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: 2002-11-16
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: State aid, control of State aid, innovation, investment aid, renewable energy, small and medium-sized enterprises

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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 280/07)

(Text with EEA relevance)

Aid No: XS 09/02

Member State: Spain

Region: Community of Madrid

Title of aid scheme or name of the company receiving an
individual aid: Madrid Business Innovation Plan 2002-2005
(text of Section IV for the purposes of this notification)

Legal basis: Orden 16/2002, de la Consejería de Economía e
Innovación Tecnológica, por la que se regula el Plan de Inno-
vación Empresarial de la Comunidad de Madrid (2002-2005).
(texto del capítulo IV)

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
individual aid granted to the company: A
amount of
maximum of EUR 18,03 million per year

Maximum aid intensity: Up to 15 % for small firms and up to
ceiling of
7,5 % for medium-sized firms. There
EUR 300 505 per year per firm

is

a

Date of implementation: 11 January 2002

Innovation was adopted pursuant to Order No 1939/2001 of
7 March 2001 of the Secretariat for Economic Affairs and
Employment (now the Secretariat for Economic Affairs and
Technological Innovation) on the Madrid Business Innovation
Plan. The Plan, which covers the period 2001-2005, was
previously authorised by the Commission by letter of 19
December 2000 (state aid N 670/2000 — Spain (Madrid)).

The new Order reproduces textually the provisions of
the
earlier Order and introduces a new Section IV on investments
in new tangible assets, which is the subject of this notification.
Section IV is entitled ‘Investment in assets for technological
innovation’ and covers Articles 23 to 26 of the new Order.

Since the new Section IV has been incorporated in the earlier
the annual expenditure
Order setting up the aid scheme,
cannot be determined in advance. Such expenditure will
in
any event be included in the ceiling of EUR 18,03 million
per year authorised for the Plan as a whole by the Commission
in its decision on State aid N 670/2000, and there will be no
increase in the total annual expenditure.

The incorporation of Section IV into the earlier aid scheme
authorised by the Commission is intended to complete the
set of instruments for supporting SMEs in the Community of
Madrid by providing grants for the introduction of new tech-
nology (acquisition of assets) as part of firms' innovation plans.

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: 2002-2005
(31 December 2005 is the last date on which aid can be
granted)

The aim is therefore to group together in a single legal
instrument all
the support measures provided for by the
Community rules on small and medium-sized firms

Objective of aid: Support
for investment in new tangible
assets by small and medium-sized firms as part of their inno-
vation plans

Economic sector(s) concerned: All sectors except for those
covered by the ECSC Treaty,
fisheries and agri-
culture, including the processing or marketing of agricultural
products, without prejudice to the specific rules laid down in
regulations, frameworks and guidelines relating to state aid in
certain sectors

transport,

Aid No: XS 17/01

Member State: Spain

the granting authority:

Region: Autonomous Community of the Region of Murcia

Instituto

Name and address of
Madrileño de Desarrollo — (IMADE)
(Consejería de Economía
Comunidad de Madrid)
José Abascal, 57
E-28003 Madrid

e

Innovación Tecnológica —

Title of aid scheme or name of the company receiving an
individual aid: Aid for the impementation of projects to
harness renewable energy resources

Legal basis:

Other information: Order No 16/2002 of the Community of
for Economic Affairs and Technological
Madrid Secretariat

— Estatuto de Autonomía de la Región de Murcia.

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— Decreto no 30/2000 de reorganización de la Administra-

— Households and non-profit institutions,

ción Regional.

— Decreto legislativo 1/1999 de 2 de diciembre. Texto refun-

dido de la Ley de Hacienda de la Región de Murcia.

— 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

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

— Aid allocated to local

government: ESP 20 000 000

(EUR 120 202,42);

— Aid

allocated

to

private

enterprises

(SMEs):

ESP 15 000 000 (EUR 90 151,18);

— Private firms (SMEs) in any sector of activity apart from
those engaged in the production, processing or marketing
of agricultural products listed in Annex I to the EC Treaty,
and activities which ecourage the use of domestic products
as opposed to imported products

Name and address of the granting authority: Sr. Patricio
Valverde Megías
Consejero de Tecnologías, Industria y Comercio
San Cristóbal, 6
E-30071 Murcia

— Aid allocated to households and non-profit

institutions:

ESP 65 000 000 (EUR 390 657,87)

Aid No: XS 26/02

For private

the
Maximum aid intensity:
In
maximum aid intensity is 40 % of eligible expenditure.
any event,
exceed the maximum of
ESP 2 000 000, with the exception of local government and
demonstration projects where the amount may be greater in
accordance with the report of the evaluation committee

the aid may not

enterprises,

Date of implementation: The Order came into force on 16
March 2001

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: Aid may be
granted until 30 November 2001

Objective of aid: Aid to local government, private enterprises
(SMEs), households
the
and non-profit
implementation of projects
renewable energy
resources.

to harness

institutions

for

— Solar,

— Thermal,

— Photovoltaic,

— Wind,

— Biomass,

— Geothermal,

— Municipal solid waste,

— Biofuels

Economic sector(s) concerned:

— Local government,

Member State: Spain

Region: Catalonia

Title of aid scheme or name of the company receiving an
individual aid: Promoting the social economy, programme 2,
aid for productive investment to stimulate employment growth
and competitiveness

Legal basis: TRE/383/2002, de 22 de febrero, por la cual se
abre una nueva convocatoria excepcional para el año 2002
para la concesión de ayudas sobre el fomento de la economía
social (DOGC núm. 3587 4.3.2002), de acuerdo con la Orden
de 17 de diciembre de 2001, por la cual se aprueban las bases
reguladoras sobre el fomento de la economía social en Cataluña

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of
individual aid granted to the company:
EUR 601 012,10

Maximum aid intensity: A maximum of 15 % of the eligible
investment costs incurred by small firms, and a maximum of
by
consts
7,5 % of
medium-sized
firm is
firms. The maximum aid
EUR 24 040,48, or EUR 36 060,73 for investment in areas
of demographic and industrial decline

incurred
per

investment

eligible

the

Date of implementation: 4 March 2002

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: 1 May 2001
to 21 December 2001

Objective of aid: To finance investments made by cooperative
requiring a minimum
societies and worker-owned firms
effective outlay of EUR 42 070,85 exclusive of
tax on
productive elements of
tangible fixed assets, provided that
this is directly related to the undertaking's business aims

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Economic sector(s) concerned: All sectors

the granting authority: Manuel

Name and address of
Romero i Colomé
Director General d'Economia Social, Cooperatives
empresa
Departament de Treball
Generalitat de Catalunya
Sepúlveda, 148-150 7a planta
E-08011 Barcelona

i Auto-

Other information: The present call
is exceptional as the
activities were carried on between 1 May and 31 December
2001 when the deadline for the ordinary call for this type of
aid in the 2001 financial year expired on 30 April 2001, as set
out in the Order of 12 February 2001

Aid No: XS 63/01

Member State: Italy

Region: Piedmont

and will be granted interest-free. They will be combined with
loans for the same amount granted at normal market rates by
credit institutions under contract. The loan is to be reimbursed
in 48 equal monthly instalments, possibly preceded by a
12-month grace period.

For firms in the hotel sector the maximum loan from the Fund
is EUR 1 million. The funds are to be employed preferably for
the re-use of existing structures.

The aid may not exceed 7,5 % gge for medium-sized firms and
15 % gge for small firms.

The top-ups for Article 87(3)(c) areas are not applied

Date of implementation: 10 December 2001

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: 30 June 2007

Objective of aid: Aid for investment.

Under the single programming document (SPD) 2000-06 for
the Piedmont region (Priority 2 — System qualification and
support, Measure 2.1 — Support
for business investment,
Line 2.1.b — Loans for business investment), the scheme in
question will contribute to improving business efficiency, safe-
guarding and creating jobs, and expanding the productive base.

Title of aid scheme or name of the company receiving an
individual aid: SPD 2000-2006 for the Piedmont region,
Measure 2.1 — Support for business investment, Line 2.1.b
— Loans for business investment

Operations under the scheme will enhance business produc-
tivity and improve products and production processes (but
will not support research and development work)

Legal basis: Atto deliberativo della giunta regionale n. 12-3626
del 31 luglio 2001 Reg. 1260. Ob. 2. Docup Regione Pie-
monte, periodo di programmazione 2000-2006. Approvazione
progetti di aiuto in esenzione ai sensi del Reg. CE 70/2001 —
Allegato 1 — 2.1.b — Finanziamenti per gli investimenti delle
imprese

Economic sector(s) concerned: All sectors

Name and address of the granting authority:

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of individual aid granted to the company: The
amounts relate to the aid scheme ‘Line 2.1.b — Loans for
business investment’.

Regione Piemonte — Assessorato Industria, Lavoro, New
Economy, Formazione Professionale, Politiche Comunitarie,
Affari Internazionali, Commercio interno ed estero
Via Pisana, 6
I-Torino.

Year

2002

2003

2004

Expenditure in euro

44 700 000

26 820 000

17 880 000

Maximum aid intensity: The scheme finances refundable
loans to businesses. Loans from the Fund may not exceed
50 % of the investment, with a maximum of EUR 500 000,

Contact person:

Dott. Vito Valsania
Via Pisano, 6
I-Torino
Tel. (39) 011 432 31 95
Fax (39) 011 432 34 83
E-mail: direzione16@regione.piemonte.it

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Other information: The SPD identifies the Piedmont region as
the implementing body with responsibility for carrying out the
measure via a managing body to be selected in accordance
with the Community rules on public service contracts.

The scheme will apply to small and medium-sized firms in the
(only in municipalities
industrial, construction, crafts, retail
belonging to mountain communities or
in disadvantaged
upland municipalities), tourism and service sectors, as defined
in Annex I to 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
(OJ L 10, 13.1.2001)
located in an Objective 2 area, a
phasing-out area and/or an Article 87(3)(c) area.

The aid will be granted without prejudice to regulations,
directives and guidelines under the EC Treaty governing the
granting of state aid in specific sectors within the meaning
of Article 1 of Regulation (EC) No 70/2001. If applications
for aid are received from firms in the sectors governed by
specific Community rules on state aid,
the implementing
body will examine them in the light of the rules applicable
and will comply with their requirements.

Aid from the ERDF will not be granted to firms producing,
processing or marketing agricultural products (Annex I to the
Treaty)

Non-opposition to a notified concentration

(Case COMP/M.2984 — Sofinco/Commercial Bank of Greece/JV)

(2002/C 280/08)

(Text with EEA relevance)

On 28 October 2002 the Commission decided not to oppose the above notified concentration and to
declare it compatible with the common market. This decision is based on Article 6(1)(b) of Council
Regulation (EEC) No 4064/89. The full text of the decision is only available in English and will be
made public after it is cleared of any business secrets it may contain. It will be available:

— as a paper version through the sales offices of the Office for Official Publications of the European

Communities (see list on the last page),

— in electronic form in the ‘CEN’ version of the CELEX database, under document No 302M2984. CELEX

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