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: 2005-07-09
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Denmark, Germany, Poland, State aid, aid to undertakings, control of State aid, small and medium-sized enterprises

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Official Journal of the European Union

9.7.2005

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

(2005/C 170/02)

(Text with EEA relevance)

Aid No

Member State

Region

XS 1/04

Germany

Saxony-Anhalt

Title of aid scheme or name of
company receiving individual aid

Directive of the Land of Saxony-Anhalt on the granting of financial assistance
to small and medium-sized firms for taking part in fairs and exhibitions

Legal basis

Annual
overall
granted to the company

expenditure
amount of

planned
individual

Mittelstandsförderungsgesetz des Landes Sachsen-Anhalt, vom 27. Juni 2001
(GVBl. LSA Nr. 27/2001)
Richtlinie des Landes Sachsen-Anhalt über die Gewährung von Zuwendungen
an kleine und mittelständische Unternehmen zur Beteiligung an Messen und
Ausstellungen (MBl. LSA 52/2003, S. 856)
Verwaltungsvorschriften zu § 44 der Landeshaushaltsordnung (VV-LHO, RdErl.
des Ministeriums der Finanzen LSA vom 01.02.2001, MBl. LSA S. 239, geän-
dert durch RdErl. des MF vom 4.9.2003, MBl. LSA, S. 657)

Aid scheme

or
aid

Annual overall amount

EUR 1,4 million
EUR
of which
0,35 million
in
Land resources

Loans guaranteed

Individual aid

Overall aid amount

Loans guaranteed

Maximum aid intensity

In conformity with Article 4(2)-(6) and Article 5
of the Regulation

Yes

Date of implementation

1.1.2004

Duration of the scheme or individual
aid award

Until 31.12.2004

Objective of aid

Economic sectors

Aid to SMEs

All sectors eligible for aid to SMEs

Yes

Yes

Limited to specific sectors

— Coalmining

— All manufacturing

or

Steel

Shipbuilding

Synthetic fibres

Motor vehicles

Other manufacturing

— All services

or

Transport services

Financial services

Other services

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Official Journal of the European Union

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Name and address of
authority:

the granting

Name:
Ministerium für Wirtschaft und Arbeit des Landes Sachsen-Anhalt

Large individual aid grants

Aid No

Member State

Region

Address:
Hasselbachstraße 4
D-39104 Magdeburg

In conformity with Article 6 of the Regulation
The measure excludes awards of aid or requires
prior notification to the Commission of awards
of aid,
(a) if the total eligible costs are at least EUR

Yes

25 million and

— the gross aid intensity is at least 50 %,
— in areas which qualify for regional aid,
the net aid intensity is at least 50 %; or

(b) if the total gross aid amount is at least EUR

15 million.

XS 4/04

Germany

‘D’ assisted areas under Part II Section 2.5 of the 33rd Financial Plan for
the joint Federal Government Länder programme on improving regional
economic structures (JT)

Bavaria: Landkreise: Bad Kissingen, Kronach, Kulmbach, Rhön-Grabfeld

Bremen: Kreisfreie Stadt Bremen

Hessen: Landkreise: Waldeck-Frankenberg, Vogelsbergkreis

Lower Saxony:

(a) Kreisfreie Städte: Braunschweig, Delmenhorst, Oldenburg, Salzgitter (mit

Baddeckenstedt)

(b) Landkreise: Emsland, Hildesheim, Lüneburg, Nienburg, Oldenburg, Oster-

holz, Peine, Soltau-Fallingbostel, Wolfenbüttel (ohne Baddeckenstedt)

North Rhine-Westphalia: Kreisfreie Städte: Mönchengladbach, Krefeld

Rhineland-Palatinate: Landkreis Bad Kreuznach

Schleswig-Holstein:

(a) Kreisfreie Städte: Kiel, Neumünster
(b) Landreise: Plön, Rendsburg-Eckernförde

‘E’ assisted areas under Part II Section 2.5 of the 33rd Financial Plan for
the joint Federal Government Länder programme on improving regional
economic structures (JT)

Bavaria:

(a) Kreisfreie Städte: Coburg, Weiden
(b) Landkreise: Coburg, Haßberge, Neustadt a.d. Walnaab, Schwandorf

Hessen: Landkreis Fulda

Lower Saxony:

(a) Kreisfreie Stadt Wolfsburg
(b) Landkreis Gifthorn

Schleswig-Holstein: Landkreis Herzogtum Lauenburg

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Official Journal of the European Union

9.7.2005

Title of aid scheme or name of
company receiving individual aid

Aid for SMEs under the joint Federal Government/Länder programme on
improving regional economic structures (JT), located outside the areas covered
by Article 87(3) of the EC Treaty (assisted area categories D and E)

Legal basis

Teil II Ziffer 2.5.1 des 33. Rahmenplans der Gemeinschaftsaufgabe ‘Verbes-
serung der regionalen Wirtschaftstruktur’
(GA) und des Gesetzes über die
Gemeinschaftsaufgabe ‘Verbesserung der regionalen Wirtschaftsstruktur’ vom 6.
Oktober 1969

Annual
overall
granted to the company

expenditure
amount of

planned
individual

Aid scheme

or
aid

Annual overall amount

Max.
EUR 20 million

Loans guaranteed

Individual aid

Overall aid amount

Loans guaranteed

Maximum aid intensity

In conformity with Article 4(2)-(6) and Article 5
of the Regulation

Yes

Date of implementation

1.1.2004

Duration of the scheme or individual
aid award

Until 31.12.2006

Objective of aid

Aid to SMEs

Economic sectors

All sectors eligible for aid to SMEs

Yes

Yes

Limited to specific sectors

— Coalmining

— All manufacturing

or

Steel

Shipbuilding

Synthetic fibres

Motor vehicles

Other manufacturing

— All services

or

Transport services

Financial services

Other services

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Name and address of
authority:

the granting

In Bavaria

Regierung von Niederbayern, Regierungsplatz 540, D-84028 Landshut
Regierung der Oberpfalz, Emmeramsplatz 8/9, D-93047 Regensburg
Regierung von Oberfranken, Ludwigstraße 20, D-95444 Bayreuth

In Berlin

Investitionsbank Berlin, Abteilung Wirtschafsförderung, Bundesallee 210, D-
10719 Berlin

In Brandenburg

InvestitionsBank des Landes Brandenburg, Postfach 90 02 61, D-14438
Potsdam

In Bremen

WfG, Bremer Wirtschaftsförderung GmbH, Kontorhaus am Markt, Langenstraße
2-4, D-29195 Bremen
BIS Bremerhavener Gesellschaft für Investitionsförderung und Stadtentwicklung
GmbH, Am Alten Hafen 118, D-27568 Bremerhaven

In Hessen

InvestitionsBank Hessen AG (IBH), Schumannstraße 4-6, D-60325 Frankfurt am
Main,
Niederlassung Wiesbaden: Abraham-Lincoln-Str. 38-42, D-65189 Wiesbaden
Niederlassung Kassel: Kurfürstenstraße 7, D-34117 Kassel

In Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania

Ministry of Economic Affairs of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Johannes-Stel-
ling-Straße 14 Tel.: 0385-588/0, Fax: 0385-588/5861, e-mail: poststel-
le@jm.mv-regierung.de
Landesförderinstitut Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Hauptsitz Schwerin, Werk-
straße 213, D-19061 Schwerin, Tel.: 0385-6363-0, Fax: 0385-6363-1212, E-
Mail: info@lfi-mv.de

In Lower Saxony

Investitions- und Förderbank Niedersachsen GmbH, Günther-Wagner-Allee 12-
14, D-30177 Hannover, Tel.: 30031-0, E-Mail: info@nbank.de

In North Rhine-Westphalia

Ein Kreditinstitut nach Wahl des Antragstellers (Hausbank)

In Rheinland-Pfalz

Investitions- und Strukturbank Rheinland-Pfalz (ISB) GmbH, Holzhofstraße 4,
D-55116 Mainz

In Saarland

Der Minister für Wirtschaft, Am Stadtgraben 6-8, D-66111 Saarbrücken

In Saxony

Sächsische Aufbaubank GmbH, Pirnaische Straße 9, D-01069 Dresden

In Saxony-Anhalt

Landesförderinstitut Sachsen-Anhalt, Domplatz 12, D-39104 Magdeburg

In Schleswig-Holstein

Investitionsbank Schleswig-Holstein, Fleethörn 29-31, D-24103 Kiel, Für
Anträge gemäß Ziff. 5.1.3 und 5.1.4:
Technologie-Transfer-Zentrale Schleswig-Holstein GmbH (ttz), Wittland 10, D-
24109 Kiel

In Thuringia

Thüringer Aufbaubank (TAB), Gorkistraße 9, D-99084 Erfurt, mit ihren Regio-
nalbüros:
Regionalbüro Suhl, Am Bahnhof 3, D-98529 Suhl
Regionalbüro Gera, Friedrich-Engels-Straße 7, D-07545 Gera
Regionalbüro Artern, Johannisstraße 1, D-06556 Artem

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9.7.2005

Large individual aid grants

Yes

No

In conformity with Article 6 of the Regulation
The measure excludes awards of aid or requires
prior notification to the Commission of awards
of aid,
(a) if the total eligible costs are at least EUR

25 million and

— the gross aid intensity is at least 50 %,
— in areas which qualify for regional aid,
the net aid intensity is at least 50 %; or

(b) if the total gross aid amount is at least EUR

15 million.

Aid No

Member State

Region

XS 49/04

Poland

Entire country

Title of aid scheme or name of
company receiving individual aid

Aid scheme involving various tax breaks for small and medium-sized enter-
prises

Legal basis

Annual
overall
granted to the company

expenditure
amount of

planned
individual

Art. 48 § 1 pkt 1 i 2 i art. 67 § 1 ustawy z dnia 29 sierpnia 1997 r. Ordynacja
podatkowa (Dz. U. Nr 137, poz. 926 z późn. zm.)

Rozporządzenie Rady Ministrów z dnia 21 kwietnia 2004 r. w sprawie szcze-
gółowych warunków udzielania pomocy dla małych i średnich przedsiębiorców
w zakresie niektórych ulg podatkowych (Dz. U. Nr 95, poz. 954)

Aid scheme

or
aid

Annual overall amount

EUR
61,93 million

Loans guaranteed

Individual aid

Overall aid amount

Loans guaranteed

Maximum aid intensity

In conformity with Articles 4(2)-(6), and 5 of
the Regulation

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

Date of implementation

1.5.2004

Duration of scheme or individual aid
award

Until 31.12.2006

Objective of aid

Aid to SMEs

Economic sectors concerned

All sectors eligible for aid to SMEs

Limited to specific sectors

— Coalmining

— All manufacturing

or

Steel

Shipbuilding

Synthetic fibres

Motor vehicles

Other manufacturing

— All services

or

Transport services

Financial services

Other services

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Name and address of
authority

the granting

Name:
Tax-collection bodies:

1. the head of the tax office, the head of the customs office, the head of the
local authority, the mayor, the head of the district authority or the head of
the voivodship — as the body of first instance,

2. the head of the tax chamber and the head of the customs chamber — as:

(a) the body repealing decisions issued by the head of the tax office or the

head of the customs office respectively,

(b) the body of first instance, on the basis of separate provisions,
(c) the body repealing decisions issued by this body of first instance,

3. the local government appeals board — as the body repealing decisions
issued by the head of the local authority, the mayor, the head of the district
authority or the head of the voivodship.

4. the Minister for Public Finances is a tax-collection body — as:

(a) the body of first instance in cases involving the declaration of invalidity
of a decision, renewal of proceedings, amendments to or repeal of a
decision or a declaration that it has expired — in its official capacity.

(b) the body repealing decisions issued in the cases referred to at a.

Address:
Entire country

Large individual aid grants

In conformity with Article 6 of the Regulation Yes

Aid No

Member State

Region

XS 73/04

Denmark

Title of aid scheme or name of
company receiving individual aid

BornGlobal Programmet

Legal basis

Lov nr. 53 af 31. januar 2001 om visse aspekter af Danmarks Eksportråds virke

Annual
overall
granted to the company

expenditure
amount of

planned
individual

Aid scheme

or
aid

Annual overall amount

DKK 1 687 500
(EUR 226 815)

Loans guaranteed

Individual aid

Overall aid amount

Loans guaranteed

Maximum aid intensity

In conformity with Articles 4(2)-(6) and 5 of
the Regulation

Yes

Date of implementation

5.8.2004

Duration of scheme or individual aid
award

Until 31.12.2006

Objective of aid

Aid to SMEs

Yes

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Economic sectors concerned

All sectors eligible for aid to SMEs

Limited to specific sectors

Yes

— Coalmining

— All manufacturing

or

Steel

Shipbuilding

Synthetic fibres

Motor vehicles

Other manufacturing

Yes

— All services

or

Transport services

Financial services

Other services

Yes

Name and address of
authority

the granting

Name:
Udenrigsministeriet, Danmarks Eksportråd

Address:
Asiatisk Plads 2
DK-1448 Copenhagen K

Large individual aid grants

In conformity with Article 6 of the Regulation Yes