small and medium-sized enterprises;

research, development and innovation;

environmental protection;

employment and training;

culture and heritage conservation;

making good the damage caused by natural disasters;

making good the damage caused by certain adverse weather conditions in fisheries;

forestry;

promotion of food sector products not listed in Annex I of the TFEU;

conservation of marine and freshwater biological resources;

sports;

residents of remote regions, for transport, when this aid has a social character and is granted without discrimination related to the identity of the carrier;

basic broadband infrastructure, small individual infrastructure measures covering next-generation access networks, broadband-related civil engineering works and passive broadband infrastructure, in areas where there is either no such infrastructure or where no such infrastructure is likely to be developed in the near future;

infrastructure in support of the objectives listed in points (i) to (xiii) as well as in point (b) of this paragraph and in support of other objectives of common interest, in particular the Europe 2020 objectives;

financing channelled through or supported by EU centrally-managed financial instruments or budgetary guarantees, where the aid consists in the form of additional funding provided through State resources;

projects supported by EU European Territorial Cooperation programmes;