Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/905 of 12 May 2025 amending Regulation (EC) No 794/2004 as regards an internal review mechanism to follow up on the findings of the Aarhus Convention Compliance Committee in case ACCC/C/2015/128 and other procedural updates

	5.4.	Aid for the construction and upgrade of testing and experimentation infrastructures (may also be referred to as “technology infrastructures”) 1. Please provide a full description of the testing and experimentation infrastructure (see the definition in point 16(ll) of the R&D&I Framework), including its location, its functionalities, facilities and equipment, services, intended users and profile of the users (including their size, sector and other relevant information) etc. … 2. Please also provide the duration of the project (start and end date of the construction or upgrade activities), including a GANTT chart to illustrate how and when the aided investment activities will be carried out and end, as well as the date when the infrastructure will be put in operation and its envisaged lifetime. … 3. Please specify the eligible costs and for individual aid, indicate their amount and provide further details on the underlying cost elements and assumptions for their calculation. Please support your calculations with appropriate evidence to be annexed to the notification form. Eligible costs Eligible costs amount investment costs for construction and upgrade of testing and experimentation infrastructure including [please include a row for each cost that you deem to fall into the overall category of investment costs in tangible and intangible assets] Total eligible costs … 4. Please specify the applicable aid intensity and provide further justification if any increase of the basic aid intensity is applicable: Applicable aid intensity Small enterprise % Medium-sized enterprise % Large enterprise % Basic aid intensity for investment aid for the construction and upgrade of testing and experimentation infrastructures Increase of the basic aid intensity: — subject to at least two Member States providing the public funding, or — for testing and experimentation infrastructure (TEIs) evaluated and selected at Union level , and/or — subject to the testing and experimentation infrastructure providing services predominantly to SMEs (at least allocating 80 % of its capacity for that purpose) Applicable aid intensity 5. Please provide information about the State aid that you intend to grant, including: (a) The overall nominal State aid amount … (b) What is the State aid instrument (form of aid) … (c) Whether the State aid will be disbursed in one or several instalments … (d) The provisional dates (at least the years) of the disbursement and the amounts of each of these instalments … (e) Your explanation on how you established the State aid amount you intend to award for testing and experimentation infrastructure and the instalment schedule. … 6. Please provide detailed and precise information on the planned or expected specialisation of the infrastructure, its state of the art character and the role the infrastructure could play in facilitating at regional, national or Union level the digital and green transition of the Union economy. … 7. Please provide information on whether there are similar testing and experimentation infrastructures, whether publicly funded or not, in the Union. … 8. Does the price charged for the operation or use of the testing and experimentation infrastructure(s) correspond to a market price? ☐yes ☐no Please specify and provide further details on the market prices and the prices charged, as well as due evidence for determining the market prices: … 9. Is access to the testing and experimentation infrastructure open to several users on a transparent and non-discriminatory basis and on market terms? ☐yes ☐no Please provide further details on the terms and conditions for the open, transparent and non-discriminatory access: … In case preferential access is granted to some undertakings, please provide details and justification for such an approach: … 10. Please provide information about the extent to which the capacity of the testing and experimentation infrastructure would be allocated to services provided to SMEs. Please provide further details and submit relevant evidence. … 11. Please demonstrate that the public support will not lead to duplication in services already offered by existing testing and experimentation infrastructures operating within the Union. …

	5.5.	Innovation aid for SMEs 1. Please indicate and describe the activities which are supported under the notified measure: ☐ obtaining, validating and defending patents and other intangible assets ☐ secondment of highly qualified personnel ☐ acquiring innovation advisory and support services [^ntr111-L_202500905EN.000501-E0111] 2. Please specify the period in which the supported innovation activities will be performed (start – end date): … 3. Please specify the eligible costs and, for individual aid, indicate their amount. Eligible costs Eligible costs amount Costs of obtaining, validating and defending patents and other intangible assets Costs of secondment of highly qualified personnel Costs of acquiring innovation advisory and support services Total eligible costs … 4. Please specify the applicable aid intensities and provide further justification if any increase of the basic aid intensity is applicable. Applicable aid intensity Small enterprise % Medium –sized enterprise % Innovation aid for SMEs 5. Please provide information about the State aid that you intend to grant, including: (a) The overall nominal State aid amount … (b) What is the State aid instrument (form of aid) … (c) Whether the State aid will be disbursed in one or several instalments … (d) The provisional dates (at least the years) of the disbursement and the amounts of each of these instalments … (e) Your explanation on how you established the State aid amount you intend to award for the supported innovation activity and the instalment schedule …

	5.6.	Aid for process and organisational innovation 1. Please indicate and describe the activities supported under the notified measure: ☐ process innovation ☐ organisational innovation Please describe the supported activity: … 2. Please provide a concrete description of the activities that the process or organisational innovation will consist of and justify why, in your view, these activities represent such innovation (see definitions in point 16(z) and (cc) of the R&D&I Framework). Please also provide the duration of the aided activities (start and end date), as well as a GANTT chart. … 3. Please specify the eligible costs and, for individual aid, indicate their amount. Eligible costs Eligible costs amount Personnel costs to the extent employed for the project Costs of instruments and equipment (depreciation to the extent and for the period used for the project) Costs of buildings and land (depreciation to the extent and for the period used for the project) Cost of contractual research, knowledge and patents bought or licensed from outside sources at arm's length conditions, as well as costs of consultancy and equivalent services used exclusively for the project Additional overheads incurred directly as a result of the project Other operating costs, including costs of materials, supplies and similar products, incurred directly as a result of the project. Total eligible costs … 4. Please specify the applicable aid intensities and provide further justification if any increase of the basic aid intensity is applicable. Applicable aid intensity Small enterprise % Medium-sized enterprise % Large enterprise % Aid for process and organisational innovation — aid for large undertakings is subject to effective collaboration with at least one SME … 5. Please provide information about the State aid that you intend to grant, including: (a) The overall nominal State aid amount … (b) What is the State aid instrument (form of aid) … (c) Whether the State aid will be disbursed in one or several instalments … (d) The provisional dates (at least the years) of the disbursement and the amounts of each of these instalments … (e) Your explanation on how you established the State aid amount you intend to award for the aided activities and the instalment schedule … 6. Where aid is awarded to large enterprises, please tick the box below to confirm that they effectively collaborate with SMEs in the aided activity and the collaborating SMEs incur at least 30% of the total eligible costs. ☐ For individual aid, please provide relevant information and evidence: …

	5.7.	Aid for innovation clusters 1. Please clarify whether the measure targets the investment into a new innovation cluster or an upgrade of an existing innovation cluster. … 2. Please provide a meaningful description of the innovation cluster, including its location, specialisation, functions, intended users, facilities, and if applicable, when the innovation cluster started its activities etc. … 3. Please specify if the aid beneficiary is the owner and/or the operator of the innovation cluster. For the operator, if different from the owner, please specify if it has a separate legal personality or is it a consortium of undertakings without a legal personality (in the latter case please provide, besides the names of the consortium members, also the consortium agreement and confirm that each of these members will keep separate accounting for the costs and revenues from each activity) … For individual aid, please provide details: … 4. Do the fees charged for using the clusters' facilities and participating in the clusters' activities correspond to the market price or reflect their costs? ☐yes ☐no Please specify: … 5. Is access to the clusters' premises, facilities and activities open to several users on a transparent and non-discriminatory basis? ☐yes ☐no Please specify: … 6. In case preferential access is granted to some undertakings, please provide details and indicate the share of the investment costs borne by those undertakings. … 7. For individual aid (concerning both investment aid and/or operating aid), please provide information on: (a) the planned or expected specialisation of the innovation cluster, existing regional potential and presence of clusters in the Union with similar purposes … (b) how the innovation cluster can have a positive effect on the technological advancement and digital transformation of the Union economy … (c) whether the supported innovation cluster is a Digital Innovation Hub … (d) whether the collaborations which would be stimulated or incentivised by the innovation cluster’s activities might aim, amongst others, to shorten the time needed from the creation of new knowledge to transposing it into innovative applications … (e) Any other information you consider relevant …

	5.7.1.	Investment aid 1. Please specify the eligible costs and, for individual aid, indicate their amount. Eligible costs Eligible costs amount Investment costs for the construction and upgrade of the innovation cluster including [please include a row for each cost that you deem to fall into the overall category of investment costs in tangible and intangible assets] Total eligible costs 2. Please specify the applicable aid intensities, including any increases for clusters located in assisted regions fulfilling the conditions of Article 107(3), points (a) or (c), of the Treaty. Investment aid for innovation clusters Small enterprise % Medium-sized enterprise % Large enterprise % Basic aid intenstiy for investment aid Increase of the basic aid intensity: — in assisted regions fulfilling the conditions of Article 107(3), point (c), of the Treaty, or — in assisted regions fulfilling the conditions of Article 107(3), point (a), of the Treaty Applicable aid intensity: 3. Please provide information about the State aid that you intend to grant, including: (a) The overall nominal State aid amount … (b) What is the State aid instrument (form of aid) … (c) Whether the State aid will be disbursed in one or several instalments … (d) The provisional dates (at least the years) of the disbursement and the amounts of each of these instalments … (e) Your explanation on how you established the State aid amount you intend to award for the aided activities and the instalment schedule …

	5.7.2.	Operating aid 1. Please indicate which activities are supported under the notified measure and provide further information on the substance and timing of the supported activities: ☐ animation of the cluster ☐ marketing of the cluster ☐ management of the cluster's facilities ☐ organisation of training programmes, workshops and conferences … 2. Please specify the eligible costs and, for individual aid, indicate their amount and provide further details on the underlying assumptions for their calculation. Please support your calculations with appropriate evidence to be annexed to the notification form. Operating aid for innovation clusters Eligible costs amount Personal and administrative costs (including overheads) related to the animation of the cluster Personal and administrative costs (including overheads) related to the marketing of the cluster Personal and administrative costs (including overheads) related to the management of the cluster's facilities Personal and administrative costs (including overheads) related to the organisation of training programmes, workshops and conference Total eligible costs … 3. Please specify the applicable aid intensity: Aid intensity for operating aid to the innovation cluster % 4. Please provide information about the State aid that you intend to grant, including: (a) The overall nominal State aid amount … (b) What is the State aid instrument (form of aid) … (c) Whether the State aid will be disbursed in one or several instalments … (d) The provisional dates (at least the years) of the disbursement and the amounts of each of these instalments … (e) Your explanation on how you established the State aid amount you intend to award for the supported activities and the instalment schedule …

	6.	COMPATIBILITY ASSESSMENT OF THE NOTIFIED AID MEASURE

	6.1.	First condition: R&D&I aid facilitates the development of an economic activity

	6.1.1.	Identifying the supported economic activity 1. For individual aid, please provide a comprehensive description of the aided project or activity (or refer back to the previous sections if such detailed description has been provided there). … 2. Please identify and describe the economic activity that will be supported by the notified measure. …

	6.1.2.	Incentive effect

	6.1.2.1.	General conditions 1. Please confirm whether the aid will not subsidise the costs of an activity that the undertaking would anyhow incur: ☐yes ☐no 2. Please confirm whether the aid will not compensate for the normal business risk of an economic activity: ☐yes ☐no 3. Please provide further explanations or refer to a section where such information can be found: … 4. Please confirm that, when awarding the aid under the notified measure, it will be ensured that work on the relevant R&D&I activities has not started prior to the aid application by the beneficiary to the national authorities [^ntr112-L_202500905EN.000501-E0112] and, for individual aid, specify the relevant dates: ☐yes ☐no … 5. Please tick one of the boxes below to confirm that the aid applications of the aid beneficiary to the national authorities include at least the applicant's name and size of the undertaking, a description of the project, including its location and start and end dates, the amount of public support needed to carry it out, and a list of eligible costs: ☐yes ☐no … 6. If the aid is awarded in the form of a fiscal measure, please provide details and, for non-incremental measures, any evaluation studies for establishing its incentive effect: …

	6.1.2.2.	Additional considerations for individual aid 1. Please confirm whether the project size will be increased due to the notified measure? ☐yes ☐no If so, please specify the type of increase and submit relevant evidence: ☐ increase in the total project costs (without a decrease in spending by the aid beneficiary when compared to the situation without aid) ☐ increase in the number of people assigned to R&D&I activities ☐ other type of increase Please justify your answers and provide further details and submit relevant evidence: … 2. Please specify whether the project scope will be increased due to the notified measure? ☐yes ☐no If so, please specify the type of increase and submit relevant evidence: ☐ increase in the number of the expected deliverables of the project; ☐ increase in the level of ambition of the project evidenced by a higher number of partners involved, a higher probability of a scientific or technological break-through or a higher risk of failure (notably linked to the long-term nature of the project and uncertainty about its results); ☐ other type of increase. Please justify your answers by providing further details and evidence: … 3. Please confirm whether the project speed will be increased due to the notified measure? ☐yes ☐no If so, please provide further justification, details and relevant evidence: … 4. Please confirm whether the total amount spent will be increased due to the notified measure? ☐yes ☐no If so, please specify the type of increase and submit further justification, details and relevant evidence: ☐ increase in total R&D&I spending by the aid beneficiary, in absolute terms or as a proportion of turnover ☐ changes in the committed budget for the project (without a corresponding decrease in the budget allocated to other projects) ☐ other type of increase … 5. Please confirm whether the notified measure will be subject to a publicly available ex post evaluation of its contribution to the common interest? ☐yes ☐no If so, please specify: … 6. Please provide a comprehensive description, by means of analysis of the counterfactual scenario, of the behaviour of the beneficiary in the absence of aid (i.e. of what would have happened or could reasonably have been expected to happen without aid). Please demonstrate by contemporary internal evidence if the counterfactual has been considered by the beneficiary in its internal decision making and attach such evidence to this form. … 7. Please specify and elaborate further the elements that are relevant for the demonstration of the incentive effect of the notified measure and provide supporting evidence, such as board documents, risk assessments, financial reports, internal business plans, expert opinions and other studies related to the project under assessment: ☐ level of profitability (i.e. where a project or investment would not, in itself, be profitable to carry out for an undertaking, but would generate important benefits for society) … ☐ amount of investment and the timeframe of cash flows (e.g. whether the measure concern a high start-up investment, a low level of appropriable cash flows, a significant fraction of the cash flow arising in the very far future or in a very uncertain manner, etc.) … ☐ level of risk involved (please provide an assessment of risk, which will in particular take into account, as applicable, the irreversibility of the investment, the probability of commercial failure, the risk that the project will be less productive than expected, the risk that the project undermines other activities of the aid beneficiary and the risk that the project costs undermine its financial viability) … 8. If available, please provide industry-specific data demonstrating that the beneficiary's counterfactual scenario, its required level of profitability and its expected cash-flows are reasonable. … 9. Please specify whether the aided measure involves cross-border cooperation or is financed by more than one Member State (i.e. it concerns cross-border R&D activities, research infrastructures, testing and experimentation infrastructures or innovation clusters). …

	6.1.3.	No breach of relevant Union law 1. Please tick one of the boxes below to confirm that the State aid measure, the conditions attached to it, including its financing method when the financing method forms an integral part of the State aid measure, or the activity it finances does not entail a violation of relevant Union law. ☐yes ☐no 2. For individual aid: please specify also whether there are any infringement proceedings relative to Articles 101 or 102 of the Treaty which may concern the beneficiary of the aid and which may be relevant for its assessment under Article 107(3) of the Treaty. ☐yes ☐no Please provide also further information and clarifications on all these points: …

	6.2.	Second condition: R&D&I aid does not unduly affect trading conditions to an extent contrary to the common interest

	6.2.1.	Need for State intervention 1. Please identify by ticking the relevant box below the market failures hampering R&D&I activities in the present case and justify the need for State aid. Please submit further explanations, clarifications and relevant evidence. ☐ positive externalities/knowledge spill-overs ☐ imperfect and asymmetric information ☐ coordination and network failures … 2. Please explain how the notified measure can effectively mitigate the market failures affecting the R&D&I activities (i.e. how the State aid can bring about a material improvement that the market alone cannot deliver). …

	6.2.1.1.	Additional conditions for individual aid 1. Please explain further whether the aid addresses a general market failure regarding R&D&I activities in the Union, or a specific market failure regarding, for example, a particular sector or line of business. … 2. If available, please provide any sectoral comparisons and other studies that can substantiate the analysis of the alleged market failures. … 3. If available, please provide any information regarding (other) R&D&I projects or activities undertaken within the Union which, with respect to their technological content, level of risk and size, are similar to those concerned by the notified measure and explain why the aid is needed in the case concerned. …

	6.2.2.	Appropriateness of the aid measure 1. Appropriate policy instrument 1.1. Please explain why in your view the State aid is the appropriate policy instrument to enable the R&D&I in question and there is no better placed and less distortive policy instrument capable of achieving the same results. Furthermore, please explain how the advantages of using a selective policy instrument such as State aid in order to increase R&D&I activities have been established, and provide any related impact assessment and supporting documents. … 2. Where the project or R&D&I activities are also financed by the Union please demonstrate that State aid for the assessed project or R&D&I activity would create synergies with funding or co-financing from Union programmes. … 3. Appropriateness among different aid instruments: (a) Please explain your views why the chosen form of the State aid is likely to generate the least distortions of competition and trade. If aid is awarded in forms that provide a direct pecuniary advantage (such as direct grants, exemptions or reductions in taxes or other compulsory charges, or the supply of land, products or services at favourable prices), please provide an analysis of other options and explain why or how other forms of aid (such as repayable advances or forms of aid that are based on debt or equity instruments, such as State guarantees, the purchase of a share-holding or an alternative provision of debt or capital on favourable terms) are less appropriate to address the identified market failures. … (b) For aid schemes: please specify also whether the notified scheme implements the objectives and priorities of Operational Programmes and identify the financing instrument chosen in those programmes. …

	6.2.3.	Proportionality of the aid 1. Please confirm whether the aid is determined in relation to a predefined set of eligible costs and limited to a certain proportion of those eligible costs ('aid intensity'). Please also confirm whether the aid intensity is established for each beneficiary of the aid, including in the case of a collaboration project. ☐yes ☐no 2. In the case of State aid for a project being carried out in collaboration between research organisations and undertakings, please confirm whether the contribution of direct public support and, where they constitute State aid, the contributions from research organisations to the same project will not exceed the applicable aid intensities for each beneficiary undertaking. ☐yes ☐no Please specify further: … 3. Repayable advances: (a) If the aid is awarded in the form of a repayable advance expressed as gross grant equivalent, please provide details on the methodology applied in order to calculate such gross grant equivalent, including underlying verifiable data or, for individual aid, specify on the basis of which approved aid scheme the aid is awarded. … (b) If the aid is awarded in the form of a repayable advance expressed as a percentage of the eligible costs and exceeds, by up to 10 percentage points, the maximum aid intensities laid down in the R&D&I Framework, please confirm, by ticking the box, that: ☐ in the case of a successful outcome, the notified measure provides that the advance is to be repaid with an interest rate not less than the discount rate resulting from the application of the Communication from the Commission on the revision of the method for setting the reference and discount rates [^ntr113-L_202500905EN.000501-E0113] ☐ in the case of a success exceeding the outcome defined as successful, the Member State concerned requests payments beyond repayment of the advance amount including interest according to the applicable discount rate ☐ in the case of failure or partial success, the repayment is proportional to the degree of success achieved (c) Please provide details on the repayment of the advance and clearly define what is considered as a successful outcome of the aided activities, on the basis of a reasonable and prudent hypothesis. … 4. Fiscal measures constituting State aid: if the aid is awarded in the form of a fiscal measure, please specify how the aid intensities are calculated and provide any relevant details: ☐ on the basis of individual projects, or ☐ at the level of the undertaking, as the ratio between the overall tax relief and the sum of all eligible R&D&I costs incurred in a period not exceeding three consecutive fiscal years …

	6.2.3.1.	Additional conditions for individual aid 1. Please provide a comprehensive business plan for the aided project (with and without aid), including all relevant expected costs and revenues for the lifetime of the project. Please submit detailed explanations, justifications and relevant evidence for all underlying assumptions. … 2. If the aid beneficiary faces a clear choice between carrying out either the aided project or an alternative one without aid, please provide also a comprehensive business plan for the lifetime of the counterfactual project. Please provide detailed explanations, justifications and relevant evidence for all underlying assumptions. … 3. In the absence of an alternative project, please explain how the aid is limited to the minimum necessary for the aided project to be sufficiently profitable, for example by making it possible to achieve an internal rate of return ('IRR') corresponding to the sector or firm specific benchmark or hurdle rate. … 4. If the aid beneficiary faces a clear choice between carrying out either the aided project or an alternative one without aid, please explain how the aid is limited to the minimum necessary to cover the net extra costs of the aided project compared to the counterfactual project, by taking account of the probabilities of different business scenarios occurring. … 5. Please submit any supporting documents, such as internal company documents, showing that the counterfactual project is a clearly defined and sufficiently predictable alternative project that has been considered by the beneficiary in its internal decision making. … 6. Please explain how the aid amount has been established and provide any supporting documents. … 7. If there were multiple potential candidates for carrying out the aided activity, is the aid awarded on the basis of transparent, objective and non-discriminatory criteria? ☐yes ☐no Please provide details: … 8. If the aid is meant to address actual or potential direct or indirect distortions of international trade, i.e. where, directly or indirectly, competitors located outside the Union have received in the last three years or are going to receive aid of an equivalent intensity for similar projects, please provide sufficient information and any available evidence to enable the Commission to assess the situation, in particular the need to take account of the competitive advantage enjoyed by a third country competitor. Where distortions of international trade are likely to occur after more than three years, given the particular nature of the sector in question, the reference period may be extended accordingly. …

	6.2.4.	Cumulation of aid 1. Please confirm, by ticking the appropriate box, that: (a) Where Union funding centrally managed by the institutions, agencies, joint undertakings or other bodies of the Union that is not directly or indirectly under the control of Member States, is combined with State aid, the total amount of public funding awarded in relation to the same eligible costs must not exceed the most favourable funding rate laid down in the applicable rules of Union law. ☐yes ☐no (b) Where the expenditure eligible for R&D&I aid is also potentially eligible in whole or in part for aid for other purposes, the overlapping portion will be subject to the most favourable ceiling under any of the relevant rules. ☐yes ☐no (c) Aid for R&D&I will not be cumulated with de minimis support in respect of the same eligible costs if that would result in an aid intensity exceeding those laid down in this framework. ☐yes ☐no (d) For aid measures for testing and experimentation infrastructures co-funded by Union funding: please demonstrate the necessary amount of total public funding (i.e. State aid and other sources of public funding) on the basis of a credible funding gap assessment ensuring that the total amount of public funding does not lead to overcompensation. Please provide sufficient information to assess the necessary amount of total public funding for the testing and experimentation infrastructure and submit the relevant evidence: … 2. With regards to confirmations requested in point (1) above, please provide further details, indicating the letter from the above questions to which these explanations are relevant. …

	6.2.5.	Transparency 1. Please tick the relevant box to confirm that the Member State will publish in the European Commission’s transparency award module or on a comprehensive State aid website, at national or regional level: (a) the full text of the individual aid granting decision or the approved aid scheme and its implementing provisions, or a link to it; ☐yes ☐no (b) the following information on each individual aid award granted ad-hoc or under an aid scheme approved on the basis of this framework and exceeding EUR 100 000: — Identity of the individual beneficiary — Name — Beneficiary’s identifier ☐yes ☐no — Type of beneficiary undertaking at the time of granting: — SME — Large undertaking ☐yes ☐no — Region in which the beneficiary is located, at NUTS level II or below ☐yes ☐no — The principal economic sector in which the beneficiary has its activities, at NACE group level ☐yes ☐no — Aid element, and, where different, the nominal amount of aid, expressed as full amount in national currency ☐yes ☐no — Aid instrument: — Grant/Interest rate subsidy/Debt write-off — Loan/Repayable advances/Reimbursable grant — Guarantee — Tax advantage or tax exemption — Risk finance — Other (please specify) ☐yes ☐no — Date of award and the date of publication ☐yes ☐no — Objective of the aid ☐yes ☐no — Identity of the granting authority or authorities ☐yes ☐no — Where applicable, name of the entrusted entity, and the names of the selected financial intermediaries ☐yes ☐no — Reference of the aid measure ☐yes ☐no (c) Please provide the web address of the State aid website: … (d) For schemes in the form of tax advantages, please confirm that the required information on individual aid amounts in the ranges described in point 102 of the R&D&I Framework, will be published: ☐yes ☐no 2. Please tick the relevant box below in order to confirm that the Member State will organise its comprehensive State aid website (as declared in the previous point) in such a way as to allow easy access to the information, that the information will be published in a non-proprietary spreadsheet data format, which allows data to be effectively searched, extracted, downloaded and easily published on the internet, for instance in CSV or XML format, and that the general public will be allowed to access the website without any restrictions, including prior user registration. ☐yes ☐no 3. Please tick the relevant box below to confirm that the information as per the above will be published within six months from the date of award of the aid, or, for aid in the form of tax advantages, within one year from the date the tax declaration is due. ☐yes ☐no Please specify the time period applicable for your aid measure: … 4. Where applicable, please tick the relevant box below to confirm for aid that was unlawful but subsequently found to be compatible, the Member State will publish this information within six months from the date of the Commission’s decision declaring the aid compatible. ☐yes ☐no … 5. To enable the enforcement of State aid rules under the Treaty, the information must be available for at least 10 years from the date on which the aid was granted. ☐yes ☐no

	6.2.6.	Verifying that specific negative effects of R&D&I aid on competition and trading conditions are minimised or avoided Please indicate: 1. whether the award of aid allows the aid beneficiary to gain competitive advantage through: ☐ reduced production costs ☐ increased production capacity ☐ new product development ☐ other effects, please specify: … 2. the award of aid is subject to the obligation for the beneficiary to have its central seat, or be predominantly established in the relevant Member State (point 117 of the R&D&I Framework): ☐yes ☐no 3. the award of aid is subject to the obligation for the beneficiary to use national products or services (point 117 of the R&D&I Framework): ☐yes ☐no 4. the aid measure restricts the possibility for the beneficiary to exploit the R&D&I results in other Member States (point 117 of the R&D&I Framework): ☐yes ☐no 5. the aid measure imposes any other obligation on the beneficiary: ☐yes ☐no 6. Please provide justification for the answers you have selected and submit evidence where necessary. If the answer to any of the questions in this section is yes, please provide details: …

	6.2.6.1.	Aid scheme 1. For aid schemes, please explain how it will be ensured that any negative effects will be limited to the minimum (taking account, for example, of the size of the projects concerned, the individual and cumulative aid amounts, the number of expected beneficiaries and the characteristics of the targeted sectors) and provide any impact assessment or ex-post evaluations carried out for similar predecessor schemes. …

	6.2.6.2.	Additional conditions for individual aid 1. If applicable, please describe the likely impact of the aid on competition in the innovation process (see point 109 of the R&D&I Framework). … 2. Please identify the product markets on which the aid is likely to have an impact and provide the current market share and your assessment of the market position and the market power of the beneficiary in each of the markets concerned, as well as any changes in those market shares, market position and market power that would result from the aided activities. … 3. For each of the product markets concerned, please identify the main competitors of the aid beneficiary and provide their market shares. … If available, please provide the associated Herfindahl-Hirschman Index ('HHI'). … 4. For each of the product markets concerned, please provide information on the customers or consumers affected by the aided activities. … 5. Please describe the structure and dynamics of the markets concerned with regard to the following aspects (points 124 and 126 of the R&D&I Framework): (a) recent developments and future growth prospects … (b) amount spent by the main players on projects of a similar kind … (c) levels of entry and exit barriers … (d) existence of countervailing buyer power … (e) incentives to compete for future markets … (f) product differentiation and intensity of competition … (g) other features likely to affect competitors, customers or consumers … 6. Has the aid beneficiary any influence in the selection process, for example by having the right to recommend undertakings or influencing the research path? ☐yes ☐no If so, please provide details: … 7. Please tick the relevant box to declare if the aid is awarded in markets featuring overcapacity or in declining industries. ☐yes ☐no If so, please provide details on these markets and industries and your justification why in your view the aid would not raise concerns: … 8. Please indicate whether the beneficiary has considered any alternative locations for the aided activities. ☐yes ☐no Please provide details and credible contemporaneous internal evidence of the aid beneficiary to support the claim. … 9. Please provide your general view why you believe the aid will not give rise to potential distortions of competition and trade between Member States. …

	6.2.7.	Weighing up the positive and the negative effects of the aid 1. Please identify, according to your view, which are the positive effects of the aid on the aided economic activity and the wider R&D&I-related positive effects of the aid that need to be taken into account in the analysis. For further details and justification, you may provide reference to your detailed answers to the next questions. … 2. Please define precisely the objective pursued and explain how the notified measure intends to promote R&D&I activities. … 3. Please elaborate whether the aid brings about wider R&D&I-related positive effects. … Please elaborate whether these positive effects are embodied in Union policies (such as the new ERA for Research and Innovation, the European Green Deal, the European Digital Strategy and the New Industrial Strategy for Europe Communications)? … 4. Please indicate whether the state aid measure contributes to the digital transformation of the Union industry and Union’s transition to a zero/low-carbon economy, and if so, please explain how. … 5. In case of an aid scheme, is it part of a comprehensive programme or action plan to stimulate R&D&I activities or smart specialisation strategies? ☐yes ☐no Please provide, where relevant, the reference to evaluations of similar past aid measures: … 6. If relevant, please clarify whether the supported R&D&I activities are in accordance with the Regulation (EU) 2020/852 of the European Parliament and of the Council [^ntr114-L_202500905EN.000501-E0114]. … If not please explain whether an alternative methodology was applied to identify R&D&I activities for technologies, products or other solutions for environmentally sustainable economic activities. …

	6.2.7.1.	Balancing of the positive effects against the negative effects of the aid 1. Please provide your view (for both aid schemes and individual aid) why you believe the positive effects of the aid, as identified and justified by you above in this section outweigh the negative effects on competition and trading conditions of the aid. …

	7.	OTHER INFORMATION 1. Please provide any other information that would be of relevance to assess the notified aid measure under the R&D&I Framework. … 2. Please list below all annexes attached to the form (which should include relevant evidence, business plans, studies, etc.). Please indicate clearly (paragraphs, pages, in a visual manner) where the information supporting the replies provided in the form can be found in these annexes. …’

• (c) Part III.5 is replaced by the following:

‘PART III.5.A

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION SHEET ON STATE AID FOR TAKE-UP MEASURES

This supplementary information sheet should be used for notifications of aid for take-up measures deployment covered by the Commission Guidelines on State aid for broadband networks  [^ntr115-L_202500905EN.000501-E0115] (“Broadband Guidelines”).

	1.	GENERAL INFORMATION

	1.1.	Please provide a detailed description of the aid measure and of its objectives. …

	1.2.	Please explain why, in your view, the aid measure amounts to State aid [^ntr116-L_202500905EN.000501-E0116]. …

	1.3.	Please indicate whether the aid measure consists of: ☐ Social vouchers [^ntr117-L_202500905EN.000501-E0117] ☐ Connectivity vouchers [^ntr118-L_202500905EN.000501-E0118]

	1.4.	Please explain how the aid measure fits with the national broadband strategy and the Union digital policy and environmental objectives [^ntr119-L_202500905EN.000501-E0119]. …

	1.5.	Please explain whether the reason justifying the aid measure is [^ntr120-L_202500905EN.000501-E0120]: ☐ Economic impact of the cost of subscribing to broadband services. If so, please provide details. … ☐ Lack of awareness of the benefits brought by the subscription to broadband services. If so, please provide details. … ☐ Other reasons. If so, please provide details. …

	1.6.	Please explain the context of the aid measure (for example, current level of coverage of broadband networks in the Member State, current level of take-up of broadband services), indicating the sources of information provided. …

	1.7.	Please confirm that all speeds mentioned in this notification are deemed to mean speeds under peak-time conditions [^ntr121-L_202500905EN.000501-E0121]. ☐Yes ☐No

	1.8.	If available, please submit the following documents and provide a description of their content. ☐ Impact assessment of the aid measure … ☐ Ex post evaluation plans of similar predecessor schemes … ☐ Counterfactual analysis demonstrating that the measure has positive effects compared to what would have happened without the aid …

	2.	SOCIAL VOUCHERS

	2.1.	Please identify the particular categories of individual consumers targeted by the aid measure, specifying the financial circumstances that justify the granting of aid for social reasons (for example, low-income families, students, pupils, etc.) and the objective criteria used to identify eligible consumers [^ntr122-L_202500905EN.000501-E0122]. …

	2.2.	Please provide an estimate of the number of consumers that could benefit from the aid measure. …

	2.3.	Please identify the eligible service providers. …

	2.4.	Please indicate the eligible services covered by the aid measure (for example, in terms of download speed, upload speed, etc.) and explain how your authorities identified such services. …

	2.5.	Please specify how the vouchers will be used and provide specific details [^ntr123-L_202500905EN.000501-E0123]: ☐ Subscribe to new broadband services. Details: … ☐ Retain existing subscriptions. Details: … ☐ Others. Details: …

	2.6.	Please list the eligible costs covered by the aid measure [^ntr124-L_202500905EN.000501-E0124]. …

	2.7.	Please indicate the maximum duration of the voucher (if any). …

	2.8.	Please indicate form and amount of the vouchers, specifying how such amount has been set and the percentage of the cost of subscription covered by the voucher. …

	2.9.	Please explain if and how the aid measure complies with the principle of technological neutrality [^ntr125-L_202500905EN.000501-E0125]. …

	2.10.	To demonstrate that the aid measure ensures equal treatment of all possible service providers and offer consumers the widest possible choice of suppliers [^ntr126-L_202500905EN.000501-E0126], please confirm (providing relevant details) that [^ntr127-L_202500905EN.000501-E0127]: (a) An online registry of all eligible service providers (or an equivalent alternative platform) will be implemented. … (b) Consumers are free to consult the registry. … (c) All undertakings capable of providing the eligible broadband services may request to be included in the registry (or in the alternative platform chosen). … (d) The registry (or the alternative platform chosen) provides additional information to assist consumers (for example, type of services provided by different undertakings, etc.). If so, please indicate the additional information provided. …

	2.11.	Please explain in detail the implementing procedure of the aid measure. …

	2.12.	Public consultation [^ntr128-L_202500905EN.000501-E0128]. Please provide the following information: (a) Start and end date of each public consultation carried-out. … (b) Content of each public consultation. … (c) Publicly accessible Internet site (at regional and/or national level) where the consultation was published. … (d) A recap of the main observations submitted by contributors in each public consultation, specifying how they were addressed. …

	2.13.	Please indicate whether additional safeguards to avoid possible misuse of social vouchers will be implemented. If so, please provide details [^ntr129-L_202500905EN.000501-E0129]. …

	2.14.	Please indicate whether the aid measure provides for specific rules concerning the management of the subscription, with regard, inter alia, to early termination of the subscription, possibility to migrate the subscription to another provider during the period covered by the voucher (if so, under which conditions), continuation of the subscription after the expiry of the voucher. If so, please provide details. …

	3.	CONNECTIVITY VOUCHERS

	3.1.	Please indicate the type of end-users targeted by the measure. ☐ Consumers ☐ Businesses

	3.2.	Please explain the eligibility conditions for end-users to get connectivity vouchers. …

	3.3.	Please provide an estimate of the number of end-users that could benefit from the aid measure. …

	3.4.	Please identify the eligible service providers. …

	3.5.	Please indicate the eligible services covered by the aid measure (for example, in terms of download speed, upload speed, etc.) and explain how your authorities identified such services. In this regard, please indicate end-users’ needs capable of being addressed by connections providing the eligible services, submitting verifiable supporting evidence thereof (for example, consumer surveys, independent studies) [^ntr130-L_202500905EN.000501-E0130]. …

	3.6.	Please specify how the vouchers will be used and provide specific details Moreover, please confirm that the vouchers cannot be used for retaining existing subscriptions [^ntr131-L_202500905EN.000501-E0131]. ☐ Subscribe to new broadband services. Details: … ☐ Upgrade existing subscriptions. Details: … ☐ Confirmation that the vouchers cannot be used for retaining existing subscriptions. Details: …

	3.7.	Please list the eligible costs covered by the aid measure [^ntr132-L_202500905EN.000501-E0132]. …

	3.8.	Please indicate form and amount of vouchers, specifying how such amount has been set and the percentage of the costs of subscription covered by the voucher) [^ntr133-L_202500905EN.000501-E0133]. …

	3.9.	Please explain if and how the aid measure complies with the principle of technological neutrality [^ntr134-L_202500905EN.000501-E0134]. …

	3.10.	To demonstrate that the aid measure ensures equal treatment of all possible service providers and offer consumers the widest possible choice of suppliers, please confirm (providing relevant details) that [^ntr135-L_202500905EN.000501-E0135]: (a) An online registry of all eligible service providers (or an equivalent alternative platform) will be implemented. … (b) Consumers are free to consult the registry. … (c) All undertakings capable of providing the eligible broadband services may request to be included in the registry (or in the alternative platform chosen). … (d) The registry (or the alternative platform chosen) provides additional information to assist consumers (for example, type of services provided by different undertakings, etc.). If so, please indicate the additional information provided. …

	3.11.	Please explain in detail the implementing procedure of the aid measure. …

	3.12.	Public consultation. Please provide the following information [^ntr136-L_202500905EN.000501-E0136]: (a) Start and end date of each public consultation carried-out. … (b) Content of each public consultation. … (c) Publicly accessible Internet site (at regional and/or national level) where the consultation was published. … (d) A recap of the main observations submitted by contributors in each public consultation, specifying how they were addressed. …

	3.13.	Please indicate whether additional safeguards to avoid possible misuse of connectivity vouchers will be implemented. If so, please provide details [^ntr137-L_202500905EN.000501-E0137]. …

	3.14.	Please indicate whether the aid measure provides for specific rules concerning the management of the subscription, with regard, inter alia, to early termination of the subscription, possibility to migrate the subscription to another provider during the period covered by the voucher (if so, under which conditions), continuation of the subscription after the expiry of the voucher. If so, please provide details. …

	3.15.	Please identify the economic activities that will be facilitated by the aid measure through the increase of connectivity and the access to performant broadband services, and explain how the development of those activities is supported [^ntr138-L_202500905EN.000501-E0138]. …

	3.16.	Please provide evidence for the incentive effect of the aid measure [^ntr139-L_202500905EN.000501-E0139]. …

	3.17.	Please confirm that the aid measure, the conditions attached to it (including its financing method where that method forms an integral part of the aid) or the activity it finances do not entail any violation of provisions or general principles of Union law. ☐Yes ☐No. In this case, please provide explanations. …

	3.18.	Please explain why alternative measures to State aid (for example, administrative and regulatory measures, market-based instruments, loans, tax measures) are not capable of addressing the objective(s) of the aid measure [^ntr140-L_202500905EN.000501-E0140]. …

	3.19.	Please submit a market assessment containing: (i) an assessment of the risk that the aid measure gives a disproportionate advantage – at the retail and/or at the wholesale level – to some providers to the detriment of others, possibly reinforcing (local) market dominance; (ii) an assessment of the actual need to implement a connectivity voucher by comparing the situation in the intervention area(s) with the situation in other areas of the Member State or the Union; (iii) an analysis of the trends in take-up of eligible services by end-users [^ntr141-L_202500905EN.000501-E0141]. …

	3.20.	Please indicate if any of the eligible provider of broadband services is vertically integrated and has a retail market share above 25 %. ☐Yes ☐No.

	3.21.	In case the answer to the previous question is positive, please confirm that any vertically integrated provider of broadband services which has a retail market share above 25 %, will offer, on the corresponding wholesale access market, wholesale access products on the basis of which any access seeker will be able to provide the eligible services under open, transparent and non-discriminatory conditions. ☐Yes ☐No

	3.22.	Please indicate the duration of the aid measure and the period of validity of the vouchers for individual end-user [^ntr142-L_202500905EN.000501-E0142]. …

	3.23.	Please explain what potential negative effects on competition and trade the aid measure may have and what elements in the design of the measure could minimize those risks. …

	4.	OTHER INFORMATION (APPLICABLE TO BOTH SOCIAL AND CONNECTIVITY VOUCHERS)

	4.1.	Please explain the role played by the NRA in the design, implementation and monitoring of the aid measure. …

	4.2.	Please report the opinion of the NRA on the aid measure (if available). …

	4.3.	Please report the opinion of the National Competition Authority on the aid measure (if available). …

	4.4.	Transparency. (a) Please confirm that the Member State will publish (i) the full text of the decision approving the aid measure and its implementing provisions (or a link to them), and (ii) information on each individual aid award exceeding EUR 100 000, in accordance with Annex II [^ntr143-L_202500905EN.000501-E0143] (within 6 months from the date of award of the aid or, for aid in the form of tax advantages, within 1 year from the date that the tax declaration is due) [^ntr144-L_202500905EN.000501-E0144], ☐ In the Commission’s transparency award module [^ntr145-L_202500905EN.000501-E0145]. ☐ On a comprehensive State aid website (providing the relevant web address). In this case, please specify whether it is national or regional website [^ntr146-L_202500905EN.000501-E0146] and easy access to the information registered in the aid website is allowed (i.e., the general public must be allowed to access the website without restrictions) [^ntr147-L_202500905EN.000501-E0147]. … (b) Please confirm that the information under point 4.4 will be available for at least 10 years from the date on which the aid was granted, will be published in a non-proprietary spreadsheet data format, which allows data to be effectively searched, extracted, downloaded and easily published on the internet (for instance, in CSV or XML format). ☐Yes ☐No (c) Please confirm that, for aid that is unlawful but subsequently found to be compatible, the relevant information is published on a State aid website (specifying the relevant web address) within 6 months from the date of the Commission’s decision declaring the aid compatible [^ntr148-L_202500905EN.000501-E0148]. ☐Yes ☐No

	4.5.	Reporting. Please confirm that your authorities will submit to the Commission (i) annual reports in respect of each measure approved under the Broadband Guidelines, and (ii) a report every two years containing key information on the aid measure approved under the Broadband Guidelines, in accordance with Annex III to the same Broadband Guidelines [^ntr149-L_202500905EN.000501-E0149]. …

	4.6.	Monitoring. Please confirm that your authorities will maintain – for 10 years from the date of award of the aid – detailed records regarding all aid measures, which contain all information necessary to establish that all the compatibility conditions set out in the Broadband Guidelines are fulfilled, and that it commits to provide them to the Commission upon request [^ntr150-L_202500905EN.000501-E0150]. …

	4.7.	Please indicate whether the aid measure is considered for ex post evaluation plan. ☐ No. Please explain why you consider the criteria for ex post evaluation plan not to be fulfilled. … ☐ Yes. If so, please indicate according to which criteria the aid measure is considered for ex post evaluation and provide the relevant information on the ex post evaluation plan described in section 8 of the Broadband Guidelines. …

	4.8.	Please indicate any other information relevant for the assessment of the aid measure under the Broadband Guidelines or any other information that is relevant from the point of view of Union competition and internal market rules. …

	4.9.	Please indicate whether this supplementary information sheet contains confidential information which should not be disclosed to third parties [^ntr151-L_202500905EN.000501-E0151]. ☐ Yes. If so, please indicate the confidential information and provide reasons for confidentiality. ☐ No.

	4.10.	Please confirm that the aid measure is not covered by Article 52c of Regulation (EU) No 651/2014 [^ntr152-L_202500905EN.000501-E0152] or by Regulation (EU) 2023/2831 [^ntr153-L_202500905EN.000501-E0153]. ☐Yes ☐No

PART III.5.B

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION SHEET ON STATE AID FOR THE DEPLOYMENT OF BROADBAND NETWORK

This supplementary information sheet should be used for notifications of aid for the deployment of broadband networks covered by the Commission Guidelines on State aid for broadband networks  [^ntr154-L_202500905EN.000501-E0154] (“Broadband Guidelines”).

	1.	GENERAL INFORMATION

	1.1.	Please provide a detailed description of the aid measure and of its objectives. …

	1.2.	Please identify the type of broadband network [^ntr155-L_202500905EN.000501-E0155] supported by the aid measure. ☐ deployment of fixed access networks [^ntr156-L_202500905EN.000501-E0156]. If so, please specify the type of areas targeted by the aid measure. ☐ White [^ntr157-L_202500905EN.000501-E0157] ☐ Grey [^ntr158-L_202500905EN.000501-E0158] ☐ Mixed (white and grey) [^ntr159-L_202500905EN.000501-E0159] ☐ Black [^ntr160-L_202500905EN.000501-E0160] ☐ deployment of mobile access networks [^ntr161-L_202500905EN.000501-E0161]. ☐ 4G ☐ 5G ☐ other ☐ deployment of backhaul networks [^ntr162-L_202500905EN.000501-E0162]. ☐ only backhaul ☐ backhaul linked to the deployment of an access network [^ntr163-L_202500905EN.000501-E0163]

	1.3.	Please explain how the aid measure fits with the national broadband strategy and the Union digital policy and environmental objectives [^ntr164-L_202500905EN.000501-E0164]. …

	1.4.	Please confirm that all speeds mentioned in this notification are deemed to mean speeds under peak-time conditions [^ntr165-L_202500905EN.000501-E0165]. ☐Yes ☐No

	1.5.	Please indicate the time horizon [^ntr166-L_202500905EN.000501-E0166] of the aid measure and how it has been determined. …

	1.6.	Please indicate the investment model through which the aid measure is implemented. ☐ Gap funding [^ntr167-L_202500905EN.000501-E0167] ☐ Support in kind [^ntr168-L_202500905EN.000501-E0168] ☐ Direct investment [^ntr169-L_202500905EN.000501-E0169] ☐ Concessionaire [^ntr170-L_202500905EN.000501-E0170] ☐ Other. If so, please provide details. …

	2.	FACILITATION OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN ECONOMIC ACTIVITY

	2.1.	Please identify the economic activities that will be facilitated by the aid measure and explain how the development of those activities is supported [^ntr171-L_202500905EN.000501-E0171]. …

	2.2.	Please confirm that the aid measure, the conditions attached to it (including its financing method where that method forms an integral part of the aid) or the activity it finances do not entail any violation of provisions or general principles of Union law [^ntr172-L_202500905EN.000501-E0172]. ☐Yes ☐No. In this case, please provide explanations …

	3.	POSITIVE EFFECTS OF THE AID

	3.1.	Please describe whether and, if so, how the aid measure will bring about positive effects (for example, in terms of reduction of digital divide [^ntr173-L_202500905EN.000501-E0173], correction of social or regional inequalities, equity, sustainability goals [^ntr174-L_202500905EN.000501-E0174], lower prices and better choice for end-users, higher quality and innovation, completion of the Digital Single Market [^ntr175-L_202500905EN.000501-E0175]) [^ntr176-L_202500905EN.000501-E0176]. …

	4.	MARKET FAILURE AS REGARDS FIXED ACCESS NETWORKS

	4.1.	Please indicate the performance in terms of download speed (and, if applicable, of upload speed and other parameters) that the subsidised networks will have to provide [^ntr177-L_202500905EN.000501-E0177]. …

	4.2.	Please indicate end-users’ current and future needs capable of being addressed by fixed networks providing the performance mentioned at point 4.1 (and not by the existing fixed networks), submitting verifiable supporting evidence thereof (for example, consumer surveys, independent studies) [^ntr178-L_202500905EN.000501-E0178]. …

	4.3.	Mapping exercise [^ntr179-L_202500905EN.000501-E0179]. Please provide the following information. (a) Performance of the existing and planned (in the relevant time horizon) networks that have been mapped (for example, download speed, upload speed, latency, packet loss, packet error, jitter, service availability) [^ntr180-L_202500905EN.000501-E0180]. … (b) How future investment plans in the relevant time horizon of the aid measure have been assessed to establish their credibility [^ntr181-L_202500905EN.000501-E0181]. Inter alia, please indicate: … (i) The evidence requested to, and submitted by, the relevant stakeholders to demonstrate the credibility of their investment plans [^ntr182-L_202500905EN.000501-E0182]. … (ii) The assessment criteria applied to assess the credibility of future investment plans [^ntr183-L_202500905EN.000501-E0183]. … (iii) Whether the stakeholders concerned were invited to sign commitment agreements regarding the implementation of the declared investment plans [^ntr184-L_202500905EN.000501-E0184]. ☐Yes ☐No If yes, please clarify whether such commitment agreements include milestones and obligations to report progress [^ntr185-L_202500905EN.000501-E0185]. … (iv) Whether the results of the assessment and the relative justified conclusions were communicated to all stakeholders who submitted information about their private investment plans (and how) [^ntr186-L_202500905EN.000501-E0186] . … (c) Start and end date of each step of the mapping exercise. … (d) Number and identity of contributors to each step of the mapping exercise. … (e) Intermediate results and final results of the mapping exercise. … (f) Confirmation that the mapping exercise has been carried out [^ntr187-L_202500905EN.000501-E0187]: ☐ for fixed wired networks, at address level on the basis of premises passed [^ntr188-L_202500905EN.000501-E0188]. ☐ for fixed wireless networks, at address level on the basis of premises passed or on the basis of a maximum 100 x 100 metre (or smaller) grids. Please specify which of the two criteria was applied: … (g) Confirmation that the mapping exercise also mapped existing networks that could be upgraded with marginal investments (such as an upgrade of the active components) to provide 1 Gbps download and 150 Mbps upload speeds and that such areas have been carved out from the intervention area [^ntr189-L_202500905EN.000501-E0189]. ☐Yes ☐No (h) Whether your authorities complied with the best practices for applying the mapping methodologies described in Annex I of the Broadband Guidelines [^ntr190-L_202500905EN.000501-E0190]. ☐ Yes ☐ No. In this case, please specify in which respects your authorities deviated from Annex I of the Broadband Guidelines and for what reason. … (i) Confirmation that the methodology and the underlying technical criteria for mapping have been made publicly available (and how) [^ntr191-L_202500905EN.000501-E0191]. …

	4.4.	If the aid measure targets areas in which at least two independent networks providing at least 100 Mbps download speed under peak time conditions are present or credibly planned [^ntr192-L_202500905EN.000501-E0192], please clarify if: (a) None of the existing or credibly planned networks provide a download speed of at least 300 Mbps under peak-time conditions [^ntr193-L_202500905EN.000501-E0193]. ☐Yes ☐No (b) At least one of the existing or credibly planned networks provides a download speed of at least 300 Mbps under peak-time conditions but does not provide a download speed of at least 500 Mbps under peak-time conditions [^ntr194-L_202500905EN.000501-E0194]. ☐Yes ☐No If yes, please clarify why your authorities are of the view that no networks will evolve towards providing the same download speed (and, if appropriate, the same additional features) of the networks subsidised under the aid measure and, therefore, State intervention is needed to address a market failure [^ntr195-L_202500905EN.000501-E0195]. … (c) At least one of the existing or credibly planned networks provides a download speed of at least 500 Mbps [^ntr196-L_202500905EN.000501-E0196]. ☐Yes ☐No

	4.5.	Public consultation. Please provide the following information: (a) Start and end date of each public consultation carried-out [^ntr197-L_202500905EN.000501-E0197]. … (b) Content of each public consultation [^ntr198-L_202500905EN.000501-E0198]. … (c) Publicly accessible Internet site (at regional and national level) where the consultation was published [^ntr199-L_202500905EN.000501-E0199]. … (d) A recap of the main observations submitted by contributors in each public consultation, specifying how they were addressed. …

	4.6.	Please indicate the final scope of the aid measure in terms of the size of the intervention area and its population density. …

	5.	MARKET FAILURE AS REGARDS MOBILE ACCESS NETWORKS

	5.1.	Please indicate the performance in terms of download speed (and, if applicable, of upload speed and other parameters) that the subsidised networks will have to provide [^ntr200-L_202500905EN.000501-E0200]. …

	5.2.	Please indicate end-users’ current and future needs capable of being addressed by mobile networks providing the performance mentioned at point 5.1 (and not by the existing mobile networks), submitting verifiable supporting evidence thereof (for example, consumer surveys, independent surveys) [^ntr201-L_202500905EN.000501-E0201]. …