EN Official Journal of the European Union C 157/24

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 157/08)

Aid No: XA 23/08

Member State: Italy

Region: Provincia autonoma di Bolzano

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving an individual aid award: Criteri e modalità per la concessione di aiuti in favore del settore zootecnico

Legal basis: Articolo 5, commi 4, 5 e 7 della legge provinciale 14 dicembre 1999, n. 10, e successive modifiche

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall amount of individual aid granted to the company: EUR 3 500 000

Maximum aid intensity: 70 % and 100 %

Date of implementation:

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: Until 31.12.2013

Objective of aid: Article 15(2)(d) and Article 16(1)(a) and (b)

Sector(s) concerned: Raising of dairy cattle, other cattle, horses and other equine animals, sheep and goats, swine/pigs and poultry

Name and address of the granting authority:

Provincia autonoma di Bolzano ripartizione provinciale Agricoltura via Brennero, 6 I-39100 Bolzano

Website: http://www.provincia.bz.it/agricoltura/publ/publ_getreso.asp?PRES_ID=94007

Il direttore di ripartizione

Dr. Martin PAZELLER

Aid No: XA 35/08

Member State: Italy

Region: Friuli Venezia Giulia

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving an individual aid award: Regime di aiuto: Regolamento recante criteri e modalità applicabili nella concessione degli aiuti ad imprese per investimenti inerenti la produzione primaria, erogabili ai sensi della legge regionale 20 novembre 1982, n. 80

Legal basis: Delibera di Giunta regionale n. 3063 del 7 dicembre 2007

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall amount of individual aid granted to the company: Overall annual expenditure under the scheme: EUR 1 million

Maximum aid intensity: 60 %

Date of implementation: As from the publication of the identification 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:

Objective of the aid: Aid to SMEs

Sector(s) concerned: NACE Code: A001 — Agriculture, hunting and related service activities

Name and address of granting authority:

Regione autonoma Friuli Venezia Giulia Direzione centrale risorse agricole, naturali, forestali e montagna Servizio investimenti aziendali e sviluppo agricolo Via Sabbadini, 31 I-33100 Udine

Website: http://www.regione.fvg.it/asp/delibereinternet/DGR3063_12_11_07_1_34_52_PM.pdf

Other information: The aid is intended to support investments by SMEs in primary production.

Aid will be granted in accordance with Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006.

Eligible costs are as classified in Article 4(4) of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006.

Aid intensity varies between 40 % and 60 % pursuant to Article 4(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006

Per il direttore del Servizio investimenti aziendali e sviluppo agricolo

Il direttore centrale

dott. Augusto VIOLA

Aid No: XA 89/08

Member State: Belgium

Region: Vlaanderen

Title of aid scheme/name of company receiving an individual aid: Vlaamse Rundveeteelt Vereniging vzw

Legal basis: Decreet van 21 december 2007 houdende de algemene uitgavenbegroting van de Vlaamse Gemeenschap voor het begrotingsjaar 2008

Koninklijk besluit van 23 september 1971 betreffende de verbetering van het rundveeras

Ministerieel besluit van 27 februari 1991 betreffende de verbetering van het rundveeras

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall amount of individual aid granted to the company: EUR 1 194 000

Maximum aid intensity: Up to 100 % of the administrative costs of establishing and maintaining herd books.

Up to 70 % of the costs of tests performed by or on behalf of third parties to determine the genetic quality or yield of livestock; there is no exemption for aid granted to cover the costs of checks undertaken by the owner of the livestock or of routine checks on milk quality

Date of implementation: Aid may be granted as from 1 March and, at the earliest, 15 days after submission of an application.

Aid can be granted by means of an implementing decree. These decrees are drawn up annually. A draft implementing decree has yet to be drawn up, and will include a ‘standstill’ clause

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: The subsidy will be granted in the period to 31.12.2008

Objective of the aid: Vlaamse Rundveevereniging (VRV) is a recognised association which maintains the herd books for various breeds of cattle. It indicates that it will use the aid to pay the administrative costs of establishing and maintaining herd books, entering the birth data and genealogical records in the database, and producing and issuing zootechnical and pedigree certificates.

The VRV also carries out tests to determine the genetic quality or yield of breeding stock. These tests relate to milk quality.

The measure comes under Article 16 of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006 and fulfils the conditions thereof.

Article 16(1)(a): aid at a rate of up to 100 % to cover the administrative costs of the establishment and maintenance of herd books.

Article 16(1)(b): aid at a rate of up to 70 % of the costs of tests performed by or on behalf of third parties, to determine the genetic quality or yield of livestock, with the exception of controls undertaken by the owner of the livestock and routine controls of milk quality

Sector(s) concerned: Livestock

Name and address of the granting authority:

Departement Landbouw en Visserij Duurzame Landbouwontwikkeling Ellips, 6e verdieping Koning Albert II laan 35, bus 40 B-1030 Brussel

Website: http://www2.vlaanderen.be/ned/sites/landbouw/info/steun/eu.html

Other information: —

Jules Van Liefferinge

Secretaris-generaal

Aid No: XA 93/08

Member State: Estonia

Region: Estonia

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving individual aid: Põllumajandusloomade aretustoetus

Legal basis:

1) Maaelu ja põllumajandusturu korraldamise seadus § 45 lõige 3 ja § 58 lõige 1;

2) Põllumajandusministri 18.01.2005. a määrus nr 6 ‘Põllumajandusloomade aretustoetuse saamiseks esitatavad nõuded ning toetuse taotlemise ja taotluse menetlemise kord’

Planned annual expenditure for the scheme or overall amount of individual aid granted to the company: EEK 20 000 000 per year

Maximum aid intensity: 70 %

Date of implementation:

Duration of scheme or individual aid: February 2008-December 2011

Objective of aid: Livestock sector.

The aid is granted in accordance with Article 16 of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006.

The eligible expenditure is that for keeping herd books or pedigree records and carrying out performance tests or assessing genetic value.

The aid is granted in the form of subsidised services and does not involve direct payments to producers

Sector(s) concerned: Rearing of bovine animals, horses, sheep and poultry

Name and address of the granting authority:

Põllumajanduse Registrite ja Informatsiooni Amet Narva mnt 3 EE-51009 Tartu

Website: https://www.riigiteataja.ee/ert/act.jsp?id=840380

http://eoigus.just.ee/?act=6&subact=1&OTSIDOC_W=208300

Other information: —

Aid No: XA 97/08

Member State: Federal Republic of Germany

Region: Freistaat Sachsen

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving individual aid: Förderrichtlinie des Sächsischen Staatsministeriums für Umwelt und Landwirtschaft zur Absatzförderung der Land- und Ernährungswirtschaft (RL AbsLE)

Legal basis: Förderrichtlinie des Sächsischen Staatsministeriums für Umwelt und Landwirtschaft zur Absatzförderung der Land- und Ernährungswirtschaft (RL AbsLE)

Haushaltsordnung des Freistaates Sachsen (Sächsische Haushaltsordnung — SäHO)

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall amount of individual aid granted to the company: EUR 0,84 million per year

Maximum aid intensity:

— participating in events and activities, such as trade fairs, product presentations, markets etc., up to a maximum 80 %,

— seminars and training courses up to 100 %,

— studies on the market situation and marketing concepts for quality programmes up to 80 %,

— introducing management systems up to 50 %

Date of implementation:

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: Until 31.12.2013

Objective of the aid: Aid to agricultural enterprises for trade promotion and Community marketing. This aid to SMEs is granted within the framework of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006 under:

Article 14 (Aid to encourage the production of quality agricultural products) especially for market research activities, product conception and design, introduction of quality assurance schemes such as the ISO 9000 or 14000 series including initial certification; aid is granted in kind by means of subsidised services and involves no direct payments of money to the producers, membership of the implementing organisations is not a condition for access to the services,

Article 15 (Provision of technical support in the agricultural sector) especially for education and training, participation in trade fairs and exhibitions (participation fees, costs of publications, the rent of exhibition premises), the dissemination of scientific knowledge in a generally understandable form, factual information on recognised quality systems and generic factual information on products, publications presenting neutral factual information on producers from a given region or of a given product, a service which is open to everyone; aid is granted in kind by means of subsidised services and involves no direct payments of money to the producers, membership of the implementing organisations is not a condition for access to the services

Economic sectors concerned: Agriculture — Primary production of products covered by Annex I to the Treaty

Name and address of the granting authority:

Sächsische Landesanstalt für Landwirtschaft August-Böckstiegel-Straße 1 D-01326 Dresden

Website: http://www.smul.sachsen.de/de/wu/aktuell/foerderung/5_1045.htm

Other information:

Sächsisches Staatsministerium für Umwelt und Landwirtschaft Referat 23 „Förderstrategie“ Postanschrift: D-01076 Dresden Tel. (49) 351 564 68 47

Trepmann

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