Information communicated by Member States regarding State aid granted under Commission Regulation (EC) No 70/2001 of 12 January 2001 on the application of Articles 87 and 88 of the EC Treaty to State aid to small and medium-sized enterprises (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2003-12-10
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Germany, Italy, Spain, State aid, United Kingdom, aid to undertakings, control of State aid, small and medium-sized enterprises

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Information communicated by Member States regarding State aid granted under Commission
Regulation (EC) No 70/2001 of 12 January 2001 on the application of Articles 87 and 88 of the
EC Treaty to State aid to small and medium-sized enterprises

Aid No: XS 111/02

Member State: Italy

Region: Lombardy

(2003/C 299/04)

(Text with EEA relevance)

Aid No: XS 24/03

Member State: Germany

Region: Lower Saxony (city of Celle)

Title of aid scheme or name of the company receiving an
individual aid: Priority 1 ‘Improving the competitiveness of
the economic system in Lombardy’ Measure 1.6 ‘Incentives
for the development and promotion of tourism’

Legal basis: Docup Obiettivo 2 2000-2006 Lombardia Appro-
vato con decisione C(2878) del 10.12.2001

Title of aid scheme or name of the company receiving an
individual aid: Rules (Richtlinie) on the approval of grants to
individual SMEs in the city of Celle

Legal basis: Niedersächsische Gemeindeordnung (NGO) in der
Fassung vom 22. August 1996 (Niedersächsisches Gesetz- und
Verordnungsblatt S. 382)

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

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of
individual aid granted to the company:
EUR 150 000

2001

2002

2003

2004

2005

2006

Objective 2

EUR 529 182

EUR 642 980

EUR 654 592

EUR 613 123

EUR 623 070

EUR 633 027

Phasing out

EUR 66 658

EUR 74 184

EUR 61 282

EUR 41 930

EUR 28 312

Maximum aid intensity: The scheme is restricted to those
parts of the city of Celle that lie within the national assisted
areas map approved by the Commission, with an approved
gross aid intensity for SMEs of 28 %

The aid amounts

— in the case of small enterprises, to no more than 25 %.

— and in the case of medium-sized enterprises, to no more

than 17,5 %

Maximum aid intensity: Small firms: gross intensity of 15 %
of eligible costs. Medium-sized firms: gross intensity of 7,5 % of
In the areas qualifying for exemption under
eligible costs.
Article 87(3)(c) of the Treaty, the intensity is increased by 10
percentage points gross. Total assistance must not exceed 30 %
of costs

of eligible investment expenditure.

The rules on the cumulation of aid are complied with

Date of implementation: As from 1 March 2003

Date of implementation: 28 August 2002

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: 31 December
2006

Objective of aid: To develop the capacity for promoting
tourism, preferably in the local area. Support is given to the
development of promotional campaigns which encourage
out-of-season and specialised tourism and measures aimed at
providing on-line services

Economic sector(s) concerned: Tourism

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: 1 March 2003
to 31 December 2006

Objective of aid: The aid is intended to promote the competi-
tiveness and adaptability of small and medium-sized enterprises
in the city of Celle area, to encourage the creation of new jobs
and help safeguard existing ones, thus bringing about structural
improvements.

Rescue and restructuring aid for firms in difficulty (within the
meaning of the Community guidelines on State aid for rescuing
and restructuring firms in difficulty: OJ C 288, 9.10.1999) is
not covered by the measure.

Name and address of
Lombardy

the granting authority: Region

Aid may be granted for the following types of investment
project:

— setting-up of an establishment,

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— extension of an establishment if the number of long-term
jobs is increased by 15 % as compared with the situation
before the start of the investment,

— Commission Regulation (EC) No 70/2001 of 12 January
2001 on the application of Articles 87 and 88 of the EC
Treaty to State aid to small and medium-sized enterprises

— conversion and adjustment/restructuring investment in so

far as it has an impact on employment,

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of individual aid granted to the company: Aid
allocated to private enterprises (SMEs): EUR 150 000

— acquisition of an establishment that has been closed or is
threatened with closure, provided that this is done under
market conditions.

The aid takes the form of investment grants

sector(s)

Economic
to
concerned:
companies in the industrial, commercial, craft, construction,
transport and accommodation sectors with their headquarters
in the city of Celle and entrepreneurs and companies which
intend to start up a business in Celle.

Eligibility

extends

Aid may not be granted to firms in sensitive sectors

Name and address of the granting authority:

Stadt Celle
Helmut-Hörstmann-Weg 1
D-29221 Celle

Other information:

Mr Graap
Tel. 05 141-122 26
Fax 05 141-12 76 31
E-mail: wolfgang.graap@celle.de

Maximum aid intensity: The gross aid intensity may not
exceed 50 % of the eligible project costs. Where there is an
overlap of different types of aid, gross intensity of all aid may
not exceed 50 % of the eligible project costs

Date of implementation: The order came into force on 17
January 2003

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: Aid may be
granted until December 2003

Objective of aid: Aid to small and medium-sized enterprises
(SMEs)
located in the Murcia Region for projects helping
groups of workers experiencing difficulties in gaining access
to the labour market join the information society

Economic sector(s) concerned: Private firms (SMEs) in any
sector of activity other than those engaged in the production,
processing or marketing of products listed in Annex I to the EC
Treaty, and activities which encourage the use of domestic
products as opposed to imported products

Name and address of the granting authority:

D. Patricio Valverde Megías
Consejería de Ciencia, Tecnología, Industria y Comercio
C/ San Cristóbal, 6
E-30071 Murcia

Aid No: XS 27/03

Member State: Spain

Aid No: XS 30/03

Member State: Spain

Region: Autonomous Community of the Region of Murcia

Region: Catalonia

Title of aid scheme or name of the company receiving an
individual aid: Aid to small and medium-sized enterprises for
projects helping groups of workers experiencing difficulties in
gaining access to the labour market
join the information
society

Legal basis:

— Orden de 10 de enero de 2003, de la Consejería de Ciencia,
Tecnología, Industria y Comercio, reguladora de las bases y
convocatoria de las ayudas para la incorporación de colec-
tivos con dificultades de acceso al mercado laboral, para el
ejercicio 2003 (BORM no 12 de 16.1.2003). Corrección de
errores de esta orden en el BORM no 40 de 18.2.2003,

Title of aid scheme or name of the company receiving an
individual aid: Provision of industrial investment incentives

Legal basis: Orden TIC/49/2003, de 28 de enero, por la que se
abre la convocatoria y se aprueban las bases para el otorga-
miento de incentivos a la inversión industrial (DOGC número
3821 de 13.2.2003)

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of individual aid granted to the company: EUR 30
million

Maximum aid intensity: 15 % for small firms and 7,5 % for
medium-sized firms

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Date of implementation: 14 January 2003

Date of implementation: 16 October 2002

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: Four years
(2003 to 2006)

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: From 16
October 2002 to 31 December 2002

Objective of aid: To promote industrial investment projects to
encourage growth, modernisation and innovation in the
industrial fabric of areas with declining populations

Objective of aid: To help small and medium-sized family
firms to plan the transition from one generation to another
by drawing up a succession plan

Economic sector(s) concerned: Industrial sector

Name and address of the granting authority:

Antoni Gurguí i Ferrer
Director general d'Indústria
C/ Provença, 339 4a planta
E-08037 Barcelona

Other information:

This covers aid for small and medium-sized firms in the agri-
cultural sector provided under aid scheme N 197/02 (‘Aid to
the agriculture/food sector’), which was notified to the
Commission on 13 March and approved by it by Decision of
17 June 2002 (C(2002) 2618 final). The text authorising this
scheme was published in the C series of the Official Journal of
the European Communities, No 207, on 31 August 2002.

This scheme was notified to enable aid to be granted, with the
same aim of providing incentives to industrial investment in
areas with declining populations to small and medium-sized
firms in the agricultural sector as well, these being explicitly
excluded from the scope of the exempting Regulation (EC) No
70/2001 of 12 January 2001 on the application of Articles 87
and 88 of
the EC Treaty to State aid to small and
medium-sized enterprises.

The order lays down the specific provisions set out in the
approved scheme of aid to the agricultural sector

Aid No: XS 31/03

Member State: Spain

Region: Catalonia

Title of aid scheme or name of the company receiving an
individual aid: Aid to family firms in drawing up succession
plans

Legal basis: Resolución ICT/3085/2002, de 16 de octubre
(DOGC núm. 3751, de 30.10.2002) modificada por la Resolu-
ción TIC/3542/2002, de 27 de noviembre (DOGC número
3779 de 11.12.2002)

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of
individual aid granted to the company:
EUR 400 000

Maximum aid intensity: 50 % of the cost of advisory services
up to a maximum of EUR 4 000 per firm

Economic sector(s) concerned: All sectors apart from those
excluded by Commission Regulation (EC) No 70/2001 on State
aid to small and medium-sized enterprises

Name and address of the granting authority:

Antoni Gurguí i Ferrer
Centro de Innovación y Desarrollo Empresarial (CIDEM)
(Departamento de Trabajo, Indústria, Comercio y Turismo de la
Generalitat de Catalunya)
C/ Provença, 339
E-08037 Barcelona

Aid No: XS 61/03

Member State: Spain

Region: Extremadura

Title of aid scheme or name of the company receiving an
individual aid: CARDs aid scheme within Extremadura

Legal basis: Decreto 40/2003, de 8 de abril, por el que se
regula la convocatoria de concesión de subvenciones para la
construcción de Centros Autorizados de Recepción y Descon-
taminación para vehículos fuera de uso en la Comunidad Au-
tónoma de Extremadura (D.O.E. no 45, de 15 de abril)

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of individual aid granted to the company: The aid
scheme will take the form of a single call for a total amount of
EUR 1 000 000

Maximum aid intensity:

Maximum intensity is 50 % of
eligible with the following ceiling:

the investment considered

— EUR 150 000 generally.

business

— EUR 180 000 where the project promoter is a social-
economy
limited
company (SAL), employee-owned limited company (SLL)
or
(Cooperativa de Trabajo
Asociado))

(employee-owned

shareholders'

cooperative

public

Date of implementation: As soon as the call is closed, which
will be 15 June 2003

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: It will take the
form of a single call for projects to be put forward from its
entry into force (16 April 2003) until the date on which the
call
is closed (15 June 2003). The aid scheme will be
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the

establishment within

the aid scheme is to
Objective of aid: The purpose of
promote
the Autonomous
Community of Extremadura of authorised treatment facilities
for end-of-life vehicles, either by building new centres or by
facilities. The
turning existing scrapyards
purpose of all of this is to adapt Extremadura's infrastructures
to Directive 2000/53/EC of the European Parliament and of the
Council which states that the Member States will take the
necessary measures to ensure that all end-of-life vehicles are
facilities, and to Royal
transferred to authorised treatment
Decree 1383/2002 on the management of end-of-life vehicles
issued by central government

into treatment

Economic sector(s) concerned: The scheme is confined to a
in the region, namely
sector that currently does not exist
recycling and decontamination of vehicles at the end of their
useful
life, by turning traditional scrapyards into treatment
facilities as laid down in Directive 2000/53/EC and Royal
Decree 1383/2002

Name and address of the granting authority:

Consejería de Economía, Industria y Comercio
Dirección General de Promoción Empresarial e Industrial
Junta de Extremadura
dgpei@eic.juntaex.es
Tel. 924 00 54 75
Paseo de Roma s/n
E-06800 Merida

Aid No: XS 77/03

Member State: Italy

Region: Veneto

Maximum aid intensity:

— 20 % of the total eligible cost for operations in munici-
palities located in areas qualifying for exemption under
Article 87(c) of the EC Treaty

— 15 % of the total eligible cost for operations in munici-
palities located in Objective 2 and phasing-out areas

Date of implementation: 3 May 2003

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: 31 October
2006 for operations in Objective 2 areas;

31 October 2005 for operations in phasing-out areas

Objective of aid: Reducing the financing costs borne by bene-
ficiary firms

Economic sector(s) concerned: Firms producing goods and
services enrolled in the provincial registers of craft busineses
operating in Veneto

Name and address of the granting authority:

Regione Veneto — Giunta regionale
Palazzo Balbi
Dorsoduro 3901
I-30100 Venezia

Other information: Measure 1.2 is managed by an inter-
mediary body,
finance company
Veneto Sviluppo SpA, already identified in the programming
complement

in this case the regional

Title of aid scheme or name of the company receiving an
individual aid: Grant of subsidised loans, equity loans and
subsidised leasing contracts from a revolving fund to craft busi-
nesses, whether individually, in groupings or in joint ventures

Legal basis: DOCUP Ob. 2 (2000/2006): misura 1.2 — bandi
(dgr n. 1063/2003) pubblicati su Bollettino ufficiale della re-
gione Veneto n. 44 del 2.5.2003

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of individual aid granted to the company: As
specified in the financial plan

Aid No: XS 78/02

Member State: United Kingdom

Region: Wales

Title of aid scheme or name of the company receiving an
individual aid: Development of non-Annex I food and drink
SMEs in Wales

Legal basis: Welsh Development Agency Act 1975 (as
amended)

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

Eligible costs

2002

2003

2004

2005

2006

Investments

Consultancy

Participation in fairs
and exhibitions

GBP 500 000

GBP 2 000 000 GBP 2 000 000 GBP 2 000 000 GBP 2 000 000

GBP 100 000

GBP 400 000

GBP 400 000

GBP 400 000

GBP 400 000

GBP 62 500

GBP 250 000

GBP 250 000

GBP 250 000

GBP 250 000

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Maximum aid intensity:

Eligible costs

Non-aided regions

87(3)(a) areas

87(3)(c) areas

Investments

Consultancy

SEs

15 %

50 %

MEs

7,5 %

50 %

Participation in fairs
exhibitions

and

50 %

50 %

40 %

50 %

50 %

30 %

50 %

50 %

Date of implementation: 1 September 2002

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: The scheme
will run until 31 December 2006

to special rules in regulations and directives concerning State
aid in certain sectors

Name and address of the granting authority:

Objective of aid:

The purpose of this aid is to promote the development of small
and medium-sized enterprises engaged in the production of
non-Annex 1 food and drink products
to
encourage new methods of production, to increase the effi-
ciency of such enterprises and to help them identify and
enter new markets.

in Wales,

In support of these objectives, the WDA will provide aid for
investments in tangible and intangible assets, aid for services
provided by outside consultants and aid for participation in
fairs and exhibitions. In accordance with Article 5 of the Regu-
lation, the aid for consultancy will not exceed 50 % of the costs
of such services and the gross aid for participation in fairs and
the additional costs
exhibitions will not exceed 50 % of
incurred for renting, setting up and running the stand. The
maximum grant level which can be awarded to an enterprise
for any single project is GBP 200 000

Economic sector(s) concerned: Other manufacturing —
non-Annex 1 food and drink production, without prejudice

Welsh Development Agency, known as WDA (a non-depart-
mental, statutory public body)

Contact:

Paul O'Donovan, Programme Development Manager
Welsh Development Agency — (Food Directorate)
Plas Glyndwˆ r
Kingsway
Cardiff
CF10 3AH
Wales
United Kingdom
Tel. (44) 29 20 82 89 94
Fax (44) 29 20 82 89 98

Separate

information:

Other
been
submitted to the Commission covering investment, technical
food and drink producers
support and skills for Annex I
(N 440/02) and aid for the participation of Annex I food and
drink producers in fairs and exhibitions (N 439/02)

notifications

have