2004/260/EC: Commission Decision of 30 April 2003 on the aid scheme which Italy — Tuscany Region — is planning to implement for the reduction of the greenhouse gasses emissions (Text with EEA relevance) (notified under document number C(2003) 1327)
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The aid which Italy - Tuscany Region is planning to implement for the reduction of the greenhouse gasses emissions, pursuant to Decision No 481 of the Regional Executive of the Tuscany Region of 20 May 2002 is compatible with the common market, subject to the conditions set out in Article 2.
1. The eligible costs taken into consideration in the implementation of the scheme will be strictly confined to the extra investment costs necessary to meet the environmental objectives, and in particular, as far as renewable energy is concerned, to the extra costs borne by the firm, compared with a conventional plant with the same capacity in terms of the effective production of energy. 2. Likewise, the eligible costs have to be calculated net of the benefits accruing from any increase in capacity, cost savings engendered during the first five years of the life of the investment and additional ancillary production during that five-year period.
A yearly report on the execution of the scheme, allowing the monitoring of the gap between the investment costs of the photovoltaic technology and those of the other renewable sources, in order to allow the Commission to exclude any contingent risk of overcompensation in respect of the former, has to be submitted by the Italian authorities.
Italy shall inform the Commission, within two months of notification of this Decision, of the measures taken to comply with Articles 2 and 3.
This Decision is addressed to the Republic of Italy. Done at Brussels, 30 April 2003. For the Commission Mario Monti Member of the Commission (1) OJ C 331, 31.12.2002, p. 50. (2) Council Regulation (EC) No 659/1999 of 22 March 1999 laying down detailed rules for the application of Article 93 of the EC Treaty (OJ L 83 of 27.3.1999, p. 1). (3) See footnote 2 (4) See footnote 1 (5) OJ C 37, 3.2.2001, p. 3. (6) See point 11(a)(iii). (7) See point 11(b). (8) See point 11(a)(iii). (9) See letter No 9709 of 1 August 2002, registered on 9 August 2002 as A/36098 (10) See point 11(b). (11) See footnote 5. (12) As regards, in particular, the submeasure A "high efficiency heat generators", to the extent that hot-water boilers are concerned, Council Directive 92/42/EEC of 21 May 1992 (OJ L 167, 22.6.1992, p.17), on efficiency requirements for new hot-water boilers fired with liquid or gaseous fuels, will be observed. (13) See footnote 5.
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