EN Official Journal of the European Union C 102/9

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 EC Treaty to State aid to small and medium-sized enterprises active in the production of agricultural products and amending Regulation (EC) No 70/2001

(2008/C 102/05)

Aid No: XA 244/07

Member State: Hungary

Region: Entire country

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving individual aid: A 2007. évben tavaszi fagykárt szenvedett mezőgazdasági termelők hitelhez jutási lehetőségének támogatása

Legal basis:

— Commission Regulation (EC) No 1860/2004 of 6 October 2004 on the application of Articles 87 and 88 of the EC Treaty to de minimis aid in the agriculture and fisheries sectors (OJ L 325, 28.10 2004, p. 4).

— 2006. évi LXXXVIII. törvény a nemzeti agrár-kárenyhítési rendszerről.

— 24/2007. (IV. 17.) FVM rendelet az Európai Mezőgazdasági Vidékfejlesztési Alap társfinanszírozásában megvalósuló támogatások esetében a kedvezőtlen adottságú területek és az azokhoz tartozó települések megállapításáról.

— A földművelésügyi és vidékfejlesztési miniszter 66/2007. (VII. 26.) FVM rendelete a 2007. évben tavaszi fagykárt szenvedett mezőgazdasági termelők hitelhez jutási lehetőségéről.

— A földművelésügyi és vidékfejlesztési miniszter /2007. (…..) FVM rendelete a 2007. évben tavaszi fagykárt szenvedett mezőgazdasági termelők hitelhez jutási lehetőségéről szóló 66/2007. (VII. 26.) FVM rendelet módosításáról

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall amount of individual aid granted to the company: Planned annual expenditure: HUF 250 million

Maximum aid intensity: The intensity of aid towards mitigation of damages and the intensity of aid towards the loan and loan guarantee support must not, taken together, amount to more than 80 % of loss of income

Date of implementation: From September 2007

Duration of scheme or individual aid award:

Objective of aid: The objective of the aid is the mitigation of damage suffered by agricultural producers in the form of frost damage as a consequence of the adverse climatic conditions in spring 2007. Agricultural producers suffered significant loss of income (50-100 % crop failure). To compensate for their loss of income — besides aid to mitigate damage — there are preferential loans which can be complemented by provision of a guarantee. In less favoured areas the guarantee covers 90 % of the loan.

We apply Article 11 of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006.

The maximum intensity of aid attainable (mitigation of damages, interest-rate subsidy and provision of guarantee) is 80 % of loss of income

Sector(s) concerned: Plant production sector (vines, fruit)

Name and address of the granting authority:

Földművelésügyi és Vidékfejlesztési Minisztérium Kossuth Lajos tér 11. H-1055 Budapest

Website: http://www.fvm.hu/main.php?folderID=1846&articleID=10748&ctag=articlelist&iid=1

http://www.fvm.hu/main.php?folderID=1846

András MÁHR

State Secretary

Aid No: XA 292/07

Member State: United Kingdom

Region: England

Title of Aid scheme or name of company receiving an individual aid: Culled & Fallen Stock Disposal Scheme

Legal basis: Section 1 of the Agriculture Act 1986

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall amount of individual aid granted to the company: 2007: Estimated at GBP 100 000 to a maximum of GBP 500 000 per month for as long as an FMD risk area exists and not more than GBP 1 million in total

Maximum aid intensity: The aid will be limited to restricting economic losses caused by quarantine obligations resulting from a disease outbreak which has been formally recognised by public authorities and will not exceed 100 % of the costs associated with dealing with the requirements of the scheme

Date of implementation:

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: The scheme will be closed once the FMD designated risk area has been lifted and restrictions removed. It is anticipated that this will be before 31 December 2007. Defra will inform the Commission when the risk area has been lifted and confirm closure of the scheme

Objective of aid: The Culled and Fallen Stock Disposal Scheme (CFSDS) will be open to small and medium sized producers of Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) susceptible species within the designated FMD risk area, who are facing economic losses as a result of quarantine obligations associated with controlling the disease. The scheme is intended to lessen the producer income losses. The CFSDS will be a voluntary scheme and affected producers facing financial hardship will be able have their fallen and culled stock collected and disposal of free of charge. Producers will not be compensated for the value of their animals. The 100 % subsidy for collection and disposal will be delivered through the National Fallen Stock Company (NFSCo) and payments will be made direct to the collection and disposal service providers using the existing National Fallen Stock Scheme pricing and collector infrastructure

Eligible costs: Under the CFSDS, producers of FMD susceptible species (cattle, sheep, goats, pig and deer) within the FMD risk area who are facing income losses as a result of the FMD restrictions can choose to cull their animals and have them, and other fallen stock, collected and disposed of for free by registered NFSCo collectors. NFSCo will administer the scheme and will invoice Government for 100 % of the costs incurred and will pass this on in full to the collectors of the culled and fallen stock.

The scheme complies with Article 10 of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006 paragraph 2(a)(11) where aid must be limited to income losses due to quarantine obligations and at paragraph 2(a)(b) that the gross aid intensity must not exceed 100 %. The scheme will only be made available to small and medium-sized enterprises

Sector(s) concerned: The scheme applies to the cattle, sheep, goat, pigs and deer sectors of the farming industry who are within the designated FMD risk area

Name and address of the granting authority:

Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs Nobel House 17 Smith Square London SW1P 3JR United Kingdom

Website: http://www.defra.gov.uk/animalh/diseases/fmd/movements/fallen-stock.htm

Signed and dated on behalf of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (UK competent authority)

Neil MARR

Agricultural State Aid

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Area 8D, 9 Millbank

C/o Nobel House

17 Smith Square

Westminster

London SW1P 3JR

United Kingdom

Aid No: XA 293/07

Member State: Federal Republic of Germany

Region: Nordrhein-Westfalen

Title of aid scheme: Untersuchungs- und Hygieneprogramm Nordrhein-Westfalen zur Reduzierung der Salmonellenprävalenz in Hühner haltenden Betrieben

Legal basis:

— Tierseuchengesetz vom 22. Juni 2004 (BGBl. I S. 1260;Berichtigt: 8. Dezember 2004, BGBl. I S. 3588) in der jeweils geltenden Fassung

— § 11 des Ausführungsgesetzes zum Tierseuchengesetz vom 4.6.63 (GV.NRW 1963 S. 203)

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme:

2007: EUR 135 000

2008: EUR 405 000

Half of the funding is to be provided by the Land authorities and half by the animal disease fund

Maximum aid intensity: The aid is to be granted in the form of payments in kind covering 100 % of:

the costs of testing droppings in the period 1 September 2007 to 31 December 2008 (to determine the status),

the costs of testing egg shells and yolk in the case of farms testing positive for category 1 salmonella in droppings,

the costs, where category 1 salmonella is found in eggs, of:

— losses resulting from the safe disposal of eggs,

— destruction and disposal,

— cleaning and disinfection.

80 % of the value of the birds lost

Date of implementation: From 1 September 2007

Duration of scheme: Up to 31 December 2008

Objective of aid: The applicable provision is Article 10 of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006.

The purpose of the scheme is to grant State aid to reduce the incidence of salmonella on hen farms.

Under Regulation (EC) No 2160/2003, salmonella testing must be carried out regularly from 1 February 2008. Also under that Regulation, from 1 January 2009 certain measures must be taken on farms testing positive for salmonella (destruction and safe disposal of the birds, safe disposal of the eggs, and cleaning and disinfection measures).

In order to prepare the poultry industry in North Rhine-Westphalia for these compulsory measures, a testing and hygiene programme has been drawn up, designed to give farms the opportunity to considerably reduce the incidence of salmonella before the entry into force of the restrictive measures on 1 January 2009, thus reducing the risk of potential restrictions being applied

Sector(s) concerned: Agriculture, livestock production and processing/marketing (poultry and eggs)

Name and address of the granting authority:

Ministerium für Umwelt und Naturschutz, Landwirtschaft und Verbraucherschutz des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen Schwannstr. 3 D-40476 Düsseldorf

Website: http://www.munlv.nrw.de/verbraucherschutz/pdf/UHP-NRW.pdf

Other information: Internet address of the Ministry of the Environment and Conservation, Agriculture and Consumer Protection:

verbraucherschutz-nrw.@munlv.nrw.de

Aid No: XA 294/07

Member State: Federal Republic of Germany

Region: Freistaat Bayern

Title of aid scheme: Richtlinie zur Förderung der Bereitstellung technischer Hilfe im Agrarsektor — Förderung von Beratungsleistungen im Rahmen der Verbundberatung

Legal basis: Richtlinie zur Förderung der Bereitstellung technischer Hilfe im Agrarsektor — Förderung von Beratungsleistungen im Rahmen der Verbundberatung — die ist wiederum gestützt auf Artikel 9 Abs. 3 des Bayerischen Gesetzes zur nachhaltigen Entwicklung der Agrarwirtschaft und des ländlichen Raums (Bayerisches Agrarwirtschaftsgesetz — BayAgrarWiG) vom 8. Dezember 2006

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme: EUR 5 million for consultancy services in accordance with Article 15(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006

Maximum aid intensity: Up to 50 %

Date of implementation: Annual

Duration of scheme: Up to 31 December 2010

Objective of aid: To improve the competitiveness of Bavarian agriculture and optimise process and product quality.

Legal basis of State aid: Article 15(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006

Sector(s) concerned: Agriculture — subsidised services

Name and address of the granting authority:

Bayerische Landesanstalt für Landwirtschaft (LfL) Abteilung Förderwesen und Fachrecht Menzinger Straße 54 D-80638 München

Queries may be addressed to:

Bayerisches Staatsministerium für Landwirtschaft und Forsten Referat B 1 Ludwigstr. 2 D-80539 München Tel. (49-89) 21 82 22 22

Website: http://www.stmlf.bayern.de/agrarpolitik/programme/26373/rilivbb.pdf

Other information: None

Aid No: XA 296/07

Member State: Spain

Region: Navarra

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving an individual aid: Ayudas a los planes de asistencia técnica y al fomento de los productos de calidad agroalimentaria, por las cooperativas agrarias de Navarra en el marco de la integración cooperativa

Legal basis: Orden Foral de la Consejera de Desarrollo Rural y Medio Ambiente por la que se aprueban las ayudas a los planes de asistencia técnica y al fomento de los productos de calidad agroalimentaria, por las cooperativas agrarias de Navarra en el marco de la integración cooperativa

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall amount of individual aid granted to the company: EUR 500 000

Maximum aid intensity: 75 % of expenditure on encouraging the production of quality agricultural products.

75 % of expenditure on technical support in the agricultural sector

Date of implementation:

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: 15 November 2007 to 31 December 2010

Objective of aid: To encourage the production of quality agricultural products. Article 14(2)(a) of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006. Eligible costs: costs of activities relating to market research and to the conception and design of quality products within the context of designations of origin and geographical indications.

To cover technical support in the agricultural sector. Article 15(2)(c), (d), (e) and (f) of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006. Eligible costs: fees for consultancy services provided by third parties; organisation of, and participation in, exchange forums, competitions and fairs; expenditure on vulgarisation of scientific knowledge and information on quality systems, generic products and the latter's nutritional benefits, without mentioning enterprises; expenditure on publications containing information about the products

Sector(s) concerned: Small and medium-sized enterprises active in the production of agricultural products, particularly agri-food cooperatives

Name and address of the granting authority:

Gobierno de Navarra. Departamento de Desarrollo Rural y Medio Ambiente C/ Tudela, 20 E-31003 Pamplona

Website: http://www.cfnavarra.es/agricultura/COYUNTURA/AyudasEstado/pdfs/STN007039%20OF.pdf

Other information: