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: 2003-09-17
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Germany, State aid, United Kingdom, control of State aid, vocational 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 221/03)

(Text with EEA relevance)

Aid No: XT 62/02

Name and address of the granting authority:

Member State: United Kingdom

Region: West Midlands Objective 2 Region

Title of aid scheme or name of the company receiving an
individual aid: Birmingham and Solihull Learning Skills
Council Engineering 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: UKL 1 200 000:

— 2002: UKL 600 000

— 2003: UKL 600 000

This aid will support 340 SMEs

Paul Cornick, Manufacturing Sector Coordinator,
0121 345 4621 or Karen Brown 0121 345 4511
Birmingham and Solihull LSC
Chaplin Court
80 Hurst Street
Birmingham B5 4TG
United Kingdom

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

Aid No: XT 75/02

Member State: Germany

Region: Brandenburg

Maximum aid intensity: Aid up to 75 % for SMEs in this
receive more than
Article 87(3)(c)
UKL 125 000

region. No SME will

Date of implementation: 1 September 2002

Title of aid scheme or name of the company receiving an
individual aid: Competition inviting ideas on ‘Shaping the
future for Brandenburg's youth after the completion of voca-
tional training’ as part of the Innopunkt programme — Aid
provided by the Brandenburg Ministry for Labour, Social
Affairs, Health and Women

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: 31 December
2003

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

Objective of aid: To give general training in order to improve
the skills of individuals working for SMEs in the engineering
sector and based in Art. 87(3)(c) areas, with the overarching
aim of improving 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 (see attached
background documentation)

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of individual aid granted to the company: The
maximum amount
is
EUR 2 020 906.

competition

the

aid

for

of

Expenditure is broken down as follows by year:

— 2002: EUR 430 897 (EUR 301 628 from the ESF and

EUR 129 269 from the Land)

Economic sector(s) concerned: Other manufacturing: engin-
eering, without prejudice to the regulations on sensitive sectors

— 2003: EUR 1 076 456 (EUR 753 519 from the ESF and

EUR 322 937 from the Land)

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— 2004: EUR 513 553 (EUR 359 487 from the ESF and

EUR 154 066 from the Land)

The maximum possible grant (70 % of which comes from ESF
funds and 30 % from Land funds) is EUR 409 034 per project.
A total of six projects are being assisted, providing placement
for a total of 250 young people in some 250 firms. Under each
individual project, around 42 young people will be placed in
around 42 firms.

The relevant costs are trainers' personnel costs, trainers' travel
expenses, other current expenses and the cost of guidance and
counselling services with regard to the training project, as
specified in Article 4(7)(a) to (c) and (e) of the Regulation

Maximum aid intensity: The six projects selected following
the competition consist of two stages.

In the first stage, the project organisers select appropriate
unemployed young people, who are then processed indi-
it is established what knowledge
vidually. For this purpose,
and abilities the young person already possesses and where
there is a need for training. Since this pre-processing applies
to the unemployed young people directly and irrespective of
their locality and does not benefit firms or industries, it falls
outside the scope of Article 87(1) of the EC Treaty.

training 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 project
stage, but
provide skills which are transferable to other firms and jobs
and through which the placeability of the young person is
significantly improved. The measures are therefore general
training measures.

The training provides key skills and the ability to apply
job-related know-how in various practical situations.
is
thus ensured that the young person acquires skills which can
be applied not just in the field of activity of the relevant firm,
but also in other firms.

It

is

that

A feature of the projects selected as part of the competition for
ideas (published on the internet at www.lasa-brandenburg.
de/inno_pkt/content.htm)
organisers
establish contact with interested firms only during the course
of the project and ascertain their training requirements. Once
these training requirements have been established, the details
(for example, determination of
the
training) is worked out individually in relation to each young
person

the actual content of

the project

Economic sector(s) concerned: All economic sectors

Name and address of the granting authority:

In the second stage,
the young person works in a firm,
receiving training provided by the project organiser through
general training measures. The general
training measures
receive assistance from the ESF and the Land:

LASA Brandenburg GmbH
Wetzlarer Straße 54
D-14482 Potsdam

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

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

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

is working in a large firm.

Aid No: XT 78/02

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

Date of implementation: The authorisations were notified to
the project organisers on 22 August 2002. Since it is not until
the second stage that work-place training is provided for the
young people (this is planned to start only in about eight
months' time), no aid has yet been granted

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: 1 August
2002 to 31 July 2004

Objective of aid: The training provided for young people
under the assisted projects helps to increase their employa-
bility.

Member State: Germany

Region: Bavaria

Title of aid scheme or name of the company receiving an
individual aid: mudra e. V. II; work projects for drug addicts

Legal basis: Verordnung (EG) Nr. 1784/1999/EPPD zu Ziel
3/Ergänzendes Programmplanungsdokument Ziel 3/Bayerische
Haushaltsordnung (BayHO)

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

Total eligible costs: EUR 361 995

During the second stage of the projects, which is the stage to
which the state aid rules apply, the assistance relates solely to

ESF: EUR 97 145

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Maximum aid intensity: 45 %

Date of implementation: 16 July 2002

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: October 2002

Objective of aid: This is a general training measure for former
drug addicts with a view to placement on the general labour
market. Training is provided in forestry work, handicrafts and
services. The level of skills and integration potential are
enhanced by work experience placements. The measure will
help to provide transferable skills which will significantly
improve the placement potential of the participants

Economic sector(s) concerned: Other services

Name and address of the granting authority:

Regierung von Mittelfranken
Integrationsamt
D-91511 Ansbach

Aid No: XT 92/02

Member State: United Kingdom

Region: North West

by providing basic financial training and an insight into the
continuous improvement process. The training will also involve
upskilling staff to use new machinery that has been recently
installed at a cost of over UKL 20 million. The North West
Development Agency believes that FTUK should be supported
with grant
training because its parent
companies, based in Japan and the US, have already invested
heavily in the plant without intervention. This small amount of
funding not only demonstrates the commitment of
local,
to the company but also
regional and central government
provides FTUK with the tools, i.e. trained staff, to make the
plant sustainable for the future

funding for

this

Economic sector(s) concerned: Automotive (manufacturer of
parts for the automotive industry)

Name and address of the granting authority:

North West Development Agency
Renaissance House
PO Box 37
Centre Park
Warrington
Cheshire
WA1 1XB
United Kingdom

Other information:

Contact: Louise Berritta
Tel. 01925 40 02 23
E-mail: Louise.Berritta@nwda.co.uk

Title of aid scheme or name of the company receiving an
individual aid: Futaba Tenneco UK Limited

Legal basis: Regional Development Agencies Act 1998

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
individual aid granted to the company:
amount of
UKL 32 500

Aid No: XT 99/02

Member State: United Kingdom

Region: England Objective 2 areas

Maximum aid intensity: 17 %

Title of aid scheme or name of the company receiving an
individual aid: Objective 2 2000-06 training

Date of implementation: 1 December 2002

Legal basis:

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: 31 March
2003

— Learning and Skills Act 2000

Objective of aid: Specific training aid, as outlined below.

The objective of the training is to provide Futaba Tenneco UK
Limited (FTUK) with a workforce more able to respond to the
needs of a modern manufacturing organisation. It will do this
by training staff in interpersonal and empowerment skills and

— Employment Act 1973, Section 2(1) and 2(2), as substan-
tiated by Section 25 of the Employment and Training Act
1998

— Sections 5 and 6, Regional Development Agencies Act

1998

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— Section 2 of the Employment and Training Act 1993

— Further and Higher Education Act 1992

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of individual aid granted to the company: Total
expenditure over a five-year period: UKL 317,024 million

Annual expenditure:

— 2002: UKL 18,193 million

— 2003: UKL 76,546 million

— 2004: UKL 72,012 million

— 2005: UKL 74,248 million

— 2006: UKL 76,025 million

Maximum aid intensity:

Objective of aid: The objective of the aid is primarily to use
training to improve the skills of management and the
workforce of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and
community enterprises within the Objective 2 area. The skills
learnt will be used to improve the survival of start-up micro
businesses and improve the productivity and efficiency of
existing enterprises. The subsidiary benefit will assist deprived
regions and help regenerate the economy. In a few cases the
assistance will be given to large firms to provide ongoing
training to SMEs in the supply chain, within the aid intensity
levels permitted for large firms and strictly based on eligible
costs.

General training

Where training supported through Objective 2 is general
in
nature, the maximum aid intensities for general training will
apply. General
training will be applicable not only to an
employee's present or future position in the enterprise being
assisted. This is because the provision of qualifications provides
transferable skills that substantially improve the employability
of the employee concerned. Where training leads to the award
of National Vocational Qualifications and Key Skills Qualifi-
in nature.
cations, training will be considered to be general
More information is provided in the annex.

— 25 % to large enterprises for specific training

Specific training

— 35 % to SMEs for specific training

— 50 % to large enterprises for general training

— 70 % to SMEs for general training

Where training provided through Objective 2 is principally
applicable to the employee's present or future position in the
assisted enterprise and provides qualifications that are not
transferable, the maximum aid intensities for specific training
will apply

All aid intensities may be increased by 5 percentage points in
assisted areas.

Where aid is provided to a disadvantaged worker as defined in
Article 2(g), the aid intensity can be increased by 10 percentage
points.

No one undertaking will receive aid exceeding EUR 1 000 000

Economic sector(s) concerned: All sectors

Name and address of the granting authority:

Department for Work and Pensions
ESF Division
Moorfoot
Sheffield S1 4PQ
United Kingdom
0114 267 73 06

Date of implementation: 1 November 2002

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: Until 30 June
2007

Other information:

Contact:
Steve Briggs
0114 267 73 06