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: 2006-11-18
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Austria, Czechia, Denmark, Ireland, Slovakia, Spain, State aid, United Kingdom, control of State aid

C 280/2

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

18.11.2006

Authorisation for State aid pursuant to Articles 87 and 88 of the EC Treaty

Cases where the Commission raises no objections

(2006/C 280/02)

(Text with EEA relevance)

Date of adoption of the decision

16.5.2006

N 25/06

Denmark

Distributionstilskud til dagbladslignende publikationer

Lov 1214 af 27. december 2003 om distributionstilskud til visse periodiske
blade og tidsskrifter, lovforslag L 96 af 30. november 2005, forslag til ændring
af lov om distributionstilskud til visse periodiske blade og tidsskrifter

Reference number of the aid

Member State

Title

Legal basis

Type of measure

Objective

Form of aid

Budget

Intensity

Duration

Economic sectors

Name and address of
authority

Individual aid

Sectoral development

Direct grant

Annual budget: DKK 10 million

50 %

1 January 2006

Media

the granting

Staten

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Date of adoption of the decision

14.12.2004

Reference number of the aid

N 126/04

Member State

Region

Title

Legal basis

Type of measure

Objective

Form of aid

Budget

Intensity

Economic sectors

Name and address of
authority

United Kingdom

East Midlands

Broadband for SMEs in Lincolnshire — Connecting Rural Businesses

Local Government Act 2000, Part II

Individual aid

Sectoral development

Direct grant

Annual budget: GBP 4,25 million;

Overall budget: GBP 4,25 million

30 %

Post and telecommunications

the granting

Lincolnshire County Council

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EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 280/3

Date of adoption of the decision

13.09.2006

Reference number of the aid

Member State

Region

Title

Legal basis

N 196/06

Austria

Entire national territory

Richtlinie zur Unterstützung von Umschlagsanlagen im intermodalen Verkehr (Guide-
lines on aid for transhipment systems in intermodal transport)

Bundesbahngesetz [Federal Railways Act] (BGBl 825/1992), as last amended by
BGBl I No 80/2005

Type of measure

Aid scheme

Objective

Form of aid

Budget

Intensity

Duration (period)

Economic sectors

Aid to combined transport — infrastructure and equipment

Pro-rata funding

Total budget of EUR 15 million; EUR 2,5 million per year

Max 50 % for infrastructure and 30 % for combined transport equipment

6 years

Combined transport

Name and address of
authority

the granting

Federal Ministry of Transport, Innovation and Technology
Radetzkystr. 2
A-1030 Vienna

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found at:

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Date of adoption of the decision

12.10.2006

Reference number of the aid

N 226/06

Member State

Title

Legal basis

Slovak Republic

State aid for combined transport

Výnos č. 491/M-2006 Ministerstva dopravy, pôšt a telekomunikácií Slovenskej
republiky z 15. 2. 2006 o poskytovaní dotácií v oblasti kombinovanej dopravy
(Zákon č. 523/2004 Z. z. o rozpočtových pravidlách verejnej správy a o
zmene a doplnení niektorých zákonov v znení neskorších predpisov a ktorým
sa mení a zákon č. 584/2005 Z. z. (§ 8) a zákon č. 231/1999 Z. z. o štátnej
pomoci
v znení neskorších predpisov (§ 5)

Type of measure

Aid scheme

Objective

Form of aid

Budget

Intensity

Duration

Start-up aid for combined transport services

Direct grant

The planned annual budget is SKK 20 million (EUR 525 000)

The maximum intensity for each project is 30 %

The aid scheme is not limited in time. Aid can only be granted for a maximum
of 3 years for each project

Economic sectors

Combined transport

Name and address of
authority

the granting

Ministerstva dopravy, pôšt a telekomunikácií.
Telecommunications)

(Ministry of Transport, Posts and

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EN

Official Journal of the European Union

18.11.2006

Date of adoption of the decision

13.9.2006

Reference number of the aid

N 350/06

Member State

Czech Republic

Title

Změna restrukturalizačního plánu společnosti MSO

Type of measure

Individual aid

Objective

Restructuring of firms in difficulty

Economic sectors

Steel

Other information

Decision concerns agreement to change of IBP as provided for in Protocol No
2 of the Accession Treaty

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found at:

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Date of adoption of the decision

26.9.2006

Reference number of the aid

N 353/06

Member State

Ireland

Region

Title

Legal basis

Budget

Border, West, South West and South East regions.

Regional Airports Capital Expenditure Grant Scheme

Central Fund (Permanent Provisions) Act, 1965

Overall amount: EUR 65,5million

2006: EUR 10,5 million

2007: EUR 8 million

2008: EUR 13 million

2009: EUR 16 million

2010: EUR 18 million

2006-2010

Air Transport

Department of Transport
Transport House
44 Kildare Street
Dublin 2
Ireland

Duration (period)

Economic sectors

Name and address of
authority

the granting

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Official Journal of the European Union

C 280/5

Date of adoption of the decision

Reference number of the aid

Member State

Region

Title

Legal basis

13.9.2006

NN 48/04

Spain

Aragón

Ayudas a Opel Zaragoza

— Decreto 55/2000, de 14 de marzo, sobre ayudas económicas a las Empresas

Industriales en la Comunidad Autónoma de Aragón.

— Orden de 17 de octubre de 2002, del Departamento de Industria, Comercio
y Desarrollo, por la que, se convoca para el ejercicio 2003, la concesión de
ayudas a empresas industriales aragonesas.

— Orden de 9 de mayo de 2003 del Departamento de Industria, Comercio y
Desarrollo por la que se concede la subvención solicitada por la empresa
Opel España de automóviles, S.L. de acuerdo con el programa de incentivos
a las inversiones productivas

Type of measure

Objective

Form of aid

Budget

Intensity

Duration (period)

Economic sectors

Individual aid

Regional development

Direct grant

EUR 6 418 759

3 %

31.12.2006

Limited to motor vehicles

Name and address of
authority

the granting

Diputación General de Aragón. Departamento de Industria, Comercio y
Turismo
Paseo María Agustín 36, Edificio Pignatelli
E-50004 Zaragoza

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