{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2001-70/article-6a",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2001-70/article-6a.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2001/70",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Regulation (EC) No 70/2001 of 12 January 2001 on the application of Articles 87 and 88 of the EC Treaty to State aid to small and medium-sized enterprises",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2001-70",
  "path": "article/6a",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6a",
  "heading": "Aid remaining subject to prior notification to the Commission",
  "text": "1. This Regulation shall not exempt any aid, whether individual aid or aid granted under an aid scheme, in the form of one or more advances that are repayable only in the event of a successful outcome of research activities, where the total amount of the advances expressed as a percentage of the eligible costs exceeds the intensities provided for in Articles 5a, 5b or 5c or the limit fixed in Article 6(2).\n2. This Regulation is without prejudice to any obligation on a Member State to notify individual grants of aid under other State aid instruments, and in particular the obligation to notify, or to inform the Commission of, aid to an enterprise receiving restructuring aid within the meaning of the Community guidelines on State aid for rescuing and restructuring firms in difficulty and the obligation to notify regional aid for large investment projects under the applicable multisectoral Framework.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Inserted by Commission Regulation (EC) No 364/2004 of 25 February 2004 amending Regulation (EC) No 70/2001 as regards the extension of its scope to include aid for research and development."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ C 288, 9.10.1999, p. 2 ."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2001/70/article/6a",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:57:06.165127+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}