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Saatja: PARRA Chloe <[email protected]> Saadetud: 28.04.2021 17:14 Adressaat: Kadri Kilvet <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>; KUL min <[email protected]> Koopia: NEGENMAN Monique <[email protected]>; SILVA PEREIRA Diogo <[email protected]> Teema: EE - SA.62815(2021/N) - COVID 19: Emergency assistance to culture organisers due to the outbreak of COVID-19 Manused: image001.png Dear all, Thank you for the notification documents in the case in subject. We would appreciate if the Estonian authorities could provide the case team with some additional information on the basis of the following questions: 1. Could you please clarify the method with which the aid granted to each beneficiary will be calculated? 2. We noticed in Chapter 2, paragraph 4, subsection 3, 2) of the legal basis (Exceptional assistance to cultural organisers due to the Covid-19 outbreak) that the measure only applies to applicants who are “not in bankruptcy, liquidation or compulsory winding-up and do not have a valid notice of removal from the commercial register” . We would like to draw your attention to the fact that the Temporary Framework (point 22, c, bis) provides for the possibility to give aid to companies in difficulty after 1 January 2020 and to still grant aid to micro and small enterprises that were in difficulty within the meaning of the General Block Exemption Regulation on 31 December 2019, if those enterprises, at the moment of granting the aid, are not subject to collective insolvency procedure under national law and they have not received rescue aid or restructuring aid. In view of this possibility, could you please inform the Commission whether you would like to keep this condition or include these companies under the present measure? 3. Could you please clarify how the cumulation with the notified scheme and the previous scheme approved by the Commission under case SA.61586 for cultural organisers in Ida-Viru and Harju will take place? Will the beneficiaries from the previous scheme also benefit from the notified scheme? If so can you please confirm that the overall cap of 3.1. TF will be respected also for these beneficiaries? Best regards, Chloé, for the case team Chloé Parra Trainee  European Commission Directorate-General for Competition Unit F3 – State aid (Post and other services) MADO – Office: 09/039 B-1049 – Bruxelles / Brussel +32 229-59002 [email protected]