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: 2003-03-28
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: State aid, craft production, distribution business, environmental protection, investment, monument, occupational safety, production improvement, small and medium-sized enterprises, tourism

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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 04/02.

Member State: Italy.

Region: Valle d'Aosta.

(2003/C 76/03)

(Text with EEA relevance)

Aid No: XS 05/02.

Member State: Italy.

Region: Valle d'Aosta.

Title of aid scheme or name of the company receiving an
individual aid: Regional measures to assist recreational and
commercial facilities for tourists.

Legal basis: Legge regionale 4 settembre 2001, n. 19.

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

Capital contributions: EUR 3 950 000.

Subsidised loans: EUR 500 000.

Maximum aid intensity:

The gross aid intensity is:

— 15 % in the case of small enterprises;

— 7,5 % in the case of medium-sized enterprises.

If the investment is made by an SME in the Valle d'Aosta area
included on the Italian regional aid map for 2000-06, the
intensities in Commission Decision (2000) 2752 final (Corri-
gendum of 20 September 2000) are applicable.

aid: Regional measures

Title of aid scheme or name of the company receiving an
individual
and
medium-sized enterprises with projects to promote quality,
safety and the environment. Amendment of Regional Law No
84 of 7 December 1993 (regional measures to assist research,
development and quality), as last amended by Regional Law No
11 of 18 April 2000.

to assist

small

Legal basis: Legge regionale 12 novembre 2001, n. 31.

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

1. EUR 236 280 for 2001;

2. EUR 472 450 for 2002;

3. EUR 495 700 a year from 2003.

Maximum aid intensity:

Date of implementation: 10 December 2001.

Investment. The gross aid intensity must not exceed:

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: Until 30 June
2007.

— 15 % in the case of small enterprises;

Objective of aid: To assist investment by SMEs operating in
the tourism and distributive sectors.

Economic sector(s) concerned: Small and medium-sized
enterprises operating in the tourism and distributive sectors.

Name and address of the granting authority:

Regione autonoma Valle d'Aosta
Dipartimento Turismo, sport, commercio e trasporti
Direzione Strutture ricettive e attività economiche terziarie
Piazza Narbonne 3
I-11100 Aosta

— 7,5 % in the case of medium-sized enterprises.

If the investment is made by an SME in the Valle d'Aosta area
included on the Italian regional aid map for 2000-06, the
intensities in Commission Decision C(2000) 2752 final (Corri-
gendum of 20 September 2000) are applicable.

Consultancy and other services. The gross amount will not
exceed 50 % of the cost of such services.

Date of implementation: 5 December 2001.

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: Until 30 June
2007.

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Objective of aid: To promote the introduction of quality
management
systems
and industrial safety management systems in SMEs.

systems, environmental management

Economic sector(s) concerned: Small and medium-sized
manufacturing and service/enterprises.

Name and address of the granting authority:

Regione autonoma Valle d'Aosta
Assessorato Industria, artigianato ed energia
Servizio Assistenza alle imprese, ricerca, qualità e formazione
professionale
Piazza della Repubblica 15
I-11100 Aosta.

Aid No: XS 08/02.

Member State: Italy.

Region: Marche.

Title of aid scheme or name of the company receiving an
individual aid: SPD Obj. 2 2000-2006 — Measure 1.1 Aid to
investments by small and
productive and environmental
medium-sized industrial and craft
firms, sub-measure 1.1.2.
Aid to investments by craft firms (production and productions
services).

Legal basis: Docup Ob. 2 2000-2006.

firms and 7,5 % gge for medium-sized
In the areas qualifying for exemption under Article
the EC Treaty the rate will be 8 % nge + 10
firms and 8 % nge + 6

15 % gge for small
firms.
87(3)(c) of
percentage points gge for
percentage points gge for medium-sized firms.

small

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

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: The duration
of the scheme is the same as the period of validity of Regu-
lation (EC) No 70/2001; a separate notification will be sent if
the scheme is extended.

Objective of aid: To promote productive investment in craft
firms (production and production services) and to raise or
maintain employment levels.

Economic sectors concerned:

1. all other manufacturing sectors;

2. services.

Activities involving the production, processing or marketing of
the goods listed in Annex I to the EC Treaty are excluded.

Name and address of the granting authority:

Regione Marche, Servizio industria e artigianato, Via Tiziano
44, I-60100 Ancona — Tel. (0039-071) 80 61

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

Aid No: XS 10/02.

Member State: Italy.

ordinary aid

transitional aid

Region: Tuscany.

Year

ITL

EUR

ITL

EUR

Title of aid scheme or name of the company receiving an
individual aid: Private infrastructure for cultural activities.

2001

6 540 797 724

3 378 040

2 000 000 000 1 032 914

2002

8 712 000 000

4 499 373

2 824 969 434 1 458 975

Legal basis:

2003

8 000 000 000

4 131 655

1 551 064 484

801 058

2004

8 000 000 000

4 131 655

2 000 000 000 1 032 914

— Decisione della giunta regionale n. 13 dell'11.7.2001 avente
ad oggetto «Reg. 1260/99 — Docup Ob. 2 — Anni
2000-2006. Direttive per l'attuazione dei Regimi di aiuto»;

2005

8 000 000 000

4 131 655

1 623 966 082

838 708

2006

11 127 202 276

5 746 720

—

—

— Decisione della giunta regionale n. 25 del 28.12.2001
avente ad oggetto «direttive per l'attuazione della misura
di aiuti per infrastrutture private per le attività culturali».

Total

50 380 000 000 26 019 099 10 000 000 000 5 164 569

Maximum aid intensity: In accordance with Regulation (EC)
the following rates of aid will be applied:
No 70/2001,

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of individual aid granted to the company: A total
of
approximately
for
EUR 9 105 240
EUR 1 517 540 per year

2001-2006,

i.e.

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Maximum aid intensity:

1. In accordance with the limits and procedures set out in
Commission Regulation (EC) No 70/2001 (OJ L 10,
13.1.2001, p. 33), aid will be allocated as follows:

(a)

case of

small businesses, natural persons,
in the
associations
aid will
amount to 15 % of the actual cost of implementing
the project eligible for assistance under the scheme;

and non-profit organisations,

in cultural goods and activities;
the public use of goods

2. the public use of the abovementioned cultural goods for
investment
educational purposes, and also for
to
in order
projects
financed by the
organise
in
Community, applicants must accept and make public,
accordance with the law, the relevant obligations with the
additional agreement of the local authorities promoting the
public use of the cultural goods being invested in;

regional

3. the establishment of new economic activities administering

services for the public use of cultural goods.

Economic sector(s) concerned:

(b) in the case of medium-sized businesses, aid will amount
to 7,5 % of the actual cost of implementing the project
eligible for assistance.

ISTAT-codes 1991

— Section F — ‘Construction’;

of

the

Treaty

establishing

2. In the areas covered by Article 87(3)(c) (formerly Article
92(3)(c))
European
Community, aid to the individual categories mentioned in
paragraph 1a above will amount to 25 % of the actual cost
of implementing the project eligible for assistance under the
scheme. Similarly, aid to the category referred to in
paragraph 1b will amount to 17,5 % of the actual cost of
implementing the project eligible for assistance.

the

For the definition of SMEs, see Commission Recommendation
96/280/EC.

Goods benefiting from action eligible for assistance under the
scheme are accessible to the public as specified in the Region
of Tuscany's own administrative acts or following suitable indi-
vidual agreements between owners of such goods and the
relevant local authorities, drawn up in accordance with the
Region of Tuscany's administrative acts.

— Section K — ‘Real estate, rentals, IT, research and other
services to enterprises’, only Division 72 ‘IT and related
activities’;

— Section O — ‘Other community, social and personal service
activities’, only Division 92.5 ‘Libraries, archives, museums
and other cultural activities’.

Name and address of the granting authority:

Regione Toscana
Dipartimento Politiche formative e beni culturali
Servizio Beni culturali
Via Farini 8
I-50121 Firenze

Date of implementation: January 2002, date on which the
Commission received the notification.

scheme or

Duration of
individual aid award: Period
2002-2006. The administrative act entitling applicants to aid
must be adopted by 31 December 2006.

Aid No: XS 19/02.

Member State: Italy.

Region: Liguria

Objective of aid: Capital aid scheme for owners of cultural
goods that are available for public use.

Title of aid scheme or name of the company receiving an
individual aid: Measure 1.2 ‘Aid for productive investments’
— Submeasure B 2) ‘Support for small investments’.

Granting of subsidies for tangible and intangible investments
for:

1. the enhancement of privately-owned cultural goods covered
by Title 1 of the ‘Consolidation law of legislation on cultural
and environmental goods’ (legislative decree No. 490 of 29
October 1999) in accordance with Article 9 of the Consti-
tution of the Italian Republic;

Legal basis:

— Docup Ob. 2 Regione Liguria 2000-2006 approvato con
del

C(2001) 2044

Commissione

europea

decisione
7.9.2001;

— Complemento di programmazione del Docup Ob. 2 Re-
gione Liguria 2000-2006, approvato con deliberazione
Giunta regionale n. 1404 del 30.11.2001;

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— Bando della misura 1.2 «Aiuti agli investimenti produttivi»
— Sottomisura B 2) «Sostegno ga piccoli investimenti», ap-
provato con deliberazione della Giunta regionale n. 93
dell'11.2.2002.

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of individual aid granted to the company: Total
expenditure of EUR 53 034 782,66, broken down as follows:

— EUR 7 587 283,47 of average annual public expenditure in
the period 2002-2006 (Objective 2 areas and Article
87(3)(c) exempted areas);

— EUR 3 774 591,33 of average annual public expenditure in
and

(transitional

2002-2005

support

period
the
phasing-out areas).

Maximum aid intensity:

— Interest-free repayable aid with a maximum intensity of
15 % gge and 7,5 % gge for small and medium-sized enter-
prises
support
in Objective 2 areas and transitional
(phasing-out) areas respectively, 8 % nge +10 % gge and
8 % nge +6 % gge for small and medium-sized firms in
areas exempted under Article 87(3)(c) of the EC-Treaty.

— Non-repayable grant

specialised
consultancy services amounting to 50 % of eligible costs
and not exceeding EUR 26 000.

the acquisition of

for

31.12.2006 Objective 2 areas exempted under Article 87(3)(c).

Objective of aid: The submeasure is intended to finance
investment inn the development and strenghtening of SMEs
and to improve their competitiveness and international scope.

Economic sector(s) 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’;

— tourism enterprises,

professional

activities,
excluding
identified and defined as follows: hotels and other tourist
accomodation, camping sites, holiday villages, holiday
parks,
inns, holiday houses and apartments, mountain
huts and trekking hostels, holiday homes and mini rest
areas, excluding bed and breakfast establishments,
inns,
rest areas with facilities and seaside establishments;

— 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.

Date of implementation: 30.4.2002.

Name and address of the granting authority:

Duration of scheme or individual aid award:

31.12.2005 Transitional support (phasing-out) areas.

FILSE — Finanziaria Ligure per lo Sviluppo economico
Via Peschiera, 16
I-16122 Genova.