Information communicated by Member States regarding State aid granted under Commission Regulation (EC) No 70/2001 of  12 January 2001 , as amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 364/2004 of  25 February 2004 , on the application of Articles 87 and 88 of the EC Treaty to State aid to small and medium-sized enterprises   (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2006-01-06
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Czechia, Italy, State aid, control of State aid, small and medium-sized enterprises

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Information communicated by Member States regarding State aid granted under Commission
Regulation (EC) No 70/2001 of 12 January 2001, as amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No
364/2004 of 25 February 2004, on the application of Articles 87 and 88 of the EC Treaty to State
aid to small and medium-sized enterprises

(2006/C 3/08)

(Text with EEA relevance)

Aid No: XS 114/04

Aid No: XS 128/04

Member State: Czech Republic

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving an indi-
vidual aid: Programme of Grantová agentura České republiky
— Czech Science Foundation to support fundamental research

Member State: Italy

Region: Umbria

Legal basis:

Zákon č. 130/2002 Sb. o podpoře výzkumu a vývoje.

Nařízení vlády č. 461/2002 Sb.

Title of aid scheme: Regional aid scheme for investments by
SMEs that are members of cooperatives or consortia and
promote integrated projects to strengthen production sectors in
Umbria

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of individual aid granted to the company:

Total amount: CZK 8 000 million, EUR 250 million,

Legal basis: Deliberazione della Giunta Regionale del 20/10/
2004 n. 1580 — Determinazione dirigenziale n. 9090 del 21/
10/2004 in attuazione della Misura 2.1 — Azione 2.1.3 del
DOCUP Ob.2

Annual expenditure planned: CZK 1 300 million, EUR 40
million, only up to 5 % of total expenditure will be granted to
undertakings
i.e. EUR 12,5 million total amount,
(SMEs);
EUR 2 million annual expenditure

expenditure

Annual
EUR 18 801 246,00 to be granted in full
period 2004-06

planned: A

maximum
of
in the three-year

Maximum aid intensity: 100 % — fundamental research

Maximum aid intensity:

Date of implementation: 1.1.2005

Duration of scheme or individual aid award:

6 years (2005-2010) (1)

Small firms: 15 % gge; in areas eligible for regional aid covered
by the Objective 2 SPD (Single Programming Document) for
Umbria: 10 % gge + 8 % nge.

31.12.2010; after 3 years from the beginning of the project

Objective of aid: Research and Development for SMEs

Medium-sized firms: 7,5 % gge; in areas eligible for regional aid
covered by the Objective 2 SPD for Umbria: 6 % gge + 8 %
nge.

Economic Sector(s) concerned: All
research institutions, 5 % of private subjects (SME)

sectors: universities,

If the firms wish, the aid may be granted under Regulation (EC)
No 69/2001

Name and address of the granting authority:

Grantová agentura České republiky — Czech Science Founda-
tion
Národní 3
CZ-110 00 Praha 1

Date of implementation: 4.11.2004

Duration of scheme: 31.12.2006

(1) The provider of State aid (Grantová agentura České republiky -
Czech Science Foundation) confirms, that if there are any changes
in the guidelines/legislation of the EC, the scheme will be always
changed in line with the successive legislation of the Regulation
(EC) No 70/2001.

Objective of aid: Support
investment by small and
for
medium-sized firms in the Objective 2 and phasing-out areas
of Umbria. The investments covered by this aid scheme corre-
spond to expenditure on buildings, land, plant, equipment and
machinery, computer programs and design work as defined in
the specific cost eligibility rules laid down in Regulation (EC)
No 1685/2000

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Economic sectors concerned: Production and production
services firms operating in one of the following sectors and
holding the relevant Ateco 2002 codes:

— Section D ‘Manufacturing activities’ with the exception of:

— Manufacture of coke oven products: all of group 23.1

— Manufacture of iron and steel: all of class 27.10 and
categories 27.22.1 and 27.22.2 (only tubes with a
diameter exceeding 406,4 mm)

— Building and repairing of ships: categories 35.11.1 and

35.11.3

— Manufacture of man-made fibres: all of class 24.70

— enterprises in the agro-industrial sectors specified in
Section D, subsection DA of Divisions 15 and 16 in the
1991 ISTAT classification, i.e.:

— 15.1, 15.2, 15.3 and 15.4 — all classes and categories;

— 15.5 — all of class 15.51;

— 15.6 and 15.7 — all classes and categories;

— 15.8 — 15.83 and categories 15.87.0 and 15.89.0

— 15.9 — classes 15.91, 15.92, 15.93, 15.94, 15.95 and

15.97;

— 16.0 in its entirety.

— Section I, Division 63, only groups 63.1 and 63.2,
excluding investments in the acquisition of means of trans-
port

— Section K, only Division 72 (all categories) and only Divi-
sion 74 (for group 74.3, category 74.81.2, class 74.82 and
category 74.87.5)

— Section O, only Division 90 and category 93.01.1

Name and address of the granting authority:

Regione dell'Umbria, Giunta Regionale, Servizio Politiche di
Sostegno alle Imprese, Via Mario Angeloni 61, I-06100 Perugia