19.5.2022   

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 202/17


State aid – Decision to raise no objections

(2022/C 202/13)

The EFTA Surveillance Authority raises no objections to the following state aid measure:

Date of adoption of the decision

28 January 2021

Case No

88037

Decision No

025/22/COL

EFTA State

Norway

Title (and/or name of the beneficiary)

COVID-19 renewal of and amendments to the scheme compensating for the cancellation of large public events

Legal basis

Parliamentary decision authorising the scheme and the prolongation in the revised State budget. In addition to a letter of assignment from the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Fisheries to Innovation Norway.

Type of measure

Aid scheme

Objective

To remedy the shortage of liquidity that organisers and co-organisers of large public events face following the COVID-19 outbreak.

Form of aid

Direct grants

Budget

NOK 85 million

Intensity

60 %

Duration

Until 30 June 2022

Economic sectors

All sectors

Name and address of the granting authority

Innovation Norway

P.O. Box 448 Sentrum

Akersgata 13

N-0104 Oslo

NORWAY

The authentic text of the decision, from which all confidential information has been removed, can be found on the EFTA Surveillance Authority’s Internet: http://www.eftasurv.int/state-aid/state-aid-register/decisions/