Authorisation for State aid pursuant to Articles 87 and 88 of the EC Treaty — Cases where the Commission raises no objections (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2002-11-27
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: State aid, combined transport, control of State aid, maritime safety, renewable energy, transport infrastructure, waste management, wastewater

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Authorisation for State aid pursuant to Articles 87 and 88 of the EC Treaty

Cases where the Commission raises no objections

(2002/C 292/03)

(Text with EEA relevance)

Date of adoption of the decision: 2.8.2002

Member State: France

Aid No: N 117/B/01

Title: Change to ADEME aid scheme to promote municipal
and commercial waste management

Objective: To promote investment in waste management

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dential information has been removed, can be found at

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Date of adoption of the decision: 2.10.2002

Member State: Germany

Legal basis: Délibérations du conseil d'administration de
l'ADEME du 20 décembre 2000 et du 14 décembre 2001

Aid No: N 406/02

Budget: Unchanged

Title: Support of transshipment facilities in combined transport

Aid intensity or amount: 15 %-50 % of eligible costs,
depending on arrangements and region

Duration: Unchanged

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dential information has been removed, can be found at

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Objective: Facilitate the construction of combined transport
terminal, so as to shift traffic from road to rail and inland
waterway

Legal basis: Richtlinie zur Förderung von Umschlagsanlagen
des kombinierten Verkehrs

Budget: EUR 110,5 million

Date of adoption of the decision: 19.9.2001

Member State: Spain (Cartagena, Murcia)

Aid No: N 295/01

Title: Aid for GE Plastics SL

Objective: Grand for the building of a new polycarbonate
production plant

Legal basis: Ley 50/85, de 27 de diciembre, de incentivos
regionales; del Real Decreto 1535/87, de 11 de diciembre,
que desarrolla la Ley 50/85, y del Real Decreto 488/1988,
de 6 de mayo, de delimitación de la Zona de Promoción Eco-
nómica de Murcia

Budget: EUR 151 680 000

Aid intensity or amount: Eligible costs: EUR 581 780 150;
17,91 % net grant equivalent

Duration: The investment project covers a period of three
years; the aid is spread over a period of four years

Other information: Spain must,
in cooperation with the
recipient firm, present an annual report on the implementation
of the aid

extension of

Aid intensity or amount: Maximum 85 % of new buildings
to
and
newbuildings
the
and aid above 50 % for
operation of the terminal has to be tendered

aid
For
extensions,

infrastructure.

terminal

Duration: 2002-2005

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dential information has been removed, can be found at

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Date of adoption of the decision: 18.9.2002

Member State: Belgium

Aid No: N 415/B/01

Title: Draft decree of the Walloon Government to promote
green electricity — production aid

Objective: Promotion of renewable sources of energy

Legal basis: Décret du 12 avril 2001 relatif à l'organisation du
marché régional de l'électricité

Decreet van 12 april 2001 betreffende de organisatie van de
regionale elektriciteitsmarkt

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Budget: Approximately EUR 5 million per year (estimate)

Date of adoption of the decision: 2.8.2002

Aid intensity or amount: EUR 65 per green certificate in
general, subject in any event to a ceiling equal to the extra
cost of generating the energy in question

Member State: France

Aid No: N 702/B/01

Duration: Ten years

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dential information has been removed, can be found at

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Individual case of State aid for the scheme MEDEA+

Title:
(A 404)

Objective: Development of new generations of electronic
systems for vehicles

Date of adoption of the decision: 18.9.2002

Member State: Germany

Aid No: N 484/02

Legal basis: Programme MEDEA+

Budget: EUR 18,4 million

Aid intensity or amount: 50 % maximum

Duration: 2001-2004

Title: R & D project
Schiffbau-Gesellschaft mbH & Co. KG

‘Sinsee, Ship Safety’, by Flensburger

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dential information has been removed, can be found at

Objective: Examine ways of increasing ship safety in heavy
seas,
focusing particularly on intact stability. Creation, vali-
dation and further development of numerical examples for
non-linear simulation of ship movements and the calculation
of design loads for dimensioning ship structures (shipbuilding)

Legal basis: Scheme ‘Schifffahrt und Meerestechnik für das
21. Jahrhundert’ (N 156/2000) approved by the Commission
on 15 November 2000

Budget: EUR 336 458

Aid intensity or amount: 50 %

Duration: 36 months

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dential information has been removed, can be found at

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http://europa.eu.int/comm/secretariat_general/sgb/state_aids

Date of adoption of the decision: 3.4.2002

Member State: Denmark

Aid No: NN 30/A-C/01

Title: Partial refund of the waste water tax

Legal basis: Spildevandsafgiftslov (LBKG nr. 636 af 21.8.1998)

Duration: 1 January 2000 to 31 December 2006

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dential information has been removed, can be found at

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