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: 2004-03-19
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Italy, State aid, control of State aid, vocational training

19.3.2004

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 69/19

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

(2004/C 69/12)

(Text with EEA relevance)

Aid No: XT 23/03

Member State: Italy

Region: Autonomous Province of Bolzano

Title of aid scheme or name of the company receiving an
industry and
individual aid: Measures to promote business,
territorial plans and the development of continuing training
within the meaning of Act No 236/93 and Order (DD) No
511/V/2001 of the Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare

Legal basis: Il regime di aiuto si basa sulla Circolare 29 di-
cembre 2000, n. 92/2000 (GU n. 12 del 16.1.2001) con og-
getto: «Interventi di piani formativi aziendali, settoriali e terri-
toriali e sviluppo delle prassi di formazione continua» e del
Bando Provinciale con oggetto: «Interventi di promozione di
piani aziendali, settoriali, territoriali e sviluppo della prassi di
Formazione Continua ai sensi della L. 236/93 e del D.D. n.
511/V/2001 del Ministero del Lavoro e della Previdenza So-
ciale» autorizzato con Delibera della G.P. n. 2869 del
27.8.2001

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
individual aid granted to the company:
amount of
ITL 2 923 491 198 (EUR 1 509 857,20). Average
annual
expenditure cannot be forecast, because the notice provides
that projects can be submitted every two months until the
available
than 31
December 2006

exhausted, but no later

funding is

Maximum aid intensity:

Large enterprises:

Specific training: 25 %
General training: 50 %

SMEs:

Specific training: 35 %
General training: 70 %

The above rates of intensity are increased by: five percentage
points where the measures are aimed at firms in areas which
qualify for regional aid under Article 87(3)(c) of the Treaty; 10
percentage points where the training is given to disadvantaged
workers within the meaning of Article 2(g) of Regulation (EC)
No 68/2001

Date of implementation: 25 September 2001

the
Duration of scheme or individual aid award: Until
exhaustion of
the funding allocated to the Autonomous
Province of Bolzano by the Ministry of Labour and Social
Welfare for business, industry and territorial plans

Objective of aid: The aid is intended for general and special
the
training. The provincial notice, authorised by order of
Provincial Executive No 2869 of 27 August 2001, gives
precise definitions of the two kinds of training,
in line with
Regulation (EC) No 68/2001. For every project submitted, the
applicant firm will have to say why it meets the definition of
general or specific training; the assessment board will check
whether it meets the definitions, and whether the intensity of
the aid applied for is correct. If the aid intensity applied for
does not comply, the board will revise the estimates and the
total expenditure stated in the application accordingly

Economic sector(s) concerned: All sectors

Name and address of the granting authority:

Provincia Autonoma di Bolzano:

Training in Italian:

Ripartizione 21 — Formazione Professionale in Lingua Italiana
Via Santa Geltrude, 3 — I-39100 Bolzano
Direttrice di Ripartizione: Barbara Repetto Visentini

Training in German and Ladin:

Ripartizione 20 — Formazione Professionale in Lingua Tedesca
e Ladina
Via Dante, 3 — I-39100 Bolzano
Direttore di Ripartizione: Peter Duregger

Other information:

The aid scheme applies to the financing of training for staff of
one firm or several firms in the same industry or the same
area.

Applicant firms must be based in the province of Bolzano; the
application must be for financing for the training of the firm's
own employees.

The notice announcing the scheme was published in the
official gazette of the region, BUR No 39, supplemento 2,
25.9.2001;
firms to choose between aid
scheme status under Regulation (EC) No 68/2001, and de
minimis status under Regulation (EC) No 69/2001.

it allows recipient

Since the scheme was announced ten projects have been auth-
orised, for a total cost of EUR 1 031 035,47. The funding will
be granted to the firms as de minimis aid or training aid in
accordance with the option they expressed at
the time of
application.

No money has yet been paid out