Authorisation for State aid pursuant to Articles 87 and 88 of the EC Treaty — Cases where the Commission raises no objections (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2003-07-02
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Denmark, France, Germany, State aid, United Kingdom, control of State aid, credit institution, investment project, research and development

2.7.2003

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Official Journal of the European Union

C 154/13

Legal basis: Haushaltsgesetz des Landes Baden-Württemberg;
Landwirtschaft- und Landeskulturgesetz Baden-Württemberg
sowie Vollzugshinweise

Budget: Between EUR 0,280 and 0,310 million in 2003 to
2006

Aid intensity or amount: For consumer information the aid
may be up to 100 % of the documented costs and is limited to
EUR 100 000 per beneficiary. For advertising campaigns the
aid rate is 50 % and the sector has to contribute the rest of the
advertising costs

Title: Income support for livestock farms in crisis due to BSE

Objective: Aid to compensate income lost by livestock farmers
in the period January-June 2001

Legal basis: Proposta di
legge regionale n. 284: «Interventi
straordinari per fronteggiare l'emergenza nel settore zootecnico
causata dall'encefalopatia
e modifica
dell'articolo 5 della Legge regionale 25 maggio 2001, n. 11»

spongiforme bovina

Budget: EUR 4 648 112

Duration: Unlimited

Aid intensity or amount: Up to 100 % of losses, as set out in
the letter to the Member State

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dential information has been removed, can be found at

Duration: One-off aid

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

Date of adoption of the decision: 13.5.2003

Member State: Italy (Piedmont)

Other information: Piedmont undertakes to submit an annual
report
this
measures

to the Commission on the implementation of

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dential information has been removed, can be found at

Aid No: N 587/01

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

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

Cases where the Commission raises no objections

(2003/C 154/08)

(Text with EEA relevance)

Date of adoption of the decision: 21.1.2003

Duration: Unlimited in time

Member State: France

Aid No: E 50/01

Title: Guarantee of CDC to CDC IXIS

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dential information has been removed, can be found at

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Objective: Permit CDC IXIS to continue operating under the
same conditions as when the activity was lodged within the
CDC legal structure

Legal basis: Guarantee agreement contracted between CDC and
CDC IXIS effective from 1 January 2001

Budget: Unlimited in amount

Form of interventions: State guarantees

Date of adoption of the decision: 27.5.2003

Member State: Denmark

Aid No: N 482/01

Title: Danish scheme on loan loss provisions for credit insti-
tutions

Aid intensity or amount: Not quantified

Objective: Financial sector

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2.7.2003

Legal basis: Section 25(6) of the Danish Exchange Gains Act

Budget: unknown

Aid intensity or amount: ‘measure not constituting aid’

Duration: Undefined

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dential information has been removed, can be found at

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Date of adoption of the decision: 22.4.2003

Member State: Germany (Saarland)

Aid No: N 115/03

Title: Regional aid scheme of Saarland in favour of SMEs

Objective: To favour investment and job creation

Legal basis: Regionales Förderprogramm des Saarlandes für
kleine und mittlere Unternehmen der gewerblichen Wirtschaft
(einschließlich Tourismus)

Budget: Euro 5,5 million a year

Aid intensity or amount: maximum 15 % gross in the case of
small firms; maximum 7,5 % in the case of medium-sized firms

Duration: Until 31 December 2006

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dential information has been removed, can be found at

Objective: To encourage enterprises to undertake innovative
research and technological development with commercial
potential in Wales. To encourage industry collaborations with
other industrial partners and with research base organisations
(both public and private) in carrying out industrial research and
pre-competitive development activities

Legal basis: Welsh Development Agency Act 1975

Budget: GBP 36 million (EUR 55 million), of which about
GBP 10 million (EUR 15 million)
in 2003/2004, GBP 12
million (EUR 18,5 million)
in 2004/2005 and GBP 14
million (EUR 21,5 million) in 2005/2006

Aid intensity or amount: For industrial research: maximum
50 %; for pre-competitive development: maximum 25 %; for
technical feasibility studies preparatory to industrial research:
maximum 75 %;
for studies preparatory to precompetitive
development activities: maximum 50 %; the aid intensity can
be increased by maximum:

— 10 percentage points, as the aid is to be given to SME's,

— 10 percentage points, as the aid is to be given to enter-

prises in assisted Areas 87(3)(a),

— 5 percentage points, as the aid is to be given to enterprises

in assisted Areas 87(3)(c),

— 15 or 25 percentage points where a research project is in
or programme
specific
framework

project
the Community's

accordance with
undertaken as part of
programme for R & D,

a

— 10 percentage points where a research project is not in
or programme
specific
framework
cooperation

project
the Community's
specific

accordance with
undertaken as part of
programme
elements or spread of results.

for R & D but has

a

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exceeding 75 % for
top-ups, not
Altogether,
industrial research and 50 % for pre-competitive development

including

Date of adoption of the decision: 13.3.2003

Member State: United Kingdom (Wales)

Aid No: N 28/03

Duration: 1 April 2003 to 31 March 2006

Other information: The scheme will subsume SMART Wales,
SPUR and SPURPLUS (State aid N 115/98)

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dential information has been removed, can be found at

Title: WDA R & D scheme

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