COM(2009)661 - State Aid Scoreboard - Report on State aid granted by the EU Member States - Autumn 2009 Update -

official title

 

Legal instrument	Report
reference by COM-number95	COM(2009)661
Additional COM-numbers	SEC(2009)1638
CELEX number98	52009DC0661

This page is also available in a full version containing the latest state of affairs, the legal context, other dossiers related to the dossier at hand, the stakeholders involved (e.g. European Commission directorates-general, European Parliament committees, Council configurations and even individual EU Commissioners and Members of the European Parliament) and finally documents of the European Parliament, the Council of Ministers and the European Commission.

• 1. 

  www.eftasurv.int/information/sascoreboard/
  
   
• 2. 

  Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council, Long-term sustainability of public finances for a recovering economy, COM (2009) 545 of 14/10/2009 (ec.europa.eu/economy_finance/thematic_articles)
  
   
• 3. 

  Temporary framework for State aid measures to support access to finance in the current financial and economic crisis; consolidated version OJ C83 of 07.04.2009; as further amended by OJ C 261, 31.10.2009, p. 2.
  
   
• 4. 

  The total covers aid to manufacturing, services, coal, agriculture, fisheries and part of the transport sector but excludes aid to the railway sector, aid for compensation for services of general economic interest due to the lack of comparable data. Aid amounts refer to the aid element contained in a State aid measure unless stated otherwise (see methodological remarks in the companion Commission Staff Working Document).
  
   
• 5. 

  EU-27 means all Member States of the EU.
  
   
• 6. 

  EU-15 comprises Member States that joined the EU before 2004.
  
   
• 7. 

  Excluding railways
  
   
• 8. 

  See also paragraph 2.3.5 of Commission's staff working document 'Facts and figures on State aid in the EU Member States'
  
   
• 9. 

  Crisis measures excluded
  
   
• 10. 

  Source: DG Competition; GDP figures: Eurostat
  
   
• 11. 

  EU-12 includes Member States which entered the EU in 2004 or thereafter.
  
   
• 12. 

  A large part can be attributed to NN 61/2004 Tax exemption on bio fuels.
  
   
• 13. 

  United Kingdom by
   
• 14. 

  Sweden by
   
• 15. 

  In particular through the Investitionszulagengesetz 2007 (N357a/2006 and XR 6/2007)
  
   
• 16. 

  A large part can be attributed to NN 61/2004 Tax exemption on bio fuels.
  
   
• 17. 

  For instance XE 11/2004 Compensation des coûts liés à l'insertion des personnes handicapées dans les PME, N 575/2007 Secteur du charbon 2008-2015
  
   
• 18. 

  If one were to include crisis measures, the share of horizontal aid would drop to 17.5%.
  
   
• 19. 

  Two distinct groups of cases fall in the category environmental aid and energy saving: The first group of cases pursues a direct benefit to environment. The second group comprises reductions or exemption from environmental taxes. For this second group of cases, aid expenditure cannot be taken as a proxy for measuring the environmental benefit as this benefit us pursed by the tax but not by the exemptions thereof. For further details, see Spring 2008 Scoreboard, COM (2008) 304 of 21 May 2008.
  
   
• 20. 

  See Autumn 2008 Scoreboard, COM (2008) 751 of 17 November 2008, p. 30
  
   
• 21. 

  See Autumn 2007 Scoreboard, COM (2007) 791 of 13 December 2007, p. 22
  
   
• 22. 

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

  See Communication from the Commission
   
• 24. 

  See point II of the
   
• 25. 

  Spring 2009 Scoreboard (ec.europa.eu/competition/state_aid)
  
   
• 26. 

  A short presentation of these Communications provides chapter 3 of the Facts and Figures on State aid in the EU Member States in Annex.
  
   
• 27. 

  Commission Communication on the return to viability and the assessment of restructuring measures in the financial sector in the current crisis under the State aid rules OJ C 195/2009 of 19/8/2009.
  
   
• 28. 

  See NN 48/2008 Guarantee scheme for banks in Ireland
  
   
• 29. 

  See press release (Memo/09/90).
  
   
• 30. 

  See press releases (Memo/09/460 and Memo/09/411)
  
   
• 31. 

  NN 41/2008 Rescue aid to Bradford
   
• 32. 

  Annex to the Council (Ecofin) Report to the 18-19 June European Council on the effectiveness of financial support schemes: Report of the Task Force on reviewing the effectiveness of financial support measures.
  
   
• 33. 

  This figure represents the overall maximum amount of guarantee umbrellas, rescue and restructuring packages and other measures set up by Member States.
  
   
• 34. 

  It includes recapitalisation schemes and schemes combining recapitalisation with other measures. Discrepancies with the amounts published in the spring 2009 Scoreboard are due to the different classification of the schemes. The present edition considers liquidity interventions as a separate category.
  
   
• 35. 

  The spring 2009 Scoreboard was focused on State aid interventions in the current financial and economic crisis and an overview on measures reviewed by the Commission until 31 March 2009.
  
   
• 36. 

  Inter alia six schemes based on the Banking Communication, one on the Impaired Assets Communication and one specific other scheme.
  
   
• 37. 

  A high take-up rate in a given Member State is not necessarily an indication of whether the measure is adequate or not. Low guarantee take-up rates in certain Member States are partly due to the fact that the amounts announced under the schemes are higher than actual need. Moreover, in some Member States banks were able to access the funds easily on the market, often at a lower price.
  
   
• 38. 

  For more detail, see DG Competition's review of guarantee and recapitalisation schemes in the financial sector in the current crisis, 7 August 2009. (ec.europa.eu/competition/state_aid/legislation)
  
   
• 39. 

  It covers some individual early cases during the first phase of the crisis adopted under the
   
• 40. 

  Reported or estimated aid volumes
  
   
• 41. 

  See table 2 in Annex of Facts and figures on State aid in the EU Member States
  
   
• 42. 

  Article 88 EC Treaty; detailed provisions in Council Regulation No 659/1999 of 22 March 1999, OJ L83/1, 27.03.1999, p. 1-9
  
   
• 43. 

  Commission Regulation (EC) No 1998/2006 of 15 December 2006 on the application of Articles 87 and 88 of the Treaty to de minimis aid, OJ L 379, 28.12.2006, p. 5
  
   
• 44. 

  Commission Regulation (EC) No 800/2008 of 6 August 2008 declaring certain categories of aid compatible with the common market in application of Article 87 and 88 of the Treaty (General block exemption Regulation); OJ L 214, 9.8.2008, p. 3
  
   
• 45. 

  Commission Notice on a Simplified procedure for the treatment of certain types of State aid; OJ C136, 16.06.2009, p. 3-12
  
   
• 46. 

  Temporary framework for State aid measures to support access to finance in the current financial and economic crisis; consolidated version OJ C83 of 07.04.2009; as further amended by OJ C 261, 31.10.2009, p. 2.
  
   
• 47. 

  Commission Notice on the enforcement of State aid law by national courts, OJ C 85, 9.4.2009, p. 1
  
   
• 48. 

  www.eftasurv.int/information/sascoreboard/
  
   
• 49. 

  Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council, Long-term sustainability of public finances for a recovering economy, COM (2009) 545 of 14/10/2009 (ec.europa.eu/economy_finance/thematic_articles)
  
   
• 50. 

  Temporary framework for State aid measures to support access to finance in the current financial and economic crisis; consolidated version OJ C83 of 07.04.2009; as further amended by OJ C 261, 31.10.2009, p. 2.
  
   
• 51. 

  The total covers aid to manufacturing, services, coal, agriculture, fisheries and part of the transport sector but excludes aid to the railway sector, aid for compensation for services of general economic interest due to the lack of comparable data. Aid amounts refer to the aid element contained in a State aid measure unless stated otherwise (see methodological remarks in the companion Commission Staff Working Document).
  
   
• 52. 

  EU-27 means all Member States of the EU.
  
   
• 53. 

  EU-15 comprises Member States that joined the EU before 2004.
  
   
• 54. 

  Excluding railways
  
   
• 55. 

  See also paragraph 2.3.5 of Commission's staff working document 'Facts and figures on State aid in the EU Member States'
  
   
• 56. 

  Crisis measures excluded
  
   
• 57. 

  Source: DG Competition; GDP figures: Eurostat
  
   
• 58. 

  EU-12 includes Member States which entered the EU in 2004 or thereafter.
  
   
• 59. 

  A large part can be attributed to NN 61/2004 Tax exemption on bio fuels.
  
   
• 60. 

  United Kingdom by
   
• 61. 

  Sweden by
   
• 62. 

  In particular through the Investitionszulagengesetz 2007 (N357a/2006 and XR 6/2007)
  
   
• 63. 

  A large part can be attributed to NN 61/2004 Tax exemption on bio fuels.
  
   
• 64. 

  For instance XE 11/2004 Compensation des coûts liés à l'insertion des personnes handicapées dans les PME, N 575/2007 Secteur du charbon 2008-2015
  
   
• 65. 

  If one were to include crisis measures, the share of horizontal aid would drop to 17.5%.
  
   
• 66. 

  Two distinct groups of cases fall in the category environmental aid and energy saving: The first group of cases pursues a direct benefit to environment. The second group comprises reductions or exemption from environmental taxes. For this second group of cases, aid expenditure cannot be taken as a proxy for measuring the environmental benefit as this benefit us pursed by the tax but not by the exemptions thereof. For further details, see Spring 2008 Scoreboard, COM (2008) 304 of 21 May 2008.
  
   
• 67. 

  See Autumn 2008 Scoreboard, COM (2008) 751 of 17 November 2008, p. 30
  
   
• 68. 

  See Autumn 2007 Scoreboard, COM (2007) 791 of 13 December 2007, p. 22
  
   
• 69. 

  These percentages exclude those measures with a horizontal objective that are nevertheless earmarked for the manufacturing and services sectors.
  
   
• 70. 

  See Communication from the Commission
   
• 71. 

  See point II of the
   
• 72. 

  Spring 2009 Scoreboard (ec.europa.eu/competition/state_aid)
  
   
• 73. 

  A short presentation of these Communications provides chapter 3 of the Facts and Figures on State aid in the EU Member States in Annex.
  
   
• 74. 

  Commission Communication on the return to viability and the assessment of restructuring measures in the financial sector in the current crisis under the State aid rules OJ C 195/2009 of 19/8/2009.
  
   
• 75. 

  See NN 48/2008 Guarantee scheme for banks in Ireland
  
   
• 76. 

  See press release (Memo/09/90).
  
   
• 77. 

  See press releases (Memo/09/460 and Memo/09/411)
  
   
• 78. 

  NN 41/2008 Rescue aid to Bradford
   
• 79. 

  Annex to the Council (Ecofin) Report to the 18-19 June European Council on the effectiveness of financial support schemes: Report of the Task Force on reviewing the effectiveness of financial support measures.
  
   
• 80. 

  This figure represents the overall maximum amount of guarantee umbrellas, rescue and restructuring packages and other measures set up by Member States.
  
   
• 81. 

  It includes recapitalisation schemes and schemes combining recapitalisation with other measures. Discrepancies with the amounts published in the spring 2009 Scoreboard are due to the different classification of the schemes. The present edition considers liquidity interventions as a separate category.
  
   
• 82. 

  The spring 2009 Scoreboard was focused on State aid interventions in the current financial and economic crisis and an overview on measures reviewed by the Commission until 31 March 2009.
  
   
• 83. 

  Inter alia six schemes based on the Banking Communication, one on the Impaired Assets Communication and one specific other scheme.
  
   
• 84. 

  A high take-up rate in a given Member State is not necessarily an indication of whether the measure is adequate or not. Low guarantee take-up rates in certain Member States are partly due to the fact that the amounts announced under the schemes are higher than actual need. Moreover, in some Member States banks were able to access the funds easily on the market, often at a lower price.
  
   
• 85. 

  For more detail, see DG Competition's review of guarantee and recapitalisation schemes in the financial sector in the current crisis, 7 August 2009. (ec.europa.eu/competition/state_aid/legislation)
  
   
• 86. 

  It covers some individual early cases during the first phase of the crisis adopted under the
   
• 87. 

  Reported or estimated aid volumes
  
   
• 88. 

  See table 2 in Annex of Facts and figures on State aid in the EU Member States
  
   
• 89. 

  Article 88 EC Treaty; detailed provisions in Council Regulation No 659/1999 of 22 March 1999, OJ L83/1, 27.03.1999, p. 1-9
  
   
• 90. 

  Commission Regulation (EC) No 1998/2006 of 15 December 2006 on the application of Articles 87 and 88 of the Treaty to de minimis aid, OJ L 379, 28.12.2006, p. 5
  
   
• 91. 

  Commission Regulation (EC) No 800/2008 of 6 August 2008 declaring certain categories of aid compatible with the common market in application of Article 87 and 88 of the Treaty (General block exemption Regulation); OJ L 214, 9.8.2008, p. 3
  
   
• 92. 

  Commission Notice on a Simplified procedure for the treatment of certain types of State aid; OJ C136, 16.06.2009, p. 3-12
  
   
• 93. 

  Temporary framework for State aid measures to support access to finance in the current financial and economic crisis; consolidated version OJ C83 of 07.04.2009; as further amended by OJ C 261, 31.10.2009, p. 2.
  
   
• 94. 

  Commission Notice on the enforcement of State aid law by national courts, OJ C 85, 9.4.2009, p. 1
  
   
• 95. 

  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.
   
• 96. 

  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.
   
• 97. 

  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.
   
• 98. 

  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.
   
• 99. 

  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.