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| 21.4.2009 | EN | Official Journal of the European Union | C 91/8 |
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21.4.2009

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 91/8

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Information communicated by Member States regarding State aid granted under Commission Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006 on the application of Articles 87 and 88 of the Treaty to State aid to small and medium-sized enterprises active in the production of agricultural products and amending Regulation (EC) No 70/2001

2009/C 91/04

Aid No: XA 279/08

Aid No

Member State: France

Member State

Region: Département de la Moselle

Region

Title of aid scheme: Aides aux investissements collectifs en CUMA (coopératives d'utilisation de matériel agricole)

Title of aid scheme

Legal basis: Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006 of 15 December 2006

Legal basis

Article L 1511-2 et L 1511-5 du code général des collectivités territoriales

Délibération du Conseil général de la Moselle du 15.10.2007

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme: Maximum of EUR 400 000, according to need and depending on the budgetary means available.

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme

Maximum aid intensity:

Maximum aid intensity

| | Beneficiaries other than young farmers
  (percentage of young farmers in the CUMA (cooperative for the use of agricultural equipment) below or equal to 70 % ) | Young farmers (1)

  (percentage of young farmers above or equal to 70 %) |
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| Less-favoured areas + protected development areas | 30 % | 40 % |
| Plain areas | 20 % | 30 % |

Beneficiaries other than young farmers

(percentage of young farmers in the CUMA (cooperative for the use of agricultural equipment) below or equal to 70 % )

Young farmers (1)

1

(percentage of young farmers above or equal to 70 %)

Less-favoured areas + protected development areas

30 %

40 %

Plain areas

20 %

30 %

The amount of aid should not exceed the maximum aid intensity allowed.

Date of implementation: From the date of publication of the registration number for the request for exemption on the website of the Commission's Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development and subject to the corresponding funds being available.

Date of implementation

Duration of scheme: Three years from the date of acknowledgement of receipt by the Commission (subject to the corresponding funds being available).

Duration of scheme

Objective and type of aid: The objective of this aid scheme is environmental protection, within the meaning of Article 4(3)(d) of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006.

Objective and type of aid

List of eligible agricultural equipment for environmental purposes:

List of eligible agricultural equipment for environmental purposes

| — | Soil working equipment: plant shredders, rotating shredders, rotating mowers, hoes, weeders, decompactors, tooth and disc stubble cleaners and seeders to facilitate working the soil, |
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Soil working equipment: plant shredders, rotating shredders, rotating mowers, hoes, weeders, decompactors, tooth and disc stubble cleaners and seeders to facilitate working the soil,

| — | Equipment for adding organic material: compost spreaders, organic matter spreaders, manure spreaders, plant shredders and slurry vats equipped with spreader systems, |
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Equipment for adding organic material: compost spreaders, organic matter spreaders, manure spreaders, plant shredders and slurry vats equipped with spreader systems,

| — | Grass working equipment: mowers, windrowers, haymakers, bale-wrappers, presses, windrow turners, |
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Grass working equipment: mowers, windrowers, haymakers, bale-wrappers, presses, windrow turners,

| — | Containment equipment. |
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Containment equipment.

Eligible expenditure includes: the purchase of new agricultural machinery (with the exception of replacement machinery or machinery such as tractors or sprayers) and the construction, purchase or extension of premises used to carry out CUMA activities or to store equipment or machinery.

Sector(s) concerned: All the CUMA in the Moselle irrespective of what their members produce.

Sector(s) concerned

Name and address of the granting authority:

Name and address of the granting authority

| Monsieur le Président du Conseil général de la Moselle |
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| Direction de l'Environnement et de l'Aménagement du Territoire |
| Division de l'Environnement et de l'Espace Rural (SAEN) |
| Hôtel du Département |
| 1, rue du Pont Moreau |
| BP 11096 |
| 57036 Metz Cedex 1 |
| FRANCE |

Monsieur le Président du Conseil général de la Moselle

Direction de l'Environnement et de l'Aménagement du Territoire

Division de l'Environnement et de l'Espace Rural (SAEN)

Hôtel du Département

1, rue du Pont Moreau

BP 11096

57036 Metz Cedex 1

FRANCE

Website: http://www.cg57.fr/front/getFile.do?name=R%E9duction+des+co%FBts+de+m%E9canisation+pour+des++investissements+collectifs+en+CUMA+-+XA+279%2F2008&application=wcm-upload-files&file=DLDDBKHKHLNKMLGKBKAPCLMLPDCLHOFKICJLEKMLNLKKELNLGKPLPLNPELCKBKHNAPIOHPGOBOIOFOMPNPJOEOAODPFPJOILFKML

Website

Other information: To ensure strict compliance with the limits laid down in Community regulations for each type of aid, the level of aid will, where necessary, be reduced to the amount contributed by other public financial backers.

Other information

Aid will be restricted to producer groups that have not benefited from similar aid in the previous five years and to those that have paid off the balance of previous purchases.

Aid No: XA 281/08

Aid No

Member State: France

Member State

Region: Département de la Moselle

Region

Title of aid scheme: Aides aux investissements en vue de la réhabilitation agro-environnementale des zones du massif des Vosges et des espaces patrimoniaux dégradés.

Title of aid scheme

Legal basis: Article 5 of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006 of 15 December 2006

Legal basis

Article L 1511-2 et L 1511-5 du code général des collectivités territoriales

Délibération du Conseil général de la Moselle du 15.10.2007

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme: Maximum expenditure of EUR 200 000 per year, according to need and depending on the budgetary funds available.

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme

Maximum aid intensity:

Maximum aid intensity

| | Beneficiaries other than young farmers | Young farmers (2) |
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| Areas other than less-favoured areas | 40 % | 50 % |
| Less-favoured areas and mountain areas | 50 % | 60 % |

Beneficiaries other than young farmers

Young farmers (2)

2

Areas other than less-favoured areas

40 %

50 %

Less-favoured areas and mountain areas

50 %

60 %

EUR 30 000 for massif and piedmont areas

The amount of aid should not exceed the maximum intensity of the authorised aid.

Date of implementation: From the date of publication of the registration number for the request for exemption on the website of the Commission's Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development and subject to the corresponding funds being available.

Date of implementation

Duration of scheme: three years from the date of acknowledgement of receipt by the Commission (subject to the corresponding funds being available).

Duration of scheme

Objective and type of aid: Within the meaning of Article 5 of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006, the objective is to rehabilitate and reclaim land that is abandoned or areas that are not built upon so they can be used for agriculture, in the context of an overall land policy adopted at department level. These operations can take the form of widening a valley floor or clearing hill sides or piedmont for the purpose of reintroducing agriculture or grazing or to cultivate fruit trees.

Objective and type of aid

Sector(s) concerned: All farmers in the Moselle region

Sector(s) concerned

ASA and shared-cost actions (SCA)

Name and address of the granting authority:

Name and address of the granting authority

| Monsieur le Président du Conseil général de la Moselle |
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| Direction de l'Environnement et de l'Aménagement du Territoire |
| Division de l'Environnement et de l'Espace Rural |
| Service de l'Agriculture et des Espaces Naturels |
| Hôtel du Département |
| 1, rue du Pont Moreau |
| BP 11096 |
| 57036 Metz Cedex 1 |
| FRANCE |

Monsieur le Président du Conseil général de la Moselle

Direction de l'Environnement et de l'Aménagement du Territoire

Division de l'Environnement et de l'Espace Rural

Service de l'Agriculture et des Espaces Naturels

Hôtel du Département

1, rue du Pont Moreau

BP 11096

57036 Metz Cedex 1

FRANCE

Website: http://www.cg57.fr/front/getFile.do?name=R%E9habilitation+agro-environnementale+des+zones+du+Massif+des+Vosges+et+des+espaces+patrimoniaux+d%E9grad%E9s+%28assistance+technique+et+investissement%29+-+Production+primaire+-+XA+281%2F2008&application=wcm-upload-files&file=DLDDNKDLGLALJLAKLLBLFKKLLKIKHOJKGKIKKKHLKLPKMLLLAKOLPLGLJKDKJKMLAKGLAKMPEKNLDLGNOPCODOHOBPHPGPIPDPDOHPGOEOIOBOHOPLELHL

Website

Other information: To ensure strict compliance with the limits laid down in Community regulations for each type of aid, the level of aid will, where necessary, be reduced by the amount contributed by other public financial backers.

Other information

Aid will be restricted to farmers who have not benefited from similar aid in the previous five years, with the exception of those who have settled previous cases.

Aid No: 284/2008

Aid No

Member State: France

Member State

Region: Département de la Moselle

Region

Title of aid scheme: Aides aux audits sanitaires des élevages et aux programmes pluriannuels d'intervention

Title of aid scheme

Legal basis: Article 10 of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006 of 15 December 2006

Legal basis

Article L 1511-2 et L 1511-5 du code général des collectivités territoriales

Délibération du Conseil général de la Moselle du 15/10/2007

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme: Maximum expenditure of EUR 2 000 100, according to need and depending on the budgetary means available.

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme

Maximum aid intensity: Maximum aid rate of 80 % (100 % for young farmers), with an annual ceiling of EUR 450 for auditing activites (according to needs and depending on availability of funds).

Maximum aid intensity

Date of implementation: From the date of publication of the registration number for the request for exemption on the website of the Commission’s Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development and subject to the corresponding funds being available.

Date of implementation

Duration of scheme: Three years from the date of acknowledgement of receipt by the Commission (subject to the corresponding funds being available).

Duration of scheme

Objective and type of aid: This aid scheme falls under Article 10 of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006. The department will put in place an aid programme to provide farmers with health assistance for animal disease prevention (paratubercolosis, BVD, IBR and Q fever) and good practices to improve health conditions in livestock holdings.

Objective and type of aid

The aim of this aid scheme is to encourage appropriate and efficient health monitoring by auditing animal health and well-being in holdings.

In the case of young farmers, the services proposed will be more comprehensive so as to allow them to adopt an appropriate and efficient health monitoring system from the very start.

The aid will be granted in the form of subsidised services available to all livestock farmers regardless of whether they belong to a producers′ organisation or another structure.

Sector(s) concerned: All livestock holdings in Moselle (farmers, groups of farmers and cooperatives for the use of agricultural equipment (CUMA))

Sector(s) concerned

Name and address of the granting authority:

Name and address of the granting authority

| Monsieur le Président du Conseil général de la Moselle |
| --- |
| Direction de l'Environnement et de l'Aménagement du Territoire |
| Division de l'Environnement et de l'Espace Rural / SAEN |
| Hôtel du Département |
| 1, rue du Pont Moreau |
| BP 11096 |
| 57036 Metz cedex 1 |
| FRANCE |

Monsieur le Président du Conseil général de la Moselle

Direction de l'Environnement et de l'Aménagement du Territoire

Division de l'Environnement et de l'Espace Rural / SAEN

Hôtel du Département

1, rue du Pont Moreau

BP 11096

57036 Metz cedex 1

FRANCE

Website: http://www.cg57.fr/front/getFile.do?name=Audit+sanitaire+et+programme+pluriannuel+d%27interventions+sur+les+%E9levages+%28assistance+technique%29+-+XA+284%2F2008&application=wcm-upload-files&file=AMPMBMLNAMJPGMIMBMJNFMCNNMENCMIOEMOMFOCMGMGNCNJOPNMNEMBMNMHMJMGMBOPNJMHNCMINCNMMBOAKFLFLLNHPFPKPJPOONPKODOJOFOLPJPFOBONPELCKBK

Website

Other information: The level of aid may, where necessary, be reduced to the amount contributed by other public financial backers.

Other information

Aid No: XA 384/08

Aid No

Member State: Federal Republic of Germany

Member State

Region: Saxony

Region

Title of Aid scheme or name of company receiving individual aid: Gewährung von Beihilfen und sonstigen Leistungen durch die Sächsische Tierseuchenkasse nach den Artikeln 10 und 15 der Verordnung (EG) Nr. 1857/2006

Title of Aid scheme or name of company receiving individual aid

Legal basis:

Legal basis

| — | § 71 Tierseuchengesetz der Bundesrepublik Deutschland |
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§ 71 Tierseuchengesetz der Bundesrepublik Deutschland

| — | §§ 6, 7 und 18 Sächsisches Ausführungsgesetz zum Tierseuchengesetz (SächsAGTierSG) |
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§§ 6, 7 und 18 Sächsisches Ausführungsgesetz zum Tierseuchengesetz (SächsAGTierSG)

| — | Leistungsansatz der Sächsischen Tierseuchenkasse |
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Leistungsansatz der Sächsischen Tierseuchenkasse

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall amount of individual aid granted to the company:: Total aid amounting to EUR 16,5 million (financed from contributions paid by livestock owners who are members of the Saxony animal diseases fund and from federal state resources) and EUR 3,9 million in costs to be covered by the federal state in accordance with § 25, No 1, SächsAGTierSG

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall amount of individual aid granted to the company:

Maximum aid intensity: up to 100 %

Maximum aid intensity

Date of implementation: as of the date of receipt from the European Commission, pursuant to Article 20 of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006, of the notice of receipt with an identification number

Date of implementation

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: until 31 August 2011

Duration of scheme or individual aid award

Objective of aid: Article 10(1) and (2) of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006

Objective of aid

aid to combat animal diseases

aid to compensate for livestock losses resulting from infectious diseases

aid for measures to prevent, detect and combat animal diseases

aid in the form of payment of the costs of laboratory tests to detect animal diseases

Article 15(2)(c) of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006

tests ordered to be carried out by the animal health services

consultancy services provided by the animal health services

Sector(s) concerned: Agriculture/livestock farming

Sector(s) concerned

Name and address of the granting authority:

Name and address of the granting authority

| Sächsische Tierseuchenkasse |
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| Anstalt des öffentlichen Rechts |
| Löwenstraße 7 a |
| 01099 Dresden |
| GERMANY |
| E-mail: info@tsk-sachsen.de |

Sächsische Tierseuchenkasse

Anstalt des öffentlichen Rechts

Löwenstraße 7 a

01099 Dresden

GERMANY

E-mail: info@tsk-sachsen.de

Website: Tierseuchengesetz (Law on animal diseases)

Website

http://www.tsk-sachsen.de/Programme/tiersg.pdf

Sächsisches Ausführungsgesetz zum Tierseuchengesetz

http://www.tsk-sachsen.de/Programme/SaechsAGTierSG.pdf

Leistungsansatz der Sächsischen Tierseuchenkasse

http://www.tsk-sachsen.de/Programme/Leistungssatzung.pdf

Other information: None

Other information

Aid No: 421/08

Aid No

Member State: Italy

Member State

Region: Umbria

Region

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving individual aid: Assistenza tecnica nel settore zootecnico

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving individual aid

Legal basis: Deliberazione della Giunta regionale 1o dicembre 2008, n. 1652 e s.m.i. concernente ‘Programma regionale assistenza tecnica zootecnica’ Reg. (CE) n. 1857/2006.

Legal basis

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Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall amount of individual aid granted to the company: EUR 0,30 million over a three-year period

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall amount of individual aid granted to the company

Maximum aid intensity: Up to 100 % of eligible costs

Maximum aid intensity

Date of implementation: As of 1 January 2009 and, in any case, from the date of publication of the registration number of the request for exemption on the website of the Commission’s Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development.

Date of implementation

Duration of scheme or individual aid award:

Duration of scheme or individual aid award

Objective of aid: Article 15 (Provision of technical support in the agricultural sector) of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006

Objective of aid

Sector(s) concerned: NACE Code: A104 – Animal production

Sector(s) concerned

Name and address of the granting authority:

Name and address of the granting authority

| Regione Umbria |
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| Via Mario Angeloni, 61 |
| 06124 Perugia |
| ITALIA |

Regione Umbria

Via Mario Angeloni, 61

06124 Perugia

ITALIA

Website: http://www.regione.umbria.it

Website

The full text of the aid scheme (Regional Executive Decision No 1652/2008 and subsequent amendments and additions) is available at: www.regione.umbria.it

The full text of the aid scheme (Regional Executive Decision No 1652/2008 and subsequent amendments and additions) is available at

click on ‘Aree Tematiche’,

click on ‘Agricoltura e Foreste’ on your left,

under ‘Ultime Notizie’, click on ‘Assistenza Tecnica nel Settore Zootecnico’.

Other information: –

Other information

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(1)  The supplementary aid rates for young farmers, within the meaning of Article 2(11) of the agricultural exemption regulation, is reserved for investments made by young farmers within five years of their establishment.

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(2)  The supplementary aid rates for young farmers, within the meaning of Article 2(11) of the agricultural exemption regulation, is reserved for investments made by young farmers within five years of their establishment.

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