Brussels, 04/02/2004 (Agence Europe) - For the first time, on Tuesday, the European Commission authorised State aid (in this case Italian) for the creation of risk capital funds in favour of SMEs operating exclusively in the agricultural sector. With this decision, Italy is authorised to grant each year, until 2005, aid of EUR 5 million for forming a risk capital fund to finance investment in agricultural SMEs that are in the start-up or initial development stage. The fund will take minority...