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: 2005-07-23
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Germany, Italy, Spain, State aid, United Kingdom, aid system, application of EU law, exchange of information, small and medium-sized enterprises

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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 181/02)

(Text with EEA relevance)

Aid No: XS 23/03

Member State: Italy

Region: Molise

leasing contracts concluded in respect of existing premises or
premises to be built by the leasing companies.

The following types of costs are eligible for aid:

Title of aid scheme: Measure 4.1.3 of the 2000-06 opera-
tional programme for Molise: Contribution to lease payments
for the acquisition of premises for productive activities.

Legal basis:

Decisione C(2000) 2371 dell'8.8.2000 della Commissione europea;

Land, solely in cases where the premises covered by the leasing
contract are to be newly built, for a surface area not exceeding
the built area plus 30 % and for a value not exceeding 10 % of
the sum of the corresponding eligible costs in respect of the
building shell and general installations;

regolamento CE n. 70 del 2.1.2001;

decreto legislativo n. 123 del 31.3.1998;

delibera di Giunta della Regione Molise del 5 giugno 2001, n. 653;

delibera di Giunta della Regione Molise del 14 ottobre 2002, n.
1530;

delibera di Giunta della Regione Molise del 14 ottobre 2002, n.
1571.

Annual expenditure planned under
14 269 204,00 up to 31 December 2006.

the scheme: EUR

Building shell, corresponding to the construction costs or
purchase value of the premises covered by the leasing contract;

installations, namely the plumbing, electric wiring,
General
heating, security, fire protection, waste treatment, air condi-
tioning and/or
the premises
concerned by the investment and covered by the leasing
contract;

compressed air

systems of

Technical expenditure on design, works supervision, statutory
inspections and fees for permits for the premises covered by
the leasing contract, up to a maximum of 5 % of the eligible
costs under the other headings.

Maximum aid intensity: The maximum aid intensity in the
areas eligible for exemption under Article 87(3)(c) of
the
EC Treaty is 20 % nge plus 10 % gge. In all the other areas
which do not qualify under Article 87(3)(c) the aid intensity
will be 15 % gge for small enterprises and 7,5 % gge for
medium-sized enterprises.

Economic sector(s) concerned: SMEs operating in the extrac-
tive and manufacturing industries (Sections C and D in the
1991 Italian Statistical Office (ISTAT) classification of economic
activities), with the exclusions and restrictions laid down in the
Community rules for the steel, shipbuilding, synthetic fibres,
motor vehicle and transport industries.

Date of implementation: 1 December 2002

Duration of scheme: 31 December 2006

Firms engaged in the production, processing or marketing of
products listed in Annex I to the Treaty are not eligible.

Objective of aid: The aid consists in contributions towards
lease payments for the acquisition of premises for productive
activities.

Name and address of granting authority:

The maximum eligible investment is EUR 1 549 370,69.

The contributions are to be granted in respect of
lease
payments made by the assisted firms to leasing companies on
the basis of amortisation schedules drawn up under property

Regione Molise
Assessorato alle Attività produttive
Settore Industria
Via Roma 84
86100 Campobasso
Tel. (0874) 42 98 40
Fax (0874) 42 98 54

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Other information: The leasing contracts will be concluded
with leasing companies approved for the purpose by the Molise
region.

The premises concerned by the investment must comply with
town-planning regulations.

zioni — Legge 443/85 — Legge regionale n. 67/87 — DPR n.
288/2001.

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme: 2001-02:
Objective 2 EUR 857 800 — transitional
support EUR
323 800

Aid No: XS 32/03

Member State: Italy

Region: Calabria

Title of aid scheme: Incentives under Article 13a of Regional
Law 7/2001, as replaced by Article 10 of Regional Law 36/
2001

Legal basis:

— Decreto Legislativo 31.03.98, n. 112, artt 15 e 19;

— Decreto Legislativo 31.03.98, n. 123;

— Regolamento
12.01.2001;

(CE) N. 70/2001 della Commissione

del

— Legge Regione Calabria del 2.5.2001, n. 7, art. 31 bis, come
sostituito dall'art. 10 della L.R. n. 36/2001 e Delibera Giunta
regionale n. 633 del 17/07/2002

Annual expenditure planned: EUR 4 131 655,20

Maximum aid intensity: Interest subsidy, with a maximum
aid intensity of 10 % gge

Date of implementation: 30 September 2002

Duration of scheme: 31 December 2006

Objective of
Regulation (EC) No 70/2001.

aid: Aid

under Articles 3 and 4 of

2003: Objective 2 EUR 407 437 — transitional support EUR
131 023

It is too early to give the budget appropriations for subsequent
years.

N.B.: Since measure 1.4 comprises Action A (infrastructure)
and Action B (aid scheme), the amounts corresponding to the
budget appropriations shown are estimated at 10 % of the
overall amounts provided for.

Maximum aid intensity: Up to 15 % on the basis of invest-
ment costs — up to 50 % for consultancy services and other
services and activities.

Date of implementation: Expenditure incurred as from the
day following the application for aid (provided that
is
submitted within the time limits laid down in the announce-
ment) will be eligible.

it

Duration of scheme: 31.12.2006 Objective 2; 31.12.2005
Phasing out.

Objective of aid: The aid is aimed at small commercial busi-
they fall
nesses, multifunctional businesses
within the definition of ‘small commercial business’) and craft
workshops using traditional,
typical artistic techniques and
providing services to individuals.

(provided that

The aid is for premises (modernisation, restructuring, extension)
and for equipment (purchase, renewal, expansion).

Economic sector(s) concerned: Retail trade and services

Name and address of granting authority:

Economic sector(s) concerned: Craft firms and small and
medium-sized businesses, subject to the exclusions and restric-
tions laid down by Community law.

Name and address of granting authority:

Regione Calabria (sede legale)
Via Massara, n. 2
88100 Catanzaro

Aid No: XS 47/03

Member State: Italy

Region: Veneto

Title of aid scheme: Aid to distributive trades and regenera-
tion in urban centres — Action B

Legal basis: Decreto legislativo 31 marzo 1998, n. 114 — Legge
regionale 9 agosto 1999, n. 37 e successive modificazioni ed integra-

Regione Veneto
Palazzo Balbi
Dorsoduro 3901, VE

Autorità di gestione

Regione Veneto
Direzione Programmi comunitari
S. Croce 1187, VE

Management and implementation

Regione Veneto
Direzione commercio
Cannaregio 2268, VE

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Aid No: XS 85/03

Member State: Spain

Member State: United Kingdom

Region: Autonomous Community of the Region of Murcia

Region: Wales

Title of aid scheme: Aid for improving telecom services and
developing existing or new telecoms
infrastructures and
networks with the aim of ensuring that enterprises located in
business parks and zones and in areas of high business concen-
tration enjoy more competitive conditions in which to expand.

Legal basis: Orden de 6 de junio de 2002, de la Consejería de
Ciencia, Tecnología, Industria y Comercio, reguladora de las bases y
convocatoria de las ayudas para la incorporación de redes y servicios
avanzados de telecomunicación a espacios
industriales y parques
empresariales ubicados en la Región de Murcia.

Resolución por la que se publican los anexos a la Orden de 6 de
junio de 2002, de la Consejería de Ciencia, Tecnología, Industria y
Comercio, reguladora de las bases y la convocatoria de las ayudas
para la incorporación de redes y servicios avanzados de telecomunica-
ción a espacios industriales y parques empresariales ubicados en la
región de Murcia

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving an indi-
vidual aid: Wood Energy Business Scheme

Legal basis: 1967 Forestry Act, Section 3.2 and, more specifi-
cally, the 1979 Forestry Act, Sections 1.1 and 1.2

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of individual aid granted to the company: The
total value of the scheme is GBP 13,239 million, of which
GBP 6,04 milion is grant aid that is to be made available over
the four years of the project (until end of March 2007).

Annual expenditure is estimated at:

Overall

Grant

2003/4

GBP 544 000

GBP 148 000

Annual expenditure planned or overall amount of indivi-
dual aid granted to the company: The total expenditure
planned is EUR 600 000.

2004/5 GBP 3 051 000

GBP 1 339 000

Maximum aid intensity: For private firms, not more than
40 % gross grant equivalent of eligible costs.

2005/6 GBP 4 722 000

GBP 2 229 000

Date of implementation: 16.5.2002

2006/7 GBP 4 922 000

GBP 2 324 000

Duration of scheme: 15.10.2002.

Objective of aid: To establish the regulatory bases and award
grants for improving telecom services and developing existing
or new telecoms infrastructures and networks with the aim of
ensuring that enterprises located in business parks and zones
and in areas of high business concentration enjoy more compe-
titive conditions in which to expand.

Maximum aid intensity: Gross aid intensity to be within the
limits for SMEs as set out in Article 4 — 15 % for small enter-
prises as defined in Annex I to the Regulation (7,5 % should
medium-sized businesses apply)
in non-assisted areas. The
maximum aid intensity will be 50 % (35 % + 15 %) in Article
87(3)(a) areas and 30 % in Article 87(3)(c) areas (regional aid
intensity + 10 %).

Economic sector(s) concerned: Industry

Date of implementation: Late August 2003

Name and address of the granting authority:

D. Patricio Valverde Megías
Consejero de Ciencia, Tecnología, Industria y Comercio
c/ San Cristóbal, 6
30071 Murcia — España

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: Four years
until 31 March 2007

Objective of aid: Diversifying and expanding SME businesses
into new wood fuel based renewable energy industry within
Wales. The aid will be provided to assist in the purchase of
capital equipment for: installation of boilers; building of proces-
sing facilities (chipping and drying of wood); installation of wet
heat systems in certain instances (maximum grant restricted to
35 %); and construction of combined heat and power (‘CHP’)
plants.

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Economic sector(s) concerned: Manufacturing (new and
existing energy supply companies and heating engineers);
forestry (through sale of small-diameter timber); processing
(chipping and drying of wood, either trees or sawmill wood
residues); haulage and transport.

Other information: Grant recipients must submit the usual
proof of the use of the aid required under the budget law of
the Land of Saxony-Anhalt. The annual report must include
information on the success of the measures and achievement of
the aid objectives.

Name and address of granting authority:

Paul Finch
Forestry Commission
Victoria Terrace
Aberystwyth
Ceredigion, SY23 2DQ
Tel: (01970) 62 58 66

Aid No: XS 92/03

Member State: Germany

Region: Saxony-Anhalt

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving an indi-
vidual award: Guideline on the granting of aid to encourage
recourse to consultancy services by small and medium-sized
enterprises in Saxony-Anhalt — consultancy aid scheme

Legal basis: Mittelstandsfördergesetz des Landes Sachsen-Anhalt,
vom 27. Juni 2001 (GVBl. LSA Nr. 27/2001)

Verwaltungsvorschriften zu § 44 der Landeshaushaltsordnung (VV-
LHO, RdErl. des MF vom 9.8.1991, MBl. LSA S. 721, zuletzt
geändert durch RdErl. des MF vom 1.2.2001, MBl. LSA S. 241)

Aid No: XS 94/03

Member State: Italy

Region: Autonomous Province of Trento

Title of aid scheme: Services for SMEs — Sectoral framework
(road transport)

Legal basis: Legge Provinciale 12 luglio 1993 n. 17 e s.m.; rela-
tivo regolamento di attuazione approvata con delibera di Giunta
provinciale n. 1664 di data 30 giugno 2000 e s.m., punto 1.1.3
‘Disciplina settoriale’

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme: Maximum
EUR 100 000 (annual budget allocation)

Maximum aid intensity: The sectoral aid scheme,
incorpo-
rated into aid scheme N 280/98, is an extension of aid N 292/
00. The notification procedure was initiated on 10 April 2000,
Ref. 580/2000-D304/ES/pc. Authorisation was given by letter
dated 25 April 2001, Ref. SG (2001) D/288167. The scheme
provides for various types of aid.

A. Consultancy (Article 5 of Regulation (EC) No 70/2001)

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of individual aid granted to the company: EUR 2,5
million

Initial assistance services, aimed at giving an overall assess-
ment of the firm, maximum intensity 50 %.

Maximum aid intensity: 50 % of eligible expenditure

Basic services, providing detailed analysis of one or more
business areas, maximum intensity 30 %.

Duration of
31.12.2006

scheme or

individual

aid award: Until

Objective: The aid relates to specific consultancy services
designed to encourage enterprises to expand and improve. It is
granted towards the cost of such services.

Economic sector(s) concerned: All economic sectors covered
by Article 1(1) of the exemption Regulation.

Name and address of the granting authority:

Specialised services, aimed at maximising the development
of the firm in terms of market presence, organisation and
technology, maximum intensity 40 % of expenditure.

Specific services connected with strategic approaches, aimed
at pursuing the objectives set out by the provincial develop-
ment programme (quality of the firm, new entrepreneur-
ship, integration), with a maximum intensity of 50 % for
small firms and 45 % for medium-sized firms.

Ministerium für Wirtschaft und Technologie des Landes
Sachsen-Anhalt
Hasselbachstraße 4
D-39104 Magdeburg

B.

Investment (Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No 70/2001) carried
out by consortia of small and medium-sized firms;
for
consortia of small firms the maximum intensity is 15 %, for
consortia of medium-sized firms 7,5 %.

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Date of implementation: 1 January 2004.

Duration of scheme: From 1 January 2004 to 31 December
2006.

Objective of aid: Investment/consultancy aid for SMEs active
in road haulage for hire or reward and consortia of SMEs active
in road haulage for hire or reward.

Economic sector(s) concerned: Road haulage for hire or
reward.

Name and address of granting authority:

Provincia Autonoma di Trento
Piazza Dante 15
38100 Trento — Italia
Tel. (040) 377 24 22

Objective of aid: Aid to a consortium of passenger transport
companies (car hire companies) for an investment concerning a
building.

Economic sector concerned: Transport

Name and address of granting authority:

Provincia Autonoma di Trento
Servizio Artigianato
via Trener, 3
I-38100 Trento

Aid No: XS 95/03

Member State: Italy

Region: Autonomous Province of Trento

Name of company receiving an individual aid: C.T.A.
(based in Trento, via
Consorzio Trentino Autonoleggiatori
Brennero 182).

Legal basis: Determinazione del Dirigente del Servizio Artigianato
n. 313 del 7 agosto 2003 ai sensi della Legge provinciale 13
dicembre 1999, n. 6 ‘Interventi della Provincia autonoma di Trento
per il sostegno dell'economia e della nuova imprenditorialità. Disci-
plina dei patti territoriali in modifica della legge provinciale 8 luglio
1996, n. 4 e disposizioni in materia di commercio’

Total amount of individual aid granted to the company: -
Total aid of EUR 112 500, to be paid in annual instalments
over five years.

Maximum aid intensity:

7,5 % of the cost of eligible investment

planned investment: EUR 1 964 122,04

eligible investment: EUR 1 500 000,00

value of aid: EUR 112 500,00

Date of implementation: The aid was granted by decision of
the head of the Servizio Artigianato [craft industry department]
No 313, dated 7 August 2003

Aid No: XS 97/03

Member State: United Kingdom

Region: North East of England

Title of aid scheme or name of Company receiving indivi-
dual aid: Widening Business Brokerage in Tyne and Wear:
Business Link Tyne and Wear

Legal basis: Single Programme- Regional Development Agen-
cies Act 1998

Business Link — Section 11(1) of the Industrial Development
Act 1982

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

ERDF — 2003 — GBP 1 097 350; 2004 — GBP 4 965 511;
2005 — GBP 4 873 364

Business Link — 2003 — 35 742; 2004 — GBP 584 772;
2005 — GBP 602 328

Single Programme — 2003 — GBP 269 301; 2004 —
GBP 543 186; 2005 — GBP 662 857

This project will also comply with the de minimis rule. The
funding outlined above refers to the total funding for both
exemptions. The de minimis aid will not exceed EUR 100 000
in a three-year period.

Maximum aid intensity: Individual SMEs will receive a grant
of up to 50 % of the costs of brokered consultancy support.

Date of implementation: 4 August 2003

Duration of individual aid: Date planned for payment of the
last instalment: 31 December 2007

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: 4 August
2003 — 31 December 2005

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Objective of aid: The project will provide grants for new and
existing businesses to purchase identified consultancy support.
The initial phase of the project is diagnostic support to identify
needs (this phase will operate in accordance with the de minimis
rule) while the second phase is the delivery of consultancy
support to SMEs through the brokerage partnership in Tyne
and Wear. This second-phase delivery meets the requirements
for aid to SMEs as it is a service delivered by outside consul-
tants and so a maximum of 50 % of the costs of consultancy
support is allowed.

Economic sector(s) concerned: All eligible industry sectors
without prejudice to special rules concerning state aid in
certain sectors — Article 1(2) of the SME Block Exemption
Regulation

Name and address of granting authority:

ERDF Contact — Neil McGuinness
European Programmes Secretariat
Government Office for the North East
Wellbar House
Gallowgate
Newcastle Upon Tyne
Tyne and Wear — NE1 4TD

Sponsor Contact — John Scott
Business Link Tyne and Wear
Business and Innovation Centre
Wearfield
Sunderland Enterprise Park (east)
Sunderland
Tyne and Wear
SR5 2TA

Aid No: XS 101/03

Member State: Italy

Region: Umbria

Title of aid scheme: Support for the buying in of technical
services (servizi reali), type A: measures for the certification of
systems for the management of quality, environmental protec-
tion, safety and ethical conduct.

Legal basis: Legge regionale 12 novembre 2002, n. 21; DGR 11
giugno 2003, n. 778.

Annual expenditure planned under
900 000 a year.

the scheme: EUR

Maximum aid intensity: 50 % of the annual expenditure.

Date of implementation: Date of publication of the notice
inviting applications: 9 July 2003. Aid will be granted in
response to suitable applications on the part of SMEs operating

in industry, crafts, the distributive trades, tourism, services and
the cooperative and non-profit sector, exclusively in respect of
expenditure incurred after the date of submission of the appli-
cation.

Duration of scheme: Act No 12/2002 does not set any time-
limit for the grant of assistance. In the Objective 2 and transi-
tional areas in Umbria the time-limits laid down in Regulation
(EC) No 1260/1999 will apply during the currency of the
Objective 2 single programming document (2002-2006).

Objective of aid: Assistance towards the buying in of tech-
nical services by SMEs located in Umbria. The aid is intended
to facilitate the buying in of services with a view to the intro-
duction or improvement of certified management systems,
which may be integrated between themselves,
in respect of
quality, environmental protection, safety in the workplace and
social responsibility.

Economic sector(s) concerned: All sectors,
including the
cooperative and non-profit sector, with some limitations in the
service sector; the following are expressly excluded:

— mining of mineral ores (division 13 in the 1991 Italian
Statistical Office (ISTAT) classification) and production of
steel within the meaning of Annex 1 to the ECSC Treaty

— shipbuilding and ship repair

— the production of artificial fibres

— enterprises in the agro-industrial sectors specified in section
D, subsection DA of divisions 15 and 16 in the 1991
ISTAT classification, i.e.:

— 15.1, 15.2, 15.3 and 15.4 — all classes and categories;

— 15.5 — all of class 15.51;

— 15.6 and 15.7 — all classes and categories;

— 15.8 — class 15.83 and category 15.89.3;

— 15.9 — classes 15.91, 15.92, 15.93, 15.94, 15.95 and

15.97;

— 16.0 in its entirety.

Name and address of granting authority:

l'offerta pubblica dei servizi alle

Regione dell'Umbria — Giunta Regionale
Servizio X Politiche per
imprese e diffusione dell'innovazione e della ricerca
Via Mario Angeloni, 61
06184 Perugia
Tel. (0039) 07 55 04 57 65
Fax (0039) 07 55 04 55 68
E-mail innovazione@regione.umbria.it

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Aid No: XS 105/03

Member State: Italy

Commission in its Recommendation of 6 May 2003
concerning the definition of micro, small and medium-sized
enterprises (OJ L 124, 20.5.2003).

Region: Autonomous Region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia

Title of aid scheme: Financing of consultancy services to
SMEs for projects to develop and promote craft districts.

Legal basis: Decreto del Presidente della Regione n. 0198/Pres di
data 17 giugno 2003.

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme:

2003: EUR 50 000

2004: EUR 100 000

Aid No: XS 120/03

Member State: Italy

Region: Piedmont

Title of aid scheme: Automatic fiscal aid measures to support
the productive base.

Maximum aid intensity: The aid is in the form of a grant to
SMEs of 50 % gge of the costs of consultancy services.

Legal basis:

— Legge n. 341/95 e s.m. e i. di cui alla legge n. 266/97;

Date of implementation: From the date of publication in the
Regional Official Gazette. The first measures will not be carried
out before 30 October 2003.

— Decreto legislativo n. 112/98, art. 19;

— Decreto legislativo n. 123/98;

Duration of scheme: 30 June 2007

— Regulation (EC) No 70/2001 of 12 January 2001;

Objective of aid: The aid is intended to upgrade craft districts
as centres of economic and employment development, to coor-
dinate local
initiatives in the craft sector and to create the
conditions for optimum use of human and technical and
production resources which are already in existence or which
may be found in the district.

Intended recipients: consortia (‘consorzi e società consortili’),
including cooperatives, within the definition of
small or
medium-sized firms laid down in Commission Recommenda-
tion No 96/280/EC of 3 April 1996.

Economic sector(s) concerned: All economic sectors, with
the exception of activities relating to the production, processing
or marketing of the products listed in Annex I to the EC
Treaty.

Name and address of granting authority:

Direzione regionale dell'artigianato e della cooperazione
Servizio per lo sviluppo dell'artigianato
Via Giulia, 75/1
34100 Trieste
Tel. (040) 377 48 22
Fax (040) 377 48 10
e.mail: dir.art.coop@regione.fvg.it

Other information: The scheme is in accordance with Regu-
lation (EC) No 70/2001 of 12 January 2001.

— Delibera di Giunta Regionale n. 109 — 10275 dell'1.8.2003.

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme

2003: EUR 34 500 000

2004: EUR 45 000 000

2005: EUR 45 000 000

2006: EUR 45 000 000

Maximum aid intensity: For tangible and intangible invest-
ments and for consultancy

— the aid intensity applicable will be 8 % nge + 10 % gge for
small firms and 8 % nge + 6 % gge for medium-sized firms,
where the production plant is in areas of the region which
fall within the scope of Article 87(3)(c);

— for small and medium-sized firms with production plant in
other areas of the region the aid intensity will be 15 % gge
and 7,5 % gge respectively.

In any case no large individual amounts of aid will be granted,
in accordance with Article 6 of Regulation (EC) No 70/2001 of
12 January 2001.

Date of implementation: 27 October 2003 (no aid will be
granted in any event before this summary has been notified to
the Commission).

The Regional authorities undertake to amend the definition of
SMEs with effect from 1 January 2005, as proposed by the

Duration of scheme: 31 December 2006

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Objective of aid: The aid in the form of a tax bonus is
intended for tangible or intangible fixed assets for measures to
set up new plant, and to expand, modernise, restructure,
convert, reactivate and relocate production plant in the region.

Aid No: XS 131/03

Member State: Italy

Region: Calabria

Economic sector(s) concerned: SMES with production plant
in the region operating in the following sectors

— mining and quarrying, manufacturing, production and
distribution of electricity, gas and water, construction
covered by sections C, D, E and F of the ISTAT 1991 classi-
fication of economic activities. The sections eligible for aid
under subsection DA are: 15.5.2; 15.81.1; 15.81.2; 15.82;
15.85; 15.88; 15.89.1; 15.89.2; 15.96; 15.98; 15.99. Firms
operating in the following sectors are also eligible for aid:

— telecommunications;

Title of aid scheme: Aid for existing integrated upgrading
projects
tourism capability promoted by small and
medium-sized enterprises

for

— Measure 4.4 Action a) Calabria

regional operation

programme 2000-06

Legal basis:

— Legge regionale n. 7/2001 art. 31 quater

— Decisione C.E. dell'8 agosto 2000 n. 2345

— Deliberazione di Giunta regionale n. 398 del 14.05.2002

Annual expenditure planned:

Total budget of EUR 48 000 000 broken down as follows

— services which could have a positive influence on the devel-

— type 4.4.a.1 (upgrading of hotels and non-hotel structures):

opment of the above production activities.

EUR 45 000 000;

The scheme is subject to the exclusions and limitations laid
down by the Community rules for the steel
industry, ship-
building, synthetic fibres, motor manufacturing and the trans-
port industry.

Name and address of granting authority:

Regione Piemonte
Direzione Industria
Via Pisano, n. 6
10152 Torino

Other information: The aid scheme does not apply to export-
related activities,
i.e. aid directly linked to the quantities
exported, to the establishment and operation of a distribution
network or to other current expenditure linked to the export
activity, and aid contingent upon the use of domestic over
imported goods.

The scheme does not apply to firms active in the production,
marketing or processing of agricultural products, as referred to
in Annex 1 to the EC Treaty

Only expenditure incurred since the date on which the aid
application was submitted is eligible.

Only consultancy services that are not continuous or regular,
or connected with the normal operating expenses of the firm
are eligible for aid.

— type 4.4.a.2 (upgrading of

social

accommodation ):

EUR 3 000 000.

Estimated expenditure 2003: EUR 9 600 000

Estimated expenditure 2004: EUR 12 800 000

Estimated expenditure 2005: EUR 12 800 000

Estimated expenditure 2006: EUR 12 800 000

Maximum aid intensity: Capital contribution amounting to
50 % of eligible expenditure, the maximum grant not exceeding
75 % of the net investment value.

Date of application: 1 October 2003

Duration of scheme: 31 December 2006

Objective of aid: The aid is intended to upgrade the tourism
capability of the Calabria region by improving the quality and
the characteristics of the accommodation already present in the
region (as well as by setting up additional structures and ancil-
lary services).

Financing is granted to projects aimed at enhancing, upgrading
and modernising the structures in the sector.

The projects eligible for aid should consist in organic and oper-
ationally independent
each one
capable of achieving the production, economic and employ-
ment targets proposed.

investment programmes,

Economic sectors concerned: Tourism, with the exception of
measures in the farm and rural tourism sectors financed by the
EAGGF.

Name and address of the granting authority:
Regione Calabria (sede legale)
Via Massara, n. 2
88100 Catanzaro