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: 2003-08-06
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Brandenburg, State aid, West Midlands, continuing vocational training, control of State aid, vocational education

6.8.2003

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Official Journal of the European Union

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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 186/11)

(Text with EEA relevance)

Aid No: XT 64/02

Member State: United Kingdom

Region: West Midlands

Other information: The organisations involved in delivering
the training in this project are colleges which are funded by the
public sector and act as a conduit of funds to SMEs. The only
exception to this is for core skills, which are delivered by both
colleges and private training providers who have won a
competitive tender to carry out this project

Title of aid or name of company receiving an individual
aid: Birmingham and Solihull Learning Skills Council Food
and Drink Training
(Obj2/02/1/1.4, Obj2/02/2/1.5 and
Obj2/02/3/1.6)

Legal basis: Employment Act 1973, Sections 2(1) and 2(2), as
substantiated by Section 25 of the Employment and Training
Act 1998/Learning Skills Act 2000

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

Total public expenditure GBP 270 000:

— 2002: GBP 135 000

— 2003: GBP 135 000

Maximum aid intensity: 75 % for SMEs in this Article 87(3)(c)
region. This aid will support 70 companies.No SME will receive
more than GBP 70 000

Date of implementation: 1 September 2002

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: 31 December
2003

Objective of aid: To give general training in order to improve
the skills of the individuals and thereby improve the general
economic productivity of the assisted area

Training supported under this programme will be general
training to accredited national standards such as NVQ and
will be transferable between economic sectors

food and
Economic sector(s) concerned: Other services:
drink, without prejudice to the regulations on sensitive sectors

Name and address of the granting authority:

Paul Cornick, Skills Sector Coordinator
0121 345 4600 or Karen Brown 0121 345 4511
Birmingham and Solihull LSC
Chaplin Court, 80 Hurst Street
Birmingham B 5 4TG

Aid No: XT 76/02

Member State: Germany

Region: Brandenburg

Title of aid or name of company receiving an individual
aid:

Brandenburg initiative for transitional part-time working (tran-
sitional part-time work for young people in Brandenburg)

— Aid provided by the Ministry for Labour, Social Affairs,
Health and Women for the integration of young people
into their first employment

— Up to 500 young people are to be placed in their first jobs

— The project organiser will seek the participation of young
people and up to 500 firms under the transitional part-time
working scheme

Legal basis: Landeshaushaltsordnung des Landes Brandenburg
(LHO), § 44 und die dazugehörigen Verwaltungsvorschriften

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

The total cost of project assistance is EUR 2 170 177

Expenditure in

2002: EUR 244 955 from the ESF

EUR 104 981 from the Land

2003: EUR 768 270 from the ESF

EUR 329 259 from the Land

2004: EUR 505 898 from the ESF

EUR 216 814 from the Land.

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The project consists of two stages, of which only the second
stage (training) is covered by the State aid rules and falls within
the scope of application of the Regulation on training aid (see
the comments on maximum aid intensity).

the young person receives training
In the second stage,
provided by the training organiser through general training
measures. The general
training measures receive assistance
from the ESF and the Land:

The costs of the part of the aid covered by the State aid rules
amount to EUR 975 000

— with a maximum aid intensity of 80 % if the young person

is working in an SME (main case of application),

This amount is broken down as follows by year

2002: EUR 40 950 from the ESF

EUR 17 550 from the Land

2003: EUR 423 150 from the ESF

EUR 181 350 from the Land

2004: EUR 218 400 from the ESF

EUR 93 600 from the Land.

As regards Article 4(7) of the Regulation on training aid, the
following costs are incurred during the training stage (second
stage):

(a) trainers' personnel costs;

(b) trainers' travel expenses;

(c) other current expenses;

(d) the cost of guidance and counselling services, as regards the
training

training measure provided by
organiser, who is different from the project organiser.

relevant

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Maximum aid intensity: The provision of guidance and coun-
relevant project
selling
young person and the
management during the first stage of
the project will on
average receive assistance amounting to a maximum of
EUR 2 200.

During the first stage, the project organiser selects appropriate
unemployed young people. In selecting the young people, the
project organiser determines what knowledge and abilities the
young person already possesses and where a need for training
exists.

At the same time, firms are sought which are willing to take on
the young person part-time on the basis of the profile estab-
lished by the project organiser. Working hours can be geared
to the training to be provided for the young person. The
project organiser draws up an individual training plan that
training
reflects the young person's profile and his general
needs (i.e.
those transferable to other firms and types of
work). The training plan is designed to increase the young
person's employability.

— with a maximum aid intensity of 60 % if the young person

is working in a large firm.

The training of a young person receives on average assistance
amounting to a maximum of EUR 2 500.

The measures are being implemented only in the assisted area
covered by Article 87(3)(a) of the EC Treaty.

Date of implementation: By authorisation letter dated 26
August 2002, payment was authorised with the start of the
measures on 1 September 2002.

Since it is not until the second stage that the training of young
people takes place, no aid has at the present time yet been
granted. The second stage is expected to begin in November
2002.

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: 1 September
2002 to 31 December 2004

Objective of aid: The assisted training provided for young
people helps to increase their employability.

During the second stage, which is the stage to which the State
solely to training
the assistance relates
aid rules apply,
measures that are not in themselves useable only or mainly
in the job in which the young person is gaining practical
experience during the second stage, but provide skills which
are transferable to other firms and jobs and through which the
placeability of the young person is significantly improved.

During this stage, key skills and the ability to apply job-related
know-how in practical situations are provided to the young
the
person by a training organiser who is independent of
firm employing the young person. It is thus ensured that the
young persons acquire skills which can be applied not just in
the field of activity of the relevant firm, but also in other firms.

A feature of the measure is that the project organiser estab-
lishes contact with interested firms and ascertains their training
requirements only once the project is under way. Once these
training requirements have been established, the details (for
example, determination of the actual content of the training)
are worked out individually in relation to each young person.
On this basis, an individual training plan showing existing gaps
in training is established for each young person.

On the basis of the training plan, the project organiser selects a
training organiser, who provides training to meet the training
requirement that has been identified.

Economic Sector(s) concerned: All economic sectors

Name and address of the granting authority:

Since the counselling and project management stage does not
benefit firms or industries, it falls outside the scope of Article
87(1) of the EC Treaty.

LASA Brandenburg GmbH
Wetzlarer Straße 54
D-14482 Potsdam