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: 2005-06-08
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Austria, Germany, Italy, State aid, United Kingdom, aid to undertakings, application of EU law, control of State aid, small and medium-sized enterprises

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Information communicated by Member States regarding state aid granted under Commission Regu-
lation (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

(2005/C 139/05)

(Text with EEA relevance)

Aid No: XS 12/02

Member State: Germany

Region: Baden-Württemberg

‘Housing’

‘General
The Programme covers the priorities ‘Employment’,
services’,
and ‘Common facilities’. Commercial
measures are assisted only under the first two priorities. Under
the priority ‘Employment’, only SMEs as defined in Regulation
(EC) No 70/2001 are assisted. Under the priority ‘General
services’, only assistance that comes within the de minimis rule
is granted. The figures on costs and aid intensity given above
relate exclusively to these commercial measures.

Economic sectors concerned:

Title of aid scheme: Development Programme for Rural
Areas (ELR), with amendments as at 1 January 2002

..XX. other areas of manufacturing

..XX other services

Legal basis: Landwirtschafts- und Landeskulturgesetz des
Landes Baden-Württemberg i.d.F. vom 20.5.1994; Lande-
shaushaltsordnung des Landes Baden-Württemberg i.d.F. vom
15.12.1998

Name and address of the granting authority:
Ministerium für Ernährung und Ländlichen Raum
PO Box 103444
D-70029 Stuttgart

Annual expenditure planned or overall amount of indivi-
dual aid granted to the company: About EUR 30 m.

Other information:
Ständige Vertretung des Landes Baden-Württemberg bei der EU
Square Vergote 9
B-1200 Brussels

Maximum aid intensity:

1. Under

the ‘Employment’ priority,

(medium-sized)
enterprises (defined as in Regulation (EC) No 69/2001) are
granted assistance up to 15 % (7.5 %) of eligible expenditure,
with a maximum of EUR 250 000.

small

2. Under the ‘General service’ priority, assistance up to 20 % of
eligible expenditure, with a maximum of EUr 100 000, can
be granted. The de minimis rule (Regulation (EC) No 69/
2001) is therefore complied with.

Aid number: XS 52/02

Member State: Austria

Date of implementation: 1 December 2002

Duration of scheme: Until 30 June 2007

Title of aid scheme:

Scheme to promote technology transfer

sub-scheme B innovation management, soft aid, consultancy:

sub-scheme C cooperation and networks:

Objective of aid: The objective of the ELR is to maintain and
further enhance living and working conditions, primarily for
villages and municipalities in rural areas, through measures for
structural improvements to counter depopulation and cushion
structural changes in agriculture and thus address natural living
conditions with care.

Legal basis: Allgemeine Rahmenrichtlinien für die Gewährung
von Förderungen aus Bundesmitteln vom 7. Juni 1977

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme: Grants:
approximately EUR 3.74 million on average

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Maximum aid intensity: In the case of projects of small and
medium-sized enterprises: maximum 50 % (gross)

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

Duration of scheme: 2002-2006 Until 31 December 2006 in
accordance with European Commission requirements

SOURCE OF FUNDS

Public Single Programme

Objective: Horizontal aid To strengthen innovation and
promote R&D by SMEs by

— improving innovation management within enterprises

— improving transfer processes by establishing and testing
innovative transfer models (cooperation models, networks
and platforms) with a supra-regional catalyst action, which
are aimed at
innovation among
increasing the level of
enterprises, groups of enterprises and sectors (SMEs).

Economic sector(s) concerned: All economic sectors

Name and address of the granting authority:
Ministry for Economic Affairs and Labour
Stubenring 1
A-1011 Vienna

2003

2004

Total

Private Rivergreen

2003

2004

Total

ERDF Capital

Contact persons

Frau Silvia Schmöller, Abt. VI/3
Tel. (431) 71100-5691
Fax (431) 71100-2036
E-Mail: silvia.schmoeller@bmwa.gv.at

Mag. Josef Mandl, Abteilungsleiter der Abt. VI/3
Tel. (431) 71100-5679
Fax (431) 71100-2036
E-Mail: josef.mandl@bmwa.gv.at

2003

2004

Total

Total

2003

2004

Total

Other information: Sub-schemes B + C are being imple-
mented by way of calls for tender.

Grand Total

GBP 360 800

GBP 139 200

GBP 500 000

GBP 1 441 560

GBP 555 957

GBP 1 997 517

GBP 257 015

GBP 99 063

GBP 356 078

GBP 2 059 375

GBP 794 220

GBP 2 853 595

GBP 2 853 595

Maximum aid intensity: The maximum aid intensity will be
30 % (Assisted area 20 % for Sunderland under Art. 87(3)(c)
+ 10 % to reach the maximum aid intensity of 30 %)

Date of implementation: 1 August 2003

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: 31 August
2005

Objective of aid: The project involves the creation of high
quality new workspace accommodation units and associated
office units on a brownfield site located in Pallion, Sunderland.
The units will target SMEs over 36 months old.

The project is a new build and will comprise accommodation
of high quality and well-designed infrastructure in an area of
high unemployment and social deprivation.

The desired outcome of the project is to facilitate sustainable
economic development
in
Pallion and the subregion.

that will generate employment

Aid number: XS 91/03

Member State: United Kingdom

Region: North East of England

Title of aid scheme or name of Company receiving indivi-
dual aid: Rivergreen Developments Plc

Legal Basis: Regional Development Agencies Act 1998

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Economic sector(s) concerned: All eligible industry sectors
(Without prejudice to special rules concerning state aid in
certain sectors — Art. 1(2) of the SME block exemption regula-
tions)

Name and address of granting authority:

ERDF Contact

Ann Beavers
European Programme Secretariat
Government Office North East
Wellbar House
Gallowgate
NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
NE1 4TD

Sponsor Contact

Mr M Henning
Commercial Manager
Rivergreen Development Plc
Aykley Heads Business Centre
AYKLEY HEADS
Durham
DH1 5TS

Aid number: XS 111/03

Member State: Italy

Region: Friuli-Venezia Giulia

(a) 15 % gge for small

firms; 7.5 % gge for medium-sized

firms;

(b) for

firms

in areas eligible for

the derogation under
Article 87(3)(c) of the EC Treaty: the intensity of aid in the
form of subsidised loans must not exceed 8 % nge, plus
10 % gge for small firms and 6 % gge for medium-sized
firms.

Date of implementation: 10 September 2003

Duration of scheme: Until 31 December 2006

Objective of aid: The aid is intended for investment by small
and medium-sized firms to purchase, build, expand and moder-
nise workshops and to purchase machinery, vehicles (except in
the transport sector), equipment and furniture for the exclusive
use of the firm.

Economic sector(s) concerned: All sectors except for activ-
ities referred to in Article 1(2) of Commission Regulation (EC)
No 70/2001 of 12 January 2001.

Name and address of granting authority:

Regione Autonoma Friuli Venezia Giulia
Direzione regionale dell'Artigianato e della cooperazione
Servizio per lo sviluppo dell'artigianato
Via Giulia 75/1 — I-34100 Trieste

Tel. (040) 377 48 34
Fax (040) 377 48 10
e-mail: dir.art.coop@regione.fgv.it

Other information: From 2005 the new definition of small
and medium-sized enterprises and micro enterprises will apply.

Title of aid scheme: Subsidised loans to craft firms for busi-
ness investment.

Legal basis: Regolamento approvato con decreto del presi-
dente della regione n. 131/pres. del 10.5.2003

Aid number: XS113/03

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme:

Member State: Italy

2003

2004

2005

3 770 000

3 500 000

3 500 000

(in euros)

Region: Lombardy

Title of aid scheme:
‘Support for integrated investment in
industrial districts and “metadistricts” in Lombardy: support for
investment and innovation’

Maximum aid intensity: Up to the ceilings laid down in
Community rules for aid to small and medium-sized firms and
in the regional aid map:

Legal basis: DGR VII/13321 — 13.6.2003; DGR VII/11384 -
29.11.2002; DGR VII/3839 — 16.3.2001; VII/6356
5.10.2001; L.R. 24.3.2003 n. 3

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Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of individual aid granted: The annual expenditure
planned for overall financing of policies to support investment
in industrial ‘metadistricts’ and districts (support for investment
and innovation and support
for research and development
activities) is approximately EUR 60 million for the next three
years. The budget will be established each year by the regional
authorities.

Maximum aid intensity: The amount of aid will be calculated
as a percentage of eligible costs as follows:

— tangible and intangible fixed assets, as defined in Article 2
of Regulation (EC) No 70/2001: 7.5 % for medium-sized
firms and 15 % for small firms.

Where the investment is carried out in areas eligible for the
derogation under Article 87(3)(c) of the EC Treaty,
the
amount shall be 8 % nge + 6 % gge for medium-sized firms
and 8 % nge + 10 % gge for small firms;

— services

supplied by external consultants:These services
must not be continuous or regular nor relate to the firm's
normal operating expenditure, in accordance with Article 5
of Regulation (EC) No 70/2001: 50 % of the cost of services
supplied externally;

— costs relating to participation in fairs and exhibitions in
accordance with Article 5(b) of Regulation (EC) No 70/
2001: 50 % of the additional costs incurred for renting,
setting up and running the stand.

Date of
scheme from 1 January 2004.

implementation: Aid may be granted under the

Duration of scheme or individual aid: 31 December 2006

Objective of aid: Support for SMEs in industrial districts and
‘metadistricts’ in Lombardy

Economic sector(s) concerned:

Food biotechnology

Non-food biotechnology

Fashion

Design

New materials

Name and address of granting authority:
Regione Lombardia — Direzione Generale Industria, PMI,
Cooperazione e Turismo
Via Pola, 14 — I-20124 Milano

Aid number: XS 128/02

Member State: Germany

Title of aid scheme: Guidelines for the promotion of produc-
tive investment by individual SMEs in the rural district of Holz-
minden

Legal basis:

§ 108 der Niedersächsischen Landkreisordnung (NLO) in der
vom 22.8.1996 (Niedersächsisches Gesetz- und
Fassung
Verordnungsblatt S. 365) i. V. mit § 65 der Niedersächsischen
Gemeindeordnung (NGO)
in der Fassung vom 22.8.1996
(Niedersächsisches Gesetz- und Verordnungsblatt S. 382)

Annual expenditure planned under
50 000

the scheme: EUR

Maximum aid intensity: The rural district of Holzminden,
with the exception of certain parts of the town of Holzminden
itself,
is covered by the map of assisted areas in Germany
approved by the Commission.

The aid amounts

— in the case of small enterprises, to no more than 15 %

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

than 7.5 %

of eligible investment expenditure. The aid ceiling is set at EUR
7 500. The grant may be increased by as much as 5 % in the
case of the recruitment of women, those receiving social assis-
tance, unemployed young people under 25 and the long-term
unemployed.

The rules on the cumulation of aid are complied with.

Date of implementation: 1 January 2003

Duration of scheme: 1 January 2003 to 31 December 2006

Objective: The aid is intended to promote the competitiveness
and adaptability of small and medium-sized enterprises in the
rural district of Holzminden, to encourage the creation of new
jobs and help safeguard existing ones and thereby to bring
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.

Aid may be granted for the following types of investment
project

Region: Lower Saxony (rural district of Holzminden)

least one full-time job;

— Setting-up of an establishment if the investment creates at

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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;

— rationalisation of an establishment if this helps to maintain

it as a going concern and to safeguard jobs;

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

The long-term jobs created must be maintained for at least
three years after payment of the grant. The aid takes the form
of investment grants. All depreciable fixed assets relating to
physical and intangible assets are eligible.

sector(s)

Economic
be
submitted by SMEs with fewer than 250 employees in industry,
crafts, the distributive trade and the building, transport, services

concerned: Applications may

and hotel sectors and by start-ups in these areas the registered
office or place of business of which is in the rural district of
Holzminden, excluding certain parts of
the town of Holz-
minden itself. Aid may not be granted to firms in sensitive
sectors.

Name and address of the granting authority:

Landkreis Holzminden
Bürgermeister-Schrader-Straße 24
D-37603 Holzminden

Other information:

Angela Schürzeberg, tel. 05531/707 — 276
Elke Gresens, tel. 05531/707 — 275
Sonja Schaper, tel. 05531/707 — 275

E-mail address: wirtschaftsfoerderung@landkreis-holzminden.de