EU : European Commission partially endorses training aid to General Motors Belgium

The European Commission has agreed, on April 7th, a part of an aid the Flemish Region intends to grant to support training at General Motors Belgium in Antwerp. However, the Commission also found that a further aid would only have served to finance training activities which General Motors would have carried out anyway, even without aid. (Ref. 070321)
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The Belgian authorities notified the intention of the Flemish Region to grant a €5.33 million subsidy for a training programme costing €19.94 million to GM Antwerp (4,760 employees, 224.000 cars produced in 2006) , a Belgian subsidiary of the General Motors Corporation. The notified aid aimed at supporting a training programme over the period 2005-2007, which was designed to prepare the workers for the production of an additional version of the Astra and for the extension of the press activitie

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