COM(2005)624 - State Aid Scoreboard - Autumn 2005 update

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Report - State Aid Scoreboard - Autumn 2005 update
 
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reference by COM-number169 COM(2005)624 EN
Additional COM-numbers COM(2005)624
CELEX number172 52005DC0624

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Document 09-12-2005
Online publication 09-12-2005

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  • 1. 
    C28/2002

     
  • 2. 
    The Article 87(3)(a) regions are largely identical to the Objective 1 regions under the EU Structural Funds. This figure includes all aid specifically earmarked for assisted
     
  • 3. 
    Excluding measures exempted under the block exemption regulation for agriculture ( No 1/2004 of 23 December 2003 on State aid to SMEs in the agricultural sector, OJ L 1, 03.01.2004, pages 1-16) for which there were 72 cases in 2004.

     
  • 4. 
    Total State aid in the sense of Article (87)1 of the Treaty, covering manufacturing, services, coal, agriculture, fisheries and transport with the exception of the railway sector. For the ten new Member States, comparable data for the transport sector are not yet available.

     
  • 5. 
    COM(2005) 141 final, 12.4.2005

     
  • 6. 
    See autumn 2004 Scoreboard for further explanation on methodological issues.

     
  • 7. 
    The new provisions can be found in Commission Regulation (EC) No 794/2004 of 21 April 2004. Annex IIIA covers all sectors except agriculture (Annex IIIB) and fisheries (Annex IIIC) europa.eu.int/eur-lex/en/archive/2004

     
  • 8. 
    The total covers aid to manufacturing, services, coal, agriculture, fisheries and part of the transport sector but excludes aid to the railway sector (see section 1.3).

     
  • 9. 
    C28/2002

     
  • 10. 
    The rate of corporation tax in Ireland has been cut progressively in recent years and is 12.5% from 2003. This has reduced the comparative value of the preferential 10% rate to the manufacturing sector, therefore contributing to the decline, in monetary terms, of aid to this sector.

     
  • 11. 
    C58/2003

     
  • 12. 
    For the purposes of the Scoreboard, the manufacturing sector includes aid for steel, shipbuilding, other manufacturing sectors, aid for general economic development and aid for horizontal objectives including research and development, SMEs, environment, energy saving, employment and training for which the specific sector is not always known. As a result, data on aid to manufacturing may be overestimated.

     
  • 13. 
    C28/2002

     
  • 14. 
    Regulation (EEC) No. 1191/69 of the Council of 26 June 1969 on action by Member States concerning the obligations inherent in the concept of a public service in transport by rail, road and inland waterway.

     
  • 15. 
    Regulation (EEC) No. 1107/70 of the Council of 4 June 1970 on the granting of aid for transport by rail, road and inland waterway.

     
  • 16. 
    Regulation (EEC) No. 1192/69 on common rules for the normalisation of accounts of railway undertakings is particularly important from a State aid monitoring perspective as it exempts from the notification procedure a number of different compensations from public authorities to railway undertakings.

     
  • 17. 
    C28/2002

     
  • 18. 
    Based on 2003 data for Luxembourg and Portugal (no data received for 2004) and Italy (incomplete report)

     
  • 19. 
    Commission Regulation (EC) No 794/2004 of 21 April 2004, Annex IIIB

     
  • 20. 
    C28/2002

     
  • 21. 
    The Article 87(3)(a) regions are largely identical to the Objective 1 regions under the EU Structural Funds. This figure includes all aid specifically earmarked for assisted
     
  • 22. 
    Slovakia reported aid to the coal sector for the period 2000-2003

     
  • 23. 
    These percentages exclude those measures with a horizontal objective that are nevertheless earmarked for the manufacturing and services sectors

     
  • 24. 
    Such cases are denoted by a
     
  • 25. 
    The rate of corporation tax in Ireland has been cut progressively in recent years and is 12.5% from 2003. This has reduced the comparative value of the preferential 10% rate to the manufacturing sector, therefore contributing to the decline, in monetary terms, of aid to this sector.

     
  • 26. 
    C58/2003

     
  • 27. 
    C28/2002

     
  • 28. 
    The Article 87(3)(a) regions are largely identical to the Objective 1 regions under the EU Structural Funds. This figure includes all aid specifically earmarked for assisted
     
  • 29. 
    This figure includes all aid specifically earmarked for assisted
     
  • 30. 
    Article 87(3)(a) provides that aid
     
  • 31. 
    Article 87(3)(c)

     
  • 32. 
    Commission memorandum on State aid in environmental matters. SEC(74) 4264 of 6 November 1974.

     
  • 33. 
    Decision No 1600/2002/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 July 2002 laying down the Sixth Community Environment Action Programme was published in OJ L 242 of 10.9.2002

     
  • 34. 
    Integrated Guidelines For Growth And Jobs
     
  • 35. 
    Directive 2003/87/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 October 2003 establishing a scheme for greenhouse gas emission allowance trading within the Community and amending Council Directive 96/61/EC

     
  • 36. 
    C28/2002

     
  • 37. 
    C28/2002

     
  • 38. 
    See explanation
     
  • 39. 
    MEP Stimulating Renewable Energy, N707/2002.

     
  • 40. 
    MEP Stimulating combined heat and power production (CHP), N 708/2002.

     
  • 41. 
    C28/2002

     
  • 42. 
    Case C-379/98 Preussen Elektra AG v Schleswag AG .

     
  • 43. 
    Directive 2003/87/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 October 2003

     
  • 44. 
    Waste disposal system for car wrecks C11/2001 (ex N629/2000)

     
  • 45. 
    Case C-143/99

     
  • 46. 
    C28/2002

     
  • 47. 
    C28/2002

     
  • 48. 
    The Article 87(3)(a) regions are largely identical to the Objective 1 regions under the EU Structural Funds. This figure includes all aid specifically earmarked for assisted
     
  • 49. 
    Excluding measures exempted under the block exemption regulation for agriculture ( No 1/2004 of 23 December 2003 on State aid to SMEs in the agricultural sector, OJ L 1, 03.01.2004, pages 1-16) for which there were 72 cases in 2004.

     
  • 50. 
    Community Guidelines on State Aid for Environmental Protection, OJ C 37, 03.02.2001, p. 3-15

     
  • 51. 
    N 760/95, OJ C 70, 8.3.1996, p. 6

     
  • 52. 
    C28/2002

     
  • 53. 
    State aid No. N 188/2005 (not yet published in the OJ). That measure replaces, modifies and prolongs State aid No. N 459/2001, not yet published in the OJ, N 460/2001, not yet published in the OJ, and N 198/2002 , OJ C 65, 19.3.2003, p. 23

     
  • 54. 
    State aid No. N 496/2002, OJ C 108, 7.5.2003, p. 5

     
  • 55. 
    State aid No. 9/2002, OJ C 164, 10.7.2002, p. 4

     
  • 56. 
    N 559/2002, OJ C 76, 28.3.2003, p. 27

     
  • 57. 
    C28/2002

     
  • 58. 
    The Article 87(3)(a) regions are largely identical to the Objective 1 regions under the EU Structural Funds. This figure includes all aid specifically earmarked for assisted
     
  • 59. 
    Excluding measures exempted under the block exemption regulation for agriculture ( No 1/2004 of 23 December 2003 on State aid to SMEs in the agricultural sector, OJ L 1, 03.01.2004, pages 1-16) for which there were 72 cases in 2004.

     
  • 60. 
    Total State aid in the sense of Article (87)1 of the Treaty, covering manufacturing, services, coal, agriculture, fisheries and transport with the exception of the railway sector. For the ten new Member States, comparable data for the transport sector are not yet available.

     
  • 61. 
    COM(2005) 141 final, 12.4.2005

     
  • 62. 
    State aid No. N 156/2004, OJ C 137, 4.7.2005, p. 5

     
  • 63. 
    N 253/2004, OJ C 136, 3.6.2005, p. 43

     
  • 64. 
    See Commission decision on Ecological tax reform case, N249/2001.

     
  • 65. 
    europa.eu.int/comm/competition/state_aid/others

     
  • 66. 
    Slovak Competitiveness Strategy until 2010, the National Lisbon
     
  • 67. 
    europa.eu.int/comm/competition/state_aid/others

     
  • 68. 
    Available on DG Competition website: europa.eu.int/comm/competition/state_aid/regional/

     
  • 69. 
    OJ C 281 of 17.9.1997, p. 4, as amended in OJ C 217, 2.8.2001, p. 2, and OJ C 307, 11.12.2004, p. 12.

     
  • 70. 
    OJ C 45 of 17.2.1996, p. 5, as amended by the Commission communication amending the Community Framework for State Aid for Research and Development, OJ C 48 of 13.2.1998, p.2.

     
  • 71. 
    The Communication, press release and memo with frequently asked questions can be found under: europa.eu.int/comm/competition/state_aid/others

     
  • 72. 
    Communication on State aid to risk capital OJ C 235 of 21.8.2001. See:

     
  • 73. 
    Excluding measures exempted under the block exemption regulation for agriculture ( No 1/2004 of 23 December 2003 on State aid to SMEs in the agricultural sector, OJ L 1, 03.01.2004, pages 1-16) for which there were 72 cases in 2004.

     
  • 74. 
    europa.eu.int/comm/competition/state_aid/others

     
  • 75. 
    C28/2002

     
  • 76. 
    On 30.6.2005, there were still a further 16 recovery decisions pending that were adopted before 1/1/2000.

     
  • 77. 
    The spring 2005 Scoreboard reported a total of
     
  • 78. 
    The Article 87(3)(a) regions are largely identical to the Objective 1 regions under the EU Structural Funds. This figure includes all aid specifically earmarked for assisted
     
  • 79. 
    The Article 87(3)(a) regions are largely identical to the Objective 1 regions under the EU Structural Funds. This figure includes all aid specifically earmarked for assisted
     
  • 80. 
    Competition Policy Newsletter, Number 2, Summer 2005:

     
  • 81. 
    C28/2002

     
  • 82. 
    OJ C 147, 17.6.2005, p. 2

     
  • 83. 
    europa.eu.int/comm/dgs/energy_transport/state_aid

     
  • 84. 
    C28/2002

     
  • 85. 
    C28/2002

     
  • 86. 
    The Article 87(3)(a) regions are largely identical to the Objective 1 regions under the EU Structural Funds. This figure includes all aid specifically earmarked for assisted
     
  • 87. 
    Excluding measures exempted under the block exemption regulation for agriculture ( No 1/2004 of 23 December 2003 on State aid to SMEs in the agricultural sector, OJ L 1, 03.01.2004, pages 1-16) for which there were 72 cases in 2004.

     
  • 88. 
    Total State aid in the sense of Article (87)1 of the Treaty, covering manufacturing, services, coal, agriculture, fisheries and transport with the exception of the railway sector. For the ten new Member States, comparable data for the transport sector are not yet available.

     
  • 89. 
    COM(2005) 141 final, 12.4.2005

     
  • 90. 
    See autumn 2004 Scoreboard for further explanation on methodological issues.

     
  • 91. 
    The new provisions can be found in Commission Regulation (EC) No 794/2004 of 21 April 2004. Annex IIIA covers all sectors except agriculture (Annex IIIB) and fisheries (Annex IIIC) europa.eu.int/eur-lex/en/archive/2004

     
  • 92. 
    The total covers aid to manufacturing, services, coal, agriculture, fisheries and part of the transport sector but excludes aid to the railway sector (see section 1.3).

     
  • 93. 
    C28/2002

     
  • 94. 
    The rate of corporation tax in Ireland has been cut progressively in recent years and is 12.5% from 2003. This has reduced the comparative value of the preferential 10% rate to the manufacturing sector, therefore contributing to the decline, in monetary terms, of aid to this sector.

     
  • 95. 
    C58/2003

     
  • 96. 
    For the purposes of the Scoreboard, the manufacturing sector includes aid for steel, shipbuilding, other manufacturing sectors, aid for general economic development and aid for horizontal objectives including research and development, SMEs, environment, energy saving, employment and training for which the specific sector is not always known. As a result, data on aid to manufacturing may be overestimated.

     
  • 97. 
    C28/2002

     
  • 98. 
    Regulation (EEC) No. 1191/69 of the Council of 26 June 1969 on action by Member States concerning the obligations inherent in the concept of a public service in transport by rail, road and inland waterway.

     
  • 99. 
    Regulation (EEC) No. 1107/70 of the Council of 4 June 1970 on the granting of aid for transport by rail, road and inland waterway.

     
  • 100. 
    Regulation (EEC) No. 1192/69 on common rules for the normalisation of accounts of railway undertakings is particularly important from a State aid monitoring perspective as it exempts from the notification procedure a number of different compensations from public authorities to railway undertakings.

     
  • 101. 
    C28/2002

     
  • 102. 
    Based on 2003 data for Luxembourg and Portugal (no data received for 2004) and Italy (incomplete report)

     
  • 103. 
    Commission Regulation (EC) No 794/2004 of 21 April 2004, Annex IIIB

     
  • 104. 
    C28/2002

     
  • 105. 
    The Article 87(3)(a) regions are largely identical to the Objective 1 regions under the EU Structural Funds. This figure includes all aid specifically earmarked for assisted
     
  • 106. 
    Slovakia reported aid to the coal sector for the period 2000-2003

     
  • 107. 
    These percentages exclude those measures with a horizontal objective that are nevertheless earmarked for the manufacturing and services sectors

     
  • 108. 
    Such cases are denoted by a
     
  • 109. 
    The rate of corporation tax in Ireland has been cut progressively in recent years and is 12.5% from 2003. This has reduced the comparative value of the preferential 10% rate to the manufacturing sector, therefore contributing to the decline, in monetary terms, of aid to this sector.

     
  • 110. 
    C58/2003

     
  • 111. 
    C28/2002

     
  • 112. 
    The Article 87(3)(a) regions are largely identical to the Objective 1 regions under the EU Structural Funds. This figure includes all aid specifically earmarked for assisted
     
  • 113. 
    This figure includes all aid specifically earmarked for assisted
     
  • 114. 
    Article 87(3)(a) provides that aid
     
  • 115. 
    Article 87(3)(c)

     
  • 116. 
    Commission memorandum on State aid in environmental matters. SEC(74) 4264 of 6 November 1974.

     
  • 117. 
    Decision No 1600/2002/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 July 2002 laying down the Sixth Community Environment Action Programme was published in OJ L 242 of 10.9.2002

     
  • 118. 
    Integrated Guidelines For Growth And Jobs
     
  • 119. 
    Directive 2003/87/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 October 2003 establishing a scheme for greenhouse gas emission allowance trading within the Community and amending Council Directive 96/61/EC

     
  • 120. 
    C28/2002

     
  • 121. 
    C28/2002

     
  • 122. 
    See explanation
     
  • 123. 
    MEP Stimulating Renewable Energy, N707/2002.

     
  • 124. 
    MEP Stimulating combined heat and power production (CHP), N 708/2002.

     
  • 125. 
    C28/2002

     
  • 126. 
    Case C-379/98 Preussen Elektra AG v Schleswag AG .

     
  • 127. 
    Directive 2003/87/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 October 2003

     
  • 128. 
    Waste disposal system for car wrecks C11/2001 (ex N629/2000)

     
  • 129. 
    Case C-143/99

     
  • 130. 
    C28/2002

     
  • 131. 
    C28/2002

     
  • 132. 
    The Article 87(3)(a) regions are largely identical to the Objective 1 regions under the EU Structural Funds. This figure includes all aid specifically earmarked for assisted
     
  • 133. 
    Excluding measures exempted under the block exemption regulation for agriculture ( No 1/2004 of 23 December 2003 on State aid to SMEs in the agricultural sector, OJ L 1, 03.01.2004, pages 1-16) for which there were 72 cases in 2004.

     
  • 134. 
    Community Guidelines on State Aid for Environmental Protection, OJ C 37, 03.02.2001, p. 3-15

     
  • 135. 
    N 760/95, OJ C 70, 8.3.1996, p. 6

     
  • 136. 
    C28/2002

     
  • 137. 
    State aid No. N 188/2005 (not yet published in the OJ). That measure replaces, modifies and prolongs State aid No. N 459/2001, not yet published in the OJ, N 460/2001, not yet published in the OJ, and N 198/2002 , OJ C 65, 19.3.2003, p. 23

     
  • 138. 
    State aid No. N 496/2002, OJ C 108, 7.5.2003, p. 5

     
  • 139. 
    State aid No. 9/2002, OJ C 164, 10.7.2002, p. 4

     
  • 140. 
    N 559/2002, OJ C 76, 28.3.2003, p. 27

     
  • 141. 
    C28/2002

     
  • 142. 
    The Article 87(3)(a) regions are largely identical to the Objective 1 regions under the EU Structural Funds. This figure includes all aid specifically earmarked for assisted
     
  • 143. 
    Excluding measures exempted under the block exemption regulation for agriculture ( No 1/2004 of 23 December 2003 on State aid to SMEs in the agricultural sector, OJ L 1, 03.01.2004, pages 1-16) for which there were 72 cases in 2004.

     
  • 144. 
    Total State aid in the sense of Article (87)1 of the Treaty, covering manufacturing, services, coal, agriculture, fisheries and transport with the exception of the railway sector. For the ten new Member States, comparable data for the transport sector are not yet available.

     
  • 145. 
    COM(2005) 141 final, 12.4.2005

     
  • 146. 
    State aid No. N 156/2004, OJ C 137, 4.7.2005, p. 5

     
  • 147. 
    N 253/2004, OJ C 136, 3.6.2005, p. 43

     
  • 148. 
    See Commission decision on Ecological tax reform case, N249/2001.

     
  • 149. 
    europa.eu.int/comm/competition/state_aid/others

     
  • 150. 
    Slovak Competitiveness Strategy until 2010, the National Lisbon
     
  • 151. 
    europa.eu.int/comm/competition/state_aid/others

     
  • 152. 
    Available on DG Competition website: europa.eu.int/comm/competition/state_aid/regional/

     
  • 153. 
    OJ C 281 of 17.9.1997, p. 4, as amended in OJ C 217, 2.8.2001, p. 2, and OJ C 307, 11.12.2004, p. 12.

     
  • 154. 
    OJ C 45 of 17.2.1996, p. 5, as amended by the Commission communication amending the Community Framework for State Aid for Research and Development, OJ C 48 of 13.2.1998, p.2.

     
  • 155. 
    The Communication, press release and memo with frequently asked questions can be found under: europa.eu.int/comm/competition/state_aid/others

     
  • 156. 
    Communication on State aid to risk capital OJ C 235 of 21.8.2001. See:

     
  • 157. 
    Excluding measures exempted under the block exemption regulation for agriculture ( No 1/2004 of 23 December 2003 on State aid to SMEs in the agricultural sector, OJ L 1, 03.01.2004, pages 1-16) for which there were 72 cases in 2004.

     
  • 158. 
    europa.eu.int/comm/competition/state_aid/others

     
  • 159. 
    C28/2002

     
  • 160. 
    On 30.6.2005, there were still a further 16 recovery decisions pending that were adopted before 1/1/2000.

     
  • 161. 
    The spring 2005 Scoreboard reported a total of
     
  • 162. 
    The Article 87(3)(a) regions are largely identical to the Objective 1 regions under the EU Structural Funds. This figure includes all aid specifically earmarked for assisted
     
  • 163. 
    The Article 87(3)(a) regions are largely identical to the Objective 1 regions under the EU Structural Funds. This figure includes all aid specifically earmarked for assisted
     
  • 164. 
    Competition Policy Newsletter, Number 2, Summer 2005:

     
  • 165. 
    C28/2002

     
  • 166. 
    OJ C 147, 17.6.2005, p. 2

     
  • 167. 
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  • 168. 
    C28/2002

     
  • 169. 
    De Europese Commissie kent nummers toe aan officiële documenten van de Europese Unie. De Commissie maakt onderscheid in een aantal typen documenten door middel van het toekennen van verschillende nummerseries. Het onderscheid is gebaseerd op het soort document en/of de instelling van de Unie van wie het document afkomstig is.
     
  • 170. 
    De Raad van de Europese Unie kent aan wetgevingsdossiers een uniek toe. Dit nummer bestaat uit een vijfcijferig volgnummer gevolgd door een schuine streep met de laatste twee cijfers van het jaartal, bijvoorbeeld 12345/00 - een document met nummer 12345 uit het jaar 2000.
     
  • 171. 
    Het interinstitutionele nummer is een nummerreeks die binnen de Europese Unie toegekend wordt aan voorstellen voor regelgeving van de Europese Commissie.
    Binnen de Europese Unie worden nog een aantal andere nummerseries gebruikt. Iedere instelling heeft één of meerdere sets documenten met ieder een eigen nummering. Die reeksen komen niet overeen met elkaar of het interinstitutioneel nummer.
     
  • 172. 
    Deze databank van de Europese Unie biedt de mogelijkheid de actuele werkzaamheden (workflow) van de Europese instellingen (Europees Parlement, Raad, ESC, Comité van de Regio's, Europese Centrale Bank, Hof van Justitie enz.) te volgen. EURlex volgt alle voorstellen (zoals wetgevende en begrotingsdossiers) en mededelingen van de Commissie, vanaf het moment dat ze aan de Raad of het Europees Parlement worden voorgelegd.
     
  • 173. 
    Als dag van bekendmaking van een Europees besluit geldt de dag waarop het besluit in het Publicatieblad wordt bekendgemaakt, en daardoor in alle officiële talen van de Europese Unie bij het Publicatiebureau beschikbaar is.