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Document 52006XC1121(04)

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)

JO C 283, 21.11.2006, p. 15–15 (ES, CS, DA, DE, ET, EL, EN, FR, IT, LV, LT, HU, NL, PL, PT, SK, SL, FI, SV)

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

XS 127/05

Member State

Greece

Region

Whole country

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving individual aid

Business plans for existing medium-sized (as defined by Commission Recommendation 2003/361/EC) manufacturing enterprises and service workshops

Legal basis

ΠΔ 93/97 (ΦΕΚ 92/Α/16-5-97) «Όροι και διαδικασίες για την ένταξη και χρηματοδότηση έργων του ιδιωτικού τομέα σε προγράμματα ή τμήματά του αναφέρονται στους τομείς βιομηχανίας, ενέργειας και τεχνολογίας»

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

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

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

Economic sectors concerned

All manufacturing sectors

Medium-sized manufacturing enterprises defined in accordance with Commission Recommendation 2003/361/EC. Enterprises providing support services to manufacturing (STAKOD (1) codes 631 — logistics and 722 — software development) 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 manufacture

Name and address of the granting authority

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 Δραστηριότητας (Statistical Classification of Fields of Economic Activity)


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