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: State aid, United Kingdom, control of State aid, fishing licence, fishing vessel, heritage protection, post office financial services

C 186/16

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Official Journal of the European Union

6.8.2003

Budget: EUR 32 712 540

Duration: Until end 2006

Aid intensity or amount: 50 %

Duration: 36 months

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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

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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

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Other information: Annual report from the Member State

Objective: To decommission Scottish-based registered and
licensed fishing vessels more than ten metres in length

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dential information has been removed, can be found at

Legal basis: Scottish Statutory Instrument

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

Budget: GBP 40 million (around EUR 60 million)

Date of adoption of the decision: 13.2.2002

Member State: United Kingdom

Aid No: N 514/01

Title:
‘Modernisation of the UK benefit-payment system and
provision of access to universal banking services through
post offices’ summarised as ‘Universal Banking Services’

Sector: Postal

Objective: Modernisation of UK benefit-payment
through compulsory migration of benefit payments
automated credit
and development of
account ownership with a view to financial inclusion

transfer

system
to
current

Aid intensity or amount: For vessels of 10 years old or more,
within the ceilings specified in Article 7 and Annex IV to
Council Regulation (EC) No 2792/1999 plus an additional
scrapping 20 % premium for vessels whose fishing effort had
had to be reduced by 25 % or more as a consequence of a
recovery plan. For vessels less than 10 years old, within the
abovementioned ceilings for 10 to 15-year-old vessels increased
by 1,5 % for each year less than 10 years of age

Duration: 2003/2004

Other information: Annual report

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

Legal basis: Appropriation Act and proposed contract(s)
between Government and Consignia Ltd (formerly designated
as ‘Post Office’)

Date of adoption of the decision: 11.6.2003

Budget: Proportional cover of cost of Post Office Card Account
(POCA) Bank after deduction of banks' voluntary contributions

Member State: United Kingdom (England)

Duration: As long as necessary and subject to cost/benefit
assessment of the measures by Government after 2008

Proposal: To raise no objections as measures compatible with
the common market

Aid No: N 136/03

Title: Salmon net licences buy-out scheme

Objective: Voluntary and permanent withdrawal from salmon
fishing with nets by giving up licences

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dential information has been removed, can be found at

Legal basis: Salmon and Freshwater Fisheries Act (1975)

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

Budget: GBP 500 000

Date of adoption of the decision: 11.6.2003

Aid intensity or amount: Fixed at the end of the tendering
procedure (maximum: GBP 80 000)

Member State: United Kingdom (Scotland)

Other information: Annual report

Aid No: N 127/03

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

Title: Fishing Vessels (Decommissioning)
2003

(Scotland) Scheme

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