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: 2003-08-01
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Austria, Germany, State aid, control of State aid, investment aid, small and medium-sized enterprises

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Date of adoption of the decision: 26.5.2003

Member State: Italy (Molise)

Aid No: N 518/02

Title: Aid for SMEs in the hotel and rural tourism sectors

Objective: Development of SMEs

Legal basis: Legge della regione Molise n. 19/1995: incentiva-
zione dell'offerta turistica nei settori alberghiero e del turismo
rurale; progetti di bandi di attuazione del regime di incentiva-
zione dell'offerta turistica nei settori alberghiero e del turismo
rurale

Budget: EUR 6,5 million

Aid intensity or amount:

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

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

Date of adoption of the decision: 19.5.2003

Member State: France (Overseas departments)

Aid No: N 519/01

Title: Reduction of one third in the taxation of the operating
results of enterprises in overseas departments

Objective: Regional aid

Legal basis: Art. 217 du code général des impôts de la Répu-
blique française

(i) non-assisted areas eligible for Article 87(3)(c) derogation:
small enterprises:

medium-sized enterprises: 7,5 % gge,
15 % gge

Duration: Until 31 December 2006

(ii) Article 87(3)(c) areas: 30 % gge

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

Duration: Until 31.12.2006

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

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 182/05)

(Text with EEA relevance)

Aid No: XS 55/02

Member State: Germany

Maximum aid intensity: 28 % of eligible investment expen-
diture totalling EUR 132 933. Neue Jade Werft GmbH is
located in an assisted area under Article 87(3)(c) of the EC
Treaty

Region: Wilhelmshaven, Lower Saxony

Date of implementation: 1.6.2002

Title of aid scheme or name of the company receiving an
individual aid: Investment aid for Neue Jade Werft GmbH,
Hannoversche Straße 10, D-26384 Wilhelmshaven (individual
aid)

Legal basis: § 65 der Niedersächsischen Gemeindeordnung
(NGO) in der Fassung vom 22.8.1996 (Niedersächsisches Ge-
setz- und Verordnungsblatt, S. 382)

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: 1.6.2002

Objective of aid: Investment aid for the purchase of a mobile
crane to modernise transport within the shipyard

Economic sector(s) concerned: Shipbuilding (NACE Code
35.1)

Name and address of the granting authority:

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of
individual aid granted to the company:
EUR 37 222

WFG — Wirtschaftsförderung in Wilhelmshaven
Virchowstraße 21
D-26328 Wilhelmshaven

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Other information:

Name and address of the granting authority:

Mr Gernot Beutner
Tel. (044-21) 91 06 23
Fax (044-21) 91 06 27
E-mail: info@wfg-wilhelmshaven.de

Aid No: XS 58/02

Member State: Austria

Region: Carinthia

Kärntner Wirtschaftsförderungsfonds
Heuplatz 2
A-9020 Klagenfurt

Aid No: XS 65/02

Member State: Germany

Region: Wilhelmshaven, Lower Saxony. The project is located
in an area assisted under Article 87(3)(c) of the EC Treaty

Title of aid scheme or name of the company receiving an
individual aid:
‘Small firms’ guidelines for promoting small
firms in trade and industry

Title of aid scheme or name of the company receiving an
individual aid: Investment aid to Aquarium Wilhelmshaven
Bullermeck GmbH, Fischland, D-26434 Wangerland

Legal basis: Kärntner Wirtschaftsförderungsgesetz, LGBl. Nr.
6/1993 in der geltenden Fassung

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

2002: EUR 1 100 000

2003: EUR 5 000 000

2004: EUR 2 620 740

Maximum aid intensity:

Legal basis: § 65 der Niedersächsischen Gemeindeordnung
(NGO) in der Fassung vom 22.8.1996 (Niedersächsisches Ge-
setz- und Verordnungsblatt, S. 382)

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of individual aid granted to the company: Total
grant EUR 247 976

Maximum aid intensity: 4,97 % of eligible investment expen-
diture totalling EUR 4 985 095; the admissible aid intensity is
28 %

Date of implementation: 25 June 2002

— a maximum of 20 % in the area eligible for regional

Duration of scheme or individual aid award:

assistance

— a maximum of 15 % outside that area

Date of implementation: 1.10.2002

Duration of scheme or individual aid award:

— 1 July 2002: Payment of first instalment, EUR 123 988

— 1 July 2003: Payment of second instalment, EUR 123 988

Objective of aid: Investment aid towards the conversion of
the Wilhelmshavener Strandhalle pavilion and its seawater
aquarium; construction of an indoor play centre and aquarium

— period during which the scheme runs: 1.10.2002 to

30.9.2004

Economic sector(s) concerned: Other services

— provided the application is submitted within that period,
aid under the scheme may, in accordance with European
Commission requirements, be granted up to 30 June 2007

Objective of aid: Promotion of investment by small firms as
defined in the Commission recommendation of 3 April 1996
(OJ L 107, 30.4.1996, p. 4)

Economic sector(s) concerned: The eligible sectors are trade,
industry
the
(excluding
distributive trades and the tourism and leisure industry)

and production-related

services

Name and address of the granting authority:

Stadt Wilhelmshaven
Rathausplatz
D-26328 Wilhelmshaven

Other information:

Herr Hans-Dieter Schulze
Tel. (044-21) 16 13 43
Fax (044-21) 16 18 73