Authorisation for State aid pursuant to Articles 87 and 88 of the EC Treaty (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2003-05-08
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: State aid, carriage of goods, control of State aid, island region, pulp and paper industry, road transport, venture capital, vocational training, wind energy

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

(2003/C 110/04)

(Text with EEA relevance)

Date of adoption of the decision: 5.3.2003

Budget: EUR 3 057 503,31

Member State: France

Aid No: N 26/03

Aid intensity or amount: 54,5 % gross

Other information: N 667/99

Title:
Individual
between Paris and Corsica

social assistance scheme for air

services

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dential information has been removed, can be found at

Objective: To promote the opening-up of Corsica by estab-
lishing a social assistance scheme for certain categories of
passengers and for residents of the island, and thus combat
handicaps connected with its insular nature

Legal basis: Délibération no 02/369 AC de l'Assemblée de
Corse adoptée le 29 novembre 2002 définissant un dispositif
d'aide à caractère social aux personnes transportées sur les
liaisons régulières entre Paris (Orly) et les aéroports corses

Budget: EUR 25,6 million on an annual basis

Aid intensity or amount: Reimbursement to air carriers of
EUR 41 per person and per journey for flights between Paris
(Orly) and Ajaccio, Bastia, Calvi and Figari. This reimbursement
can only be granted for certain categories of passengers (people
with their main place of residence in Corsica; young people
under 25 years of age; elderly people over 60 years of age;
students under 27 years of age; passengers travelling as a
family; disabled persons or invalids)

Duration: Although there is no set expiry date for the scheme,
it is not intended to be permanent

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Date of adoption of the decision: 4.2.2003

Member State: The Netherlands

Aid No: N 790/02

Title: Budget increase for the wind turbine part of the subsidy
scheme for energy supplies in the non-profit and special
sectors (EINP)

Objective: To stimulate the purchase by natural persons of
wind turbines generating electricity

Legal basis: Ministerieel besluit op basis van de kaderwet Ver-
strekking Financiële middelen EZ

Budget: The budget for persons purchasing a wind turbine is
increased to EUR 10,4 million

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dential information has been removed, can be found at

Aid intensity or amount: 20 %

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Duration: Unlimited

Date of adoption of the decision: 24.1.2003

Member State: Portugal (Alentejo)

Aid No: N 485/02

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dential information has been removed, can be found at

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Title: Training aid for EPCOS — Peças e Componentes Elec-
trónicos, S.A.

Member State: Spain (Tenerife)

Date of adoption of the decision: 17.7.2002

Objective: General and specific training

Aid No: NN 29/02

Legal basis: Sistema de Incentivos à Modernização Empresarial

Title: Aid for the installation of service areas on Tenerife

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Objective: Road freight transport

Legal basis: Bases particulares que han de regir la convocatoria
de ayudas para la instalación de áreas de servicio de transpor-
tistas autónomos de servicio público de mercancías en diferen-
tes comarcas de la isla. Boletín Oficial de la Provincia de Santa
Cruz de Tenerife, número 66

Budget: The overall budget envisaged is EUR 300 506,05

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dential information has been removed, can be found at

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Date of adoption of the decision: 19.2.2003

Member State: Germany (Brandenburg)

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dential information has been removed, can be found at

Aid No: N 713/02

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Title: Aid in favour of LEIPA Georg Leinfelder GmbH

Date of adoption of the decision: 4.2.2003

Member State: United Kingdom

Aid No: N 620/02

Title: Small and Medium Enterprise Venture Capital and Loan
Fund

Objective: Realisation of a large investment project under the
Multisectoral Framework on regional aid for the construction
of a production plant for light-weight magazine paper

Legal basis:

— 28. Rahmenplan der Gemeinschaftsaufgabe „Verbesserung

der regionalen Wirtschaftsstruktur“

— Investitionszulagengesetz 1999

Objective: Provide venture capital and loan funding to SMEs
in the United Kingdom

— Programm für unmittelbare Bürgschaften des Bundes und
der Länder in den neuen Bundesländern und Berlin Ost

Legal basis: ‘Industrial Development Act 1982 (Section 7,11)’,
the ‘Industrial Development Act 1988’, the ‘Local Government
Act 2000 (Section 2)’, the ‘Regional Development Agencies Act
1998 (Section 5 and 6)’, the ‘Greater London Authority Act
1999’, the ‘Leasehold Reform, Housing and the Urban Devel-
opment Act 1993 (Part 3)’, the ‘New Towns Act 1981’, the
‘Housing Grant Construction and Regeneration Act 1996
(Section 126)’, the ‘Enterprise and New Towns (Scotland) Act
1990 as amended 1 April 2001 by Scottish Statutory
Instrument 2001 No 126’, as well as the ‘Welsh Development
Agency Act 1975 as amended’

Budget: EUR 368 million

Aid intensity or amount: 26,17 %

Duration: April 2002 to March 2005

Other information: Commitment by Germany to comply with
the obligations regarding ex-post monitoring according to
point 6 of the Multisectoral Framework on regional aid for
large investment projects

Budget: Approximately GBP 1 billion (EUR 1,6 billion) total
funding

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dential information has been removed, can be found at

Duration: Funding until 31 December 2008

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