Information communicated by Member States regarding State aid granted under Commission Regulation (EC) No 70/2001 of  12 January 2001  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: 2006-01-31
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: State aid, aid to undertakings, 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 on the application of Articles 87 and 88 of the EC
Treaty to State aid to small and medium-sized enterprises

(2006/C 23/02)

(Text with EEA relevance)

Aid No

Member State

Region

XS 10/2004

Italy

Piedmont

Title of aid scheme or name of company
receiving individual aid

Refinancing of the XS 62/01 aid scheme — SPD 2000-06 for the Pied-
mont Region, Measure 2.1 — Support for business investment, Line 2.1.d
— Aid for investment in conjunction with EIB loans

Legal basis

1) Atto deliberativo della Giunta regionale n. 12-3626 del 31 luglio
2001 — Regolamento n. 1260. Obiettivo 2. DOCUP Regione
Piemonte, periodo di programmazione 2000/2006. Approvazione
progetti di aiuto in esenzione ai sensi del regolamento (CE) n.
70/2001 — Allegato 3 — 2.1.d. Aiuti agli investimenti in connessione
con i prestiti BEI.

2) Decisione della Commissione del 21/10/2003 C(2003) 3983 che retti-
fica e modifica la decisione C(2001) 2045 del 7 settembre 2001 rela-
tiva all'approvazione degli interventi strutturali comunitari concernenti
il documento unico di programmazione per gli interventi strutturali
comunitari nella Regione Piemonte interessata dall'obiettivo n. 2 in
Italia.

3) Atto deliberativo della Giunta regionale n. 29-11249 del 9 dicembre
2003 — Regolamento (CE) n. 1260/1999 — Documento unico di
programmazione obiettivo 2 (programmazione 2000/2006). Presa
d'atto della decisione della Commissione dell'UE n. C(2003) 3983 del
21 ottobre 2003 e successive modifiche e/o integrazioni

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

Aid scheme

Annual
amount

overall

EUR 21 million

Loans guaranteed

Individual aid

Overall aid amount

Loans guaranteed

Maximum aid intensity

In conformity with Articles 4(2)-(6) and 5
of the Regulation

Yes

Date of implementation

9.12.2003

Duration of scheme or individual aid award Until 30.6.2007

Objective of aid

Aid to SMEs

Economic sectors concerned

All sectors eligible for aid to SMEs

Yes

Yes

Limited to specific sectors

— Coalmining

— All manufacturing

or

Steel

Shipbuilding

Synthetic fibres

Motor vehicles

Other manufacturing

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— All services

Yes

or

Transport

Financial services

Other services

Name and address of the granting authority Name:

Regione Piemonte — Direzione Industria

Address:
Via Pisana n. 6, I-10152 Turin

Large individual aid grants

In conformity with Article 6 of the Regu-
lation
The measure excludes awards of aid or
requires prior notification to the Commis-
sion of awards of aid,
(a) if

the total eligible costs are at

least

Yes

EUR 25 million and

— the gross aid intensity is at

least

50 %,

— in areas which qualify for regional
aid, the net aid intensity is at least
50 %; or

(b) if the total gross aid amount is at least

EUR 15 million

Aid No

Member State

Region

XS 137/04

Germany

North Rhine-Westphalia

Title of aid scheme or name of company
receiving individual aid

Legal basis

Measures to promote the sale and use of wood and wood products from
small and medium-sized businesses in the timber sector in North Rhine-
Westphalia, such as felling companies, forwarding firms and manufac-
turing and processing firms (see also the attached key issues paper, specifi-
cally the measures under point 2.2)

1. Mitteilung der Kommission zu „Der Stand der Wettbewerbsfähigkeit
der holzverarbeitenden Industrie und verwandter Industriezweige in
der EU“ vom 5. Oktober 1999, KOM (1999) 457 endg.

2. EU-Entschluss 457-C5-0306/2000, Bundesdrucksache 113/01 vom

2.2.2001

3. Landesforstgesetz für das Land Nordrhein-Westfalen in der Fassung der
Bekanntmachung vom 24. April 1980, zuletzt geändert durch Gesetz
vom 9. Mai 2000 (§ 60)

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

Aid scheme

EUR 1,4 million

per

overall
Maximum
amount
year
(covers all measures
in the
issues
key
paper)

Loans guaranteed

Individual aid

Overall aid amount

EUR 100 000

Loans guaranteed

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Maximum aid intensity

In conformity with Articles (2)-(6) and 5 of
the Regulation

Yes

Date of implementation

1.9.2004

Duration of the scheme or individual aid
award

Until 31.12.2008

Objective of aid

Aid to SMEs

Yes

Economic sectors concerned

All sectors eligible for aid to SMEs

Yes

Limited to specific sectors

— Coalmining

— All manufacturing

or

Steel

Shipbuilding

Synthetic fibres

Motor vehicles

Other manufacturing

— All services

or

Transport

Financial services

Other services

Wood manu-
facturing
and
processing
firms

skid-
Felling,
ding,
trading
and forwarding
companies

Name and address of the granting authority Name:

Ministerium für Umwelt und Naturschutz, Landwirtschaft und Verbrau-
cherschutz des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen

Address:
Schwannstr. 3, D-40476 Düsseldorf

Large individual aid grants

In conformity with Article 6 of the Regu-
lation

Yes

We undertake to adapt the aid scheme if necessary following any amendment of Regulation (EC) No 70/2001 after
31 December 2006. This also applies to all
individual measures granted under the scheme which extend beyond
31 December 2006. The Commission will be informed of any such changes

Aid No

Member State

Region

XS 7/05

Germany

Saxony-Anhalt

Title of aid scheme or name of company
receiving individual aid

Legal basis

Special programme for building the information society in Saxony-Anhalt

Landeshaushaltsordnung (LHO) vom 30.4.1991 (GVBl. LSA S. 45), insbe-
sondere die Verwaltungsvorschriften zu § 44 LHO des Landes Sachsen-
Anhalt in der aktuellen Fassung;

Verordnung (EG) Nr. 70/2001 der Kommission vom 12. Januar 2001,
geändert durch Verordnung (EG) Nr. 364/2004 der Kommission vom 25.
Februar 2004, über die Anwendung der Artikel 87 und 88 EG-Vertrag
auf staatliche Beihilfen an kleine und mittlere Unternehmen

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

Aid scheme

Annual
amount

overall

EUR 1 million

Loans guaranteed

Individual aid

Overall aid amount

Loans guaranteed

Maximum aid intensity

In conformity with Articles (2)-(6) and 5 of
the Regulation

Yes

Date of implementation

1.1.2005

Duration of the scheme or individual aid
award

Until 30.6.2007

Objective of aid

Aid to SMEs

Yes

Economic sectors concerned
NB: The following are excluded:
— Activities relating to the manufacture,
processing and marketing of goods
listed in Annex 1 to the EC Treaty.

— Aid for export-related activities
— Aid which is conditional on the use of
than
products

rather

indigenous
imported goods

— Aid to the steel, synthetic fibres, motor
vehicle and shipbuilding industries

All sectors eligible for aid to SMEs

— All services

Yes

Yes

Since special rules apply to agriculture, fisheries and aquaculture and
transport and since even small amounts of aid to those sectors might
fulfil the criteria of Article 87(1) of the EC Treaty, the sectors in question
are excluded from the scheme.

The steel, synthetic fibres, motor vehicle and shipbuilding industries are
excluded owing, among other
that appropriate
things,
measures have been agreed in relation to regional investment aid

to the fact

Name and address of the granting authority Name:

Investitionsbank Sachsen-Anhalt
Gruppe Sonderprogramm

Address:
Domplatz 12
D-39104 Magdeburg

Large individual aid grants

In conformity with Article 6 of the Regu-
lation

Yes

Aid No

Member State

Region

XS 8/05

Austria

Vienna

Title of aid scheme or name of company
receiving individual aid

Viennese structural improvement measures

Legal basis

Beschluss des Wiener Gemeinderates vom 17.12.2004 unter PrZ 05580-
2004/0001-GFW

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

Aid scheme

Annual
amount

overall

EUR 4,3 million

Loans guaranteed

Individual aid

Overall aid amount

Loans guaranteed

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Maximum aid intensity

In conformity with Articles 4(2)-(6) and 5
of the Regulation

Yes

Date of implementation

1.1.2005

Duration of the scheme or individual aid
award

Until 31.12.2008

(Account will be taken of a possible future requirement as to a recent
exemption notification based on the period of validity of the SME aid
block exemption Regulation.)

Objective of aid

Aid to SMEs

Yes

Economic sectors concerned

All sectors eligible for aid to SMEs

Yes

Name and address of the granting authority Name:

Magistrat der Stadt Wien
Magistratsabteilung 5

Address:
A-1082 Vienna, Ebendorferstraße 2:
Zuständige Kontaktperson: Robert Mayer-Unterholzner c/o ZT
Zentrum für Innovation und Technologie GmbH, A-1010 Vienna,
Ebendorferstraße 4, Tel. (43-1) 4000-86775; rmu@zit.co.at

Large individual aid grants

In conformity with Article 6 of the Regu-
lation

Yes

Aid No

Member State

Region

Title of aid scheme or name of company
receiving individual aid

XS 53/05

Germany

North Rhine-Westphalia

Choren Industries GmbH
Frauensteiner Str. 59
D-09599 Freiberg

Analysis and development of implementation structures for biomass to
liquids plants in NRW/Germany

Legal basis

1. Verordnung (EG) Nr. 70/2001 der Kommission vom 12. Januar 2001,
VO (EG)

b; Änderungsverordnung

insbesondere Artikel
Nr. 364/2004 vom 25.2.2004

5

2. Landesforstgesetz für das Land Nordrhein-Westfalen in der Fassung der
Bekanntmachung vom 24. April 1980, zuletzt geändert durch Gesetz
vom 9. Mai 2000 (§ 60)

3. § 44 Landeshaushaltsordnung NRW
4. Energie für die Zukunft: Erneuerbare Energieträger — Weißbuch für

eine Gemeinschaftsstrategie und Aktionsplan (KOM(97) 599)

5. Mitteilung der Kommission zu „Der Stand der Wettbewerbsfähigkeit
der holzverarbeitenden Industrie und verwandter Industriezweige in
der EU“ vom 5. Oktober 1999, KOM (1999) 457 endg.

6. Empfehlung der Kommission betreffend Definition der Kleinstunter-
nehmen sowie der kleinen und mittleren Unternehmen (2003/361/EG)

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

Aid scheme

per

overall
Maximum
amount
year
(covers all measures
issues
key
in the
paper)

Loans guaranteed

Individual aid

Overall aid amount

EUR 175 275

Loans guaranteed

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Maximum aid intensity

In accordance with Article 4(2)-(6) and
Article 5(b) of Reg. (EC) No 70/2001 and
Reg. No 364/2004

Yes,
75 %

Date of implementation

Duration of the scheme or individual aid
award

17.2.2005

Until 31.12.2005

Objective of aid

Aid to SMEs

Limited to specific sectors

Other manufacturing

Other services

Yes

Yes

Elaboration of
feasibility study
and
memor-
andum

Name and address of the granting authority Name:

Large individual aid grants

Ministerium für Umwelt und Naturschutz, Landwirtschaft und Verbrau-
cherschutz des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen

Address:
Schwannstr. 3, D-40476 Düsseldorf

In conformity with Article 6 of the Regu-
lation

Yes