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: 2003-08-21
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: State aid, United Kingdom, control of State aid, in-service training

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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 197/04)

(Text with EEA relevance)

Aid No: XT 61/02

Member State: United Kingdom

Region: West Midlands Objective 2 Region

Other information: The organization 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 Creative
Industries
and
Obj2/02/3/1.6)

(Obj2/02/1/1.4, Obj2/02/2/1.5

Training

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 1 000 000:

2002: GBP 500 000

2003: GBP 500 000

Maximum aid intensity: 75 % for SMEs in this Article 87(3)(c)
region. This aid will support 425 companies. No SME will
receive more than GBP 125 000

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

Economic sector(s) concerned: Other
creative
industries, without prejudice to the regulations on sensitive
sectors

services:

Name and address of the granting authority:

Mike Ryan, Skills Sector Coordinator (tel. (44-121) 345 46 21)
or Karen Brown (tel. (44-121) 345 45 11)
Birmingham and Solihull LSC
Chaplin Court
80 Hurst Street
Birmingham B5 4TG
United Kingdom

Aid No: XT 66/02

Member State: United Kingdom

Region: West Midlands Objective 2

Title of aid or name of company receiving an individual
aid: Black Country Learning Network Training — (Objective
2/O2/1/1.04.1.05.1.06)

Legal basis: Employment Act 1973, Sections 2(1) and 2(2), as
substantiated by Section 25 of the Employment and Training
Act 1998 and the Industrial Development 1982, Section 11;
Learning and Skills Council Act 2000

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

Annual expenditure

2002/03: GBP 875 000

2003/04: GBP 1 180 155

2004/05: GBP 1 107 951

2005/06: GBP 1 112 134

2006/07: GBP 1 109 709

2007/08: GBP 1 114 127

2008/09: GBP 1 118 665

Total: GBP 7 618 341

No one company will receive more than EUR 1 000 000 or
more than the ceiling stipulated in the regulations in force at
the time

Maximum aid intensity: Maximum 75 % for aid for general
training granted only to SMEs in Article 87(3)(c) areas

Date of implementation: 1 August 2002

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Duration of scheme or individual aid award: 1 August
2002 to 30 June 2007 in accordance with the current regu-
lation. The scheme will subsequently comply with the regu-
lations in force at the time

Objective of aid: To support general training — the purpose
of the training is to improve the skills base of the employees in
the old manufacturing sector in order to provide them with
transferable skills. This will safeguard the jobs of the employees
in this area. This will be done by conducting a training needs
analysis and delivering a programme of general training which
meets the needs identified.

The training will be general
training and will be NVQ or
equivalent in the case of basic and vocational skills and will
be Institute of Directors or MBAs
the
management development

in the case of

General training: maximum 55 %

— Non-assisted status

General training: maximum 50 %

Medium-sized/small company

— Assisted status

General training: maximum 75 %

— Non-assisted status

General training: maximum 70 %

Assisted status under Article 87(3)(c).

Economic Sector(s) concerned: All manufacturing

No one company will receive more than GBP 100 000

Name and address of the granting authority:

Date of implementation: 2 August 2002

Jaine Clarke
Black Country Learning and Skills Council
Black Country House
Rounds Green Road
Oldbury
West Midlands
B69 2DG
United Kingdom
Tel. (44-121) 345 47 90

Aid No: XT 67/02

Member State: United Kingdom

Region: West Midlands

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: 31 March
2005

Objective of aid: The purpose of the project is to use general
training to retrain workers in the ceramics industry in a variety
of nationally recognised transferable skills in order to enable
them to obtain relevant modern skills so as to diversify into
better-paid jobs within the industry or
to obtain skilled
employment in other industries.

The scheme also aims to support the upskilling of workers, in
particular the delivery of highly skilled specialist crafts that
cannot be obtained through the normal
training provider
routes.

Staffordshire is an area heavily affected by the decline in the
ceramics industry. Large numbers of people have worked only
in low-skilled jobs in that industry without qualifications since
leaving school.

Title of aid or name of company receiving an individual
aid: Ceramic Workforce Development in Staffordshire

The general
accredited by the Ceramic Trade Union

training will be both NVQ and nationally

Legal basis: Employment Act 1973, Sections 2(1) and 2(2), as
substantiated by Section 25 of the Employment and Training
Act 1998 and the Industrial Development Act 1982, Section
11

Economic
Sector(s)
ceramic industry and supply chain

concerned: Other manufacturing:

Name and address of the granting authority:

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

SDF and ESF element:

2002/03: GBP 1 041 587

2003/04: GBP 258 912

Total public funds: GBP 1 300 499

Maximum aid intensity:

General training:

Large company

— Assisted status

Department for Education and Skills
Sanctuary Buildings
Great Smith Street
London
SW1 P3BP
United Kingdom

ESF and RRF element:

Department for Work and Pensions Richmond House
79 Whitehall
London
SW1A 2NS
United Kingdom

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Other information:

Contact: John Day
2nd Floor, 2 Market Square
Hanley, Stoke on Trent
Staffordshire ST1 1NU
United Kingdom
Tel. (44-1782) 26 67 75

The managing organisation is the Ceramic Trade Union, which
is acting as a conduit to help individual workers and is not a
the funding. Training is delivered via external
recipient of
training
selected
training schools, industry specialists, etc.)

competitively

providers

(colleges,

and

Aid No: XT 68/02

Member State: United Kingdom

Region: West Midlands Objective 2

Title of aid or name of company receiving an individual
aid: Tamworth Automotive and Engineering Training Support
Project 2002 to 2005

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

Under this legislation and the Further and Higher Education
Act 1992, an incorporated further education college is allowed
to assist SMEs

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

2002: GBP 276 428

2003: GBP 451 656

2004: GBP 1 622 456

2005: GBP 2 268 682

Total: GBP 4 619 222

Maximum aid intensity: The maximum aid intensity will be
70 % for SMEs and 50 % for large companies.

Actual expenditure varies but will not exceed GBP 100 000 for
any one company

Date of implementation: 2 September 2002

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: 31 December
2005

Objective of aid: The objective of this scheme is to provide
general training to staff within SMEs and large companies in
the automotive and engineering sectors. These sectors have
been identified in the Regional Economic Strategy and are
bedrock sectors which would bring the greatest improvement
to the region from diversification and changed techniques. This
has been confirmed in the structural SPD approved by the
Commission.

The training will enable employees in these sectors to improve
transferable skills, resulting in the improved competitiveness of
the tier-two automotive SMEs and engineering companies.

The training will be modules towards accredited training such
as NVQs

Economic Sector(s) concerned: Manufacturing: Tier-two
suppliers in the automotive and engineering sectors, without
prejudice to the regulations on sensitive sectors

Name and address of the granting authority:

Governmental Office for West Midlands
77 Paradise Circus
Queensway
Birmingham B1 2DT
United Kingdom

Other information: The delivery agents of the project are
Tamworth and Lichfield College;

Contact Officer:
Rupert Herd, Principal and Chief Executive
Tamworth and Lichfield College
Croft Street, Upper Gungate
Tamworth
Staffordshire B79 8AE
United Kingdom
Tel. (44-1827) 30 43 38