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2010/357/: Commission Decision of 2 December 2009 on the State aid C 39/08 (ex N 148/08) planned by Romania for training by Ford Craiova (notified under document C(2009) 9350) (Text with EEA relevance)

Decision · 4 articles

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Article 1

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The aid which Romania is planning to implement for Ford Romania SA, located in Craiova, amounting to EUR 57 million, is compatible with the internal market subject to the conditions set out in Article 2.

Article 2

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1. The aid shall be paid in periodic ex post instalments, at intervals whose length should be established in agreement between the Romanian granting authority and the beneficiary, but which should not at any rate exceed one year. The total sum of the periodic payments shall correspond to costs actually incurred, as declared by the beneficiary to the Romanian granting authority. 2. The Romanian authorities shall inform the Romanian Competition Council, which is entrusted with the monitoring of the implementation of this aid measure, and the competent Commission services, of the terms of the agreement reached on the length of the ex post payment intervals. 3. At the conclusion of each year of implementation of the training programme, the beneficiary shall submit to the Romanian monitoring authority and to the Commission independently audited detailed reports concerning the application of the programme and the costs incurred for the reported period. The implementation reports shall contain detailed information on expenses incurred and the training offered. The reports shall classify the categories of eligible expenditure as defined in Article 39(4) of the GBER for each block of training. The yearly implementation reports shall also list the training courses offered under each block during the reported period, the number of employees who attended the courses distinguishing by category of employees, the total number of training days/hours offered by course and by block of training, and the total number of employees of the company at the end of each year of implementation of the programme (staff headcount). The independent auditor shall be chosen by mutual agreement between the beneficiary and the Romanian monitoring authority. 4. Payments of the instalments for the successive years of implementation of the programme shall be conditional upon the acceptance of the yearly implementation reports by the Romanian monitoring authority and by the Commission, within six weeks from the date when the report submitted is considered complete. Failure to react within the established deadline shall be interpreted as tacit acceptance of the implementation reports. 5. The beneficiary shall issue to each of the employees who attend the training programme attendance certificates, either at the end of the programme or on a yearly basis (as most convenient), listing the courses attended and the number of training days/hours received by course. Such attendance certificates should at any rate be issued at the request of the employee if and when the latter has formalised a request to leave the company. Attendance certificates shall thereby reinforce the transferability of the skills acquired through the training provided. 6. The Romanian authorities shall transpose the conditions laid down in subparagraphs 1-5 above into a legislative act regulating the implementation of the training programme. In addition to reflecting the above-mentioned conditions, the legislative act shall stipulate specific conditions guaranteeing the reimbursement of aid amounts that were disbursed in previous periodic instalments which are found to be in excess of expenses actually incurred and/or in excess of the aid intensities on the basis of which the aid was approved according to the ‘general’ or ‘specific’ qualification of the training to be provided. The legislative act shall also stipulate an obligation for the beneficiary to exclude from the eligible costs claimed those costs that would eventually be recovered as a consequence of benefiting from the skills acquired by the employees through training, in the sense of the last paragraph of Point 16 of the 2009 Training Aid Communication. The legislative act shall be communicated to the Commission within the shortest delay. The aid cannot be implemented before the adoption of this act. 7. The Commission invites representatives of the employees at the Ford Craiova plant to present at the end of each of year of implementation of the training programme written comments regarding the content of the training courses that were provided and attendance at the courses (in terms of number of employees who attend training and the time spent in training).

Article 3

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Romania shall inform the Commission, within two months of notification of this Decision, of the measures taken to comply with it.

Article 4

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This Decision is addressed to Romania.

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