EN Official Journal of the European Union C 331/6

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

(2008/C 331/04)

Aid No: XA 343/08

Member State: Denmark

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving an individual aid: Sundhedsstyring i vildtopdræt

Legal basis: Lov om administration af Det Europæiske Fællesskabs forordninger om markedsordninger for landbrugsvarer m.v. (Bemyndigelsesloven), jf. lovbekendtgørelse nr. 297 af 28. april 2004

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall amount of individual aid granted to the company: DKK 300 000

Maximum aid intensity: 100 %

Date of implementation:

Duration of the scheme or the individual aid: Until 30 September 2009

Objectives of aid: The aim of the scheme is to help to ensure that young game birds released for hunting are healthy and constitute a viable stock of birds suitable for human consumption. As mortality rates among very young game birds are often high, the scheme is designed to provide information about the causes of death among the youngest groups of game birds. Based on the data collected, advice is compiled about the management of game birds (primarily pheasants) in the first three weeks of life, with a view to minimising production losses.

The final beneficiaries are game bird breeders. The scheme concerns only small and medium-sized enterprises.

The scheme comes under Article 15(2)(c) of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006. It concerns expenditure on consultancy services

Sector(s) concerned: Game birds

Name and address of the granting authority:

Fjerkræafgiftsfonden Axeltorv 3 DK-1609 Copenhagen V

Website: http://www.poultry.dk/ddf/fa.nsf/B2009T.pdf?openfileresource

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Aid No: XA 344/08

Member State: France

Region: Département du Gers

Title of aid scheme: Programme d'aide en faveur du remplacement des éleveurs gersois

Legal basis:

— Article 15 of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006,

— articles L 1511-1 et suivants, article L 4211-1 du code général des collectivités territoriales,

— délibération du Conseil général du Gers du 29 juillet 2008

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall amount of individual aid granted to the company: EUR 60 000/year

Maximum aid intensity: The rate of aid will be 35 % of the daily cost of replacement for young farmers and 25 % of the daily cost of replacement for all other farmers, limited to 24 days per year per farm

Date of implementation: 2008, from the date of publication of the registration number of the exemption request on the website of the Commission's Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development

Duration of scheme: 2008

Objective of aid: Replacement is a solution that allows farmers whose activity requires on-farm presence every day of the year to have a work and life pattern comparable to other economic sectors. Nevertheless, except for cases where this option is funded (by private insurance covering maternity, accidents or illness), the cost of this service is a disincentive.

Aid is therefore being offered to farmers to encourage them to make use of these services. This aid will be granted to cover the real costs of replacing a farmer who is ill, on holiday or undergoing professional training (excluding trade union responsibilities). The aid must be granted in kind by means of subsidised services and must not involve direct payments of money to producers.

In accordance with point 4 of Article 15 of the agricultural exemption Regulation, aid will not be restricted to members of specific producer groups or other organisations. When aid is granted to a group or an organisation for a service provided to a farmer who is not a member of that group or organisation, it will be strictly limited to the costs relating to the provision of the replacement service

Sector(s) concerned: When the farmer (exercising his/her main activity) is required to be on the farm every day of: All farms, the year

Name and address of the granting authority:

Monsieur le Président du Conseil Général du Gers Direction de l'Agriculture, de l'Eau et de l'Environnement 81, route de Pessan F-32000 AUCH

Website: http://www.gers-gascogne.com/ovidentia/index.php?tg=oml&file=publication/fich.html&art=1211&cat=33

Aid No: XA 345/08

Member State: Spain

Region: Catalonia

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving an individual aid: Ayudas para la repoblación ganadera de reproductores bovinos sacrificados por motivo de saneamiento oficial

Legal basis: Orden de 2008, del Departamento de Agricultura, Alimentación y Acción Rural, por la cual se aprueban las bases reguladoras de las ayudas para la reposición de animales reproductores bovinos sacrificados por motivos de saneamiento oficial y se convocan las correspondientes al año 2008

Planned annual expenditure under the scheme: EUR 810 000 per year

Maximum aid intensity: Up to EUR 500 per animal slaughtered for official health reasons, to replace that animal. The maximum amount of aid per replacement animal shall be the difference between the purchase price of the new animal and the total amount received under an insurance scheme, if any, and costs not incurred because of the disease, which would otherwise have been incurred, provided that the gross aid intensity does not exceed 100 %

Date of implementation: The aid scheme will apply from the date of publication on the website of DG AGRI of the registration number of the exemption request provided for in Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006. The Order will enter into force following its publication in the Official Gazette of the Generalitat de Cataluña (DOGC), which is planned for September 2008

Duration of the aid scheme: From the publication of the scheme in 2008 until 31 December 2013

Objective of aid: The objective of the aid is to compensate farmers for losses caused by the slaughter of beef, dairy or Lidia breed cattle for official health reasons, and to facilitate the replacement of animals with the aim of restoring the breeding animals to the number before the outbreak of the disease, in accordance with Article 10 of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006.

This aid is granted in order to combat bovine tuberculosis and/or brucellosis, and:

deals with a disease for which an outbreak has been formally recognised by the public authorities,

is part of a compulsory programme at Community, national or regional level for the prevention or erradication of the disease,

will not be granted for measures for which the cost is to be borne by the agricultural holding,

are not diseases in respect of which Community legislation provides for specific charges for control measures,

all the animals on the holding must have been slaughtered for official health reasons in 2007 and 2008. The animals to be replaced may have been lost in 2007. Therefore, the scheme meets the condition laid down in Article 10(8) of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006 as it will be introduced within three years following the occurrence of the loss and the aid will be paid out within four years following the occurrence.

Only agricultural holdings that are considered to be micro, small or medium-sized enterprises may benefit from this aid

Sector(s) concerned: Beef, dairy or Lidia cattle breeding, NACE codes 01.41 (Raising of dairy cattele) and 01.42 (Raising of other cattle and buffaloes)

Name and address of granting authority:

Departamento de Agricultura, Alimentación y acción Rural de la Generalitat de Catalunya Gran Vía de les Corts Catalanes nos 612-614 E-08007 Barcelona

Website: http://www20.gencat.cat/docs/DAR/TR_Tramits/TR01_Ajuts%20i%20subvencions/DAR_05%20Ajus%20pendents%20publicacio/Documents/Fitxers%20estatics/2008267.pdf

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Aid No: XA 349/08

Member State: Italy

Region: Liguria

Title of aid scheme: Concessione di contributi per le spese relative alla tenuta dei Libri Genealogici e per lo svolgimento dei controlli funzionali del bestiame

Legal basis: Delibera della Giunta Regionale n. 1117 del 12.9.2008«Criteri e modalità di concessione dei contributi previsti dall'art. 1 della legge regionale n. 36/2000 in adeguamento alle disposizioni di regolamento (CE) n. 1857/2006 della Commissione» e articolo 1 della legge della Regione Liguria 4 agosto 2000 n. 36 «Norme in materia di associazioni allevatori»

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme: The Government allocates the amount to the Region annually on the basis of the number of animals tested, the number of livestock houses and environmental and production conditions in the zone and the amount for 2008 has been fixed at EUR 748 250

Maximum aid intensity: The maximum intensity of the aid provided for in Article 1 of Regional Law No 36 of 4 August 2000 is 100 % of eligible expenditure on maintaining herd books and 70 % of eligible expenditure on genetic yield testing (Article 16(1)(a) and (b) of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006)

Date of implementation: 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

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: Until 31 December 2013

Objective of aid: The aid for maintaining herd books covers the cost of carrying out tests and processing the data obtained; that for carrying out genetic yield tests covers the cost of conducting tests, processing the data and disseminating the information gathered to livestock farmers.

These incentives, provided for in Article 1 of Regional Law No 36 of 4 August 2000, are granted under Article 16(1)(a) and (b) of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006 at a rate of up to 100 % of eligible administrative costs connected with maintaining herd books and registers and of up to 70 % of the cost of tests to determine the yield of livestock, with the exception of tests undertaken by the owner of the livestock and routine tests of milk quality

Sector(s) concerned: The aid is paid to all livestock holdings in Liguria via the associations of livestock farmers

Name and address of the granting authority:

Regione Liguria Dipartimento Agricoltura Protezione Civile e Turismo Via G. D'Annunzio 113 I-16121 Genova

Website: For Decision No 1117 of 12 September 2008:

http://www.agriligurianet.it/Agrinet/DTS_GENERALE/20080916/dgr08_1117.pdf

For Regional Law No 36/2000:

http://www.regione.liguria.it/leggi/dos/20000036.htm