Article 1 Scope
United Kingdom
This Regulation shall apply to transparent regional investment aid schemes which constitute State aid within the meaning of Article 87(1) of the Treaty.
It shall also apply to ad hoc aid which constitutes State aid within the meaning of Article 87(1) of the Treaty if the ad hoc aid is used to supplement aid granted on the basis of a transparent regional investment aid scheme, and the ad hoc component does not exceed 50 % of the total aid to be granted for the investment.
This Regulation shall not apply to aid in the following sectors:
the fisheries and aquaculture sector;
the shipbuilding sector;
the coal industry;
the steel industry;
the synthetic fibres sector.
It shall not apply to activities linked to the primary production of agricultural products listed in Annex I to the Treaty. It shall apply to the processing and marketing of agricultural products to the exclusion of the manufacture and marketing of products which imitate or substitute for milk and milk products, as referred to in Article 3(2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1898/87.
This Regulation shall not apply to the following types of aid:
aid to export related activities towards third countries or Member States, namely aid directly linked to the quantities exported, to the establishment and operation of a distribution network or to the other current expenditure linked to export activity;
aid contingent upon the use of domestic in preference to imported goods.