Brussels, 04/05/2005 (Agence Europe) - On Wednesday, the Commission approved several State aid regimes:
a) In the United Kingdom, it authorised a regime aiming to promote the creation of enterprise capital funds for SMEs. In this type of funding, public money would only be used to shore up private capital and would be paid back by the fund, with interest plus a share of distributable profit. The investment levels, which are higher than the sums authorised in the Commission's communication...