Information communicated by Member States regarding State aid granted under Commission Regulation (EC) No 70/2001 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: 2007-10-30
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Italy, Slovakia, 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 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)

(2007/C 257/08)

Aid No

XS 225/07

Member State

Slovak Republic

Region

Celé územie SR — podľa regionálnej mapy štátnej pomoci:

Regióny podľa článku 87 ods. 3 písm. a)

Regióny podľa článku 87 ods. 3 písm. c)

Title of aid scheme or name of
company receiving individual aid

Schéma podpory výskumu a vývoja Agentúrou na podporu výskumu a vývoja
doplnená podľa dodatku č. 1 k pôvodnej schéme XS 104/06, ktorá sa týmto
mení

Legal basis

Právnym základom pre poskytnutie štátnej pomoci (ďalej len „pomoc“) je naria-
denie Komisie (ES) č. 70/2001 z 12. januára 2001 o použití článkov 87 a 88
Zmluvy o založení ES na štátnu pomoc malým a stredným podnikom, publiko-
vané v Úradnom vestníku Európskej únie (Ú. v. ES L 10, 13.1.2001) v znení naria-
denia Komisie (ES) č. 364/2004 z 25. februára 2004, ktorým sa mení a dopĺňa
nariadenie (ES) č. 70/2001 vzhľadom na rozšírenie jeho pôsobnosti na pomoc
na výskum a vývoj.

Poskytovanie pomoci sa tiež riadi zákonom NR SR č. 172/2005 Z. z. o organi-
zácii štátnej podpory výskumu a vývoja

Annual expenditure planned under
the scheme or overall amount of indi-
vidual aid granted to the company

Aid scheme

Overall amount planned
for the whole period for
be
the
supported

projects

to

EUR 30 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

15.6.2007

Duration

Objective

Up until 31.12.2007

Aid to SMEs

Economic sectors

All sectors eligible for aid to SMEs

Name and address of
authority

the granting

Agentúra na podporu výskumu a vývoja

Mýtna 23
SK-811 07 Bratislava

Yes

Yes

Large individual aid grants

In conformity with Article 6 of the Regulation

Yes

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Aid No

XS 226/07

Member State

Italy

Region

Regione Lazio

Title of aid scheme or name of
company receiving individual aid

Agevolazioni a favore di PMI per progetti di ricerca industriale e sviluppo
precompetitivo (*)

Legal basis

Deliberazione della Giunta Regionale n. 440 del 19.6.2007, pubblicata sul
Bollettino Ufficiale della Regione Lazio n. 20 del 20.7.2007, che modifica la
Deliberazione della Giunta Regionale n. 28 del 25.1.2007, attuativa della legge
27.10.1994, n. 598, art. 11 e s.m.i.

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

EUR 25 million (**)

Maximum aid intensity

The contribution may not exceed the ceilings laid down by Community law

Date of implementation

From 19 June 2007 and,
provided for by the Deliberazione della Giunta Regionale n. 440/2007

in any case, subject to the adoption of other acts

Duration of scheme or individual aid
award

Open-ended, the aid scheme is in any case exempt from compulsory notification
under Article 88(3) of the EC Treaty up to 30 June 2008, when Regulation
(EC) No 70/2001 (as amended) expires

Objective

Economic sectors

The aid is intended to facilitate industrial research and pre-competitive develop-
ment activity

All sectors where aid to SMEs is authorised, except ‘Processing and marketing of
agricultural products’

Name and address of
authority

the granting

Regione Lazio — Assessorato della Piccola e media impresa,
commercio e artigianato
Direzione regionale Attività produttive
Via Cristoforo Colombo, 212
I-00147 Roma
Tel. (39) 06 51 68 37 75
Fax (39) 06 51 68 37 73
E-mail: nconsole@regione.lazio.it

Other information

—

(*) This aid scheme replaces the previous scheme already notified to and registered by the Commission under XS 116/07 and has the

same objectives.

(**) The figure for annual expenditure includes the expenditure provided for under the scheme with the same legal basis designed for SMEs

covered by Regulation (EC) No 70/2001 for sectors other than those covered by this information sheet.

Aid No

XS 233/07

Member State

Region

Title of aid scheme

Italy

Umbria

Agevolazioni finalizzate al sostegno di progetti innovativi da parte di network
stabili di imprese — POR FESR 2007-2013, Asse I e Asse III

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Legal basis

Deliberazione della Giunta Regionale del 9.7.2007 n. 1164

Annual expenditure planned

EUR 20 000 000

Maximum aid intensity

INVESTMENTS

Small firms: 15 % gge of the total cost of the eligible investments. Small firms
located in the areas in the Umbria Region assisted under Article 87(3)(c) of the
the total cost of eligible investments (up to the
EC Treaty: 20 % gge of
maximum admissible amount under the current guidelines on national regional
aid).

Medium-sized firms: 7,5 % gge of
the total cost of eligible investments.
Medium-sized firms located in the areas in the Umbria Region assisted under
Article 87(3)(c) of the EC Treaty: 10 % gge of the total cost of the eligible invest-
ments (up to the maximum admissible amount under the current guidelines on
national regional aid).

CONSULTANCY AND OTHER SERVICES AND ACTIVITIES

SMEs: 50 % gge of eligible costs.

INDUSTRIAL
DEVELOPMENT

RESEARCH

AND

PRE-COMPETITIVE

(EXPERIMENTAL)

SMEs: a capital grant of 35 % of eligible costs of pre-competitive (experimental)
development.

SMEs: a capital grant of 60 % of the cost of eligible projects to support industrial
research projects.

For SMEs located in areas in the Umbria Region assisted under Article 87(3)(c)
of the EC Treaty, the grant is raised by 5 %.

The grant can be raised by 10 percentage points gge of the cost of the project in
case of effective cooperation between a business and a public research body if
the latter contributes at least 10 % of the eligible costs of the experimental
development project and has the right to publish the results of its part of the
research

Date of implementation

15.9.2007

Duration of scheme

31.12.2008

Objective of the aid

To support and promote the creation of stable networks and partnerships
among businesses and between businesses and universities and/or research
centres.

The aid will be granted to integrated projects requiring investment, specialised
consultancy services (including those aimed at obtaining business certification),
or industrial research and pre-competitive (experimental) development carried
out jointly by production SMEs in the Umbria region.

The aid is also available for groups of SMEs of the following types:

— temporary groupings of companies within the meaning of Article 34 of
Legislative Decree No 163/2006, including those set up to create new firms
with a joint structure or capital,

— consortia or joint ventures within the meaning of Articles 2602 and

following of the Civil Code.

Groupings must be made up of at least three companies, none of which must
have control over or be linked to another

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Economic sectors

LIST OF ELIGIBLE ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES under the ATECO 2002 Classifica-
tion of Economic Activities

Section D ‘Manufacturing’ with the exception of:

— tobacco industry — Division 16: growing and preliminary processing of
tobacco connected to primary production of agricultural commodities listed
in Annex 1 to the EC Treaty,

— manufacture of coke oven products: all of group 23.1,
— manufacture of man-made fibres: all of class 24.70,
— iron and steel production: all of class 27.10 and categories 27.22.1 and

27.22.2 (only tubes with a diameter exceeding 406,4 mm),
— shipbuilding and ship repair: categories 35.11.1 and 35.11.3.

Section K ‘Real estate, renting,
information technology, research and other
professional and business activities’ limited to division 72 (entire division) and
division 74 (class 74.3, category 74.81.2, classes 74.82 and 74.86 and
category 74.87.5).

limited to
Section O ‘Other community, social and personal service activities’
division 90, division 92 (limited to category 92.11) and division 93 (only cate-
gory 93.01.1).

FURTHER EXCLUSIONS

The aid is not available for the manufacture of products imitating or replacing
milk and other dairy commodities as defined by Community legislation

Regione Umbria — Giunta Regionale
Direzione regionale Sviluppo economico e attività produttive, istruzione,
formazione e lavoro
Servizio Politiche di sostegno alle imprese e Servizio Politiche per l'offerta
pubblica di servizi alle imprese e diffusione dell'innovazione e della ricerca
Via Mario Angeloni, 61
I-06124 Perugia

Name and address of
authority

the granting

Aid No

XS 240/07

Member State

Italy

Region

Regione Autonoma Friuli-Venezia Giulia

Title of aid scheme or name of
company receiving individual aid

Finanziamento dei servizi di consulenza forniti alle PMI per progetti di sviluppo
e di promozione dei distretti artigianali

Legal basis

Decreto del Presidente della Regione n. 0198/2003 e successive modifiche e inte-
grazioni (già comunicato in esenzione XS 105/03)

Decreto del Presidente della Regione n. 0176/Pres. del 13 giugno 2007, che
approva modifiche e integrazioni al DPREG 0272/2005 (Testo unico delle dispo-
sizioni regolamentari in materia di incentivi a favore del settore artigiano), con
particolare riferimento al Titolo V, Capo I (Distretti artigianali) (oggetto della
presente comunicazione)

Type of measure

Aid scheme

Budget

Annual budget: EUR 0,1 million; overall budget: —

Maximum aid intensity

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

Date of implementation

28.6.2007

Duration

31.12.2008

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Objective

Economic sectors

Small and medium-sized enterprises

Motor vehicles, Other manufacturing, Processing and marketing of agricultural
products, All services

Name and address of
authority

the granting

Regione Autonoma Friuli-Venezia Giulia
Direzione centrale attività produttive
Servizio politiche economiche e marketing territoriale
Via Uccellis, 12/F
I-33100 Udine