Information communicated by Member States regarding state aid granted under Commission Regulation (EC) No 68/2001 of 12 January 2001 on the application of Articles 87 and 88 of the EC Treaty to training aid (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2003-06-13
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Germany, Italy, State aid, United Kingdom, business policy, continuing education, control of State aid

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Information communicated by Member States regarding state aid granted under Commission
Regulation (EC) No 68/2001 of 12 January 2001 on the application of Articles 87 and 88 of the
EC Treaty to training aid

(2003/C 138/02)

(Text with EEA relevance)

Aid No: XT 34/02

Member State: Italy

Region: Piedmont

Title of aid scheme or name of the company receiving an
individual aid: Directive on continuing training — Law No
236/93 — Company, sectoral and regional training schemes
agreed by labour and management — 2002

Legal basis: Deliberazione della giunta regionale del Piemonte
n. 76-5853 del 15.4.2002

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of
individual aid granted to the company:
EUR 12 584 655,43 (ITL 24 367 290 770)

Maximum aid intensity: The maximum aid intensities are
those laid down in Article 4(2) to (6) of Regulation (EC) No
the
68/2001. The aid, quantified on the assumption that
is
training course will be carried out properly and in full,
granted in the form of reimbursements of eligible expenditure
actually incurred and backed by documentary evidence in
respect of
in relation to the activity
actually carried out and within the maximum intensity
ceilings given below:

training programmes,

Duration of
December 2003

scheme or

individual

aid award: Until

Objective of aid: The aid scheme covers general and specific
training. Under Article 2(e) of Regulation (EC) No 68/2001:

— general training means training of a general nature which
is not related solely to the employee's present or future
position in the assisted firm and provides qualifications
that are largely transferable to other firms or fields of work,

— specific training means training involving theoretical and
practical tuition applicable to the employee's present or
future position in the assisted firm.

For the purpose of implementing this aid scheme, it should be
pointed out that:

— ‘general training’

includes courses where there is already
provision for final public certification of the qualification
or professional or vocational licence and training courses
organised for more than one firm, i.e. providing tuition for
workers from two or more firms, even if they are in the
same productive sector;

— ‘specific training’ includes courses aimed at workers and/or

owners of the same firm.

With regard to ‘general training’, see Article 24 of Regional
Law No 63 of 13 April 1995 and Article 14 of Law No
845 of 21 December 1978, attached

Large enterprises

Specific
training

General
training

Economic sector(s) concerned: All sectors; all services

Non-assisted areas

Article 87(3)(c) assisted areas

25

30

50

55

SMEs

Specific
training

General
training

Non-assisted areas

Article 87(3)(c) assisted areas

35

40

70

75

Name and address of
the granting authority: Regione
Piemonte — Direzione regionale alla formazione professionale
— lavoro. Settore attività formativa, Via Magenta, 12 —
I-10128 Torino

Other information: The total public contribution that may be
allocated to a single firm for training programmes under this
in any event exceed EUR 1 million
Directive may not
(ITL 1 936 270 000).

The above intensities are increased by 10 percentage points if
the training is given to disadvantaged workers, as defined in
Article 2(g) of Regulation (EC) No 68/2001.

Beneficiaries: firms (small, medium-sized or large) running the
they are individually identified before the
training course;
action is approved

Date of implementation: 12 June 2002

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Aid No: XT 54/02

Aid No: XT 55/02

Member State: United Kingdom

Member State: Germany

Region: The aid will be disseminated via Business Link
Operators in West Yorkshire, Essex, and Devon and Cornwall

Region: Berlin

Title of aid scheme or name of the company receiving an
individual aid: Small Firms Training Scheme (Health and
Safety Training)

Title of aid scheme or name of the company receiving an
individual aid: Continuing vocational
training and more
flexible work organisation

Legal basis: Health and Safety at Work Act, etc. 1974

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of individual aid granted to the company: Total
is GBP 1,97 million: 2002/03 —
planned expenditure
GBP 1,18 million; 2003/04 — GBP 0,79 million

Maximum aid intensity: Not exceeding 70 %. No one grant
the scheme will exceed
per business over the lifetime of
GBP 1 000

Date of implementation: 29 July 2002

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: 31 May 2003

Objective of aid: The Revitalising Health and Safety (RHS)
Strategy consultation exercise revealed support
from small
firms for financial assistance. Development of this scheme is
an objective of the strategy. Aid will be available to micro
It will offer
enterprises with fewer
than 10 employees.
financial assistance for
them to access health and safety
training. Resources and health and safety knowledge are
often scarce in small businesses. The objective therefore is to
help small businesses put in place appropriate health and safety
management arrangements and to promote practical under-
standing of dealing with health and safety in the workplace.
The scheme should improve awareness of, and understanding
in dealing with, health and safety risks in small businesses

Economic sector(s) concerned: All sectors

Name and address of the granting authority:

Legal basis: Verwaltungsvorschrift vom 5.7.2001 über betrieb-
liche Weiterbildung und Flexibilisierung der Arbeitsorganisa-
tion

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of individual aid granted to the company: Allo-
cation of approximately EUR 3,5 million in the budget for
Berlin.

The total amount that a company can be granted as individual
aid for general training is EUR 5 000 in one skill field, subject
to a ceiling of EUR 25 000 over two years;
for advisory
services, up to a maximum of EUR 1 500

Maximum aid intensity: Continuing training: up to 75 %;
Advisory services: up to 50 %

The rules on permissible aid intensity laid down in Article 4(3)
and (4) of Regulation (EC) No 68/2001 are complied with.

Date of implementation: 1 November 2001

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: Until 31
December 2003

Objective of aid: To support the adaptation of employees in
SMEs to structural change through the use of information tech-
nology and to provide back-up for the introduction of different
working patterns, flexible working time and teleworking.

Mel Draper
Health and Safety Executive
Rose Court
8SW
2 Southwark Bridge
London SE1 9HS
Tel. (44-207) 717 64 00

Other information: This is a pilot scheme. The aid is general

In the wake of structural change, higher skills are being
required of employees. The aim of
the aid scheme is to
increase employability through continuing vocational training
as the ever-shorter shelf life of learnt knowledge means that
constant skills renewal and upgrading are needed. This also
helps to rectify the lack of unskilled labour. Transferable
skills are acquired. The aid scheme corresponds
to the
‘lifelong learning’ and ‘enhancement of adaptability through
technologies’
use
components of the European Employment Strategy. The intro-
duction of more
flexible ways of organising work by
supporting the provision of advice on introducing different
working patterns,
flexible working time and teleworking
makes it easier to strike a balance between family and work.

communication

information

and

of

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These are general training measures within the meaning of
Article 2(e) of Regulation (EC) No 68/2001, as borne out by
the supporting documents in the application or
financial
statement procedures

— the operational programme approved by the Commission
on 29 December 2000 for measures under the European
structural funds in Berlin (Objective 1),

Economic sector(s) concerned: All economic sectors

Name and address of the granting authority:

— the

single programming document approved by the
Commission on 3 December 2001 for measures under
the European structural funds in Berlin (Objective 2) and

Investitionsbank Berlin
Bundesallee 210
D-10719 Berlin

and

Senatsverwaltung für Wirtschaft, Arbeit und Frauen — V B
Storkower Straße 134
D-10407 Berlin

Other information:

The aid scheme is part of

— the

single programming document approved by the
Commission on 10 October 2000 for the development of
the labour market and human resources for Objective 3
measures in Germany.

The measure/operation into which the aid scheme fits is
entitled ‘Continuing vocational training, skilling,
information
and advice, organisation and working time’ and is classified
under measure/policy area D: ‘Adaptability and entrepreneurial
spirit’. Actions under this measure/operation are funded in part
by the European Social Fund

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

Cases where the Commission raises no objections

(2003/C 138/03)

(Text with EEA relevance)

Date of adoption of the decision:

19.2.2003

Member State:

Aid No:

Title:

Objective:

Legal basis:

Budget:

Duration:

Austria

N 403/02

Venture Capital Scheme for the Land of Styria

Address the lack of equity for SMEs in the Austrian Land of
Steiermark

Beschluss der Steiermärkischen Landesregierung,
GZ FA14C17-33/02-77 vom 10.6.2001

EUR 2,5 million

31 December 2006

The authentic text(s) of the decision, from which all confidential information has been removed, can be
found at

http://europa.eu.int/comm/secretariat_general/sgb/state_aids