EN Official Journal of the European Union C 99/77

Summary information communicated by Member States on State aid granted in accordance with Commission Regulation (EC) No 736/2008 on the application of Articles 87 and 88 of the Treaty to State aid to small and medium-sized enterprises active in the production, processing and marketing of fisheries products

2013/C 99/04

Case Number: SA.35397 (12/XF)

Member State: Italy

Region/Authority granting the aid: Regione Autonoma della Sardegna

Title: ‧Misure per migliorare la sostenibilità della pesca marittima nelle acque prospicienti il territorio della Sardegna: arresto temporaneo per le unità abilitate ai sistemi di pesca a strascico e/o volante anno 2012‧.

Legal basis: Decreto n. 1205/DecA/84 del 08.08.2012 dell'Assessore dell'Agricoltura e riforma agro-pastorale, Legge regionale 14 aprile 2006 n. 3 art. 6, Legge Regionale 14 maggio 2009, n. 1, art. 4, comma 27, Legge regionale 28 dicembre 2009, n. 6; Decreto del Ministro delle Politiche Agricole Alimentari e Forestali del 28 giugno 2012, Decreto del Direttore del Dipartimento delle Politiche Competitive, della Qualità Agroalimentare e della Pesca del Ministero delle politiche agricole alimentari e forestali n. 7 del 9.8.2012.

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or amount of ad-hoc aid granted: EUR 1 000 000

Maximum aid intensity: Up to 100%

Date of entry into force:

Duration of the scheme or individual aid award (no later than 31 June 2014); indicate:

Objective of the aid: To provide temporary cessation aid for vessels and financial incentives to vessel owners for good behaviour as provided for by Measure 1.2 ‧Public aid for temporary cessation‧ under the Operational Programme implementing the GSA11 management plan adopted by Decree of 20 May 2011 of the Director-General for Maritime Fisheries (Department of European and International Policies) of the Italian Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Forestry Policies with regard to the trawler fleet, which provides for gradual fishing effort reductions in line with the objectives established under the Fleet Adaptation Scheme laid down by Departmental Decree of 19 May 2011.

Indicate the Article or Articles applied: Article 9

Activity concerned: Bottom and/or midwater pair trawl fishing

Name and address of granting authority: Regione Autonoma della Sardegna – Assessorato dell’Agricoltura e della riforma agro-pastorale, via Pessagno n. 4 - 09126 – Cagliari per il tramite dell’Agenzia regionale autonoma ARGEA Sardegna.

Web address where the full text of the scheme or the criteria and conditions under which ad hoc aid is granted outside of an aid scheme can be found: www.regione.sardegna.it (http://www.regione.sardegna.it/documenti/1_5_20120813103528.pdf)

Indicate why a State aid scheme has been established instead of assistance under the European Fisheries Fund:

— to top up reduced funding by the EFF managing authority, the implementing body for Measure 1.2 (Article 24 of Regulation (EC) No 1198/2006);

— to provide financial incentives for good behaviour where vessel owners opt for a substantial voluntary prolongation of the temporary cessation.

Aid number: SA.35752 (12/XF)

Member State: Latvia

Region/Authority granting the aid: Latvia

Title of aid scheme / Name of company receiving ad hoc aid: Virssaistības pasākumam „Zvejas un akvakultūras produktu apstrāde un marketings” [Over-commitments for the measure ‘Processing and marketing of fishery and aquaculture products’]

Legal basis: Ministru kabineta 2008.gada 1.aprīļa noteikumi Nr.241 „Kārtība, kādā piešķir valsts un Eiropas Savienības atbalstu zivsaimniecības attīstībai atklātu projektu iesniegumu konkursu veidā pasākumam „Zvejas un akvakultūras produktu apstrāde” [Cabinet Regulation No 241 of 1 April 2008 laying down the procedure for granting state and European Union aid for fisheries development by means of an open call for tenders for the measure ‘Processing of fisheries and aquaculture products’]

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or amount of ad hoc aid granted: public funding for 2007-2013: LVL 25 470 254

over-commitments: LVL 2 828 196 (11.1%)

Maximum aid intensity: 60%

Date of entry into force:

Duration of the scheme or individual aid award (not later than 30 June 2014); indicate:

— in the case of a scheme: the date until which aid may be granted; 30 June 2014

— in the case of ad-hoc aid: the expected date of the last instalment to be paid.

Objective of aid: Aid for undertakings engaged in the processing of fishery and aquaculture products to implement projects under the measure ‘Investment in aquaculture undertakings’.

Indicate which of Articles 8 to 24 is used: Article 16 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 736/2008

Activity concerned: The public funding available for the measure ‘Processing and marketing of fishery and aquaculture products’ of Priority Axis 2 ‘Aquaculture, inland fishing, processing and marketing of fishery and aquaculture products’ of the Operational Programme for the deployment of aid from the European Fisheries Fund in Latvia (2007-13) is LVL 25 470 254. Over-commitments equating to 11.1% of the public funding available for the measure, i.e. LVL 2 828 196, will be assumed.

The objective of the measure ‘Processing and marketing of fishery and aquaculture products’ is to increase the value added to fishery and aquaculture products, improve occupational safety and productivity, reduce the negative impact on the environment, ensure product quality, including by reducing the amount of harmful substances in fish products, and manufacture new products and use by-products and waste from fish processing.

Under the measure ‘Processing and marketing of fishery and aquaculture products’, aid from over-commitments will be provided solely to small and medium-sized enterprises. The maximum eligible costs for a single project are EUR 2 million. The maximum eligible costs for a single beneficiary are EUR 1 million per year.

Name and address of the granting authority:

Lauku atbalsta dienests [Rural Support Service] Republikas laukums 2, Riga, LV-1981

Web address where the full text of the scheme or the criteria and conditions under which ad hoc aid is granted outside of an aid scheme can be found: http://www.zm.gov.lv/?sadala=2231

Motivation: indicate why a State aid scheme has been established instead of assistance under the European Fisheries Fund: The State aid scheme has been established so that, when assuming over-commitments at the end of the European Fisheries Fund implementation period, all of the public funding is absorbed, including the public funding reserved for unimplemented projects.