Information communicated by Member States regarding State aid granted under Commission Regulation (EC) No 68/2001 of  12 January 2001 , as amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 363/2004 of  25 February 2004 , on the application of Articles 87 and 88 of the EC Treaty to training aid   (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2006-07-29
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: State aid, control of State aid, vocational training

29.7.2006

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Information communicated by Member States regarding State aid granted under Commission
Regulation (EC) No 68/2001 of 12 January 2001, as amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No
363/2004 of 25 February 2004, on the application of Articles 87 and 88 of the EC Treaty to
training aid

(2006/C 177/05)

(Text with EEA relevance)

Aid No

Member State

XT 65/05

Malta

Title of aid scheme or name of
company receiving individual aid

Deductions and Tax Credits (General and Specific Qualifications) Rules, 2005 —
LN 335/2005

Legal basis

Legal Notice under the Income Tax Act (Cap. 123)

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

granted

aid

to

Aid scheme

Annual overall amount

EUR 1 million

Loans guaranteed

Individual aid

Overall aid amount

Loans guaranteed

Maximum aid intensity

In conformity with Article 4(2)-(7) of the Regulation

Yes

Date of implementation

Fiscal year 2005.

Duration of scheme or individual
aid award

Until 31.12.2008 (*)

Objective of aid

General training

Specific training

Economic sectors concerned

All sectors eligible for training aid

Name and address of the granting
authority

Name:
Malta Enterprise Corporation

Address:
Enterprise Centre
Industrial Estate
MT-San Gwann SGN 09

Yes

Yes

Yes

Large individual aid grants

In conformity with Article 5 of the Regulation

Yes

(*) In line with Rule 9 of Legal Notice 335/2005, Deductions and Tax Credits (General and Specific Qualifications) Rules 2005, this

scheme will be adapted according to the rules applicable after the review of Commission Regulation (EC) No 68/2001.

Aid No

Member State

XT 66/05

Malta

Title of aid scheme or name of
company receiving individual aid

Deductions and Tax Credits (Research and Development) Rules, 2005 — LN
330/2005

Legal basis

Legal Notice under the Income Tax Act (Cap. 123)

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

granted

aid

to

Aid scheme

Annual overall amount

EUR 0,9 million

Loans guaranteed

Individual aid

Overall aid amount

Loans guaranteed

Maximum aid intensity

In conformity with Article 4(2)-(7) of the Regulation

Yes

Date of implementation

Fiscal year 2005

Duration of scheme or individual
aid award

Until 31.12.2008 (*)

Objective of aid

General training

Specific training

Economic sectors concerned

All sectors eligible for training aid

Name and address of the granting
authority

Name:
Malta Enterprise Corporation

Address:
Enterprise Centre
Industrial Estate
MT-San Gwann SGN 09

Yes

Yes

Yes

Large individual aid grants

In conformity with Article 5 of the Regulation

Yes

(*) In line with Rule 21 of Legal Notice 330/2005, Deductions and Tax Credits (Research and Development) Rules 2005, this scheme

will be adapted according to the rules applicable after the review of Commission Regulation (EC) No 68/2001.

Aid No

Member State

Region

XT 73/05

Estonia

Eesti Vabariik

Title of aid scheme or name of
company receiving individual aid

Estonian national development plan for implementation of EU structural funds —
for 2004-2006; Measure 2.3 ‘Promotion of
Single Programming Document
research,
incubator
technology
programme’ section

development

innovation’,

‘Business

and

Legal basis

Majandus- ja Kommunikatsiooniministri määrus nr. 132 (2005) 31.10.2005.a.

Annual
overall amount of
granted to the company

expenditure planned or
individual aid

Aid scheme

Annual overall amount

Estonia EUR 0,14 million;
ERDF: EUR 0,41 million;
Total: EUR 0,55 million.

Loans guaranteed

Individual aid

Overall aid amount

Loans guaranteed

Maximum aid intensity

In conformity with Article 4(2)-(7) of
Regulation

the

Yes

Date of implementation

13.11.2005

Duration of scheme or individual
aid award

Until 31.12.2006

Objective of aid

General training

Specific training

Yes

No

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Economic sectors concerned

Limited to specific sectors

- Agriculture

- Fisheries and aquaculture

- Coalmining

- All manufacturing

- All services

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

Yes

Yes

Name and address of the granting
authority

Name:
Ettevõtluse Arendamise Sihtasutus

Address:
Liivalaia 13/15
ET-10118 Tallinn

Large individual aid grants

In conformity with Article 5 of the Regulation Yes

Aid No

Member State

Region

XT 86/04

Portugal

Continental Portugal, the Azores and Madeira

Title of aid scheme or name of
company receiving individual aid

Independent vocational
training projects not covered by the aid schemes
approved by the European Commission as part of the PRIME programme (State
aid No 667/99 — SMEs and State aid No 89/2000 — SIVETUR)

Legal basis

Portaria 1285/2003 do 17 Novembro

Annual
overall amount of
granted to the company

expenditure planned or
individual aid

Year

2004

2005

2006

Total

(euros)

Budget

31 633 784

63 638 599

64 727 617

160 000 000

Maximum aid intensity

The basic aid intensities are given in the following table:

Support level

Specific training

General training

Non-
SMEs

SMEs

Non-
SMEs

SMEs

Basic

25 %

35 %

50 %

70 %

Regional top-up:

— Lisboa

e Vale do Tejo

30 %

40 %

55 %

75 %

(Article 87(3)(c) region)

(Article

35 %

45 %

60 %

80 %

— Other

regions
87(3)(a) regions)

Disadvantaged workers:

— Lisboa e Vale do Tejo

40 %

50 %

65 %

— Other regions

45 %

55 %

70 %

80 %

90 %

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Date of implementation

20 September 2004. The scheme formally entered into force on that date,
although the legal instrument on which it is based was published earlier.

Duration of scheme or individual
aid award

2004-06

Objective of aid

The scheme is aimed at boosting the skills levels of businesses' human resources
and matching them to their strategic development needs. Aid for vocational
training must be shown to be justified by the relevance and appropriateness of
the training to the firm's development strategy as a whole.
The aid is to be granted for both general and specific training courses; in the case
of training plans that include both types of training, the courses may have to be
dissociated for the purpose of calculating the intensity of the aid to be granted.

Economic sectors concerned

Only the sectors specified are eligible.

All manufacturing

All services

or

Other transport services

Other services

Name and address of the granting
authority

Name:
Gabinete de Gestão do PRIME

Address:
Rua Rodrigues Sampaio, 13
P-1169-028 Lisboa
Tel.: 213 11 21 00
Fax: 213 11 21 97
gab@prime.min-economia.pt
http://www.prime.min-economia.pt/