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: 2006-11-21
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Greece, State aid, control of State aid, exchange of information, processing industry, small and medium-sized enterprises

21.11.2006

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 283/15

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 283/09)

(Text with EEA relevance)

Aid No

Member State

Region

XS 127/05

Greece

Whole country

Title of aid scheme or name of
company receiving individual aid

Legal basis

Business plans for existing medium-sized (as defined by Commission Recom-
mendation 2003/361/EC) manufacturing enterprises and service workshops
Π∆ 93/97 (ΦΕΚ 92/Α/16-5-97) «Όροι και διαδικασίες για την ένταξη και χρηµατο-
δότηση έργων του ιδιωτικού τοµέα σε προγράµµατα ή τµήµατά του αναφέρονται
στους τοµείς βιοµηχανίας, ενέργειας και τεχνολογίας»

Annual
overall
granted to the company

expenditure
amount of

planned
individual

or
aid

The scheme was first announced in 2005 with a budget of EUR 103 626 943
(public and private expenditure)

Maximum aid intensity

45 %, 50 % or 55 %, grant only, depending on the area in which the project is
carried out; the amount may never exceed the ceilings in the regional aid map
approved for Greece, increased by 15 % for SMEs

Date of implementation

First announcement, June 2005

Duration of scheme or individual aid
award

2005-2008

Objective of aid

Economic sectors concerned

The aim of the measure is to help eligible enterprises to improve their competi-
tiveness by implementing an integrated two-year business plan providing for
technological and organisational modernisation

All manufacturing sectors
Medium-sized manufacturing enterprises defined in accordance with Commis-
sion Recommendation 2003/361/EC. Enterprises providing support services to
manufacturing (STAKOD (1) codes 631 — logistics and 722 — software devel-
opment) that are small and medium-sized enterprises as defined in Commission
Recommendation 2003/361/EC and employ over 30 people, or under 30
people for enterprises whose annual turnover and total annual balance sheet
exceeds EUR 10 million. Small and medium-sized workshops providing quality
services.
The following are excluded from the above manufacturing enterprises:
I. first-stage processing activities of products from the agricultural sector, as
defined in the list given in Annex I (formerly Annex II) to Article 32
(formerly Article 38) of the Treaty on European Union, as in force;

II. activities in the industries of steel, shipbuilding, synthetic fibres and motor

Name and address of
authority

the granting

manufacture

MInistry of Development
General Secretariat for Industry
Directorat of Industrial Investments
Director: Adamantia Kartsakli
Tel: (30) 21 06 96 58 07
Fax: (30) 21 06 96 58 65

Other information

This is project 2.5.3 of the Business Programme for Competitiveness, which is
co-financed by the Structural Funds

(1) STAKOD — Στατιστική Ταξινόµηση των Κλάδων Οικονοµικής ∆ραστηριότητας (Statistical Classification of Fields of Economic Activity)