Data collection template and questionnaire

The main areas, in which state aid is relevant, are:⁶⁷¹

Title of state aid	Planned budget 2002 in mio €
Marketing of German hard coal	2.929
Subsidies for the Eastern Länder for investments in industrial companies, GA of the development of the regional economic structure	595
Subsidies for providers of agricultural accidents insurance	256
Interest subsidies to the ‚KfW’ for building modernisation / renovation to avoid CO2-emissions	205
Subsidies to take on agricultural employees	171
Adaptation support for employees in hard coal mining sector	121
Measures to support SME and freelancers as well as to strengthen vocational training	117
Subsidies to the Federal monopoly administration for spirits	108
Subsidies for the West Länder for investments in industrial companies, GA of the development of the regional economic structure	105
Interest subsidies and reimbursement of loss in loans in the framework of the own capital support programme for self-employment	101
Support of the industrial common research and development	88
Pension for handing over land (‚Landabgaberente ‘)	87
Financial support for selling of civil air plains including power plants	78
Total	4.961

National state aid in figures 2001
The Commission figures include Federal as well as Länder and local authorities’ state aid and do not distinguish between the different levels. If we would like to draw conclusions on the impact of national/Federal state aid we will have to distinguish between these different categories as presented above. The figures above concern state aid from the Federal level to the Länder level.

	2001
Total state aid in billion €	23,3
Total state aid less agriculture, fisheries and transport in billion €	11,9
Total aid as % of GDP	1,14
Total aid less agriculture, fisheries and transport as % of GDP	0,58

Source: European Commission (2003): State Aid Scoreboard, spring 2003 update COM(2003)225 final, p. 10.

State aid as a % of GDP in 2001	Trend in the share of aid to GDP, 1997-2001, % points	Share of aid to horizontal objectives as a % of total aid, 2001	Trend in the share of aid to horizontal objectives as % of total aid
1,23	-0,26	46	+14,4

Source: DG Competition, http://europa.eu.int/comm/competition/state_aid/scoreboard/key_indicators.html.

State aid by sector

	%of total						Million euro
	Manufacturing	Services (including tourism, financial, media and culture)	Transport	Agriculture & Fisheries	Coal	Not elsewhere classified	Total
2001	33	0	40	9	18	0	23.274

Source: European Commission (2003): State Aid Scoreboard, spring 2003 update COM(2003)225 final, p. 13.
Share of State aid by sector

	Manufacturing	Services (including tourism, financial, media and culture)	Transport	Agriculture & Fisheries	Coal	Not elsewhere classified
1997-2001	38	1	37	6	18	1
1999-2001	35	0	39	7	18	1

Source: European Commission (2003): State Aid Scoreboard, spring 2003 update COM(2003)225 final, p. 14.
State aid to the manufacturing sector by type of aid instrument, 1999 -2001

%
Type of aid
Grants	Tax exemptions	Equity participations	Soft loans	Tax deferrals	Guarantees
49,9	35,8	0,2	7,2	0,9	6,1

Source: European Commission (2003): State Aid Scoreboard, spring 2003 update COM(2003)225 final, p. 26.
State aid for horizontal objectives and particular sectors, 2001

		Percentage of total aid less agriculture, fisheries and transport
Horizontal Objectives		63
	Research and Development	13
	Environment	27
	SME	4
	Commerce	0
	Energy saving	1
	Employment aid	1
	Training aid	0
	Other Objectives	18
Particular sectors		37
	Shipbuilding	0
	Other Manufacturing Sectors	1
	Other Non-manufacturing Sectors	-
	Coal	35
	Tourism	1
	Financial Services	0
	Media, Cultural sector & services	0
Total aid less agriculture, fisheries and transport in million €		11.853

Source: European Commission (2003): State Aid Scoreboard, spring 2003 update COM(2003)225 final, p. 18.
State aid to coal mining, 1997 – 2001

Yearly average of aid destined to current production		Yearly average of aid not destined to current production (in million €)
1997 - 1999	1999 - 2001	1999 - 2001		1997 - 1999
		in million €	€ per employee	in million €	€ per employee
441,6	951,4	4.540,7	62.977	3.541,6	60.922

Source: European Commission (2003): State Aid Scoreboard, spring 2003 update COM(2003)225 final, p. 19.

Distinguishing under the general heading of ‘regional state aid’ how much is spent on particular categories of policy assistance [e.g. aid for regional employment that may also be classified as general employment aid] (see also part on public sector transfer and territorial policy) Identifying the regional breakdown of state aid by recipient regions.
Given the progress of the German unification process, German statistics on state aid increasingly neglect the differentiation of measures and/or payments between Eastern and West German Länder. A complete overview on measures for the new Länder is not provided for even in the 18^th German report on state aid which does not offer a concrete list of state aid distribution between the Länder, as also the Federal budget is structured alongside thematic items and not regional distribution.⁶⁷² Thus, no exact breakdown of the state aid for the different items to the Länder can be provided. Moreover, also officials of the Federal Ministry for Finances contacted (in charge of the state aid policy) confirmed that neither this ministry nor the Länder ministries collect or aggregated these data with a view to the Länder level.
Total volume of Federal state aid to the Länder (bn. DM)⁶⁷³

	1970	1975	1980	1985	1990	1991	1993	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999
West Länder	7,8	10,1	12,5	11,9	14,2	13,0	11,8	10,2	17,1	15,8	15,5	15,2
Eastern Länder	-	-	-	-	-	6,7	7,5	8,2	7,2	7,0	6,7	6,6

Federal State aid for regional infrastructure and development in the ‘old’ and ‘new’ Länder (in mio €)⁶⁷⁴

Länder	Targets	1999	2000	Planned budget 2001	Planned budget 2002
Old Länder: Bayern, Bremen, Hessen, Saarland, Niedersachsen, Schleswig- Holstein, Rheinland- Pfalz, Nordrhein- Westfalen	-Subsidies for company related investments -support for regional investment activities under the GA of the development of the regional economic structure	99,9	95,6	115,0	105,1
New Länder: Mecklenburg- Vorpommern, Sachsen, Sachsen- Anhalt, Brandenburg, Thüringen und Berlin	-Subsidies for company related investments in economically weak regions of the new Länder -support for regional investment activities under the GA of the development of the regional economic structure	898,7	800,1	697,4	594,8
Total Regional infrastructural measures		998,6	895,7	812,4	699,9

Federal state aid granted only to the Eastern Länder⁶⁷⁵

Title of state aid	1999 in mio €	2000 in mio €	Planned budget 2001 in mio €	Planned budget 2002 in mio €
Subsidies for social housing, modernisation and renovation for the Eastern Länder	376,9	352,1	284,8	238,5
Relief of housing companies acc. to the regulation concerning the ‘old debt support act’ (‘Altschuldenhilfegesetz’)	-	-	30,7	25,0
Interest subsidies in the framework of the housing modernisation programme II of the ‘KfW’	-	-	5,1	12,8
Support of marketing and selling of Eastern German products	9,0	9,2	10,2	9,0
Subsidies for the reduction of costs for interests for loans for the support of company related investments	0,5	0,3	0,2	0,1
Allocation for interest support from ‘old debts’ concerning the housing sector	0,6	0,9	-	-

6 Employment policies
Basic outline of the German employment policy⁶⁷⁶