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: 2002-06-05
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Germany, State aid, control of State aid, in-service training, professional qualifications, vocational training

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5.6.2002

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 133/12)

(Text with EEA relevance)

Aid No: XT/33/2001

Member State: Germany

Region: Saxony

Title of aid scheme or name of the company receiving an
individual aid: Full
title: Scheme of assistance towards
in-service training for employees and business people especially
from small and medium-sized enterprises, including middle and
higher management levels and company founders, funded by
the European Social Fund and by Saxony under the operational
programme for Structural Fund aid in Saxony 2000-2006

Short title: Saxon in-service training aid scheme

Legal basis: Sächsische Haushaltsordnung, §§ 23 und 44 (Neu-
fassung vom 10. April 2001 im Sächsischen Gesetz- und
Verordnungsblatt Nr.
2001,
http://www.recht-sachsen.de/Gbl1.htm)

vom 18. Mai

5/2001

Richtlinie des Sächsischen Staatsministeriums für Wirtschaft
und Arbeit für die Förderung von aus dem Europäischen Sozi-
alfonds mitfinanzierten Maßnahmen/Teil A (Veröffentlichung
im Sächsischen Amtsblatt am 2.8.2001 — Anlage 1)

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
individual aid granted to the company:
amount of
In-service training measures
for about 7 000 participants,
costing some DEM 33 million a year

Maximum aid intensity:

— Specific training, up to 45 % of the eligible costs,

— general training, up to 80 % of the eligible costs.

In accordance with the rules of the ESF, participants from large
enterprises are admissible only on certain conditions; the aid
intensity is calculated separately in respect of such participants,
and the following ceilings apply:

— specific training, up to 35 % of the eligible costs,

— general training, up to 60 % of the eligible costs.

The ceilings are increased by 10 % if the training is designed
specifically for disadvantaged workers as defined in Article 2(g)
of the Commission Regulation

Date of implementation: 1 August 2001

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: Projects are to
be approved and to begin by 31 December 2006; depending
on the duration of the project, payments can be made up to 31
December 2008,
the date at which spending by training
providers is to end under the Commission Decision on the
operational programme for Saxony 2000-2006 (12 December
2000)

Objective of aid: These are in-service training measures for
employees and business people, especially from small and
medium-sized enterprises, and company founders, under the
operational programme for Saxony 2000-2006, which has
been approved by the European Commission. Training will
usually be given by training providers to participants coming
from several firms at a time.

The decision whether the training to be given is general or
specific will be taken by the approving authority, on the
the project descriptions presented, which may be
basis of
very varied.

In the case of general training measures, the content of the
project will have to be spelt out in the project description or in
the course of the application procedure; the necessary sepa-
ration between specific and general training measures will be
made by means of a vetting system.

The category of a training measure will be decided when the
application is being considered, on the basis of the information
in the application, by assessing a number of distinguishing
features set out in a checklist (Annex 2). The final
list of
participants must be submitted before the first payment is
made; that list will be examined to see that it corresponds to
the information in the application. Any adjustments to the aid
intensity will be made administratively

Economic sector(s) concerned: All economic sectors

Name and address of the granting authority:

Regierungspräsidium Dresden
Referat 35
Stauffenbergallee 2
D-01099 Dresden

Regierungspräsidium Leipzig
Referat 35
Braustraße 7
D-04107 Leipzig

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Regierungspräsidium Chemnitz
Referat 35
Altchemnitzer Straße 41
D-09120 Dresden

Sächsisches Staatsministerium für Wirtschaft und Arbeit
Abteilung 5
Wilhelm-Buck-Straße 2
D-01097 Dresden

Other information: The aim of ESF aid in Saxony is to
promote active and preventive measures
to improve the
potential of the labour force. The in-service training measures
for employees and business people especially from SMEs,
including middle
and
company founders, are intended to improve the participants'
ability to adapt to economic needs, in line with the objectives
of the operational programme for Saxony 2000-2006.

higher management

levels

and

All ESF in-service training is to be given by training providers.
These providers will receive assistance related to each project.
No profit may be made. The measures are to benefit
the
participants only.

The availability of assistance is to be brought to the attention
of training providers in the daily press, in official gazettes, in
the publications of
the Ministry of Economic Affairs and
Employment of Saxony, including the periodical ESF & Co., at
information events, and through private consultancy offices
that work for the public authorities.

The scheme is open to any training provider. Selection will be
on the basis of the quality of the training projects submitted,
and will be carried out by the authorities responsible for the
subject area and for approving the aid