11.11.2021   

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 457/7


State aid – Decision to raise no objections

(2021/C 457/05)

The EFTA Surveillance Authority raises no objections to the following state aid measure:

Date of adoption of the decision

6 July 2021

Case No

87066

Decision No

199/21/COL

EFTA State

Norway

Title (and/or name of the beneficiary)

COVID-19 renewal of an amended aid scheme compensating for the cancellation of large public events

Legal basis

Parliamentary decision authorising the scheme and the prolongation in the revised State budget. In addition to a letter of assignment from the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Fisheries to Innovation Norway

Type of measure

Aid scheme

Objective

To remedy the shortage of liquidity that organisers and co-organisers of large public events face following the COVID-19 outbreak

Form of aid

Direct grants

Budget

NOK 130 million

Intensity

60 %

Duration

Until 31 December 2021

Economic sectors

All sectors

Name and address of the granting authority

Innovation Norway

Pb. 448 Sentrum

Akersgata 13

N-0104 Oslo

NORWAY

The authentic text of the decision, from which all confidential information has been removed, can be found on the EFTA Surveillance Authority’s website: http://www.eftasurv.int/state-aid/state-aid-register/decisions/