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: 2003-07-02
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Italy, Spain, State aid, United Kingdom, control of State aid, film industry, harbour installation, job creation, small and medium-sized enterprises, social rehabilitation

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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 154/09)

(Text with EEA relevance)

Edif. Admvo. San Caetano
E-15771 Santiago de Compostela

Aid No: XS 106/01

Member State: Spain

Region: Autonomous Community of Galicia

Title of aid scheme or name of the company receiving an
individual aid: Support for technology-based job creation

Legal basis: Orden de la Consellería de Familia y Promoción de
Empleo, Mujer y Juventud de 3 de octubre de 2001 (DOG no:
209; 29.10.2001)

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of
individual aid granted to the company:
EUR 1 803 036,31

Maximum aid intensity: The
scheme provides one-off
non-refundable grants for each net job created, the amount
of which varies and is determined in each specific case
having due regard to the population group to which the
person hired belongs and a number of criteria used for
setting the maximum amount of aid. The aid intensity may
not exceed 55 % of the employee's wage costs over a period
of two years

research,

areas of

technology

Other information: The scheme is a tool for promoting entre-
preneurship in the
and
employment by exploiting the potential of researchers and
university graduates with an entrepreneurial profile (there are
three universities and seven university campuses in Galicia)
who wish to set up their own business, thereby increasing
the capacity for transferring knowledged acquired, chiefly in
universities and public research centres, to business projects
that generate employment and wealth, boosting the devel-
opment,
the
company base and labour market in Galicia

and competitiveness of

innovative

calibre

Aid No: XS 56/02

Member State: United Kingdom

Region: West Midlands Objective 2

Title of aid scheme or name of the company receiving an
individual aid: Herbert-Mandela Phase One (1/2)

Date of implementation: Aid may be granted under the
scheme once the implementing rules have been published

Legal basis: Section 2 of the Local Government Act 2000;
Industrial Development 1982, Sections 7 and 11

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: 31 December
2006

Objective of aid: To promote net job creation in small, scien-
tifically and/or technologically innovative businesses during
their
startup. The scheme therefore
provides aid for job creation linked to investment

few years after

first

Economic sector(s) concerned: All sectors, although the
limits and
present aid scheme is subject to the exclusions,
conditions
sectoral
Community rules applied in each case

down in the horizontal

and

laid

Name and address of the granting authority:

Xunta de Galicia
Consellería de Familia y Promoción de Empleo, Mujer y
Juventud
Director General de Fomento del Empleo
Justo de Benito Basanta

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of individual aid granted to the company: Total
is GBP 2 733 245; By calendar year:
public expenditure
2002,
for
GBP 142 000
GBP 2 054 831 for 2003 and GBP 196 564 for 2004

GBP 339 850

2001,

for

Maximum aid intensity: 50 %. Approximately 45 SMEs will
be assisted by the project. Each individual SME is expected to
receive assistance totalling not more than GBP 100 000

Date of implementation: July 2002

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: Until October
2004

advice on
Objective of
production, participation and presentation in creative media
to creative businesses and community enterprises

aid: To provide

consultancy

Economic sector(s) concerned: Creative industries

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Name and address of the granting authority:

Phil Howard
Government Office for the West Midlands
77 Paradise Circus
Queensway
Birmingham, B1 2DT

Other information:

Peter Chandler
Arts and Heritage Service, Coventry City Council
Herbert Art Gallery & Museum
Jordan Well
Coventry, CV1 5QP

Aid No: XS 64/02

Member State: Italy

Region: Liguria

Title of aid scheme or name of the company receiving an
individual aid: Measure 3.4(b) ‘Aid to social enterprises’

Legal basis:

— Docup Obiettivo 2 Regione Liguria 2000-2006 approvato
con Decisione Commissione Europea C(2001) 2044 del
7.9.2001,

— Complemento di Programmazione del Docup Obiettivo 2
Regione Liguria 2000-2006, approvato con Deliberazione
Giunta regionale n. 1404 del 30.11.2001, così come mo-
dificato con Deliberazione della Giunta Regionale n. 694
del 2.7.2002,

— Bando della Misura 3.4 «Sostegno economia sociale» —
Sottomisura B «Aiuto alle imprese sociali», approvato con
Deliberazione della Giunta regionale n. 695 del 2.7.2002

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of individual aid granted to the company: Total
expenditure of EUR 7 620 749, broken down as follows:

medium-sized firms in Objective 2 areas and transitional
support (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

Date of implementation: 15 July 2002

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: 31 December
2005 — Transitional support (phasing-out) areas; 31 December
2006 — Objective 2 areas exempted under Article 87(3)(c)

Objective of aid: The sub-measure is intended to support
inclusion of
investment aimed at promoting the
persons in difficulty who are users of social services and disad-
vantaged persons on the labour market, pursuant to Article 4
of Law No 381/91

social

Economic sector(s) concerned: Social cooperatives and their
consortia, within the meaning of Law No 381/1991 which,
when the application is submitted, are:

— listed in the Regional Register provided for in Article 2 of

Law No 23/093 or equivalent regional registers,

— covered by the Community definition of an SME laid down
by Ministerial Decrees of 18 September 1997 and 27
October 1997.

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

Name and address of the granting authority:

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

Aid No: XS 67/02

Member State: United Kingdom

Region: Cornwall

— EUR 910 474,20 of average annual public expenditure in
the period 2002 to 2006 (Objective 2 areas and Art.
87(3)(c) exempted areas),

Title of aid scheme or name of the company receiving an
individual aid: Cornwall Film Fund for SMEs

— EUR 767 094,50 of average annual public expenditure in
support and

the period 2002 to 2005 (transitional
phasing-out areas)

Maximum aid intensity:
Interest-free repayable aid with a
maximum intensity of 15 % gge and 7,5 % gge for small and

Legal basis: United Kingdom Local Government Act 2000

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of
individual aid granted to the company:
GBP 425 958 ERDF until 2003 granted to the Cornwall Film
Fund

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Maximum aid intensity:

— For development of new scripts: a repayable grant of up to
GBP 10 000 or maximum 45 % of the applicable fee for
the script,

— For production of

grants of between
GBP 10 000 and GBP 50 000 (up to maximum 45 % of
total production budgets),

films:

short

— For development of

feature films and major television
projects: repayable grants (repayable on commencement
of filming if and when the project goes into production)
up to GBP 50 000 or 45 % of
the total development
budget, whichever is the smaller,

— For the production of feature films and major TV projects:
repayable grants (in the event of the project making a
profit) up to GBP 200 000 or 10 % of the total production
budget, whichever is the smaller

Date of implementation: 1 July 2002

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: 31 December
2004

Objective of aid: The scheme seeks to provide funding for
SMEs involved in film making in Cornwall. The Fund is
intended to support the development of SMEs in the local
film and television production sector by providing financial
support for:

08172 322000, Cornwall
County Council, New County Hall,
Truro, TR1 3AY

Other information: Cornwall is a geographically remote and
underdeveloped area where the decline of traditional industries
has produced low levels of employment and wealth. Aid is
required both to stimulate development of and work in the
newer media industries and to overcome the economic and
geographical
in
Cornwall when compared with the rest of the UK and EU. It
is, more importantly, also required to assist in maintaining the
cultural distinctiveness of Cornwall and its people

disadvantages

filmmakers

suffered

by

Aid No: XS 92/02

Member State: Italy

Region: Liguria

Title of aid scheme or name of the company receiving an
individual aid: Measure 3.2 ‘Upgrading of port areas’ —
in port
Submeasure B ‘Aid to improve tourism facilities
areas’ — Objective 2 single programming document
(SPD)
2000 to 2006 for Liguria

(i) the development of scripts by writers in Cornwall;

Legal basis:

(ii) the production of short films made in Cornwall;

(iii) the development of feature film and major TV projects;

iv) the production of

feature films and major

television

projects in Cornwall.

It is intended that these measures will strengthen the viability
in
and creativity of SMEs in the film production sector
Cornwall, enabling it to be self-sustaining once the Objective
1 programme has ended, making a significant contribution to
the Cornish economy

Economic sector(s) concerned: Other services (media sector),
without prejudice to special rules in regulations and directives
concerning state aid in certain sectors

Name and address of the granting authority:

Mr David Pattison
Assistant Chief Executive

— Docup Obiettivo 2 Regione Liguria 2000-2006 approvato
con Decisione Commissione Europea C(2001) 2044 del
7.9.2001,

— Complemento di Programmazione del Docup Obiettivo 2
Regione Liguria 2000-2006, approvato con Deliberazione
Giunta regionale n. 1404 del 30.11.2001,

— Modifiche al Complemento di Programmazione del Docup
Obiettivo 2 Regione Liguria 2000-2006, approvate con
Deliberazione Giunta regionale n. 694 del 2.7.2002,

— Bando della Misura 3.2 «Riqualificazione aree portuali» —
Sottomisura B «Aiuti per la valorizzazione a fini turistici
delle aree portuali», approvato con Deliberazione della
Giunta regionale n. 923 dell'8.8.2002

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of individual aid granted to the company: Total
expenditure: EUR 18 040 435 for the entire period of
the
programme, with an annual instalment of EUR 5 721 441 of
public expenditure on financing the invitation to tender for
2002

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Maximum aid intensity:

— non-repayable grant

investment with an intensity
equivalent to 15 % gge for small firms and 7,5 % gge for
medium-sized firms of eligible investment costs, excluding
VAT,

for

— non-repayable grant

for

investment with an intensity
to 8 % nge + 10 percentage points gge for
equivalent
small firms and 8 % nge + 6 percentage points gge for
medium-sized firms of eligible investment costs, excluding
VAT,
in areas qualifying for exemption under Article
87(3)(c) of the EC Treaty

Date of implementation: 16 September 2002

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: 31 December
2006 (Objective 2 areas and areas exempted under Article
87(3)(c))

Objective of aid: The submeasure is intended to promote
investments in improving tourism facilities for pleasure boats
by supporting the Territorial Coordination Plan for Coastal
Areas of Liguria

Economic sector(s) concerned: Tourism operators covered
by the 1991 ISTAT Code I.63.22.D.
tourist
harbours, shipping harbours, pleasureboat centre), either indi-
vidually or in association, including cooperatives entered in the
register of businesses, and covered by the Community defi-
nition of SMEs, as provided for in the Decree of 27 October
1997 of the Ministry for Production Activities

(tourist ports,

Name and address of the granting authority:

Regione Liguria
Dipartimento Sviluppo Economico
Settore Politiche di Sviluppo Industria e Artigianato
Via Fieschi, 15
I-16121 Genova