Authorisation for State aid pursuant to Articles 87 and 88 of the EC Treaty — Cases where the Commission raises no objections   (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2005-09-30
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: State aid, control of State aid

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Authorisation for State aid pursuant to Articles 87 and 88 of the EC Treaty

Cases where the Commission raises no objections

(2005/C 240/04)

(Text with EEA relevance)

Date of adoption of the decision: 20.4.2005

Legal basis:
régimes d'aides en faveur du secteur des classes moyennes»

loi portant création d'«un cadre général des

Member State: France

Aid No: E10/2005

Title: France licence fee

Budget: EUR 1 million (environment) and EUR 500 000
(R&D)

Aid intensity or amount:

— up to 40 % excluding bonus for environmental aid

Objective: Financing of the French public service broadcasting
France Télévision

— 100 % + 15 % for aid to decontaminate polluted sites

Legal basis: Loi no 49-1032 du 30 juillet 1949

— 25 %, 50 % and 75 % for research aid according to the

stage of research, excluding bonus

Budget: the amount varies on an annual basis

Duration: 6 years

Duration: The above statuses constitute the basis for the
ongoing financing of the public service broadcasting entrusted
to France Télévision

Other information: Commission decision declaring that the
aids granted to France Télévision constitute existing State aids
within the meaning of Article 1(b) Procedural Regulation (EC)
No 659/1999. Following the Commission request, the French
authorities committed to modify some aspects of French public
service broadcasting financing scheme so as to ensure its
current compatibility with the common market.

The authentic text(s) of the decision, from which all confiden-
tial information has been removed, can be found at:

http://europa.eu.int/comm/secretariat_general/sgb/state_aids/

Date of adoption of the decision: 30.3.2005

Member State: Luxembourg

The authentic text(s) of the decision, from which all confiden-
tial information has been removed, can be found at:

http://europa.eu.int/comm/secretariat_general/sgb/state_aids/

Date of adoption of the decision: 20.4.2004

Member State: United Kingdom

Aid No: N 206/2003

Title: Waterborne Freight Grant (WFG)

Objective: To encourage modal shift of freight from road to
water by granting aid to new/existing coastal, short sea or
inland waterway services provided that they avoid lorry jour-
neys and that they generate environmental benefits within the
UK

Aid No: N 205 C/2004 and N 205 D/2004

Legal basis: Transport Act 2000,
(Scotland) Act 2001, section 71

section 272; Transport

Title: Framework law on aid to small and medium-sized enter-
prises

Budget: A total budget of GBP 60 million for the Freight Facil-
ities Grant Scheme (FFG) and for the Waterborne Freight Grant
(WFG) will be provided.

Objective: Environmental protection; promotion of R&D
activities

Duration: 6 years

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Other information: The scheme is complementary to the
existing Freight Facilities Grant (FFG) scheme (1)

und Verfahren im Freistaat Sachsen (Einzelbetriebliche Projekt-
förderung) vom 7. Februar 2001;

The authentic text(s) of the decision, from which all confiden-
tial information has been removed, can be found at:

Vorläufige
19. Dezember 1990;

Sächsische

Haushaltsordnung

(SäHo)

vom

Vorläufige Verwaltungsvorschrift zu §§ 23, 44 SäHo

http://europa.eu.int/comm/secretariat_general/sgb/state_aids/

Budget: EUR 225 million

(1) N 649/2001 — UK — Freight Facilities Grant; Commission decision

of 20.12.2001.

Date of adoption of the decision: 20.4.2004

Member State: France

Aid No: N 312/2003

Title: Reform of the method of financing Industrial Technical
Centres (Centres Techniques Industriels — CTI) and Professional
Centres for Technical Development
(Centres Professionnels de
Développement Technique — CPDE)

engineering products,
Objective: To promote mechanical
consumer goods and building materials (Consumer goods,
mechanical engineering products, building materials)

Legal basis:
annuelle

loi 2001-692 du 1er août 2001 et loi de finance

Duration: From the date of Commission approval until
31.12.2004

Other information: The beneficiaries are CTIs and CPDEs in
the consumer goods, mechanical engineering and building
materials sectors

The authentic text(s) of the decision, from which all confiden-
tial information has been removed, can be found at:

http://europa.eu.int/comm/secretariat_general/sgb/state_aids/

Date of adoption of the decision: 3.3.2005

Member State: Germany (Land Saxony)

Aid No: N 548/04

Title: Aid to the Development of new or novel products and
methods in the Free State of Saxony. — Prolongation of the
Scheme NN 32/98

Objective: R&D

Legal basis:

Förderrichtlinie
für
Wirtschaft und Arbeit über die Gewährung von Zuwendungen
für Projekte zur Entwicklung neuer oder neuartiger Produkte

Staatsministeriums

Sächsischen

des

Intensity or amount: 50 % for industrial research; 25 % for
pre-competitive development; plus 10 % SME-bonus (where
applicable); plus 10 % bonus for effective cooperation between
public R&D institutes and firms

Duration: 1.1.2005 — 31.12.2009

The authentic text(s) of the decision, from which all confiden-
tial information has been removed, can be found at:

http://europa.eu.int/comm/secretariat_general/sgb/state_aids/

Date of adoption of the decision: 21.6.2005

Member States: Italy

Aid No: N 582/04

Title: Aid to biofuels/tax benefit

Objective: Environmental protection

Legal basis: Art. 21 par. 6 del Decreto Legislativo 25 ottobre
1995 n. 504; legge del 30.12.2004 n. 311 (finanziaria 2005)

Aid intensity or amount: EUR 561 267 000

Duration: Until 30.6.2010

The authentic text(s) of the decision, from which all confiden-
tial information has been removed, can be found at:

http://europa.eu.int/comm/secretariat_general/sgb/state_aids/

Date of adoption of the decision: 14.7.2004

Member State: United Kingdom (Wales)

Aid No: N 597/2003

Title: Wood Energy Business Scheme

Objective: The objective of the scheme is to encourage the
use of wood as a renewable source of energy in Wales. It funds
projects that help the emergence of a wood fuel market in
Wales.

Legal basis: 1967 Forestry Act

Budget: GBP 6 million (EUR 9 million) for the whole duration
of the scheme.

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Aid intensity or amount: Up to 40 % of eligible costs, with a
bonus of 5 % in regions covered by Article 87(3)(c) and 10 %
in regions covered by Article 87(3)(a). A further 10 % may be
added for SMEs.

Duration: 3 years (until September 2007)

The authentic text(s) of the decision, from which all confiden-
tial information has been removed, can be found at:

http://europa.eu.int/comm/secretariat_general/sgb/state_aids/

Date of adoption of the decision: 3.5.2005

Aid No: N 608/2004

Title: Combined Heat and Power certificates

Objective: Environmental protection (Energy)

Legal basis: Besluit van de Vlaamse regering van 5 maart
2004 houdende de openbaredienstverplichting ter bevordering
van de elektriciteitsopwekking in kwalitatieve warmtekrachtin-
stallaties

Intensity or amount: The measure does not constitute aid.

The authentic text(s) of the decision, from which all confiden-
tial information has been removed, can be found at:

Member State: Belgium (Flemish region)

http://europa.eu.int/comm/secretariat_general/sgb/state_aids/