Brussels backs car plant aid

An £8.7m government grant for training aid at Vauxhall's Ellesmere Port car plant has been approved by the European Commission, April 2008, following a nine-month probe by the European Commission. The in-depth investigation was opened by the Commission in June 2007 because of doubts that the grant complied with European Union rules on state aid for training.

European Commission: Press Release: IP/08/581: State aid: Commission endorses €11 million (£8.7 million) training aid to Vauxhall Motors on Merseyside http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/08/581&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en

European Commission: Commission Decision of 16.4.08 on State aid C 23/07 (ex N 118/07) which the United Kingdom is planning to implement for Vauxhall Motors Ltd (OL L236, 2008, 50) http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2008:236:0050:0058:EN:PDF

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