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: 2002-11-15
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Spain, State aid, control of State aid, employment policy, small and medium-sized enterprises, vocational training

15.11.2002

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

C 279/19

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 279/05)

(Text with EEA relevance)

Aid No: XT 17/02

Member State: Spain

Region: La Rioja

Title of aid scheme or name of the company receiving an
individual aid: Aid for training and job creation in La Rioja

Legal basis: Resolución de 18 de diciembre de 2001, del Pre-
sidente de la Agencia de Desarrollo Económico de La Rioja, por
la que se aprueban las Bases reguladoras de la concesión de
subvenciones a los programas para la formación y fomento del
empleo en la Comunidad Autónoma de La Rioja y su convo-
catoria para el 2002. Publicación en el BOR de 22.12.2001

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of individual aid granted to the company: For the
financial year 2002, ESP 809 950 077 (EUR 4 867 898)
is
budgeted

Maximum aid intensity: Aid will be used to finance part or
all of the cost incurred by project partners.

In order
to determine the amount of aid for measures
requested by firms or sole traders for their own staff, the
following criteria will be applied:

1. Where the aid is

the maximum
intensity will be 25 % for large firms and 35 % for small
and medium-sized firms.

specific training,

for

2. Where the aid is

the maximum
intensity will be 50 % for large firms and 70 % for small
and medium-sized firms.

for general

training,

The aid intensities in points 1 and 2 may be increased by
five percentage points for firms located in regions entitled
to receive regional aid under Article 87(3)(c) EC.

pality of Calahorra, only district 3, section 7 (azucarera) and
district 2, section 2 (El Carmen, Tejerías) may apply.

3. Similarly, the maximum aid intensities of points 1 and 2
may be increased by 10 % where training is provided for
disadvantaged workers

Date of implementation: After publication in the Official
Journal of La Rioja

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: Until 30 June
2007

Objective of aid: The aim of the regulatoriy principles is to set
down procedures
to implement aid
for awarding grants
schemes for training and job creation in the autonomous
region of La Rioja in order to provide training relevant to
the needs of the economy of La Rioja.

Where the aid is for general training, the applicant must set
out the type of qualification envisaged and the firms and areas
of work in which it would be transferable. The firms them-
selves are responsible for deciding whether training is general
or specific in their application (sworn statement). Where
firms must declare the other firms and
training is general,
areas of work in which the qualifications envisaged would be
transferable.
training
declarations made
programmes set out in each of the measures will be subject
to assessment and approval by the La Rioja economic devel-
opment agency or ADER (in accordance with Regulation (EC)
No 68/2001).

The

and

the

At the end of each financial year, it will be possible to list the
actions and training programmes for both general and specific
training that have been implemented

Economic sector(s) concerned: All
services

industrial sectors. All

All of La Rioja may apply for aid under Article 87(3)(c) EC,
with the following exceptions:
in the municipality of
Logroño, only district 6, section 2 (Cantabria I and II),
district 2, section 10 (La Portaleda I and II) and district 4,
sections 9 and 29 (San Lázaro) may apply, in the munici-

Name and address of the granting authority:

Agencia de Desarrollo Económico de La Rioja
C/ Muro de la mata 13, 14
E-26071 Logroño, La Rioja