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: 2003-01-30
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Italy, State aid, continuing vocational training, exchange of information, in-service training, vocational training

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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

(2003/C 23/04)

(Text with EEA relevance)

The above intensities are increased by 10 percentage points if
the training is given to disadvantaged workers, as defined in
Article 2(g) of Regulation (EC) No 68/2001.

Aid No: XT 51/01

Member State: Italy

Region: Tuscany

Title of aid scheme or name of the company receiving an
individual aid: Aid to promote company, sectoral and regional
training plans and to develop continuing training in Tuscany

Legal basis: Delibera della giunta regionale della Toscana n.
1120 del 15 ottobre 2001, attuativa di quanto disposto dalla
legge 236/93, articolo 9, in merito alla realizzazione di inter-
venti di formazione continua da parte delle regioni e delle
province autonome

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
individual aid granted to the company:
amount of
EUR 11 743 369,85 (ITL 22 738 334 748)
the period
between October 2001 and the end of 2002, allocated to
Tuscany by Ministry of Labour and Social Security Circular
92/2000. For
allocated to
Tuscany will be determined by implementing circulars issued
each year by the Ministry. The expected annual allocation is
EUR 3 873 426,74 (ITL 7 500 000 000)

subsequent years,

funds

the

for

Maximum aid intensity: The aid is granted by reimbursing
duly documented eligible expenditure actually incurred in
implementing training activities,
to the following
maximum aid intensities as provided for by Regulation (EC)
No 68/2001:

subject

Large enterprises

Specific training

General training

Non-assisted areas

Assisted areas under Article
87(3)(c)

25

30

50

55

SMEs

Specific training

General training

Non-assisted areas

Assisted areas under Article
87(3)(c)

35

40

70

75

Where the aid is granted in the maritime transport sector, it
may reach an intensity of 100 %, regardless of whether the
training project
training,
concerns
provided that the following condtions are met:

specific

general

or

— the trainee may not be an active member of the crew but

must be supernumerary on board, and

— the training must be carried out on board ships on

Community registers

Date of implementation: 15 October 2001

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: Until 31
December 2006

Objective of aid: The aid scheme covers general and specific
training. General training within the meaning of Article 2(e) of
Regulation (EC) No 68/2001 involves training which is not
applicable only or principally to the employee's present or
future position in the assisted firm but which provides qualifi-
cations that are largely transferable to other firms or fields of
work and thereby substanially improve the employability of the
employee.

For the purposes of implementing this aid scheme,
training means:

‘general’

— inter-enterprise training,

i.e. training organised jointly by
different
independent enterprises (under the Community
rules defining SMEs) or in which employees of different
enterprises may take part. Checks are made on supporting
documents during the project selection procedure to ensure
that these requirements are fulfilled (the training is inter-
enterprise and the enterprises are independent);

— Company training relating to job profiles included in the
regional calssification or training relating to profiles for
requested. The
which inclusion in the
relevant certificate is issued by the region or province
concerned. The legal basis for the certification system is
Regional Law No 70 of 31 August 1994 (new rules on
training), and more specifically Article 11
vocational
the issue of a vocational
thereof, which provides for

catalogue

is

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following an aptitude

specilisation certificate for certain training
training or
test, and Article 18
activities
thereof, which confers on the Regional Council
the
powers to determine the job profiles included in the
regional classification and in respect of which the voca-
tional training or specialisation certificate is issued

Economic sector(s) concerned:

— farming

— fisheries and aquaculture

— coalmining

— steel

— shipbuilding

— synthetic fibres

— motor vehicle industry

— other manufacturing industries

— all services.

Comments: The aid scheme applies to all sectors covered by
Regulation (EC) No 68/2001.
It does not apply to aid for
training or retraining workers employed by firms in difficulty
within the meaning of the Community guidelines on State aid
for rescuing and restructuring firms in difficulty (OJ C 288,
restructuring operations
9.10.1999), as part of
rescue or
restructuring
assisted through public funds (rescue and/or
aid). Such aid will be assessed in the light of
the above
guidelines. Neither does te aid scheme apply if the amount
of aid granted to one enterprise for a single training project
exceeds EUR 1 million, in which case the individual aid grant
must be notified to the Commission for its approval

Name and address of the granting authority:

Regione Toscana — Dipartimento delle politiche formative e
dei beni culturali
Servizio FSE e Sistema della formazione professionale
Piazza della Libertà, 15
I-50129 Firenze (Italia)

Non-opposition to a notified concentration

(Case COMP/M.3042 — Sony/Philips/Intertrust)

(2003/C 23/05)

(Text with EEA relevance)

On 20 December 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 302M3042. CELEX

is the computerised documentation system of European Community law.

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