Information communicated by Member States regarding State aid granted under Commission Regulation (EC) No 70/2001 of 12 January 2001 on the application of Articles 87 and 88 of the EC Treaty to State aid to small and medium-sized enterprises (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2002-11-06
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: State aid, control of State aid, craft business, environmental protection, investment loan, production

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Region: Bavaria

Title of aid scheme or name of the company receiving an
individual aid: Promoting job rotation via the Bavarian Labour
Market Fund

Legal basis: Bayerische Haushaltsordnung i. V. m. Bescheid der
Regierung von Oberbayern und Bescheid der Regierung von
Schwaben

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of
individual aid granted to the company:
EUR 30 000

Maximum aid intensity: 50 % of eligible expenditure

Date of implementation: Immediate

from the Labour Office. This enables them to gain work
experience and so improve their prospects on the labour
market. At the same time the small and medium-sized firms
involved are able to boost
through
employees attending courses to enhance their qualification.

their competitiveness

taken on as a substitute for

Under
the scheme, small and medium-sized firms receive
subsidies of up to 50 % of the eligible training costs if an
unemployed person is
the
duration of the training course. The essential requirement is
that aid is granted only for general
i.e. external
training covering more than one firm, where the qualifications
obtained can be transferred to other areas of work and used in
other firms (e.g. preparatory courses for master craftsman
qualifications, commercial specialists, customer service, envi-
ronmentally friendly construction planning,
fundamentals of
electrical engineering).

training,

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: Until 30 June
2002

No other projects are to receive assistance

Objective of aid: Provision of general training subsidies to
make it easier for small and medium-sized enterprises to take
part in job rotation.

Two job rotation projects (in Ingolstadt and Augsburg) are
receiving aid from the Bavarian Labour Market Fund.

Job rotation involves employees of small and medium-sized
firms attending further training courses. While they are away,
unemployed workers are taken on as ‘substitutes’ to fill the
vacancies. They continue to receive unemployment benefit

Economic sector(s) concerned: All economic sectors

Name and address of the granting authority:

Ingolstadt scheme: Regierung von Oberbayern

Maximilianstraße 39
D-80538 München

Augsburg scheme: Regierung von Schwaben

Fronhof 10
D-86125 Augsburg

Information communicated by Member States regarding State aid granted under Commission
Regulation (EC) No 70/2001 of 12 January 2001 on the application of Articles 87 and 88 of the
EC Treaty to State aid to small and medium-sized enterprises

(2002/C 270/05)

(Text with EEA relevance)

Aid No: XS/69/01

Member State: Italy

Region: Tuscany

Title of aid scheme or name of the company receiving an
individual aid: Tax credits for productive and environmental
investments by industrial firms and cooperatives

regionale

Legal basis: Delibera Consiglio regionale n. 283 del 28 dicem-
economico
bre 2000 «Piano
2001-2005», ai sensi della L.R. 20 marzo 2000, n. 35 «Disci-
plina degli interventi regionali in materia di attività produttive»
Misura 1.1. Decisione Giunta regionale n. 13 dell'11 luglio
2001 «Reg. 1260/99 — Docup Ob. 2 anni 2000-2006 —
Direttive per l'attuazione dei regimi di aiuto»

dello sviluppo

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of
individual aid granted to the company:
EUR 13 000 000

Maximum aid intensity: The intensity of the aid to each firm
may not exceed 15 % gross grant equivalent for small firms
and 7,5 % gge of
investment costs for medium-sized
firms.

total

If the regions concerned by the programme are eligible for
exemption under Article 87(3)(c) of the Treaty, the aid may
be increased within the limits provided for in the Commission
decision.

Aid granted may not be combined with aid under other
schemes for the same investment costs

Date of
implementation:
Commission received the notification

July 2001, date on which the

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Duration of scheme or individual aid award: 2001-2006

Aid No: XS/84/01

Objective of aid: The aid is granted in the form of tax credits
for tangible and intangible investments aimed at:

Member State: Italy

Region: Calabria

1. Increased employment.

2. Expansion and upgrading of activities to encourage posi-
tioning of
firms in market segments featuring a more
substantial proportion of innovative products or services
or that can be classified as innovative aimed at increasing
employment.

Title of aid scheme or name of the company receiving an
individual aid: Measures to assist the development of craft
firms

Legal basis:

3. Reducing the environmental

impact of production and

reducing the consumption of energy and resources.

— Legge 25 luglio 1952, n. 949, articolo 37 e Legge 21
il Fondo

maggio 1981, n. 240, articolo 23, concernenti
contributo in conto interessi,

4. Increased health and safety at the workplace, along the lines

of Law No 626/94 and the Seveso Directive.

— Legge 19 luglio 1993, n. 237, articolo 2, comma 5, con-

cernente la determinazione dei tassi agevolati,

Procedures and conditions for applications are defined in Law
No 341/1995.

— Legge della Regione Calabria 28 maggio 1975, n. 21, arti-

colo 1, comma 2,

The eligible costs of tangible investment are the costs relating
to investment in land, buildings, machinery and equipment.

— Decreto legislativo 31 marzo 1998, n. 112, concernente il
funzioni e compiti amministrativi dello

conferimento di
Stato alle Regioni e agli Enti locali,

The eligible costs of intangible investment are the costs of
acquisition of the technology

Economic sector(s) concerned:

ISTAT codes 1991

— Section C — Mining,

— Section D — Manufacturing,

— Section F — Construction,

— Section K — Realty,

information technology,
rentals,
research, other professional activities (Divisions 72 and
74 only).

The following sectors are excluded from the concessions:
the manufacture of
transport,
synthetic
and the
production, processing and marketing of agricultural products

iron and steel, shipbuilding,
fibres,

automobile

industry,

coal

the

Name and address of the granting authority:

Regione Toscana
Via di Novoli 26
I-50127 Firenze

— Decreto legislativo 31 marzo 1998, n. 123, concernente la
razionalizzazione degli interventi di sostegno pubblico delle
imprese,

— Decreto del ministro del Tesoro 21 dicembre 1994, con-

cernente la determinazione del tasso di riferimento,

— Delibera della Giunta regionale della Calabria 17 marzo

1997, n. 1469,

— Legge regionale 2 maggio 2001, n. 7, articolo 31 quater,

— Delibera di Giunta della Regione Calabria del 31 maggio

2001, n. 472

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of individual aid granted to the company:

Calendar year

2001

2002

2003

2004

2005

2006

Amount in
billion ITL

6

10

10

6

Maximum aid intensity: 50 % net grant equivalent plus 12 %
gross grant equivalent

Date of implementation: 5 September 2001

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: 31 December
2006

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Objective of aid: The aid is for credit transactions under Law
No 949/52,
lease transactions under Law No 240/81 and
financing granted by Artigiancassa SpA either directly or
indirectly through the banks and leasing companies to which
it grants credit lines specifically to finance craft businesses, and
is intended for investments in:

Other information: The types of aid measures and their
duration provided for by the scheme are as follows:

— Credit

(Law No 949/52) and leasing transactions (Law No

240/81):

— Credit transactions (Law No 949/52)

— fitting out, enlarging and modernisation of workshops,

— acquisition,

lease or hire purchase of new machinery

and equipment.

— Leasing transactions (Law No 240/81)

— fitting out and/or enlargement of workshops (leasing of
property), with the exception of premises that are not
suitable for the certified craft activity,

— new machinery and equipment

Economic sector(s) concerned: The aid is intended solely for
craft firms, including cooperatives and joint ventures entered in
the registers provided for in Law No 443 of 8 August 1985,
with the exception of firms operating in the following sectors:

— ECSC steel,

— coal,

— shipbuilding,

— synthetic fibres,

— motor vehicles,

— interest rate subsidies or contributions to the costs of
transactions not exceeding ITL 500 000 999 to offset
the full burden of interest and other charges borne by
craft firms,

— contributions

to costs amounting to 20 % of

the
subsidised credit and leasing transactions, up to a
maximum of ITL 100 million. Contributions will not
cover transactions involving less than ITL 20 million.

Period
contributions:

of

validity

of

the

interest

rate

subsidies/cost

— Credit

(Law No 949/52) and leasing transactions (Law No

240/81), up to:

— 10 years for transactions concerning workshops and the

acquisition of land,

— five years for transactions involving machinery and

vehicles.

The aid scheme covers:

— 100 % of subsidised investment costs, with a maximum
intensity of 50 % net grant equivalent, plus 15 % gross
grant
aid not
exceeding 75 % of the subsidised investment costs,

amount of

equivalent,

total

the

the

— transport, limited to investments in vehicles made by firms

whose main activity is in the transport sector,

— fisheries and acquaculture,

— processing and marketing of agricultural products

Name and address of the granting authority:

— only investment expenditure incurred since the date on

which the aid application was submitted.

Only costs relating to the period 2001-2004 may be taken into
account as regional cofinancing is provided for the period
ending 31 December 2004.

Regione Calabria
Via Massara, 2
I-88100 Catanzaro

As soon as the necessary measures have been adopted to
appropriate
provide
documents will be sent

2005-2006,

cofinancing

the

for