Information communicated by Member States regarding State aid granted under Commission Regulation (EC) No 2204/2002 of 12 December 2002 on the application of Articles 87 and 88 of the EC Treaty to State aid for employment   (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2005-10-28
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Campania, Italy, State aid, control of State aid, job creation, tax exemption, unemployed person

28.10.2005

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 268/15

Information communicated by Member States regarding State aid granted under Commission
Regulation (EC) No 2204/2002 of 12 December 2002 on the application of Articles 87 and 88 of
the EC Treaty to State aid for employment

(2005/C 268/07)

(Text with EEA relevance)

Aid No: XE 9/03

Member State: Italy

Region: Campania

Title of aid scheme: Recruitment of disadvantaged workers

‘IN LA’ project — Jobs for the long-term unemployed in the
Province of Naples.

Under this project firms are given a grant of EUR 5 164,66 for
each long-term unemployed person they recruit on a perma-
nent basis or fixed-term contract of at least twelve months'
duration, in the tourism and agriculture sectors

Legal basis:

L. 23.12.1996, n. 662, art. 2 comma 203, lett. b)
Intesa Istituzionale di programma del 16.9.2003
D. D. 19 giugno 2003

Annual expenditure planned: EUR 15 494 000

Maximum aid intensity under: Article 5: recruitment of
disadvantaged workers

The maximum special grant for each beneficiary firm is 50 %
of the wage costs calculated over a period of one year following
recruitment. Both figures are gross,
i.e. before taxes. Under
Article 8(4) the special grant may be cumulated with other
national or Community incentives applicable for the same
recruitment, given that these are measures for getting the long-
term unemployed back into work; in any case the cumulation
of aid cannot exceed the ceilings laid down in Regulation (EC)
No 2204/2002, therefore the gross aid intensity resulting from
the cumulation cannot exceed 100 % of the wage costs over
any period for which the worker or workers are employed.

This means that, in addition to the grant of EUR 5 164,66, for
every person recruited on a permanent basis firms are also
entitled to the incentives for recruitment of long-term unem-
ployed persons on a permanent full-time or part-time basis
under Article 8(9) of Law No 407/90 (100 % exemption from
employer's social security contributions for 36 months in the
case of firms operating in the Mezzogiorno and craft firms;
50 % exemption from the same contributions for the same
period in the case of private-sector employers such as profes-
sional practices, foundations, associations, etc. in the Mezzo-
giorno, and also firms in North Central Italy).

The incentives under Article 8(9) of Law No 407/90 do not
apply to recruitment in the tourist industry or in agriculture if
the contract is for a fixed term, even if for 12 months or more

Date of implementation: 29.10.2003

Duration of scheme: 30.6.2004

Objective of aid: Article 5: recruitment of disadvantaged
workers

Recruitment of some 3 000 long-term unemployed persons in
the Province of Naples at serious risk of social exclusion

Economic sector(s) concerned: All EC sectors

Name and address of the granting authority:

l'Impiego,

Ministero del lavoro e delle Politiche Sociali
Direzione Generale per
Formazione
Via Fornovo, 8
IT-00192 Roma
Tel. (0039-06) 36 75 50 60
e.mail: segreteriadgimpiego@welfare.gov.it

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