 50 % in the case of large enterprises
and 70 % in the case of small and medium-sized enterprises

Date of
February 2001

implementation: Aid may be granted from 20

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: The scheme is
to run until 31 December 2005

Objective of aid: The regional development corporations are
at present the regional players in the overall public effort to
promote tourism. They are required to develop and implement
strategies for the development of tourism in the regions,
in
cooperation with private tourist
firms in the industry and
public countryside and cultural bodies

strategy and undertake joint development initiatives for the
benefit of the region as a whole

The specific objective eligible under Regulation (EC) No
68/2001 is
the procurement of employee training from
outside the corporation and the development of skills for the
benefit of the regions and of firms in the tourist business,
covering such subjects as how the region can meet
the
requirements of new groups of tourists in future

for the tourist

Economic sector(s) concerned: The initiative is aimed at
trade, with assistance being
broad support
available in principle to any firm, association, organisation or
countryside or cultural
institution involved in tourism to a
greater or lesser extent

The direct recipients of aid will be the regional tourism devel-
opment corporations, under NACE division 91, activities of
membership organisations

The scope of the initiative is broad, and aid will be available for
activities that indirectly allow the promotion of tourism in the
following NACE groups:

55.1 Hotels

55.2 Camping sites

55.3 Restaurants

63.3 Travel agencies and tour operators

70.3 Activities relating to the rental of real estate

71.1 Car hire

74.8 Miscellaneous business activities

Division 91 Activities of membership organisations

92.3 Other entertainment activities

92.5 Library, archives, museums and other cultural activities

Name and address of the granting authority:

Ministry of Industry and Commerce (Erhvervsministeriet)
Slotsholmsgade 10-12
DK-1216 Copenhagen K

and

The purpose of
this initiative is primarily to preserve the
corporations as regional players partly financed by the State,
through which private firms involved in the tourist industry
and public cultural and countryside bodies can develop a joint

Danish Tourist Board (Danmarks Turistråd)
Styrelsesafdelingen
Vesterbrogade 6D
DK-1620 Copenhagen V.