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: 2005-12-29
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: France, State aid, control of State aid, employment aid

29.12.2005

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 333/7

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 333/04)

(Text with EEA relevance)

Aid No: XE 7/04

Member State: France

Region: Rhône-Alpes

Title of aid scheme: Employment aid scheme implemented in
the Rhône-Alpes region under the Objective 2 Single Program-
ming Document on the basis of Commission Regulation (EC)
No 2204/2002

exceed the level needed to compensate for any reduced
productivity resulting from the disabilities of the worker or
workers and for all costs connected with adapting premises,
the disabled worker or
employing staff solely to assist
workers or adapting or acquiring equipment for their use

Date of implementation: 13.10.2003

Duration of scheme or individual aid: Until 31.12.2006

Legal basis:

Objective of aid:

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

Circulaires interministérielles de gestion des fonds structurels
du 15 juillet, 19 août, 27 novembre et 24 décembre 2002

Annual expenditure planned: EUR 1,5 million

Maximum aid intensity under:

— Article 4: of Regulation (EC) No 2204/2002, i.e. where the
employment is created in areas or in sectors that do not
qualify for regional aid pursuant to Article 87(3)(a) and (c)
at the moment the aid is granted, the gross aid intensity
must not exceed 15 % in the case of small firms and 7.5 %
in the case of medium-sized firms. Where regional aid does
apply, the aid intensity is that laid down in the regional aid
map, plus 10 percentage points gross in areas covered by
Article 87(3)(c), provided that the total net aid intensity
does not exceed 30 %, and 15 percentage points gross in
areas covered by Article 87(3)(a), provided that the total net
aid intensity does not exceed 75 %;

— Article 5: of Regulation (EC) No 2204/2002, i.e. 50 % for
disadvantaged workers and 60 % for disabled workers
under the same Regulation;

— Article 6: of Regulation (EC) No 2204/2002, i.e. the aid,
together with any aid provided under Article 5, must not

— Article 4: to encourage firms to increase their levels of
employment in areas facing severe economic difficulties;

— Article 5: to encourage firms to increase their levels of
employment,
in particular of disadvantaged workers. To
promote the integration of people remote from the labour
market;

— Article 6: to encourage firms to recruit disabled workers by
compensating for any reduced productivity that might
result

Economic sectors concerned: All sectors within the Euro-
pean Community, with the exception of the shipbuilding sector
and other sectors which are the subject of special rules in regu-
lations and directives governing all state aid within the sector

Name and address of the granting authority:

M. le Préfet de la région Rhône-Alpes
Secrétariat Général pour les Affaires Régionales
31, rue Mazenod 69426 Lyon cedex 03
Service responsable de la mise en œuvre de ce régime: Direc-
tion Régionale du Travail, de l'Emploi et de la Formation
Professionnelle

Other information: The aid scheme is co-financed under the
Single Programming Document for the Rhône-Alpes Region by
the European Social Fund