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 on State aid to small and medium-sized enterprises (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2003-03-06
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: State aid, competitiveness, innovation, job creation, job preservation, organisation of work, production improvement, 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 on State aid to small and medium-sized enterprises

(2003/C 52/02)

(Text with EEA relevance)

Aid No: XS 17/02

Name and address of the granting authority:

Member State: Italy

Region: Marche

Title of aid scheme or name of the company receiving an
individual aid: SPD Obj. 2 2000-2006 — Measure 1.4 Infra-
1
structure
Improvement of innovative and advanced services for firms
— measure (a)

submeasure

productive

system;

the

for

Legal basis: Docup Ob. 2, 2000-2006

Regione Marche
Servizio Industria e Artigianato
Via Tiziano 44
I-60100 Ancona
Tel. (39) 071 80 61

Aid No: XS 22/02

Member State: United Kingdom

Region: Wales

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

Title of aid scheme or name of the company receiving an
individual aid: Investment grant

Ordinary funding

Year

2002

ITL

EUR

500 000 000

258 228,44

Total

500 000 000

258 228,44

Maximum aid intensity: In accordance with Regulation (EC)
the following rates of aid will be applied:
No 70/2001,
15 % gge for small
firms and 7,5 % gge for medium-sized
firms. In the areas exempted under Article 87(3)(c) of the EC
Treaty, the aid will be 20 % gge, with a maximum of 8 %
nge + 10 % gge, for small firms and 15 % gge for medium-sized
firms, with a maximum of 8 % nge + 6 % gge. The minimum
investment eligible for financing is EUR 330 000,00

Date of implementation: Date of publication of the notice
inviting applications (January 2002)

Duration of
application of the scheme is currently limited to 2002

scheme or

individual

aid award: The

Objective of aid: The measure is intended to enhance and
improve the operational
infrastructure of research and test
laboratories and innovation and technology transfer centres
through improvements in the regional supply of services for
the productive system, with particular reference to strategic and
cutting-edge services

Economic sector(s) concerned: Services

Legal basis: Industrial Development Act 1982 (Sections 7 and
8)

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of individual aid granted to the company: GBP 3
million per
is
annum. Maximum award per
GBP 50 000. Estimated number of SME beneficiaries per year
is 80

project

Maximum aid intensity: In Article 87(3)(a) assisted areas —
35 % net + 15 % gross.

In Article 87(3)(c) assisted areas — 15 % net + 10 % gross.

In non-assisted areas 15 % gross (small enterprises)

7,5 % gross (medium-sized enterprises).

All other public aid will be taken into account in ensuring that
the limits are not breached

Date of implementation: 1 April 2002

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: Until 2006

of

Objective
job-creation capabilities of SMEs
encouraging investment in good-quality projects

improve

competitiveness

and
throughout Wales by

aid:

To

Economic sector(s) concerned: Manufacturing and services,
excluding retail and local services. Sensitive sectors will be
excluded

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Name and address of the granting authority:

— storage of furniture, caravans, etc.

Economic Development Department
The National Assembly for Wales
Cathays Park
Cardiff
CF10 3NQ
United Kingdom

— small-scale retail activities

— office space and IT

Name and address of the granting authority:

Other information: The form of assistance will be a direct
grant. The scheme will allow capitalisation of leases, subject to
the same limitations as set out
in the Regional Selective
Assistance Scheme (and in the Commission's letter dated 13
September 2001 (D/53731) with regard to N 791/99 —
Enterprise Grant Scheme)

NAFW
FFD3
Cathays Park
Cardiff
CF10 3NQ
United Kingdom

Aid No: XS 23/02

Member State: United Kingdom

Region: Wales

Title of aid scheme or name of the company receiving an
individual
planning
Farming Connect:
consultancy advice for farm businesses

subsidised

aid:

Legal basis: Agriculture Act 1986, Section 1

Aid No: XS 29/02

Member State: Germany

Region: Bavaria

Title of aid scheme or name of the company receiving an
individual aid: Guidelines for
implementing the Bavarian
regional aid programme for industry and commerce

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of
individual aid granted to the company:
GBP 250 000

Legal basis: Artikel 23, 44 Bayerische Haushaltsordnung
(BayHO)

Maximum aid intensity: 50 %

Date of implementation: January 2002

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: Until 2006

Objective of aid: To subsidise planning consultancy costs
incurred by farm businesses in seeking planning permission
for non-agricultural diversification projects eligible for EC
development and farm diversification grants

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of individual aid granted to the company: 2002:
EUR 100,9 million (gross,
to budget plan);
2003-2006: EUR 115,9 million per year (gross, according to
medium-term finance plan)

according

Maximum aid intensity: 15 % in the case of small enterprises;
7,5 % in the case of medium-sized enterprises

Date of implementation: 22 February 2002

Economic sector(s) concerned: Other services, i.e. farm busi-
nesses

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: Until 30 June
2007 in accordance with European Commission requirements

Examples include:

— tourism and recreation including

accom-
modation, horse riding, adventure holidays, sport facilities
including motor sports, theme parks, etc.

farmhouse

— craft workshops, motor repairs, etc.

Objective of aid:

Regional aid for SMEs:

— to establish a standard of living and a level playing field for
competition that are as far as possible the same in all parts
of Bavaria;

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— to strengthen the productivity and competitiveness of the
economy, especially in economically weak areas, rural areas
and areas facing special labour-market problems;

— to create new jobs and to safeguard existing ones

Orden de 7 de enero de 2002, de la Consejería de Ciencia,
Tecnología, Industria y Comercio, reguladora de las bases y
convocatoria de las ayudas con destino a la ejecución de pro-
yectos de explotación de recursos energéticos renovables y de
ahorro y eficiencia energética para el año 2002.

Economic sector(s) concerned: Commercial and industrial
enterprises. However, under the sectoral aid rules, the aid is
limited in certain sectors and may be granted only with the
approval of the European Commission

Orden de 14 de marzo de 2002, por la que se modifica la
orden de 7 de enero de 2002, reguladora de las bases y con-
vocatoria de las ayudas con destino a la ejecución de proyectos
de explotación de recursos energéticos renovables y de ahorro
y eficiencia energética para el año 2002.

Name and address of the granting authority:

Regierung von Oberbayern, Maximilianstraße 39, D-80538
München

Regierung von Niederbayern, Regierungsplatz 540, D-84028
Landshut

Orden de 16 de abril de 2002, por la que se complementa y
aclara la orden de 14 de marzo de 2002, por la que se modi-
fica la orden de 7 de enero de 2002, de ejecución de proyectos
de explotación de recursos energéticos renovables y de ahorro
y eficiencia energética para el ejercicio 2002.

Regierung
Regensburg

der Oberpfalz,

Emmeramsplatz 8, D-93047

Commission Regulation (EC) No 70/2001 of 12 January 2001
on the aplication of Articles 87 and 88 of the EC Treaty to
State aid to small and medium-sized enterprises

Regierung von Oberfranken, Ludwigstraße 20, D-95444
Bayreuth

Regierung
Ansbach

von Mittelfranken,

Promenade 27, D-91522

Regierung von Unterfranken, Peterplatz 9, D-97070 Würzburg

Regierung von Schwaben, Fronhof 10, D-86152 Augsburg

Aid No: XS 42/02

Member State: Spain

Region: Autonomous Community of the Region of Murcia

Title of aid scheme or name of the company receiving an
the implementation of projects
individual aid: Aid for
exploiting renewable energy resources and demonstration
projects promoting energy-saving and efficiency

Legal basis:

Estatuto de Autonomía de la Región de Murcia.

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of individual aid granted to the company: Aid
allocated to private firms (SMEs): EUR 240 405

Maximum aid intensity: This may not be less than 30 % or
more than 50 % of the eligible expenditure planned by the
applicant.

In the case of private firms, not more than 40 % gross grant
equivalent may be granted in respect of eligible costs

Date of implementation: The Order came into force on 15
January 2002

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: The aid may
be granted until 30 September 2002

Objective of aid: Aid to local authorities, private firms (SMEs)
and to non-profit making families
for
implementing projects to exploit renewable energy resources
and demonstration projects promoting energy-saving and effi-
ciency.

and institutions

the energy arriving from the following renewable

Use of
sources:

— solar,

Decreto del Consejo de Gobierno no 1/2002 de reorganización
de la administración regional.

— thermal,

Decreto legislativo 1/1999, de 2 de diciembre, texto refundido
de la Ley de Hacienda de la Región de Murcia.

— photovoltaic,

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— wind,

— biomass,

— geothermal,

— municipal solid waste,

— biofuels

Economic sector(s) concerned: Private firms (SMEs)

Name and address of the granting authority:

D. Patricio Valverde Megías
Consejero de Ciencia, Tecnología, Industria y Comercio
c/ San Cristóbal, 6
E-30071 Murcia

Aid No: XS 43/02

Member State: Spain

Region: Autonomous Community of the Region of Murcia

Title of aid scheme or name of the company receiving an
individual aid: Aid to be granted in 2002 for presenting
the SICARM
information society products and services at
2002 Business Innovation Days

Legal basis:

Estatuto de Autonomía de la Región de Murcia.

Decreto del Consejo de Gobierno no 1/2002, de 15 de enero,
de reorganización de la administración regional.

Decreto legislativo 1/1999, de 2 de diciembre, texto refundido
de la Ley de Hacienda de la Región de Murcia.

Orden de 7 de enero de 2002, de la Consejería de Ciencia,
Tecnología, Industria y Comercio, reguladora de las bases y
convocatoria de las ayudas a la exposición de productos y
servicios de la sociedad de la información en las Jornadas Téc-
nicas Empresariales SICARM 2002, para el ejercicio 2002.

Maximum aid intensity: Not more than 50 % gross grant
equivalent of eligible costs

Date of implementation: The Order came into force on 18
April 2002

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: The aid may
be granted until 24 May 2002

Objective of aid: Aid to be granted in 2002 to private firms
for presenting
(SMEs) based in the Region of Murcia
the SICARM
information society products and services at
2002 Business Innovation Days

Economic sector(s) concerned: Private firms covered by the
definition of SMEs set out in the Commission Recommendation
of 3 April 1996

Name and address of the granting authority:

D. Patricio Valverde Megías
Consejero de Ciencia, Tecnología, Industria y Comercio
c/ San Cristóbal, 6
E-30071 Murcia

Aid No: XS 47/02

Member State: Spain

Region: Autonomous Community of the Basque Country

Title of aid scheme or name of the company receiving an
individual aid: Gauzatu foreign establishments

Legal basis: Orden de 27 de diciembre de 2000, del Consejero
de Industria, Comercio, y Turismo de modificación de la orden
de 28 de junio de 2000, del Consejero de Industria, Comercio,
y Turismo, por la que se regulan el programa Gauzatu implan-
taciones exteriores, de impulso a la creación y desarrollo de
implantaciones de empresas vascas en el exterior (BOPV no
249 de 30 de diciembre de 2000)

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
individual aid granted to the company:
amount of
EUR 6 010 121,04

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of individual aid granted to the company: Aid
allocated to private firms (SMEs): EUR 30 000

Maximum aid intensity: 5,32 % for small firms and 4,43 %
for medium-sized firms

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Date of implementation: From 19 March 2002

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: 2001-2004,
pursuant to Decree 121/2000

Objective of aid: To support the consolidation of Basque
SMEs by increasing productive investment
in the export
market as a way of enhancing their competitiveness and
hence their future viability

Economic sector(s) concerned: SMEs in industry, mining or
processing and those providing ancillary technical services.
Under the scheme,
to the
sectoral rules issued by the European Union for the steel
industry (non-ECSC), the synthetic fibres industry and the auto-
mobile industry

the aid granted will be subject

Name and address of the granting authority:

Sr. José Ignacio Telletxea Fernández
Viceconsejero de Innovación y Desarrollo Industrial
Departamento de Industria, Comercio y Turismo
Gobierno Vasco
c/ Donostia — San Sebastián, 1
E-01010 Vitoria-Gasteiz

Aid No: XS 48/02

Member State: Spain

Maximum aid intensity: 5,32 % for small firms and 4,43 %
for medium-sized firms

Date of implementation: From 19 March 2002

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: 2001-2004,
pursuant to Decree 121/2000

Objective of aid: To support the consolidation of Basque
SMEs by increasing productive investment
in the export
market as a way of enhancing their competitiveness and
hence their future viability

Economic sector(s) concerned: SMEs in industry, mining or
processing and those providing ancillary technical services.
Under the scheme,
to the
sectoral rules issued by the European Union for the steel
industry (non-ECSC), the synthetic fibres industry and the auto-
mobile industry

the aid granted will be subject

Name and address of the granting authority:

Sr. José Ignacio Telletxea Fernández
Viceconsejero de Innovación y Desarrollo Industrial
Departamento de Industria, Comercio y Turismo
Gobierno Vasco
c/ Donostia — San Sebastián, 1
E-01010 Vitoria-Gasteiz

Region: Autonomous Community of the Basque Country

Title of aid scheme or name of the company receiving an
individual aid: Gauzatu foreign establishments

Aid No: XS 49/02

Legal basis: Orden de 27 de diciembre de 2000, del Consejero
de Industria, Comercio, y Turismo de modificación de la orden
de 28 de junio de 2000, del Consejero de Industria, Comercio,
y Turismo, por la que se regulan el programa Gauzatu implan-
taciones exteriores, de impulso a la creación y desarrollo de
implantaciones de empresas vascas en el exterior (BOPV no
249 de 30 de diciembre de 2000)

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of
individual aid granted to the company:
EUR 6 010 121,04

Member State: Spain

Region: Basque Country

Title of aid scheme or name of the company receiving an
individual aid: Name of company: Grupo Innovalia, SL

Legal basis: Decreto 121/2000, de 27 de junio de 2000 (BOPV
30.6.2000), por el que se establecen distintas líneas de ayudas
con fines de promoción económica: programa de proyectos
estratégicos

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

2001

2002

2003

2004

Total

(EUR)

Annual expenditure (investment)
planned

1 250 105,18

4 177 034,12

5 529 311,36

6 244 515,77 17 200 966,43

Amount of aid

0

809 457,83

824 696,79

931 369,52

2 565 524,14

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intensity:
Maximum aid
EUR 2 565 524,14, equivalent
14,915 %

Non-repayable

of
to a gross aid intensity of

grant

Other services

— advisory,

Date of implementation: The aid will be granted in financial
2002 and relates to the investment carried out in 2001-2004

— innovation management,

Duration of scheme or individual aid award:

— communication and multimedia

Aid to be granted in 2002 (under a grant application
procedure).

Implementation period: 2002-2004.

Paymenet: annual; overdue instalments: last payment 2005 for
investment carried out in 2004

Objective of aid: The objective of the aid is to promote
investment to be carried out by the SMEs that make up the
Grupo Innovalia, an industrial group with local capital,
in
order to compete at global level, using the synergies resulting
from the technological development of each of
the firms
making up the group. The group as a whole is also an SME.

The aid is conditional on the effective implementation of the
investment,
its continued presence on the assets side of the
firm's balance sheet for five years and the generation of 293
jobs in the period 2001-2004.

So that the project can be regarded as strategic, account has
also been taken of the considerable R&D effort that will be
carried out, which is assessed at EUR 13 120 094,24 for the
period 2001-2004.

Name and address of the granting authority:

Gobierno Vasco
c/ Donostia — San Sebastián, 1
E-01010 Vitoria-Gasteiz
Tel. (945) 01 82 63
Fax (945) 01 82 53
e-mail: pol-ind@ej-gv.es

information: The project was

Other
submitted to the
Commission for prior authorisation as special aid. The notifi-
cation was withdrawn, with the Commission's consent, since
the proposed aid was covered by Regulation (EC) No 70/2001.

The aid is incompatible with any other investment aid for the
same reason. The eligibility requirements for the expenditure
should be met both at group level and by each of the firms
making up the group.

The aid is being implemented under Commission Regulation
(EC) No 70/2001 of 12 January 2001, since it meets all the
requirements laid down.

The authority gives an undertaking to the Commission that it
will meet all the requirements in Article 9 of Regulation (EC)
No 70/2001 concerning the transparency and monitoring of
the implementation of and follow-up to the planned aid

In short, we consider that the objective of the aid is wholly
consistent with recital 5 of Regulation (EC) No 70/2001, in as
much as
the economic
it
activities of
and medium-sized enterprises, which
perform a crucial function as regards job creation and, more
stability and economic
generally, are a factor of
dynamiasm

the development of

facilitates
small

social

Economic sector(s) concerned:

Aid No: XS 52/01

Member State: Germany

All industrial sectors

Region: Lower Saxony, rural district of Lüneburg

— manufacture and marketing of calibration and measuring

equipment,

Title of aid scheme or name of the company receiving an
individual aid: Rules (Richtlinie) on the approval of grants to
individual SMEs in the rural district of Lüneburg

— computational vision systems,

— testing software,

— telematics engineering.

Legal basis: 108 der Niedersächsischen Landkreisordnung
(NLO) in der Fassung vom 22.8.1996 (Niedersächsisches Ge-
setz- und Verordnungsblatt, S. 365) i. V. mit 65 der Nieder-
sächsischen Gemeindeordnung (NGO)
in der Fassung vom
22.8.1996 (Niedersächsisches Gesetz- und Verordnungsblatt,
S. 382)

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Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of
individual aid granted to the company:
150 000 EUR

persons starting new businesses in these sectors whose place of
business is in the Amt Neuhaus and Bleckede municipalities or
in the Dahlenburg integrated municipality.

Maximum aid intensity:

The aid amounts:

Aid may not be granted to firms in sensitive sectors.

Name and address of the granting authority:

— in the case of small enterprises, to no more than 15 %,

— and in the case of medium-sized enterprises, to no more

than 7,5 %;

of eligible investment expenditure.

The rules on the combination of aid are complied with

Date of implementation: 1 July 2001

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: From 1 July
2001 to 31 December 2006

Objective of aid: The aid is intended to promote the competi-
tiveness and adaptability of small and medium-sized enterprises
in the rural district of Lüneburg, to encourage the creation of
new jobs and help safeguard existing ones and thereby to bring
about structural improvements.

Rescue and restructuring aid to firms in difficulty (within the
meaning of the Community guidelines on State aid for rescuing
and restructuring firms in difficulty: OJ C 288, 9.10.1999) is
not covered by the measure.

Aid may be granted for the following types of investment
project:

— setting-up of an establishment,

Landkreis Lüneburg
Auf dem Michaeliskloster 4
D-21335 Lüneburg

Other information:

Mr Dutzmann
Tel. (041 31) 20 82 20
Fax (041 31) 20 82 10

Aid No: XS 57/01

Member State: Germany

Region: Brandenburg

Title of aid scheme or name of the company receiving an
individual aid: Rules (Richtlinie)
introduced by the Bran-
denburg Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs, Health and
Women's Affairs on the approval of grants for devising and
implementing innovative arrangements which can serve as
models to ensure that
jobs and technologies comply with
safety concerns (Brandenburg Official Gazette, No 18, 2 May
2001)

— extension of an establishment if the number of long-term
full-time jobs is increased by 15 % as compared with the
situation before the start of the investment,

Legal basis:

— rationalisation, diversification or modernisation of an estab-
lishment if this serves to ensure the continued existence of
the business and the maintenance of most of the jobs,

— Verordnung (EG) Nr. 70/2001 der Kommission vom 12.
Januar 2001 über die Anwendung der Artikel 87 und 88
EG-Vertrag auf staatliche Beihilfen an kleinere und mittlere
Unternehmen

— acquisition of an establishment

threatened with closure,

provided that this is done under market conditions.

The long-term jobs created through the aid must be maintained
for at least two years after payment of the grant.

The aid takes the form of investment grants.

All depreciable fixed assets relating to physical and intangible
assets are eligible

Economic sector(s) concerned: Those entitled to apply are
SMEs in manufacturing, the craft sector, the distributive trades,
the hotel and restaurant industry, other service-sector firms and

— Landeshaushaltsordnung Brandenburg (LHO); W zu §§ 23

und 44 LHO

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

Year: 2001

2002

2003

EUR 920 245

EUR 920 245

EUR 920 245

Year: 2004

2005

2006

EUR 920 245

EUR 920 245

EUR 1 380 368

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Maximum aid intensity: EUR 200 000 or up to 50 % in the
assisted area under Article 87(3)(a) of the EC Treaty (Bran-
denburg outer development area) or up to 20 % net plus
10 % gross in the assisted area under Article 87(3)(c) of the
EC Treaty (Berlin labour market region)

Date of implementation: 1 July 2001

Other information:

Landesinstitut für Arbeitsschutz und Arbeitsmedizin
Postfach 90 020 36
D-14438 Potsdam
Tel. 049-(0)331-8 68 31 52
Fax 049-(0)331-86 43 35
E-mail: liaa.verwaltung@liaa.brandenburg.de

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: Up until 30
April 2003, the rules can be extended until 31 December 2006

Objective of aid: Brandenburg's objective in introducing the
rules is to provide grants towards the investment costs of
implementing innovatory projects which can serve as models
for organising jobs
and
medium-sized firms.

and work processes

in small

The relevant investment measuresare intended to ensure that
technology takes account of human requirements. Assistance is
granted primarily to investment in small and medium-sized
firms for the reduction of undue safety and health risks and
in complex business projects aimed at organising jobs in such a
way that work-related health risks or stress are avoided or
reduced.

By using the economic aspects of labour protection, the aim is,
through the aid, to create jobs and/or improve their competi-
to stimulate ongoing investment by small and
tiveness,
medium-sized firms in particular and to enhance the attract-
iveness of the region

Economic sector(s) concerned:

All economic sectors

Not eligible for aid:

Aid No: XS 83/01

Member State: Italy

Region: Calabria

Title of aid scheme or name of the company receiving an
individual aid: Measure to promote innovative business
structures and processes

Legal basis:

Legge 27.10.1994, n. 598, articolo 11, commi 2 e 2 bis, come
modificati ed integrati da:

— Legge 8.8.1995, n. 341, articolo 3

— Legge 23.12.1999, n. 488, articolo 54

— Legge 5.3.2001, n. 57, articolo 15.

— activities

relating to the manufacture, processing and

marketing of goods listed in Annex I to the EC Treaty;

— aid for export-related activities,

i.e. aid which is directly
the setting-up and
related to the exported quantities,
operation of a distribution network or current expenditure
on an export activity;

— aid which is conditional on the use of indigenous products

rather than imported goods

Name and address of the granting authority:

InvestitionsBank des Landes Brandenburg
Postfach 90 02 61
D-14438 Potsdam

Decreto del ministro dell'Industria, del commercio e dell'arti-
gianato del 18.9.1997.

Decreto del ministro dell'Industria, del commercio e dell'arti-
gianato del 27.10.1997.

Decreto legislativo 31.3.1998, n. 112, articolo 19.

Decreto legislativo 31.3.1998, n. 123.

Legge Regionnale 2.5.2001, n. 7, articolo 31 quater.

Delibera di Giunta della Regionne Calabria del 31.5.2001, n.
471

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

Calendar year

2001

2002

2003

2004

2005

2006

Amount: EUR

3 099 000

5 165 000

5 165 000

3 099 000

Maximum aid intensity: 50 % gross grant equivalent

— export-related activities (see Article 1(2) of Regulation No

70/2001),

Date of implementation: 5 September 2001

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: 31 December
2006

Objective of aid: The aid is intended to assist investment in
existing innovative business structures and processes through
the construction of new buildings, the extension of existing
buildings or
related activity
commencement of
involving substantial modification of products or processes in
the existing plant, in particular through rationalisation, restruc-
turing or modernisation.

the

a

investments

The scheme covers
in connection with the
purposes described above either in tangible assets (machinery,
equipment, finishing work) or in intangible assets (acquisition
of technology), and in services supplied by outside consultants.
The services must not be continuous or
regular or be
connected with the normal running of the firm. The aid in
question guarantees the financial soundness of the investment

Economic sector(s) concerned: The aid is intended only for
small and medium-sized enterprises within the meaning of
Regulation (EC) No 70/2001 and does not include investment
in the following:

— iron and steel,

— shipbuilding,

— fisheries,

— transport,

— farming,

— production, processing or marketing of the products listed
in Annex I to the EC Treaty (see Article 1(1) of Regulation
No 70/2001),

— manufacture of synthetic and artificial fibres.

The investments in activities in the motor vehicle sector
(34.10, 34.20 and 34.30) are subject
to the limitations
provided for in the framework for state aid in the motor
vehicle sector (97/C 279/01, OJ C 279, 15.9.1997)

Name and address of the granting authority:

Regionne Calabria
Via Massara n. 2
I-88100 Catanzaro

Other information: This aid scheme does not apply to
investments that reach one of the two following thresholds:

(a) the total eligible costs of the whole project are at least
EUR 25 million and the net aid intensity is at least 50 %
of the net aid ceiling as determined in the regional aid map
for the area concerned; or

(b) the total gross aid amounts to at least 15 million EUR.

The aid scheme is not contingent upon the use of domestic as
opposed to imported goods.

Only expenditure incurred since the date on which the aid
application was submitted is eligible.

Only costs relating to the period 2001-2004 may be taken into
account as regional cofinancing is provided for the period
ending 31 December 2004.

As soon as the necessary measures have been adopted to
provide
appropriate
documents will be sent

2005-2006,

cofinancing

the

for