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: 2003-06-03
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Germany, Italy, Spain, State aid, control of State aid, 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 to State aid to small and medium-sized enterprises

(2003/C 129/03)

(Text with EEA relevance)

Aid No: XS 7/02

Member State: Germany

Region: Bremen

Title of aid scheme or name of the company receiving an
individual
innovative
Stadttouristik mbH

aid: Hal Över Gesellschaft

für

Economic sector(s) concerned: Other services

Name and address of the granting authority:

WfG Bremer Wirtschaftsförderung GmbH
Langenstraße 2-4
D-28195 Bremen

Legal basis: §§ 23, 44 LHO Landeshaushaltsordnung der
Freien Hansestadt Bremen (dort vorliegend)

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
individual aid granted to the company:
amount of
Maximum EUR 234 799; Payments to be made in 2002 and
2003

Maximum aid intensity: 10 % of eligible costs (maximum
EUR 234 799)

Date of implementation: Grant decision of 24 April 2002

Aid No: XS 36/02

Member State: Italy

Region: Marche

Title of aid scheme or name of the company receiving an
individual aid: SPD Obj. 2 2000-2006 — Measure 3.1
Promotion of tourism and development of recreational facilities
— Sub-measure 2, measures (a) and (b): Aid to investment in
tourism for recreational and for ancillary and other facilities

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: Last payment
will probably be made in June 2003

Legal basis: Docup Ob. 2 2000-2006

Objective of aid: Investment aid

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

Year

2001

2002

2003

Total

Ordinary aid

Transitional aid

ITL

EUR

ITL

EUR

3 054 481 648

1 577 508,12

436 170 802,24

225 263,42

3 711 348 078

1 916 751,32

485 368 983,24

250 672,16

3 777 772 750

1 951 056,80

400 991 487,12

207 094,82

10 543 602 476

5 445 316,24

1 322 531 272,61

683 030,40

Maximum aid intensity: In accordance with Regulation (EC)
No 70/2001, the following rates of aid will be applied: 15 %
gge for small firms and 7,5 % gge for medium-sized firms. In
the areas qualifying for exemption under Article 87(3)(c) of the
EC Treaty the rate will be 8 % nge + 10 percentage points gge
for small firms and 8 % nge + 6 percentage points gge for
medium-sized firms

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

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: The scheme in
in any event, unless a
question covers the period 2001-03;

decision is taken to limit
its
application coincides with the period of validity of Regulation
(EC) No 70/2001; a separate notification will be sent if the
scheme is extended

the validity of

the scheme,

Objective of aid: The aid is intended to assist productive
investment in tourism, in particular to improve and develop
the quality of tourist facilities so as to increase their potential,
emphasis on measures having a limited
with particular
environmental
It is also intended to finance sports
facilities, extraordinary and general maintenance of mountain
lifts,
the complete replacement of obsolete lifts and the
purchase of artificial snow-making machinery

impact.

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Economic sector(s) concerned: Small and medium-sized
firms in the tourism sector

Name and address of the granting authority:

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

Regione Marche, Servizio turismo
Via Gentile da Fabriano, 1
I-60100 Ancona
Tel. (39) 071 80 61

Aid No: XS 37/02

Member State: Spain

Region: Castile-Leon

Title of aid scheme or name of the company receiving an
individual aid: Aid for drawing up a family protocol for SMEs
in the transport sector in Castile-Leon

Legal basis: Acuerdo de 26 de marzo de 2002, del Consejo
Rector de la Agencia de Desarrollo Económico de Castilla y
León, por el que se aprueban las bases de la convocatoria de
ayudas dirigidas a la elaboración de un protocolo familiar para
las PYMES del sector transporte, en el ámbito de la Comunidad
Autónoma de Castilla y León, para 2002 (BOC y L. no 69 de
11 de abril de 2002)

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of
individual aid granted to the company:
EUR 30 000

Maximum aid intensity: Up to 50 % of approved eligible
costs not exceeding EUR 18 000

Date of implementation: 12 April 2002

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: 2002

Objective of aid: With the assistance of an outside consultant,
preparation of a family protocol
the
business

following analysis of

Economic sector(s) concerned: SMEs in the transport sector

Name and address of the granting authority:

Agencia de Desarrollo Económico de Castilla y León
Duque de la Victoria, 23
E-47001 Valladolid

Aid No: XS 45/02

Member State: Spain

Region: Autonomous Community of the Region of Murcia

Legal basis:

— Estatuto de Autonomía de la Región de Murcia,

— Decreto del Consejo de Gobierno no 1/2002 de Reorgani-

zación de la Administración Regional,

— Decreto legislativo 1/1999 de 2 de diciembre, Texto Refun-

dido 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 con destino a la ejecución de
proyectos de explotación de recursos energéticos renovables
y de ahorro y eficiencia energética para el año 2002,

— 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
convocatoria 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,

— 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
modifica 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,

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

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 non-profit
making families and institutions for implementing projects
to exploit renewable energy resources and demonstration
projects promoting energy-saving and efficiency,

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— use of the energy from the following renewable sources:

San Cristóbal, 6
E-30071 Murcia

— solar,

— thermal,

— photovoltaic,

— wind,

— biomass,

— geothermal,

— municipal solid waste,

— biofuels

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

Name and address of the granting authority:

Aid No: XS 62/02

Member State: Italy

Region: Autonomous region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia

Title of aid scheme or name of the company receiving an
individual aid: Investment aid for tourism and retail businesses

Legal basis: Azione 2.1.2 del Complemento di programma-
zione del Docup obiettivo 2 2000-2006 approvato con Deli-
bera della Giunta regionale n. 846 del 22.3.2002, da attuare
tramite bandi

D. Patricio Valverde Megías
Consejero de Ciencia, Tecnología, Industria y Comercio

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

2000

—

2001

2002

2003

2004

2005

2006

Total

3 925 998

4 671 054

4 547 887

4 034 327

3 891 452

3 534 465

24 605 183

Maximum aid intensity: 15 % for small
medium-sized firms.

firms; 7,5 % for

For firms in areas qualifying for exemption under Article
87(3)(c) of
the EC Treaty: 8 % nge + 10 % gge for small
firms; 8 % nge + 6 % gge for medium-sized firms

Aid to firms managing small retail businesses in order to
encourage cooperation between entrepreneurs
through the
creation and improvement of networks between retailers
throughout the eligible territory. In addition, in certain areas
or in the tertiary sector, aid may also be granted to investments
in the creation of new business initiatives or the expansion or
modernisation of existing initiatives.

Date of implementation: 22 May 2002 (date of publication
of the first notice inviting applications)

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: 31 December
2006

Economic sector(s) concerned: SMEs that own or manage
(including cooperatives
tourism accommodation structures
managing
as
additional tourism infrastructure. SMEs that manage retail busi-
trade’
nesses or persons managing a not-for-profit
operation

accommodation structures)

as well

social

‘fair

Objective of aid:
Investment aid for SMEs in the tourism
industry and social accommodation management cooperatives
the upgrading and expansion of existing accom-
aimed at
modation structures, the creation of new structures and the
setting-up and modernisation of additional
infrastructure for
tourism.

Aid to firms managing small retail businesses in order to
encourage cooperation between entrepreneurs
through the
creation and improvement of networks between retailers
throughout the eligible territory.

Name and address of the granting authority:

regionale del Commercio, del Turismo e del

Regione Autonoma Friuli Venezia Giulia
Direzione
Terziario
Viale Miramare, 19
I-34100 Trieste
E-mail: commercio.tur@regione.fvg.it

Other information: The sectoral restrictions provided for by
the Community rules on state aid will be applied