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: 2005-12-21
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Czechia, France, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, State aid, United Kingdom, 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 324/07)

(Text with EEA relevance)

Date of adoption: 16.2.2005

Objective: Environmental protection

Member State: France (Caen — Basse-Normandie)

Aid No: N 172/2004

Title: Aide à la R&D pour Philips Semiconductors à Caen
(Basse-Normandie)

Objective: R&D aid (Micro-electronics)

Budget: EUR 200 million eligible costs

Intensity or amount: EUR 33 million aid amount. 25 %
maximum aid intensity

Duration: Five years (2004 — 2008)

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tial information has been removed, can be found at:

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Date of adoption of the decision: 16.11.2004

Member State: France

Aid No: N 215/04

Legal basis: Zákon č. 353/2003 Sb., Zákon č. 256/2000 Sb.,
Nařízení vlády č. 86/2001 Sb. Nařízení vlády č. 148/2005 Sb

Budget:

2005: EUR 11,6 million

2006: EUR 23,3 million

Duration: Until 2006

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tial information has been removed, can be found at:

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Date of adoption of the decision: 24.8.2005

Member State: United Kingdom — Carlisle, North West
region of England

Aid No: N 231/2005

Title: Disaster Recovery United Biscuits — McVitie Factory

Title: Individual R&D aid for the firm ATMEL Rousset

Objective: Compensate damages caused by flooding

Objective: To speed up the development of flash memories

Legal basis: Article L-1511-5 du Code Général des Collecti-
vités Territoriales

Legal basis: Section 5 of Regional Development Agency Act
1998 — Powers to award grants

Budget: GBP 1 million (EUR 1,45 million)

Budget: EUR 92,88 million

Aid intensity or amount: 29,6 %

Duration: 2004 to 2007

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tial information has been removed, can be found at:

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Date of adoption: 5.7.2005

Member State: Czech Republic

Aid No: N 223/2005

Title: Aid to biofuels

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tial information has been removed, can be found at:

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Date of adoption: 6.9.2005

Aid No: N 235a/2005

Member State: Poland

Title in original language: Wspieranie inwestycji początko-
wych opartych na nowej technologii

Legal basis
formach wspierania działalności innowacyjnej

in original

language: Ustawa o niektórych

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Objective: Regional development [All sectors]

Title:

Overall aid amount planned: PLN 200 million [ca. EUR 50
million]

Duration: 31.12.2006

Maximum aid intensity: 50 %, 40 %, 30 %, 22,5 %

Other information: Aid scheme — Debt write-off

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tial information has been removed, can be found at:

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Date of adoption: 8.3.2005

Member State: Spain (Cataluña)

Aid No: N 446/2004

‘Aid for research, development and technological innova-
the existing aid scheme

Title:
tion in Cataluña’. Modification of
N 143/2003.

Objective: The scheme aims at granting aid to carry out
industrial research and pre-competitive development projects
implying the subcontracting of an external R&D provider. At
least one of those R&D providers must be a public research
centre, a non profit making research centre or one of the
centres belonging to a technological network called CIDEM.

Legal basis: Orden TRI/291/2004, de 6 de agosto, por la que
se aprueban las bases reguladoras para el otorgamiento de
ayudas para la investigación, el desarrollo y la innovación
tecnológica, y se abre la convocatoria para el año 2004

Budget: EUR 1,2 million per year

Intensity or amount:

— Up to 50 % for industrial research projects.

— Up to 25 % for pre-competitive development activities.

— SME bonus 10 %

— No regional bonus

— Incentives

to research and technological development

projects in strategic sectors.

— Incentives to joint research and technological development

projects.

Objective:

N 498/2004: The scheme aims at granting aid to enterprises in
order to promote the development of industrial research and
technological development projects in the aerospace, pharma-
ceutical, technologically advanced food products and renewable
energy sectors, as well as in the sectors composing their value
chain. The eligible projects must be conducive to the achieve-
ment of products and processes either new or technologically
improved when comparing them with those already existing in
the Catalan industry.

N 502/2004: The scheme aims at granting aid to joint research
and technological development project carried out by groups
of enterprises as defined in point 2.4 of this decision. The
eligible projects must significantly increase the technological
capacity of Cataluña.

Sectors: N 498/2004: NACE sectors 24 (chemical products and
pharmaceutical
industry); 15 (manufacture of food products
and beverages); 31 (manufacture of electrical machinery and
apparatus n.e.c.); 35 (manufacture of aircraft and spacecraft).

N 502/2004: This scheme does not target specific sectors in an
exclusive way. However,
the beneficiaries belonging to the
sectors mentioned before will be prioritised.

Legal basis:

— Orden TRI/293/2004, de 4 de agosto, por la que se
aprueban las bases reguladoras de incentivos a proyectos
empresariales en investigación, desarrollo e innovación
tecnológica en sectores estratégicos, y se abre la convoca-
toria para el año 2004

— Orden TRI/292/2004, de 4 de agosto, por la que se
aprueban las bases reguladoras de incentivos para proyectos
conjuntos de investigación y desarrollo tecnológico (I+D), y
se abre la convocatoria para el año 2004

Budget: EUR 28 milion (N 498/2004) and EUR 20 million
(N 502/2004)

Intensity or amount:

Duration: 1.1.2004 — 31.12.2006

— Up to 50 % for industrial research projects.

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— Up to 25 % for pre-competitive development activities.

— The SME bonus is applicable in scheme N 498/2004

Duration: 17 August 2004 — 31 December 2007

Date of adoption: 25.2.2005

Member State: Spain (Cataluña)

Aid No: N 498/2004 and N 502/2004

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Date of adoption of the decision: 3.5.2005

Date of adoption: 13.9.2005

Member State: The Netherlands

Aid No: N 541/04 and N542/04

Title: Risk equalisation system and retention of reserves

Objective: Health care insurance sector

Legal basis: Zorgverzekeringswet

Budget:

— risk equalisation system: EUR 15 billion per year

— retention of reserves: EUR 1,3 billion one-off measure

Duration:

— risk equalisation system: unlimited duration

— retention of reserves: one-off measure

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Aid No: N 572/2004

Member State: France [Martinique]

Title: Individual aid for training — Société martiniquaise des
villages de vacances (SMVV)

Legal basis:

— Implementation of the SPD Objective 1 for Martinique

— Credit award from the European Social Fund

— Application of articles 87 and 88 EC Treaty to training aid

Objective: Training

Maximum aid intensity: 60 %

Budget: Annual expenditure planned: EUR 4 385 508

Duration: End date: 31.12.2005

Other information: Individual aid

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tial information has been removed, can be found at:

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