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: 2005-06-04
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Italy, Spain, State aid, control of State aid, vocational training

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Information communicated by Member States regarding state aid granted under Commission Regu-
lation (EC) No 68/2001 of 12 January 2001 on the application of Articles 87 and 88 of the EC
Treaty to training aid

(2005/C 137/08)

(Text with EEA relevance)

Aid number: XT29/02

Objective of aid: General and specific training

Member State: Italy

Region: Lombardy

Economic sector concerned: All sectors

Name and address of granting authority:

Title of aid scheme: General and specific training for firms in
Lombardy

Regione Lombardia
Via Fabio Filzi, 22
20124 Milano — Italia

Legal basis:

— Legge 236/93 del 19.3.1993, art. 9

— Legge 845 del 21.12.78

— Quadro comunitario di sostegno per l'obiettivo 3 FSE-2006

— Programma operativo regione Lombardia relativo all'utilizzo
del FSE, ob. 3 2000/2006 approvato dalla Commissione
con decisione n. C (2000) 20070 CE 21 settembre 2000

Aid No: XT 58/02

Member State: Italy

Region: Liguria

— Legge 16 aprile 1987 n. 183 art. 5

Annual expenditure planned under
70 000 000

the scheme: EUR

Maximum aid intensity:

Specific training

Large enterprises outside a priority area, 25 %;

enterprises

Large
Article 87(3) (c), 30 %;

in a priority

area

qualifying

under

SMEs outside a priority area, 35 %;

SMEs in a priority area qualifying under Article 87(3) (c), 40 %.

General training

Large enterprises outside a priority area, 50 %;

enterprises

Large
Article 87(3) (c), 55 %;

in a priority

area

qualifying

under

SMEs outside a priority area, 70 %;

SMEs in a priority area qualifying under Article 87(3) (c), 75 %.

The percentages referred to above are increased by 10 percen-
tage points for training for disadvantaged workers (as defined
in Regulation (EC) No 68/2001).

Date of implementation: June 2001

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving indivi-
dual aid: Notice published by the Region of Liguria concerning
measures to promote training plans at company, sectoral and
local/regional level and to develop continuing training in 2002.

Legal basis: Art. 9 legge 19 luglio 1993 n. 236; Art.118,
comma 12, legge 23.12.2000 n. 388

Decreto direttoriale Ministero del Lavoro e delle Politiche
Sociali n. 511/V/01.

Annual expenditure planned or overall amount of indivi-
dual aid granted to the company: EUR 2 695 905.01

Maximum aid intensity: The maximum intensity provided for
in Regulation (EC) No 68/2001. However, the maximum inten-
sity for all firms, even where the training is for disadvantaged
workers, may not exceed 80 %.

Date of application: 10 July 2002, date of publication of the
public notice

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: Until around
December 2005

Objective of aid: General training, as defined in the public
notice in accordance with Article 2 of Regulation (EC) No
68/2001, and specific training

Duration of scheme: June 2001 — June 2006

Economic sectors concerned: All sectors

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Name and address of the granting authority:

Regione Liguria
Servizio Politiche Attive del Lavoro
Via Fieschi 15
I-16121 Genova
tel 010/54851, fax 010/5485932

SMEs

Specific training

General training

Article 87(3)(a) assisted areas

45

80

Additional
information: Each firm receiving training aid
may, instead of exemption under Regulation (EC) No 68/2001,
opt for application of the ‘de minimis’ rule pursuant to Regu-
lation (EC) No 69/2001 of 12 January 2001

The above intensities are increased by 10 percentage points if
the training for which aid is granted is given to disadvantaged
workers, as referred to in Article 2(g) of Regulation (EC) No
68/2001 and further defined in D.D. 800/RIC/2001.

Aid number: XT 80/02

Member State: Italy

Date of implementation: 10 July 2002

Duration of scheme: Until 31 December 2006

Region: (Campania, Puglia, Basilicata, Calabria, Sicily, Sardinia)
Objective 1

Title of aid scheme: Measures
human resources in the R&TD sector.

III.1 — Improvement of

Legal basis: Programma operativo nazionale ‘Ricerca scienti-
fica, sviluppo tecnologico, alta formazione’ 2000/2006 che si
integra nel quadro comunitario di sostegno per gli interventi
strutturali comunitari nelle regioni Campania, Calabria, Puglia,
Basilicata, Sicilia, Sardegna. Approvato con decisione della
Commissione C(2000) 2343 dell'8.8.2000

Objective of aid: The aid scheme covers general and specific
training. General training within the meaning of Article 2(e) of
Regulation (EC) No 68/2001 involves training which is not
applicable only or principally to the employee's present or
future position in the assisted firm but which provides qualifi-
cations that are largely transferable to other firms or fields of
work and thereby substantially improve the employability of
the employee. For the purposes of
implementing this aid
scheme,
‘general’ training means: inter-enterprise training, i.e.
training organised jointly by different independent enterprises
or in which employees of different enterprises may take part.

Economic sector(s) concerned: All sectors. All services

— Complemento di programmazione approvato dal Comitato

di sorveglianza dell'11.12.2001.

Comments

— Avviso 4391/2001 pubblicato sulla GURI n. 202 del

31.8.2001 — Supplemento ordinario n. 222.

assicurate dal Fondo sociale

— Decreto direttoriale n. 800/RIC/2001 del 30.7.2001 —
Cofinanziamento mediante l'utilizzo delle risorse comuni-
europeo (FSE) —
tarie
Programma
scientifica,
‘Ricerca
sviluppo tecnologico ed alta formazione’ per l'obiettivo 1
— di interventi formativi per soggetti occupati, compresi i
titolari di PMI, delle imprese localizzate sul territorio obiet-
tivo 1.

nazionale

operativo

Annual expenditure planned under
1 611 309.65 for the period July 2002-December 2003.

the scheme: EUR

Maximum aid intensity: The aid is granted in the form of
initial advance payments and by reimbursing duly documented
eligible expenditure actually incurred in implementing training
activities, subject to the following maximum aid intensities as
provided for by Regulation (EC) No 68/2001:

Large enterprises

Specific training

General training

Article 87(3)(a) assisted areas

35

60

Firstly, the aid scheme applies to all sectors covered by Regu-
lation (EC) No 68/2001. Secondly, it does not apply to aid for
training or retraining workers employed by firms in difficulty
within the meaning of the Community guidelines on state aid
for rescuing and restructuring firms in difficulty (OJ C 288,
restructuring operations
rescue or
9.10.1999), as part of
assisted through public funds (rescue and/or restructuring aid).
Such aid will be assessed in the light of
those guidelines.
Thirdly, the aid scheme does not apply if the amount of aid
granted to one enterprise for a single training project exceeds
EUR 1 million, in which case the individual aid grant must be
notified to the Commission for its approval.

Name and address of granting authority:

Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Università e della Ricerca
Servizio per lo Sviluppo ed il potenziamento dell'attività di
ricerca
Ufficio IV
Piazza Kennedy, 20 — I-00144 Roma

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Aid number: XT 81/02

Member State: Spain

Region: Autonomous Community of Valencia, Region eligible
under Article 87(3)(a) of the EC Treaty

Name of company receiving individual aid: GLAPILK, A.I.E.

Date of implementation: Agreement signed on 5 June 2002

Duration of individual aid award: 2002

Objective of aid: Specific and general training

Legal basis: Convenio de 5 de junio de 2002

Economic sector(s) concerned: Other industrial sectors

Overall amount of individual aid granted to the compa-
ny: EUR 145 813.29

Name and address of granting authority:

Maximum aid intensity:

— General training: 60 %

— Specific training: 35 %

Conselleria de Economía, Hacienda y Empleo (Generalitat
Valenciana)
Servicio Valenciano de Empleo y Formación (SERVEF)
C/ Navarro Reverter no 2, E-46004 Valencia