State aid in Slovenia amounted to 0.69 percent of the GDP in the years between 2000 and 2003, which amounts to 139 million euros annually, a report issues by the European Commission says.
According to the report on state aid, Slovenia ranks below the average of 1.42 percent of GDP in the ten new members which joined the EU on 1 May of this year in terms of state aid paid out between 2000 and 2003.
Nevertheless, the state aid paid by Slovenia in this time exceeds the average of 0.39 percent of GDP paid out by the 15 old EU members in this period.
The report says that Slovenia paid out the most state aid in 2000 and 2001, when it amounted to 171 and 172 million euros. Three-quarters of that amount went for horizontal measures and 7 percent for regional aid. Around 7 percent was allocated to the restructuring of the steel industry, which was the single-largest aid getter.
In its summary of the current situation in the field, the European Commission concludes that Slovenia has 36 active state aid projects at the moment, including 15 that have been set out as part of the Accession Treaty and 21 that have been approved by the Commission.
Most of the active state aid projects concern horizontal measures, such as environmental assistance, regional aid and assistance to audiovisual media outlets.
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