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: 2005-11-17
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Belgium, Germany, Italy, 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 285/04)

(Text with EEA relevance)

Aid No: XT 31/02

Member State: Germany

Region: Thuringia

Title of aid scheme: Directive on the granting of subsidies by
Thüringia and the European Union to promote vocational
preparation and continuing training

Legal basis: Operationelles Programm des Freistaats Thüringen
für den Einsatz der Europäischen Strukturfonds in der Periode
von 2000 bis 2006, Maßnahmebereich 4.3. und 4.4.

§§ 23, 24 Abs. 4, 26 Abs. 3 Nr. 2, 44 und 91 Thüringer Land-
eshaushaltsordnung (ThürLHO) sowie §§ 48, 49 und 49 a
Thüringer Verwaltungsverfahrensgesetz (ThürVwVfG)

Annual expenditure planned under
10 million

the scheme: EUR

Maximum aid intensity: Continuing training measures up to
55 % of total expenditure; measures for women which serve to
improve equal opportunities: 70 % of the total expenditure per
female participant;
training
special practical
measures for young people up to 100 % of total expenditure;
model skills-training projects: up to 80 % of total expenditure.

continuing

The above intensities are granted in accordance with Regulation
(EC) No 68/2001 of 12 January 2001 on the application of
Articles 87 and 88 of the EC Treaty to training aid

— vocational preparation for young people without school-
leaving certificate or for young people with school qualifi-
cations but no vocational qualification;

— continuing training for people setting up businesses and
measures to develop and protect start-ups for persons faced
with unemployment and formerly unemployed graduates of
university and technical college;

— model vocational training and continuing training projects
where there is a particularly justified need to develop inno-
vative approaches to training and continuing training for
employees and owners of firms in Thüringia or practical
vocational preparation of young people for the labour and
training vacancy market

Economic sector(s) concerned: All economic sectors

Name and address of the granting authority:

Gesellschaft für Arbeits- und Wirtschaftsförderung des Frei-
staats Thüringen mbH (GFAW)
Dalbergsweg 6
DE-99084 Erfurt

Other information:

Thüringer Ministerium für Wirtschaft, Arbeit und Infrastruktur
Referat ‘Berufliche Bildung und Qualifizierung’
Max-Reger-Straße 4-8
DE-99096 Erfurt

Date of implementation: 1.1.2002

Duration of scheme: 1.1.2002 to 31.12.2006

Objective: The following are being promoted:

Aid No: XT 36/03

Member State: Germany

Region: Bavaria

— implementation of continuing training measures for the
adaptation of vocational skills and measures for employees
and owners of firms in Thüringia;

Title of aid scheme: Vocational
training of handicapped
people, mentally ill people and addicts in integration enter-
prises and comparable establishments

— catch-up of qualifications for semi-skilled and unskilled

employees without professional qualifications;

Individual grants of aid under the measures described below are
made on the basis of award decisions.

— necessary continuing training for persons faced with unem-
ployment in firms in difficulty or affected by restructuring;

The award decisions include a reference to Regulation (EC) No
68/2001 and the corresponding exemption

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Legal basis:

— BayHO (vor allem Art. 23 und 44),

— VO (EG) Nr. 1260/1999,

— VO (EG) Nr. 1784/1999,

— Entscheidung der Europäischen Kommission Nr.

(2000)

2414,

— EPPD zu Ziel 3,

— EzPP Ziel 3.

the scheme: The
Annual expenditure planned under
annual amount earmarked for individual aid decisions under
the measures described below totals roughly EUR 2,3 million
from ESF funds.

As a rule, payments may run for up to 5 years

Maximum aid intensity: The aid intensity in each case is
fixed in line with the permitted limits, the maximum being
80 % of the eligible costs (up to 45 % ESF funding)

Date of implementation: Individual aid may be granted up to
31.12.2006 (incl.) (end of ESF authorisation period).

Duration of
31.12.2008

scheme: Payments may be made up to

Objective: Individual aid under the measures described below
is granted for the purposes of general training

Description of the general training aid:

Individual aid granted under the measures described is intended
for general training. The content of such training must relate
not only to a specific area of work or a specific firm but must
be transferable to other areas of work or undertakings. The
measure will help to provide transferable skills which will
significantly improve the placement potential of the partici-
pants.

The content of the training will be in line with the accompa-
nying description under the Single Programming Document
(SPD) for Objective 3 and the Supplementary Programming
Document for Objective 3 (Policy area B, measure 4). Please
refer to the accompanying extracts from the SPD and the
Supplementary PD and the Bavarian Financial Regulation

Economic sector(s) concerned: All economic sectors

Name and address of the granting authority:

— Regierung von Oberbayern

DE-80534 Munich

— Regierung von Niederbayern

DE-84023 Landshut

— Regierung der Oberpfalz
DE-93039 Regensburg

— Regierung von Oberfranken

DE-95420 Bayreuth

— Regierung von Mittelfranken

DE-91511 Ansbach

— Regierung von Unterfranken

DE-97064 Würzburg

— Regierung von Schwaben
DE-86145 Augsburg

From 2004:

Bayerisches Landesamt für Versorgung und Familienförderung
Hegelstraße 2
DE-95447 Bayreuth

Aid No: XT 38/03

Member State: Italy

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

Title of aid scheme: Measures III.2 — Training of high-level
professional skills to develop the competitiveness of businesses,
with priority for SMEs.

Legal basis: Programma operativo nazionale ‘Ricerca scienti-
fica, sviluppo tecnologico, alta formazione’ 2000/2006 che si
integra nel quadro comunitario di sostegno per gli interventi
strutturali comunitari 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.

assicurate dal Fondo sociale

— Decreto direttoriale n. 800/RIC/2001 del 30.7.2001 —
Cofinanziamento mediante l'utilizzo delle risorse comuni-
europeo (FSE) —
tarie
Programma
scientifica,
‘Ricerca
sviluppo tecnologico ed alta formazione’ per l'obiettivo 1
— di interventi formativi per soggetti occupati, compresi i
titolari di PMI, delle imprese localizzate sul territorio obiet-
tivo 1.

nazionale

operativo

Annual expenditure planned under
the scheme: EUR
8 294 791,15 for the period July 2002-December 2004 on the
basis of the individual directorial decrees granting cofinancing.
Expenditure is likely to be concentrated in the 2003 financial
year, estimated at around EUR 4 300 000

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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

culty (OJ C 288, 9.10.1999), as part of rescue or restructuring
operations assisted through public funds (rescue and/or restruc-
turing aid). Such aid will be assessed in the light of those guide-
lines. 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

SMEs

Specific training

General training

Aid No: XT 55/01

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

Date of implementation: 10.7.2002

Duration of scheme: Until 31.12.2006

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 scheme,
training means:

‘general’

inter-enterprise training,
training organised jointly by
different independent enterprises or in which employees of
different enterprises may take part

i.e.

Economic sector(s) concerned:

— All sectors

— All services

Name and address of granting authority:

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

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 guide-
lines on state aid for rescuing and restructuring firms in diffi-

Member State: Belgium

Region: Flanders

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving indivi-
dual aid: Decree of the Flemish Government establishing the
detailed conditions and rules under which subsidies are granted
for continuing education and training for employees and firms,
‘Lever loan — innovative work organisation’ section

Legal basis: Decreet van 8 december 2000 houdende diverse
bepalingen, inzonderheid artikel 16

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of aid granted to the company: As far as aid from
the ESF is concerned, an amount of EUR 4 479 108 is to be
granted for the period 2000-2006, i.e. an average amount of
EUR 639 872 a year.

The amount to be provided from the Flemish budget varies
from one budget year to another, but amounts to a minimum
of EUR 731 510 (the maximum is EUR 1 125 400). For the
period 2001-2006, a total Flemish subsidy of EUR 6 133 430
(indicative) is to be provided for the measure ‘Lever loan —
training’

Maximum aid intensity: The maximum aid intensity (the
total official aid from the Member State and the European
Union)
for training projects is determined on the basis of
Commission Regulation (EC) No 68/2001 and the provisions of
Article 29(3)(b) of Council Regulation (EC) No 1260/1999.

The ceilings are as follows:

Commission Regulation (EC) No 68/2001: maximum aid inten-
sity (i.e. EU and Flemish aid combined)
for training with
respect to the subsidised basis:

General training

70 %

50 %

SMEs

Large enterprises

Specific training

35 %

25 %

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These intensities may be increased by 5 percentage points for
assisted areas covered by Article 87(3)(c) of the Treaty.

Council Regulation (EC) No 1260/1999, Article 29(3)(b):

The permitted ESF aid amounts to a maximum of 50 % of the
total eligible cost and, as a general rule, at least 25 % of eligible
public expenditure

Date of implementation: The decree on the ‘Lever loan —
innovatory work organisation’ was adopted by the Flemish
Government on 28 September 2001

Duration of scheme or duration of the individual aid: Until
31.12.2006

Objective of aid: Firms may apply for a subsidy for both
general and specific training. The definitions of ‘general’ and
‘specific’ training in 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 are applicable

Economic sector(s) concerned: All sectors

Name and address of the granting authority:
Ministerie van de Vlaamse Gemeenschap
Administratie Werkgelegenheid
Afdeling Europa Werkgelegenheid
Markiesstraat 1
BE-1000 Brussels

Implementation of the aid scheme is delegated to the ESF
agency, which is a non-profit body.

Aid No: XT 78/04

Member State: Italy

Region: Lombardy

Title of aid scheme: Grants to enterprises in Brescia for the
vocational training of proprietors, executives and employees in
2004/2005

Legal basis: Art. 12 L. 7 agosto 1990, n. 241, Deliberazioni
camerali nn. 236 del 18.11.2003 e 39 del 23.3.2004, Determi-
nazioni dirigenziali nn. 38/AV del 22.4.2004 e 48/AV del
19.5.2004

Annual expenditure planned: EUR 650 000

Maximum aid intensity: 50 % of the costs incurred up to a
maximum of EUR 2 600; minimum eligible
expenditure
EUR 400

Date of implementation: 1.5.2004

Duration of scheme: 1.5.2004 to 30.4.2005

Objective of aid: Promoting general training for proprietors,
executives and employees of enterprises in Brescia

Economic sectors concerned: All sectors

Name and address of the granting authority:
Camera di Commercio Industria Artigianato e Agricoltura di
Brescia
Via Orzinuovi n. 3
IT-25125 Brescia
Tel. 0303514335
e-mail: buriani@bs.camcom.it