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: 2002-11-22
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Germany, Italy, State aid, control of State aid, employment aid, vocational training

22.11.2002

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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 286/05)

(Text with EEA relevance)

Aid No: XT 04/01

Member State: Germany

Region: Rhineland-Palatinate

Title of aid scheme or name of the company receiving an
individual aid: Offensive for structural change — Programme
the Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs and Health of
of
Rhineland-Palatinate
in
Rhineland-Palatinate)

(Training measures

for businesses

This aid is intended to enable companies which rely on their
workforce acquiring new qualifications to cope with structural
change to prepare their employees for the new demands of the
job.

To ensure that the objective of homogeneous living standards
is met, aid is to be targeted particularly on employment in
structurally weak regions of the Land. Acordingly, businesses
which move to structurally weak regions of the Land or which
plan to expand staff numbers there but are unable to find
sufficiently qualified personnel on the regional labour market
are to obtain aid to promote training measures for those new
employees once employment contracts have been signed.

Legal basis: Verordnung (EG) Nr. 68/2001 der Kommission
vom 12.
Januar 2001 über die Anwendung der Artikel 87
und 88 EG-Vertrag auf Ausbildungsbeihilfen

This may involve both general and specific training measures:
this aspect must be decided on a case-by-case basis

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of individual aid granted to the company: It is
assumed
approximately DEM 2 Million
(EUR 1 022 583,76) are required in order to implement the
aid scheme

funds

that

of

Maximum aid intensity: For specific training measures in
large companies: 25 % of eligible costs,

For specific training measures in SMEs: 35 % of eligible costs,

For general
eligible costs;

training measures in large companies: 50 % of

For general training measures in SMEs: 70 % of eligible costs.

An increase in the above-mentioned aid intensity of 10 % is
possible in respect of
training measures for disadvantaged
employees

Date of implemantation: Aid can be provided under this
scheme as from 1 May 2001

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: For the time
being, the aid scheme will be implemented until 31 December
2006. Aid for measures under the scheme must be terminated
by 30 June 2007 at the latest

Objective of aid: Aid for
is
intended to provide employees threatened by unemployment
with better opportunities within their company and on the
wider labour market.

training measures

internal

Economic sector(s) concerned: The aid scheme applies to all
economic sectors in accordance with Commission Regulation
(EC) No 68/2001 of 12 January 2001

Name and address of the granting authority:

Landesamt für Soziales
Jugend und Versorgung
Referat 63
Rheinallee 97—101
D-55118 Mainz

Aid No: XT 65/01

Member State: Italy

Region: Autonomous Province of Trento

Title of aid scheme or name of the company receiving an
individual aid: Criteria and procedures for financing training
activities qualifying for co-financing by the European Social
Fund under measure D1 (Development of
continuing
training, labour market flexibility and business competitiveness,
with priority for SMEs) of the operational programme for the
Autonomous Province of Trento, Objective 3, European Social
Fund 2000 to 2006

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Legal basis: Deliberazione della giunta provinciale n. 2920 d.d.
9.11.2001 avente ad oggetto: Modalità e termini di presenta-
zione e di valutazione dei progetti rientranti nella Misura D1
del FSE — «Sviluppo delle formazione continua, della flessibilità
del mercato del lavoro e della competitività delle imprese, con
priorità alle PMI» la quale da applicazione alle disposizioni
contenute nel Capo II del Titolo II D.P.G. 33-51/Leg. d.d.
27.12.2000 (pubblicato sul Bollettino ufficiale della Regione
Trentino Alto Adige n. 04/I-II del 23.1.2001) sottoposte ad
una clausola sospensiva dell'efficacia e alle disposizioni della
deliberazione della giunta provinciale n. 527 d.d. 9.3.2001

Name and address of the granting authority:

Provincia autonoma di Trento — Servizio addestramento e
formazione professionale
Via Gilli, 3
I-38100 Trento

Other information: Since this is an aid scheme,
it is not
possible to give a description of the content of each project
in order to confirm that it corresponds to the definition of
general training.

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
individual aid granted to the company:
amount of
EUR 2 764 200 in 2001;
EUR 7 745 000 in 2002

The prior verification procedure applied by the Province to
ensure that
the highest aid intensity is granted only to
general training projects comprises the following steps:

Maximum aid intensityt:

Specific training for large enterprises: intensity not exceeding
25 %,

Specific training for SMEs: intensity not exceeding 35 %,

General training for large enterprises: intensity not exceeding
50 %,

General training for SMEs: intensity not exceeding 70 %.

The above intensities are increased by 10 percentage points
where the training is given to workers with disabilities,
(i.e. persons without
migrant workers, unskilled workers
educational qualifications or appropriate skills),
long-term
unemployed persons or women wishing to re-enter working
life

— on submitting the project, the applicant declares whether it

involves general or specific training,

— as provided for by point 5 of the operative part of Decision
No 2920 adopted by the Provincial Council on 9
November 2001, a committee makes a prior assessment
of whether individual projects are to be classed as general
or specific training; its findings are set out on an evaluation
grid signed by the experts and attached to the minutes of
the committee meeting,

— on the basis of

the Province
determines the intensity of the funding to be granted to
each individual project,

the above assessment,

— the Province then adopts the project

funding decision,
which also reproduces the committee's assessment of the
nature of each project (general or specific training),

— the Province notifies

the
outcome of the committee's assessment and consequently
the intensity of the funding allocated to them

the individual applicants of

Date of implementation: 20 November 2001

The committee is composed of:

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: 31 December
2002

— three experts on training and the evaluation of training
from outside the Province (all highly qualified

activities,
university lecturers),

Objective of aid: The aid is intended for general and special
training.

— one official from the Province, appointed by the Provincial

Council

‘ “general

The definition of general training given in Regulation (EC) No
68/2001 has been adopted as it is considered sufficiently clear
and exhaustive:
shall mean training
involving tuition which is not applicable only or principally
to the employee's present or future position in the assisted
firm, but which provides qualifications that are largely trans-
ferable
fields of work and thereby
substantially improve the employability of the employee’

to other

firms or

training”

Aid No: XT 68/01

Member State: Italy

Economic sector(s) concerned: all sectors

Region: Autonomous Province of Trento

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Title of aid scheme or name of the company receiving an
individual aid: Procedures and criteria for
implementing
employee training activities under Article 6(4) of Law No 53
of 8 March 2000 and managing the funds referred to in
Ministry of Labour and Social Security Decree No 167 of 6
June 2001

Legal basis: Deliberazione della giunta provinciale n. 3106 d.d.
23 novembre 2001 in attuazione del decreto del ministero del
Lavoro e della previdenza sociale del 6 giugno 2001 n. 167
(pubblicato nella Gazzetta ufficiale della Repubblica italiana del
22.6.2001 serie generale n. 143)

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of individual aid granted to the company: Central
government budget allocation to the Province for 2001:
ITL 902 036 000 (EUR 465 862,72)

Maximm aid intensity:

Specific training for large enterprises: intensity not exceeding
25 %,

Specific training for SMEs: intensity not exceeding 35 %,

General training for large enterprises: intensity not exceeding
50 %,

General training for SMEs: intensity not exceeding 70 %.

The above intensities are increased by 10 percentage points
where the training is given to workers with disabilities,
(i.e. persons without
migrant workers, unskilled workers
educational qualifications or appropriate skills),
long-term
unemployed persons or women wishing to re-enter working
life

Date of implemantation: 12 December 2001

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: 31 December
2001

ferable
substantially improve the employability of the employee’

fields of work and thereby

to other

firms or

Economiac sector(s) concerned: All sectors

Name and address of the granting authorithy:

Provincia autonoma di Trento — Servizio addestramento e
formazione professionale
Via Gilli, 3
I-38100 Trento

Other information: since this is an aid scheme,
it is not
possible to give a description of the content of each project
in order to confirm that it corresponds to the definition of
general training.

The prior verification procedure applied by the Province to
the highest aid intensity is granted only to
ensure that
general training projects comprises the following steps:

— on submitting the project, the applicant declares whether it

involves general or specific training,

— as provided for by point 5 of the operative part of Decision
No 3106 adopted by the Provincial Council on 23
November 2001, a committee makes a prior assessment
of whether individual projects are to be classed as general
or specific training; its findings are set out on an evaluation
grid signed by the experts and attached to the minutes of
the committee meeting,

— on the basis of

the Province
determines the intensity of the funding to be granted to
each individual project,

the above assessment,

— the Province then adopts the project

funding decision,
which also reproduces the committee's assessment of the
nature of each project (general or specific training),

— the Province notifies

the
outcome of the committee's assessment and consequently
the intensity of the funding allocated to them

the individual applicants of

Objective of aid: The aid is intended for general and special
training.

The committee is composed of:

The definition of general training given in Regulation (EC) No
68/2001 has been adopted as it is considered sufficiently clear
and exhaustive:
shall mean training
involving tuition which is not applicable only or principally
to the employee's present or future position in the assisted
firm, but which provides qualifications that are largely trans-

‘ “general

training”

— three experts on training and the evaluation of training
from outside the Province (all highly qualified

activities,
university lecturers),

— one official from the Province, appointed by the Provincial

Council