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: 2005-06-24
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: State aid, control of State aid, vocational training

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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

(2005/C 153/12)

(Text with EEA relevance)

Aid No: XT 86/02

Member State: Germany

Region: Bavaria

Title of aid scheme:

— Lowland Scotland Objective 3 Programme

— Highlands and Islands Special Transitional Programme

Recipient: Perspektive e.V., gemeinnütziger Verein (Print),
Munich

— Western Scotland Objective 2 Programme

Legal basis:

Bayerische Haushaltsordnung (BayHO)

VO (EG) Nr. 1784/1999

EPPD zu Ziel 3

Ergänzendes Programmplanungsdokument Ziel 3

Total amount of aid granted to the recipient:

Total eligible costs:

ESF:

EUR 479 201

EUR 90 397

Maximum aid intensity: 80 %

Date of implementation: October/November 2002

Payment of individual aid:

— Last payment expected to be in June 2004

— Project duration: 1.1.2002 to 31.12.2003

Objective: This is a general training measure for unemployed
mentally ill and mentally handicapped persons with a view to
placement on the general labour market. The aim is to provide
skills in printing and clerical work. The measure will help to
provide transferable skills which will significantly improve the
placement potential of the participants. The measure is based
on the framework plan for general vocational skill acquisition
measures for the handicapped and mentally ill in Bavarian inte-
gration firms/self-help firms of 18.7.2001.

Economic sector(s) concerned: Other services

Name and address of the granting authority:

Regierung von Oberbayern
Integrationsamt
80534 Munich

Aid No: XT 5/03

Member State: United Kingdom

Legal basis:

— European Council Regulation laying down the general

provisions on the structural funds (1260/1999)

— European Council Regulation on the European Social Fund

(1784/1999)

expenditure planned under

Annual
scheme: For
Measure 1.3 of the Western Scotland Objective 2 programme,
EUR 25,722 million over the period 2000-06 available in aid.

the

For Lowland Scotland Objective 3 programme, Measures 4A1,
4A2 and 4A3: EUR 82,074 million over the period 2000-06
available in aid.

For the Highlands and Islands Special Transitional programme:
Measures 3.3 and 2.4: EUR 24,973 million over the period
2000-06 available in aid.

Maximum aid intensity:

Large firms outside assisted
areas:

Specific:

General:

Large firms in Article 87(3)(c)
areas:

Specific:

General:

SMEs (1) outside assisted areas: Specific:

General

SMEs in Article 87(3)(c) areas: Specific:

General:

25 %

50 %

30 %

55 %

35 %

70 %

40 %

75 %

Region: Scotland (as covered by the Highlands and Islands
Special Transitional Programme and the Lowland Scotland
Objective 3 Programme)

(1) Definition of SME will be consistent with Commission Regulation

(EC) No 70/2001.

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Economic sectors concerned: All sectors as outlined in the
relevant programming documents of the scheme and approved
by the European Commission: The Scottish Objective 3 Opera-
tional Programme 2000-06, the Highlands and Islands Special
Transitional Programme 2000-06 and the Western Scotland
Objective 2 Programme 2000-06.

Where support is provided to a project in one of the Commu-
nity's sensitive sectors, any obligations and restrictions relating
to training support will be respected.

Name and address of the granting authority:

Scottish Executive, Victoria Quay, Edinburgh EH6 6QQ

Contact: Deborah Smith (tel. (44-131) 244 0703)

Supplement for disadvantaged workers (1): +10 %

Date of implementation: January 2003

Duration of scheme: Until 31 December 2006

Objective of aid: The European Social Fund programmes
include broadbased training and development to improve the
employability of unemployed people including disadvantaged
workers, to promote lifelong learning for those in and out of
employment, to improve the skills base and adaptability of the
employed labour force and to reduce the level of disadvantage
faced by women in the labour market. Training aid covered by
this exemption covers those measures in the programmes that
provide aid to employees and enterprises. (see above)

Most training supported is general in nature. It is applicable
not only to an employees' present or future position in the
enterprise being assisted because the provision of qualifications
provides
substantially improve the
that
employability of
the employee concerned. Examples would
include:

transferable skills

— IT training (such as European Computer Driving Licence) to

employees of SMEs from several sectors;

— management VQs delivered to a group of owner/managers

of companies within a specific geographical area;

Aid No: XT 25/01

Member State: Italy

— university modules in HR skills delivered to managers of

Region: Lombardy

SMEs;

— language training for employees working in tourism-related

sectors.

Programmes do include some forms of specific training. This
covers training which is targeted at specific companies (i.e.
recruited in advance and training specifically
companies
designed for these companies) and is aimed at developing skills
directly related to those particular businesses. Examples would
include:

— an industry-recognised qualification for business advisers;

— training in operation of specific machinery relevant to a

particular industry;

— international marketing/export programme for a group of

SMEs;

— a project developing e-commerce strategies and website

development training for directors of SMEs.

Title of aid scheme: Training aid

Legal basis:

— legge 236/93 del 19.3.1993, art. 9

— legge 845 del 21.12.1978

— 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 deci-
sione n. C(2000)20070 CE 21 settembre 2000

— legge 16 aprile 1987 n. 183 art. 5

Annual expenditure planned under
730 000

the scheme: EUR

Maximum aid intensity: The intensities laid down in the
Regulation will be complied with in relation to the objectives
of the aid, the size of enterprises, the type of beneficiaries and
the geographic area in which they are located.

(1) ‘Disadvantaged worker’ must be consistent with definition given in
Commission Regulation (EC) No 68/2001 and more recently
updated in Commission Regulation (EC) No 2204/2002.

Date of implementation: June 2001

Duration of scheme: June 2001 — June 2006

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Objective of aid: General and specific training as indicated in
the attached decision of the Regional Council.

Individual aid will not exceed EUR 1 000 000 per recipient per
project.

The indicators used to check the general nature of the training
will relate to:

Date of implementation: 30 April 2003

— involvement of several enterprises;

— transferability of skills;

— regional certification.

Economic sector(s) concerned: All sectors

Name and address of granting authority: Giunta regionale
della regione Lombardia

Aid No: XT 29/03

Member State: United Kingdom

Region: North East Region

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving an indi-
vidual aid: OneNorthEast Accelerate Programme

Legal basis: Regional Development Agency Act 1998

Annual expenditure planned under scheme:

GBP 840 000 in FY 2002/03

GBP 3 360 000 in FY 2003/04

GBP 3 360 000 in FY 2004/05

GBP 2 758 000 in FY 2005/06

GBP 953 000 in FY 2006/07

GBP 714 000 in FY 2007/08

Total expenditure: GBP 11 985 000

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: Until 30 June
2007 in accordance with current regulations. Following this
the scheme will comply with the regulations then in force.

Objective of aid: OneNorthEast has an economic strategy to
remedy its comparative disadvantage to most other EU regions
in terms of economic performance and competitiveness.

For regional companies (SMEs and large companies)

— Training in supply chain development within the North
East Region and training to improve levels of participation
in international business.

— Training in the transfer of technology & knowledge, inno-

vation and improvement in R&D levels.

— Enhancing the knowledge manufacturing knowledge base

in the North East Region.

OneNorthEast will deliver this to companies through estab-
lishing funds to finance training.

The dissemination of training will be carried out to the supply
chain. Intensity levels will be relatively small and within the
permitted levels and will be assessed on a case-by-case basis.

sector(s)

Economic
(including
services), without prejudice to special rules in the regulations
and directives concerning State aid to certain sectors under the
EC Treaty.

concerned: All

sectors

Name and address of granting authority: Fergus Mitchell,
State Aid Co-ordinator, OneNorthEast, Great North House,
Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 8ND; 0191 204 2221

Other information: The various elements of this programme
will be delivered by OneNorthEast and the region's universities

Maximum aid intensity: All aid granted will fall within the
ceilings expressed in Article 4, points 2 & 3 of the training
block exemption for exempted training aid according to the
Assisted Areas map for the North East Region:

— 25 % to large enterprises for specific training

— 35 % to SMEs for specific training

— 50 % to large enterprises for general training

— 70 % to SMEs for general training

Aid No: XT 31/03

Member State: United Kingdom

Region: West Midlands

Title: Improving basic skills in the workplace

An additional 5 % will be given in Article 87(3)(c) areas.

Legal basis (in original
Agencies Act 1998

language): Regional Development

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Budget:

2002/03

2003/04

2004/05

Total

GBP 250 000

GBP 175 000

GBP 175 000

GBP 600 000

The scheme will support SMEs which meet the EC definition of
an SME and large companies.

Aid intensity or amount: Project funding of up to 70 % will
be provided outside assisted areas to support general training
for SMEs. An additional 5 % will be granted in Article 87(3)(c)
areas.

Project funding of up to 50 % will be provided outside assisted
areas to support general training for large companies. An addi-
tional 5 % will be given in Article 87(3)(c) areas.

Date of implementation: May 2003

Duration: 3 years

Objective:
training for employees of companies in the Black Country

(Sector): Basic

literacy

skills,

and numeracy

Economic sectors concerned: All

Name and address of granting authority:

Rita Davey
Advantage West Midlands
3 Priestly Wharf
Holt Street
Birmingham
B7 4BN

Aid No: XT 39/03

Member State: Italy

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

— Complemento di programmazione approvato dal Comitato di

sorveglianza dell'11.12.2001.

— Avviso 4391/2001 pubblicato

sulla GURI n. 202 del

31.8.2001 — Supplemento ordinario n. 222.

— Decreto direttoriale n. 800/RIC/2001 del 30.7.2001 — Cofi-
nanziamento mediante l'utilizzo delle risorse comunitarie assicu-
rate dal Fondo sociale europeo (FSE) — Programma operativo
nazionale ‘Ricerca scientifica, sviluppo tecnologico ed alta forma-
zione’ per l'obiettivo 1 — di interventi formativi per soggetti occu-
pati, compresi i titolari di PMI, delle imprese localizzate sul terri-
torio obiettivo 1.

Annual expenditure planned under
280 952,55 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

SMEs

Specific training

General training

Article 87(3)(a) assisted areas

45

80

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.

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

Date of implementation: 10 July 2002

Title of aid scheme: Measures III.6 — Promotion of women
in the labour market.

Duration of scheme: Until 31 December 2006

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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
‘general’ training means: inter-enterprise training, i.e.
scheme,
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

Comments: Firstly, the aid scheme applies to all sectors covered
by Regulation (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, 9.10.1999), as part of rescue or restructuring operations
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.

Legal basis:

— Title: Appropriation Act 2002

— An Appropriation Act

enacted every year which
authorises the use of funds for carrying out the Depart-
ment's objectives including ‘promoting modern, integrated
and safe transport…’

is

Annual expenditure planned under
budget allocation is:

the scheme: The

2002/03: GBP 1,5 million

2003/04: GBP 1,8 million

Maximum aid intensity: The maximum aid intensity will not
exceed 50 % of training costs. No grant will exceed GBP 2 000
per trainee.

Date of implementation: 12 April 2002

Name and address of granting authority:

Duration of scheme: Until 31 March 2004

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

Aid No: XT 53/02

Member State: United Kingdom

Region: England

Objective of aid: The Young LGV Drivers Training Scheme
aims to address a recognised market failure by providing a
structured training and development programme for young
people under the age of 21 embarking on a driving career in
road transport and distribution. Trainees follow a structured
programme of training leading to the level 2 Qualification,
Driving Goods Vehicles or Transporting Goods by Road,
National Vocational Qualification.

The Road Transport and distribution sectors currently have a
problem recruiting a sufficient number of LGV drivers, and
suffers from a progressively ageing workforce. The funding of
the expansion of the Young LGV Drivers Scheme is a pump-
priming exercise over 2 years
intended to ramp-up the
numbers of young drivers recruited and trained under the
existing scheme. Currently there are only about 100 young trai-
nees on the Scheme each year which is too low a volume to
meet employers current and future needs.

The form of training provided under this scheme is general
since it provides qualifications — National Vocational Qualifi-
cations — that are transferable to other employers and substan-
tially improve the employability of the employee. Employees of
different enterprises may avail themselves of the training and
the training and qualifications are recognised and certified by
the UK Department for Education and Skills and Department
for Transport.

Title of aid scheme: Expansion of Young Large Goods
Vehicle (LGV) Drivers Training Scheme.

Economic sector(s) concerned: Transport Services.
Scheme is open to any lorry operator.)

(The

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Name and address of the granting authority:

Name and address of the granting authority:

Department for Transport

Contact:

Judith Ritchie
Freight Logistics Division
Department for Transport
Zone 2/24
Great Minster House
76 Marsham Street
London
SW1P 4DR

e-mail:

judith.ritchie@dft.gsi.gov.uk

Tel:

Fax:

(44) (0) 207 944 2765

(44) (0) 207 944 2928

Aid No: XT 72/04

Member State: Italy

Region: Chamber of Commerce,
culture of Reggio Emilia (Emilia-Romagna)

Industry, Craft and Agri-

Title of aid scheme: Grants to support training initiatives in
farms in the province of Reggio Emilia.

Legal basis: Deliberazione della Giunta della Camera di Commercio
di Reggio Emilia n. 62/2004

Annual expenditure planned: EUR 70 000

Maximum aid intensity: 70 %

Date of implementation: 6.7.2004. (Deadline for submission
of applications: 30.9.2004)

Duration of scheme: 30.6.2005

Objective of aid: The aid is intended to support general
training plans for farms in the province of Reggio Emilia in
order to:

— improve the occupational

farmers and farm
workers in preparation for the qualitative reorientation of
production, the application of production practices compa-
tible with the protection of the environment, enhancement
of the landscape, hygiene standards and animal welfare;

skills of

Camera di Commercio, Industria, Artigianato e
Agricoltura di Reggio Emilia
Piazza della Vittoria
42100 Reggio Emilia (Italy)

Aid No: XT 79/04

Member State: Italy

Region: Lombardy

Title of aid scheme: Masters in Economics and Management
of Tourist Accommodation Services ‘Successful hospitality and
accommodation skills’, 2004/05.

Legal basis: Art. 12 L. 7 agosto 1990, n. 241, Deliberazione
camerale n. 236 del 18.11.2003, Deliberazione camerale n. 48 del
23.3.2004, Determinazione dirigenziale n. 63/AV del 18.6.2004

Annual expenditure planned: EUR 60 000,00

Maximum aid intensity: 50 % of eligible costs incurred.

Date of implementation: 16.2.2004

Duration of scheme: Until 3.3.2005

Objective of aid: Training course to strengthen managerial
and entrepreneurial skills for staff working in tourist and hotel
firms and in institutions promoting their surrounding area.

Economic sectors concerned: Tourism, service industry and
agriculture (agri-tourism entrepreneurs)

Name and address of the granting authority:

Camera di Commercio, Industria, Artigianato e Agricoltura di
Brescia — Via Orzinuovi N. 3, 25125 Brescia Italia — tel.
0303514335 E-mail: buriani@bs.camcom.it

Aid No: XT 82/02

Member State: United Kingdom

Region: Yorkshire and The Humber

— provide farmers and farm workers with the necessary
knowledge to run an economically profitable business.

Economic sectors concerned: Agriculture

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving an indi-
vidual aid: Adaptive Skills/WYL/4E/OB2

Legal basis: C (2001) 796 –23 March 2001/Local Government
Act 2000

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

Objective of aid: To provide general training to SMEs in exis-
tence for over 3 years

Overall amount: GBP 6 254 484

2002: GBP 3 132 242

2003: GBP 3 122 242

Economic sectors concerned: All sectors, without prejudice
to special rules in the regulations and directives concerning
state aid in certain sectors

Name and address of the granting authority:

Maximum aid intensity: The maximum aid intensity will be
70 % or 80 % for disadvantaged groups.

GBP 5 000 max. per SME

Date of implementation: 1 October 2002

Duration of scheme: Until 31 December 2006

Mr E I Dockrat
Learning and Skills Council West Yorkshire
4 Mercury House
Manchester Road
Bradford
West Yorkshire
BD5 0QL