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: 2003-03-14
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: State aid, business start-up, coastal region, employment policy, exchange of information, hire purchase, service industry, small and medium-sized enterprises, tourism, urban renewal

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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

Aid No: XS 03/02

Member State: Italy

Region: Sicily

(2003/C 59/03)

(Text with EEA relevance)

Name and address of granting authority:

Regione Sicilia — Assessorato Agricoltura e foreste
Viale Regione Siciliana (angolo Via Leonardo da Vinci)

Title of aid scheme or name of the company receiving an
individual aid: Rural tourism, tourist and craft activities in a
rural context

Legal basis: Legge regionale 23 dicembre 2000 n. 32, articolo
87

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of
individual aid granted to the company:
Provisional appropriations as provided for in the programme
complement, measure 4.15 of
regional operational
programme for Sicily 2000-2006. In any event, as provided
for in Article 87, the financial resources up to 2006 may not
exceed ITL 200 billion.

the

2001: EUR 10,884 million,

2002: EUR 9,163 million,

2003: EUR 11,87 million,

2004: EUR 9,03 million,

2005: EUR 9,519 million,

2006: EUR 9,537 million,

Maximum aid intensity: Aid may not exceed 35 % NGE
equivalent plus 15 percentage points GGE of eligible costs

of

implementation:

the
Date
Commission received the exemption notification under Regu-
lation (EC) No 70/2001

2002, when

January

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: Until 31
December 2006 for legally binding instruments and until 31
December 2008 for grants

Objective of aid: Aid for SMEs to help them develop comple-
mentary and/or alternative activities in a rural context

Economic sector(s) concerned: Rural tourism, tourist and
craft activities in a rural context

Aid No: XS 104/01

Member State: Italy

Region: Liguria

Title of aid scheme: Measure 1.1. ‘Support for business devel-
opment’ — (Submeasure 1 A) ‘Company startups’

Legal basis:

— Docup Obiettivo 2 Regione Liguria 2000-2006 approvato
con decisione Commissione europea C(2001) 2044 del
7.9.2001,

— Complemento di programmazione del Docup Obiettivo 2
Regione Liguria 2000-2006, approvato con deliberazione
giunta regionale n. 1404 del 30.11.2001,

— Bando della misura 1.1. — Sottomisura 1 A) «Creazione
d'impresa», approvato con deliberazione della giunta regio-
nale n. 1405 del 30.11.2001

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of
individual aid granted to the company:
EUR 1 707 138,6 of average annual public expenditure in
the period 2002-2006

Maximum aid intensity:
Interest-free repayable aid with a
maximum intensity of 15 % gge and 7,5 % gge respectively
for small and medium-sized enterprises in Objective 2 areas
and 8 % nge + 10 % gge and 8 % nge + 6 % gge respectively for
small and medium-sized firms in areas exempted under Article
87(3)(c) of the EC Treaty

Date of implementation: 10 December 2001

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: 31 December
2006

Objective of aid: To encourage new business ventures in
order to broaden the productive base and boost economic
competitiveness by granting incentives for initial
investments
in tangible and intangible assets and providing technical
assistance for newly created businesses

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Economic sectors concerned:

— industrial and craft enterprises engaged in activities covered
by the following sections of the ISTAT 1991 Classification
of economic activities: C ‘Mineral extraction’, D ‘Manufac-
turing’, E ‘Production and distribution of electricity, gas and
water’ (only classes 40.10 and 40.30) and F ‘Construction’;

— commercial

enterprises, only where

located in areas
suffering from specific problems (e.g. depopulated rural
areas or disadvantaged urban areas) and operating in
shopping centres or belonging to local
trader
associations, or whose aim is to modernise structures and
(e.g.
introduce
e-business
or
improving networks;

innovations on the distribution side
creating

e-commerce)

through

retail

and

— hotel and tourism businesses: hotels, guest houses, camping

sites, holiday villages, youth hostels;

— cooperatives governed by Law 381/91;

— firms providing production services.

Measures to assist the production, processing and marketing of
agricultural and fisheries products listed in Annex I to the EC
Treaty, and the coal, steel, shipbuilding, synthetic fibres, motor
vehicle and transport industries are excluded

Name and address of granting authority:

FILSE — Finanziaria ligure per lo sviluppo economico
Via Peschiera, 16
I-16122 Genova

Aid No: XS 11/02

Member State: Netherlands

Region: The provinces of Friesland, Groningen and Drenthe
are responsible for implementing the aid scheme. They have
decided to entrust actual
implementation to the Samenwer-
kingsverband Noord-Nederland (North Netherlands Coop-
eration Association), a public body set up under the Wet Ge-
meenschappelijke Regelingen (Joint Arrangements Law)

Title of aid scheme or name of the company receiving an
individual aid: Quality investments in tourism 2000 (2002
version)

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of individual aid granted to the company: An
annual budget of EUR 2 571 498 is available

Maximum aid intensity: Small enterprises: 15 % gross;
Medium-sized enterprises: 7,5 % gross

Date of implementation: Aid under Commission Regulation
(EC) No 70/2001 will be granted as from 1 January 2002

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: The scheme
will end on 31 December 2006

Objective of aid: To fund an investment in fixed capital for
the setting up of a new tourist establishment or for the
extension of an existing establishment in terms of capacity
and/or quality

Economic sector(s) concerned: Tourism

Name and address of the granting authority:

Samenwerkingsverband Noord-Nederland
p/a Postbus 779
9700 AT Groningen
Nederland

Aid No: XS 18/02

Member State: Italy

Region: Autonomous region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia

Title of aid scheme or name of the company receiving an
individual aid: Advisory services provided by consultants
outside the SME

Legal basis: DPR n. 0451 del 12.11.2001. Regolamento di
esecuzione concernente le modalità di concessione dei contri-
buti previsti dall'articolo 45 della legge regionale 23.7.1984, n.
30, come sostituito dall'articolo 19 della legge regionale
20.1.1992, n. 2

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of
individual aid granted to the company:
Estimated annual costs of EUR 5 100 000, financed annually
under the financial law

Maximum aid intensity:

Legal basis: Besluit Provinciale Staten van Friesland, Groningen
en Drenthe d.d. 12 december 2001

— 50 % of consultancy services for the quality system and the

environment

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— 30 % of consultancy services, not continuous and not
the

improving the organisation of

regular, aimed at
business

— 7,5 % and 15 % for

and medium-sized firms
respectively,
for implementation of the software relating
to consultancy services, only software being eligible for
the increases allowed for Article 87(3)(c) areas

small

Date of implementation: From the date of publication in the
Regional Official Gazette. The first measures will not be carried
out before April 2002

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: 30 June 2007

Objective of aid: To assist SMEs using external consultancy
services to improve their organisation and quality systems with
a view to encouraging innovation in management techniques
in SMEs

Economic
production services firms

sector(s)

concerned: Manufacturing

and

Name and address of granting authority:

Regione autonoma Friuli-Venezia Giulia
Direzione regionale dell'Industria
Via Trento, 2
I-34132 Trieste
s.promo.ind@regione.fvg.it
Tel. (39-040) 377 24 56
Fax (39-040) 377 24 63

sviluppo dei sistemi produttivi locali — Azione 2.1.3. — Re-
gime di aiuti regionale a sostegno degli investimenti delle PMI,
del Docup Obiettivo 2, 2002-2006 per la Regione Umbria,
approvato
decisione
C(2001) 2119 del 7 settembre 2001

Commissione

europea

dalla

con

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
individual aid granted to the company: A
amount of
maximum of EUR 7 000 000 per year in accordance with
the funding plan in the programming complement
to the
(SPD) 2000-06
Objective 2 single programming document
for
a maximum total of
region,
EUR 35 000 000 for the duration of the scheme

the Umbria

giving

Maximum aid intensity:

— Small

the total cost of

firms: 15 % gge of

the eligible
investments. In areas eligible for regional aid covered by
the Objective 2 SPD for Umbria, 20 % gge of the total cost
of the eligible investments (less than the intensity allowed
by the regional aid map, which is 10 % gge + 8 % nge);

— Medium-sized firms: 7,5 % gge of the total cost of the
eligible investments.
regional aid
covered by the Objective 2 SPD for Umbria, 15 % gge of
the total cost of the eligible investments (less than the
intensity allowed by the regional aid map, which is 6 %
gge + 8 % nge)

In areas eligible for

Other information: Without prejudice to Community regu-
lations or directives adopted under the EC Treaty which relate
to state aid in specific sectors.

Date of implementation: Date of publication of the notice
inviting applications: 20 February 2002.

linked to the
The scheme does not apply to activities
production, processing or marketing of products listed in
Annex I to the Treaty

Aid No: XS 20/02

Member State: Italy

Region: Umbria

Title of aid scheme or name of the company receiving an
supporting
aid
individual
investments by SMEs

aid: Regional

scheme

for

Legal basis: Deliberazione della giunta regionale n. 32 del
23.1.2002 in attuazione della Misura 2.1. — Sostegno allo

Aid will be granted only on presentation of
suitable
applications by the firms concerned, which may be submitted
from the day following publication of
the notice. Only
investments made after presentation of the application for aid
will be eligible

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: Aid will be
granted in respect of investments made by firms up to 31
December 2006,
the deadline for eligibility of expenditure
charged to the Objective 2 SPD 2000-06 for Umbria

to

Objective of aid: Support
investment by small and
for
medium-sized firms in the Objective 2 and phasing-out areas
of Umbria. The investments covered by this aid scheme
plant,
correspond
equipment and machinery, computer programs and design
work as defined in the specific cost eligibility rules laid down
in Regulation (EC) No 1685/2000. During the first three years
the scheme will be applied exclusively to craft enterprises as
defined in Law No 443 of 8 August 1985

expenditure

buildings,

land,

on

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Economic sector(s) concerned: Production and production
services firms, with the exception of:

Date of implementation: 1 April 2002/1 June 2002 for the
increased guarantee

— Manufacture of steel products listed in Annex I to the ECSC

Treaty (NACE code 221);

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

— Shipbuilding and ship repair (NACE codes 361.1, 361.2);

— Manufacture of synthetic fibres (NACE code 260);

— Firms operating in the sectors listed in Annex I to the EC

Treaty;

— Road haulage (Commission notice 96/C/68/06), in respect
of investments in transport means and transport equipment
within the meaning of Regulation (EC) No 70/2001 of 12
January 2001 (OJ L 10, 13.1.2001).

Further
mandatory Community rules.

restrictions may be imposed as required by new

Name and address of granting authority:

Regione Umbria — Giunta regionale
Servizio Politiche di sostegno alle imprese
Via Mario Angeloni, 61
I-06100 Perugia
Tel. (39-075) 504 57 09
Fax (39-075) 504 55 69
e-mail: servizio9@regione.umbria.it

Aid No: XS 24/02

Member State: Germany

Region: Hessen

and Regional Development,

Objective of aid: For selected areas, the Hessen Investment
Bank, acting on behalf of the Hessen Ministry of Economics,
to
Transport
investments in SMEs within the meaning of the Commission
Recommendation of 3 April 1996 (OJ L 107, 30 April 1996,
p. 4) with a view to creating and safeguarding jobs. The Bürg-
schaftsbank Hessen (BBH) can increase the guarantee for these
investment loans by 20 %.

grants

loans

Economic sector(s) concerned: Apart from agricultural and
forestry undertakings and the medical and nursing sector, all
economic sectors not excluded under Community regulations
or directives on the granting of state aid in specific sectors

Name and address of the granting authority:

InvestitionsBank Hessen AG (IBH)
Schumannstraße 4-6
D-60325 Frankfurt

information:

Other
contain
Deutschen Ausgleichsbank programmes not comprising any
aid components and IBH programmes which must be notified.

guidelines

attached

The

IBH's previous support programmes,
the Hessen structural
programme for SMEs (HSPM) and the growth programme for
SMEs
(HWPM) are being incorporated into the business
start-ups and growth programme.

The notification under
concerns
which an interest subsidy may be granted.

loans under points 1b-d of

the Block Exemption Regulation
for

the guidelines,

Title of aid scheme or name of the company receiving an
individual aid: Financing of business start-ups and growth

Legal basis: Gesetz zur Förderung der kleinen und mittleren
Unternehmen der hessischen Wirtschaft vom 23. September
1974 (GVBl., S. 458), zuletzt geändert am 22. August 1986
(GVBl., S. 265). Richtlinien Gründungs- und Wachstumsfinan-
zierung

Aid No: XS 27/2002

Member State: United Kingdom

Region: South west

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
individual aid granted to the company:
amount of
Approximately EUR 75 million

Title of aid scheme or name of the company receiving an
individual aid: Penryn Townscape Heritage Initiative (THI)

Maximum aid intensity: The gross grant equivalent of the
loan is under 7,5 %

Legal basis: Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas)
Act 1990, sections 57, 77, 79 and 80. The National Heritage
Act 1983, section 33

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

— motor vehicles,

Total ERDF Grant: GBP 670 000.

Total Common Fund: GBP 1 340 000.

— maritime transport system,

— other transport services,

The project punding package for the scheme is as follows:

— financial services

— Carrick District Council — GBP 100 000

Name and address of granting authority:

— Heritage Lottery Fund — GBP 400 000

— RDA — GBP 170 000

— ERDF — GBP 670 000.

SMEs will match a grant from the common fund with their
own resources.

No grant to an SME under this block exemption is estimated to
be over GBP 60 000

Maximum aid intensity: The maximum aid intensity is 50 %.

The ERDF will provide 50 % and the remainder will come from
other public bodies.

The grant will be used within Cornwall, which has Objective 1
status.

Date of implementation: April 2002

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: March 2007

Objective of aid: To facilitate the regeneration of buildings
owned by SMEs and to maintain their economic use through
restoration of vacant
and some
external
floorspace.

improvements

This work is one element of a wider image enhancement
programme for Penryn Town Centre.

Contractors undertaking works will be appointed through open
tender

Economic sectors concerned: All sectors excluding:

— agriculture,

— fisheries and aquaculture,

— coal Mining,

— steel,

— shipbuilding,

— synthetic fibres,

Government Office South West
(Brenda Edmonds)
Mast House
Shepherds Wharf
24 Sutton Road
Plymouth
PL4 0HJ

Other information:

The grant will be managed by:

Carrick District Council
(Tim Kellett)
Planning and Leisure Services Department
Carrick House
Pydar Street
Truro
TR1 1GT

Aid No: XS 42/01

Member State: Spain

Region: Galicia

Title of aid scheme or name of the company receiving an
individual aid: Aid for small service and craft enterprises
involving productive activities linked with the sea

Legal basis: Orden del 18 de junio de 2001, por la que se
regula la concesión de ayudas para pequeñas empresas de ser-
vicios y artesanales de actividades productivas vinculadas al
mar.

(To be published shortly)

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of individual aid granted to the company: Expen-
diture is estimated at EUR 300 000 per annum from 2001 to
2006

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Maximum aid intensity: According to the project presented
in conjunction with the request for aid, aid is granted as a
proportion of the sum requested and in such quantities as
the budget allows up to a maximum limit of 40 % of the
amount to be funded

Maximum aid intensity: According to the project presented
in conjunction with the request for aid, all aid will be granted
as a proportion of the sums requested and in such quantities as
the budget allows, up to a maximum limit of 40 % of the
amount to be funded.

Date of implementation: 30 June 2001

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: 31 December
2006. The final payment will be made on 31 December 2007

Objective of aid: The aid is part of a programme promoting
the creation or development of small craftwork or service busi-
nesses to carry out new activities linked with the maritime
sector. The aim is to reduce the local economy's dependence
on fishing and to boost the economic dynamism generated by
tourism in regions such as Galicia which are highly dependent
on fishing

Economic sector(s) concerned: Other services

Name and address of the granting authority:

Xunta de Galicia
Consellería de Pesca, Marisqueo e Acuicultura
Dirección Xeral de Formación Pesqueira e Investigación
Rúa dos Irmandiños, Salgueiriños
E-15781 Santiago de Compostela (A Coruña)
Sr. Director General de Formación Pesqueira e Investigación
Joaquín Mariño Cadarso
Tel. (34) 981 54 61 76

Aid No: XS 43/01

Member State: Spain

Region: Galicia

If the purpose of investment includes restoration of the cultural
or historic heritage, the amount of aid granted can be increased
to 60 % of the sum invested in such refurbishment

Date of implementation: 30 June 2001

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: 31 December
2006. The final payment will be made on 31 December 2007

Objective of aid: The aid is part of a programme promoting
the creation of coastal infrastructure to help develop tourist,
cultural and recreational activities involving the sea. The aim is
to reduce the local economy's dependence on fishing and to
boost the economic dynamism generated by tourism in regions
like Galicia which are highly dependent on fishing

Economic sector(s) concerned:

— small and medium-sized enterprises,

— tourism,

— other services

Name and address of the granting authority:

Xunta de Galicia
Consellería de Pesca, Marisqueo e Acuicultura
Dirección Xeral de Formación Pesqueira e Investigación
Rúa dos Irmandiños, Salgueiriños
E-15781 Santiago de Compostela (A Coruña)
Sr. Director General de Formación Pesqueira e Investigación
Joaquín Mariño Cadarso
Tel. (34) 981 54 61 76

Title of aid scheme or name of the company receiving an
infrastructure for
individual aid: Aid for setting up coastal
tourist, cultural and recreational activities involving the sea

Legal basis: Orden del 18 de junio de 2001, por la que se
regula la concesión de ayudas para la creación en el litoral de
infraestructuras turísticas, culturales y de recreo vinculadas al
mar.

(To be published shortly)

Aid No: XS 79/01

Member State: Germany

Region: North Rhine-Westphalia

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of individual aid granted to the company: Expen-
diture is estimated at EUR 300 000 per annum from 2001 to
2006

Title of aid scheme or name of the company receiving an
for small and medium-sized
individual aid: Equity capital
enterprises
to
Commission Regulation (EC) No 70/2001,
in North Rhine-
Westphalia/EU Objective 2 areas

(SMEs), within the meaning of Annex I

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Legal basis: Richtlinie des Ministeriums für Wirtschaft und
Mittelstand, Energie und Verkehr des Landes Nordrhein-West-
falen vom 5.7.2001: „NRW-EU-Programm Ziel 2, 5. Phase,
Beteiligungskapital
für kleine und mittlere Unternehmen
(KMU)“

The costs of used assets are eligible only if they involve the
purchase of a plant which has been closed down or
is
threatened with closure. The costs of
intangible assets are
eligible only if they can be capitalised (patents, licences, etc.).

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
individual aid granted to the company:
amount of
EUR 77,7 million over the period 2000-2006

Maximum aid intensity: Equity capital is to be made available
in the form of a secondary loan amounting to 50 % of the
eligible costs of a project, up to EUR 1 million, on market
terms. The interest
rate payable will be above the ECB
reference rate.

The maximum term is ten years but may vary depending on
the recipient's wishes. The loan is repayable in one lump at the
chosen term. In the event of early partial repayment (after not
less than five years), the agreed interest rate will be reduced by
1 % per annum on the outstanding amount for each year by
which the term is shortened, subject to a minimum interest
rate of 2 % per annum and repayment being distributed evenly
over the remaining years.

This is may not be granted to firms in difficulty. There is no
particular risk to the equity investment since

Any cost overrun may in principle be taken into account until
such time as the aid commitment has been notified in writing
to the house bank.

The costs of vehicles authorised for use on the public highway
which are used primarily for transport, aircraft, sea-going
vessels and railway vehicles, not used for rail transport may
not be taken into account for the purposes of calculating the
amount of aid.

The equity capital must be repaid within a period of not more
than 10 years and is subject to interest during that period.

In the event of the SME's insolvency, the repayment claim will
be enforced subordinately against all of
the firm's other
creditors.

The success of the assisted SME investment project will be
judged on the basis of its ability to create and maintain jobs,
strengthen the firm's financial position, and ensure regular
payment of interest and eventual repayment of the principal
at the agreed term of the loan.

— the project must involve job-creating or job-safeguarding
investment (i.e. the firm will generally be expanding);

The maximum aid intensity of 15 % for small enterprises and
7,5 % for medium-sized enterprises stipulated by Article 4 of
Commission Regulation (EC) No 70/2001 will not be exceeded

— the aid, amounting as it does to 50 % of the eligible project
costs,
the actual
is the same as or less than half of
financing
investment costs
to be financed, and other
partners will therefore assume more than half of the total
financing risk;

— the operating finance

case of
investment projects with an impact on jobs will be made
available outside and on top of the financial envelope in
question.

also required in the

For the purposes of calculating the amount of aid, account will
be taken of the cost of purchasing or producing the tangible
fixed assets
(no
operating funds). Account may also be taken of land costs,
although these may not exceed 10 % of the uniform basis of
assessment.

the investment project

forming part of

Date of
November 2001

implementation: The planned launch date is 1

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: No limit in
principle, but initially up to the end of 2006

Objective of aid: The aid takes the form of investment aid to
SMEs. Equity capital will be made available in the Objective 2
areas of North Rhine-Westphalia for the purposes of creating
and safeguarding jobs through investment.

For many SMEs in the assisted area, a lack of equity capital is a
problem because, given the associated absence or inadequacy
of bank collateral, it is difficult for them to finance investment
projects on the basis of credit.

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insti-
In recent years, private investors (including financial
tutions) have launched risk capital funds which are available
throughout the Land but are not designed primarily as an
instrument of regional structural policy, and in particular are
not focused on investment. The intention is to make equity
capital available to SMEs in Objective 2 areas which will be
offered in the form of a dormant equity holding (secondary
loan) as an alternative to an investment grant.

This will open up a lasting and capital-effective financing
option for SMEs in Objective 2 areas.

Name and address of the granting authority:

Ministerium für Wirtschaft und Mittelstand, Energie und
Verkehr des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen
Haroldstraße 4
D-40190 Düsseldorf
Contacts:
Dr. Reiner Eisold
Tel. 0211-837 26 28 (Fax 0211-837 26 27)
e-Mail: reiner.eisold@mwmev.nrw.de
Christine Währisch
Tel. 0211-837 24 56
e-Mail: christine.waehrisch@mwmev.nrw.de

The aid will not be available in combination with grants under
the North Rhine-Westphalia Economic Aid Programme for the
same project, and should therefore be seen as an aid alternative
available to SMEs.

Aid No: XS 85/01

Member State: Italy

Region: Calabria

The possibility of this aid instrument competing with equity
capital for SMEs offered on market terms should be regarded as
slight or non-existent since there is currently no such product
on the market in North Rhine-Westphalia, and the limit of
50 % of eligible costs does not rule out the possibility of
co-investment by private investors.

Title of aid scheme or name of the company receiving an
individual aid: Law No 1329/65 (the ‘Sabatini’ law): additional
capital contributions for the acquisition or leasing of new
machine tools or production equipment

Legal basis:

— Legge 28.11.1965, n. 1329,

The net cash flow and interest revenue accruing from the aid
will be ploughed back into a equity capital fund to be set up
and thus be available for new SME commitments.

— legge 19.12.1983, n. 696, articolo 3,

— legge 16.2.1987, n. 44,

granted for

job-creating
in Objective 2 areas of

and job-securing
Aid will be
investment measures
the Land.
Operating funds will not be covered by the aid. The overall
financing of the project must be ensured and its economic
viability and job-creating/job-safeguarding impact demonstrated

Economic sector(s) concerned: All sectors, excluding the
following: coal-mining, steel, shipbuilding, the synthetic fibres
industry,
the processing and
marketing of agricultural products,
transport and financial
services

the motor-vehicle

industry,

— decreto del ministro dell'Industria, del commercio e dell'ar-

tigianato del 21.2.1973,

— decreto del ministro del Tesoro del 30.4.1987,

— legge 17.5.1999, n. 144,

— decreto legislativo 31.3.1998, n. 112, articolo 19,

— regolamento C.E. n. 70 del 12.1.2001,

— legge regionale 2.5.2001, n. 7, articolo 31 quater,

— delibera di giunta della Regione Calabria del 31.5.2001, n.

471

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

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Maximum aid intensity: 50 % gross grant equivalent

— agro-industry (section DA);

Date of implementation: 5 September 2001

— manufacture of synthetic and artificial fibres (24.70).

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: 31 December
2006

Objective of aid: The aid is intended to facilitate the purchase
or leasing of machine tools or new manufacturing equipment
made in Italy or abroad, for a unit or sales cost in excess of
EUR 516,50, including machine systems, ancillary equipment,
accessories, fixed or self-propelled machinery and equipment
for handling, transporting and lifting equipment (cranes and
in
overhead travelling cranes,
tractors, belt conveyors, etc.)
the
and kitchen and air-conditioning
equipment.

factory or

yard,

the logistical

The machine tools and production equipment must form part
structure of production units located in
of
Calabria and registered with the Chamber of Commerce,
Industry, Crafts and Agriculture (CCIAA) and should not be
invoiced prior to the date on which the purchase or leasing
contract is signed.

Vehicles, vessels and aircraft entered in public registers are not
covered

Economic sector(s) concerned: The aid is intended solely for
small and medium-sized enterprises, as defined in Regulation
(EC) No 70/2001 but does not cover investments in the
following sectors:

— iron and steel (13.10, 13.20, 27.10, 27.22.1, 27.22.2);

— shipbuilding (35.11.1, 35.11.3);

— fisheries (section B);

— transport (60, 61, 62);

— farming (section A);

Investments relating to the exercise of activities in the motor
vehicle industry (34.10, 34.20 and 34.30) are subject to the
limits of the de minimis rule (aid not exceeding a total of
EUR 100 000 in a three-year period).

Name and address of granting authority:

Regione Calabria
Via Massara, 2
I-88100 Catanzaro

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

(a) the total eligible costs of the whole project are at least 25
million EUR 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 EUR 15 million.

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