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: 2003-08-06
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Belgium, Germany, Ireland, State aid, control of State aid, film industry, health insurance, research and development, venture capital

6.8.2003

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Official Journal of the European Union

C 186/15

On page 320 the following text is inserted:

‘8524 60 00

Cards incorporating a magnetic strip

This subheading also includes printed matter, such as travel tickets and boarding passes,
that incorporate one or more magnetic stripes containing recorded information.’

On page 320 the following text is to be included:

8525

Transmission apparatus for radio-telephony, radio-telegraphy, radio-broadcasting or
television, whether or not incorporating reception apparatus or sound recording
or reproducing apparatus; television cameras; still image video cameras and other
video camera recorders; digital cameras

‘This heading includes thermal-imaging cameras with infrared imagers which capture heat-radiation and
convert it into images that represent the temperatures of individual surfaces or objects in different shades
of grey or in different colours but which cannot measure temperatures or represent the measured values in
figures.’

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

Cases where the Commission raises no objections

(2003/C 186/08)

(Text with EEA relevance)

Date of adoption of the decision: 19.3.2003

Date of adoption of the decision: 22.4.2003

Member State: Germany

Aid No: N 044/03 (ex CP 172/01)

Member State: Belgium

Aid No: N 12/03

Title: Support for cinema production in North Rhine-West-
phalia: Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen

Title: Extension of the Invest scheme — Risk capital fund N
543/2000

Objective: Cinema

Legal basis: Richtlinien der Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen
für die Förderung der Filmkulturwirtschaft
im Bundesland
Nordrhein-Westfalen

Budget: EUR 33 718 900 for 2003

Aid intensity or amount: Variable; in any event, below 50 %

Duration: Until end of 2004

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

Objective: The scheme is extended to areas referred to in
DOCUP Objectives 2 and 5.

The other details remain unchanged, namely:

— lending: aid intensity of between 4 % and 18 % gge in
assisted areas, depending on the presence or otherwise of
guarantees and on whether the aid may be combined with
other forms of aid; aid intensity of between 6 % and 14,8 %
outside assisted areas, depending on the presence or
otherwise of guarantees and on the size of the enterprise
(small or medium-sized),

— acquisition of holdings: aid intensity of 28 % gge in assisted
areas and of 7,5 % and 15 % outside assisted areas,
depending on whether the enterprise is small or medium-
sized.

Legal basis: DOCUP Obj. 2 des Provinces de Liège, Luxem-
bourg, Namur

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6.8.2003

Budget: EUR 32 712 540

Duration: Until end 2006

Aid intensity or amount: 50 %

Duration: 36 months

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

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

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

Date of adoption of the decision: 13.5.2003

Date of adoption of the decision: 13.5.2003

Member State: Germany

Aid No: N 145/03

Member State: Ireland

Aid No: N 46/03

R & D project
von

die
Title:
Entwicklung
Konstruktions-
standards für Einsatz in CAD-Systemen’, by Blohm + Voss
Gesellschaft mbH

selbstkonfigurierenden

‘Prozessoptimierung

durch

Objective: Speed up the design process by standardisation of
design elements of the shipbuilding structures and by providing
methods for efficient use of these elements in CAD-systems in
the form of data and method banks. In a second step, the
partner shipyards will
jointly created data and
specifications
method banks of
which will enable a more efficient collaboration between
undertakings involved in the construction of new ships in
vertical and horizontal co-operation networks (shipbuilding)

self-configuring structure

implement

Title: Risk equalisation scheme in the Irish Health insurance
market

Objective: Neutralisation of the differences in insurers' risk
profiles in the private medical insurance sector

Legal basis: Risk equalisation scheme, 2003

Aid intensity or amount: Measure not constituting aid

Duration: Unlimited

Other information: Obligation to provide the Commission
with annual reports on the application of the scheme

Legal basis: Scheme ‘Schifffahrt und Meerestechnik für das 21.
Jahrhundert’ (N156/2000) approved by the Commission on 15
November 2000

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

Budget: EUR 222 671,50

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 186/09)

(Text with EEA relevance)

Date of adoption of the decision: 30.4.2003

Member State: United Kingdom

Aid No: NN 114/2000

Legal basis: Historic Buildings and Ancient Monuments Act
1953 (as amended) and Ancient Monuments and Archae-
ological Areas Act 1979 (as amended)

Budget: Approximately GBP 8,9 million p.a.

Individual cases of application based on the English

Title:
Heritage scheme

Aid intensity or amount: Up to 100 % of heritage-related
additional costs

Objective: Heritage conservation

Duration: Open-ended