Information communicated by Member States regarding State aid granted under Commission Regulation (EC) No 2204/2002 of 12 December 2002 on the application of Articles 87 and 88 of the EC Treaty to State aid for employment (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2004-01-06
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Calabria, Italy, State aid, control of State aid, employment aid

C 1/4

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

6.1.2004

Information communicated by Member States regarding State aid granted under Commission
Regulation (EC) No 2204/2002 of 12 December 2002 on the application of Articles 87 and 88
of the EC Treaty to State aid for employment

(2004/C 1/04)

(Text with EEA relevance)

Aid No: XE 5/03

Member State: Italy

Region: Calabria

Title of aid scheme or name of the company receiving an
individual aid: State aid for employment

Legal basis: Decisione CE dell'8 agosto 2000 n. C(2000) 2345,
recante approvazione del Programma Operativo (POR) Cala-
bria.

Delibera Giunta Regionale 26 febbraio 2002, n. 156. L'articolo
6 sotto la rubrica «norme finali» al secondo comma stabilisce
che «L'avvio dell'azione di incentivazione è subordinata all'ap-
provazione del regime di aiuti all'occupazione della Regione
Calabria da parte della Commissione Europea».

Progetto di legge collegato alla manovra di finanza regionale
per l'anno 2003, articolo 4, commi 3 e 4

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

2003: EUR 9 600 000;

2004: EUR 29 980 667;

2005: EUR 29 980 667;

2006: EUR 29 980 667.

costing no more

investment programmes

In order to be eligible programmes must be integrated, func-
tional
than
EUR 50 000 net of VAT. Applicants may qualify for grants
the eligible investment, and low-interest
of up to 50 % of
loans for the remainder,
the loans being repayable in no
more than five years. In the case of applicants aged less than
29, or 32 in the case of university graduates, the 50 % ceiling
is raised by 10 percentage points

Maximum aid intensity: Article 4:
job creation. The net
intensity of the aid does not exceed the ceiling for regional
investment aid. That ceiling may be increased by 15 percentage
points gross because the Region of Calabria is covered by
Article 87(3)(c) of
the overall
intensity of the aid will not exceed 75 %, and recipients must
contribute no less than 25 % of the investment out of their
own resources. Jobs created must remain within Calabria for at
least five years

In any event

the Treaty.

Date of
the scheme
should be applicable, and aid be granted, from 1 July 2003

implementation:

is intended that

It

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: 31 December
2006

Objective of aid: Article 4: job creation. To finance initiatives
aimed at boosting employment and the development of micro-
enterprises among young people and women, by granting
economic incentives for new business, professional and self-
employed activities

Economic sector(s) concerned:

— production of goods,

— provision of services,

— distributive trades.

Initiatives do not qualify if they are within industries excluded
or suspended by the Inter-ministerial Committee on Economic
Programming (CIPE) or the Community rules, or if they relate
to activities outside the scope of the de minimis rule for State
aid

Name and address of the granting authority:

Regione Calabria — Dipartimento Politiche del Lavoro
Via Lucrezia della Valle, s.n.c., I-88100 Catanzaro
Dirigente Generale: dott. Aldo Lagonia
Telephone: 0961 85 84 64, 0961 85 84 62
Fax: 0961 85 84 65
E-mail: a.lagonia@regcal.it

(b) of strand (asso)
supplementary

Other information: The aid scheme established by Regional
(DGR) No 156 of 26 February 2002 is
Executive Order
co-financed under measure No 3.11,
for the development
and consolidation of entrepreneurship with priority for the
new employment areas, which forms part of operation
III, human resources under the
(azione)
Regional
Calabria
programme
Operative Programme 2000 to 2006, and under measure No
3.13, for the promotion of participation by women in the
labour market, which forms part of operation (azione) (d) of
the same strand; these measures are intended to encourage
self-employed work and new business start-ups by unemployed
people and workers employed in LSU/LPU job creation
schemes, and to promote access and participation by women
in the labour market.

the

to

The employment aid scheme relates to the following measures
under the Calabria Regional Operative Programme: 3.2; 3.3;
3.4; 3.9; 3.11 and 3.13.

The exempting regulation runs until 31 December 2006, and is
to be extended for a transitional period of six months