EN Official Journal of the European Union C 177/5

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 177/03

Aid No: XA 74/09

Member State: The Netherlands

Region: —

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving individual aid: Kennisverbreding biologische landbouw ten behoeve van omschakeling van gangbare landbouw naar biologische landbouw

Legal basis: Artikel 21:13 van de Wet tot vaststelling van de begrotingsstaten van het Ministerie van Landbouw, Natuur en Voedselkwaliteit (XIV) voor het jaar 2009

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall amount of individual aid granted to the company: EUR 0,1 million

Maximum aid intensity: 100 %

Date of implementation: As soon as possible, in accordance with Article 20(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: From the time specified above up to and including 1.1.2012

Objective of aid: The Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality is assisting with the organisation of meetings to provide information on running organic farms and to provide an insight into the market for primary organic products. These meetings are being organised at various locations around the country and free admission is given to all interested farmers with small and medium-sized farms, in accordance with Article 15(4) of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006. The objective of this aid measure is to provide information and advice to participating farmers. At the meetings the farmers will receive information and advice which can help to reduce the obstacles faced by farmers switching over to organic farming. This advice is therefore to be considered as knowledge sharing in accordance with Article 15(2)(d) of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006. The Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality is assisting with the organisation of these meetings and therefore does not make any direct monetary payments to the farmers, in accordance with Article 15(3) of the abovementioned Regulation.

The Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality is also assisting with setting up a website containing the relevant information for farmers who are interested in possibly switching over to organic farming. This contribution complies with Article 15(2)(d)(iii) of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006

Sector(s) concerned: All primary agricultural holdings producing products referred to in Annex I to the EC Treaty

Name and address of the granting authority:

Ministerie van Landbouw Natuur en Voedselkwaliteit Postbus 20401 2500 EK Den Haag NEDERLAND

Website: http://www.minlnv.nl/portal/page?_pageid=116,1640827&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL

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Other information: The Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality is assisting with the organisation of meetings to provide information on running organic farms and to provide an insight into the market for primary organic products. These meetings are being organised at various locations around the country and free admission is given to all interested farmers with small and medium-sized farms, in accordance with Article 15(4) of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006. The objective of this aid measure is to provide information and advice to participating farmers. At the meetings the farmers will receive information and advice which can help to reduce the obstacles faced by farmers switching over to organic farming. This advice is therefore to be considered as knowledge sharing in accordance with Article 15(2)(d) of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006. The Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality is assisting with the organisation of these meetings and therefore does not make any direct monetary payments to the farmers, in accordance with Article 15(3) of the abovementioned Regulation.

The Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality is also assisting with setting up a website containing the relevant information for farmers who are interested in possibly switching over to organic farming. This contribution complies with Article 15(2)(d)(iii) of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006.

Aid No: XA 78/09

Member State: Spain

Region: Comunitat Valenciana

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving an individual aid: Fedacova

Legal basis: Propuesta de Resolución del expediente acogido a la linea ‘Programas intersectoriales en materia de tributos y valores de la Calidad Agroalimentaria’

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall amount of individual aid granted to the company: EUR 145 000

Maximum aid intensity: 100 %

Date of implementation: From the date on which the registration number of the exemption request is published on the website of the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: December 2009

Objective of aid: Organisation of workshops on food quality, food safety and food products of the Autonomous Community of Valencia; publication of workshop proceedings; studies and technical reports: characterisation of the agrifood sector; observatory for sectoral competitiveness; technical, information and educational reports, notes and documentation; planning and design of the study of the agrifood sector of the Autonomous Community of Valencia; Training: organisation of courses on the HACCP own-check system for packaged honey; design and application of hygiene, traceability and HACCP prerequisites in agrifood undertakings; food safety certification systems; webpage on the characterisation of the agrifood sector; attendance at fairs and knowledge-sharing forums between enterprises.

Activities laid down in Articles 14 and 15 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006 of 15 December 2006

Sector(s) concerned: Agrifood SMEs in the Autonomous Community of Valencia

Name and address of granting authority:

Conselleria de Agricultura Pesca y Alimentación C/Amadeo de Saboya, 2 46010 Valencia ESPAÑA

Website: http://www.agricultura.gva.es/especiales/ayudas_agrarias/pdf/FEDACOVA.pdf

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Director-General for Marketing Marta VALSANGIACOMO GIL

Aid No: XA 92/09

Member State: Germany

Region: Rhineland-Palatinate

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving individual aid: Gewährung von Beihilfen nach der Beihilfesatzung der Tierseuchenkasse Rheinland-Pfalz

Legal basis: Beihilfesatzung der Tierseuchenkasse von Rheinland-Pfalz über die Gewährung von Beihilfen (unpublished draft)

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall amount of individual aid granted to the company: EUR 3,3 million in total costs under the scheme

Maximum aid intensity: A maximum of 100 %

Date of implementation: From the time of publication on the Internet by the Commission in accordance with Article 20(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006, at the earliest 1.1.2009

Duration of scheme or individual aid award:

Objective of aid: Animal diseases (Article 10 of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006)

Technical support in the agricultural sector — consultancy services on animal health (Article 15(2)(c) Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006)

Sector(s) concerned: A104 — Animal production

Name and address of the granting authority:

Tierseuchenkasse Rheinland-Pfalz Anstalt des Öffentlichen Rechts Burgenlandstraße 7 55543 Bad Kreuznach DEUTSCHLAND

Website: http://www.lwk-rlp.de/bilder/mediafile_9137_Beihilfesatzung_2009_INTERNET_.pdf

Other information: All of the aid under Article 10 of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006 will be paid in connection with animal diseases covered by Community or national legal or administrative provisons.

The aid in connection with animal diseases will be paid only for the animal losses appearing in the list of animal diseases established by the World Organisation for Animal Health and/or in the Annex to Council Decision 90/424/EEC, an outbreak of which has been established by the relevant veterinary authorities.

The aid does not relate to animal diseases in respect of which Community legislation provides for specific charges for control measures.

The aid does not concern measures whose costs are required by Community law to be borne by agricultural holdings themselves.

Aid No: XA 95/09

Member State: Kingdom of Spain

Region: Comunidad Autónoma de Canarias

Title of aid scheme: Subvenciones destinadas al fomento de las Agrupaciones de Defensa Sanitaria Ganaderas de Canarias

Legal basis: Proyecto de Orden de la Consejería De Agricultura, Ganadería, Pesca Y Alimentación por la que se convocan, durante el ejercicio de 2009, las subvenciones destinadas al fomento de las Agrupaciones de Defensa Sanitaria Ganaderas de Canarias

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme: EUR 600 432

Maximum aid intensity: Under Article 3 of the above draft Order, the aid amount referred to in Article 1 may cover up to 75 % of the cost of the programme. Notwithstanding, under Article 5(3) of Royal Decree No 428/2003 of 11 April 2003, the appropriations allocated to the actions specified in the call for tender by the Ministry for the Environment, Rural and Marine Affairs may only cover up to 50 % of the overall cost of the programme. Appropriations allocated by the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands may supplement that amount up to the maximum rate allowed.

In accordance with Article 10(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006, eligible aid may not involve direct payments of money; aid will be granted to beneficiaries in the form of subsidised services, which must be accessible to all eligible persons in the area concerned, based on objectively defined conditions

Date of implementation: From the date of publication of the registration number of the request for exemption provided for in Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006 on the website of the European Commission's Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: From 7.10.2008 to 6.10.2009 inclusive or until the funding (EUR 600 432) has been exhausted

Objective of aid: The objectives set out in Article 10 of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006, i.e. the eradication of plant and animal diseases and pest infestations.

Subholding (species) Type of subholding Animals CATTLE Dairy, meat or mixed cattle breeding — No of male breeding animals — No of female breeding animals Production holdings — No of animals SHEEP/GOATS Dairy, meat or mixed breeding — No of male breeding animals — No of female breeding animals PIGS Production — No of boars — No of sows EGG POULTRY Egg production — No of chickens Animals for egg production — No of pullets MEAT POULTRY Meat production — No of chickens present RABBITS Meat production — No of male breeding animals — No of female breeding animals OSTRICHES Meat production — No of breeding animals DROMEDARIES — Total number of animals BEES — Total number of hives

The health programmes will be implemented in holdings that are members of the ADSG, which must be entered in the Canary Islands Register of livestock holdings with duly updated data, for which the only reference should be deliveries between 1 January and 28 February 2009, in accordance with Article 4(3) of Royal Decree No 479/2004 of 26 March 2004 establishing and regulating the Register of livestock holdings.

A holding may only belong to one ADGS, unless it is of a different type.

A. Expenses incurred by the veterinaries responsible for the health programme.

B. Expenses for medicinal products used in the implementation of the health programme, including those for analyses and diagnostic tests, and everything related to the ordinary management of the holding.

Sector(s) concerned: All livestock holdings that are members of a livestock health defence group (ADSG)

Name and address of the granting authority:

Consejería de Agricultura, Ganadería, Pesca y Alimentación (Dirección General de Ganadería) Edificio Usos Múltiples II Avda. José Manuel Guimerá, 8, 3a planta 38071 Santa Cruz de Tenerife ESPAÑA

Website: http//www.gobiernodecanarias.org/agricultura/otros/reglamento_CE_pymes.htm

Aid No: XA 106/09

Member State: Spain

Region: Cantabria

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving individual aid: Ayudas a la reposición de ganado bovino, ovino y caprino después de la realización del vacío sanitario

Legal basis: Orden DES/12/2008, de 7 de marzo, por la que se establecen normas de control sanitario y de desarrollo de las Campañas de Saneamiento de la Cabaña Bovina Ovina y Caprina

Orden de 1 de junio de 2001, por la que se regula la realización de vaciados sanitarios en las explotaciones de ganado bovino, ovino y caprino en el marco de las campañas de saneamiento.

Orden DES/66/2008, de 24 de noviembre, por la que se establecen las bases reguladoras y se convocan para el año 2009 ayudas a la reposición de las explotaciones de ganado vacuno, ovino y caprino, objeto de vaciado sanitario

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall amount of individual aid granted to the company: EUR 600 000 per year

Maximum aid intensity: The aid amount varies between EUR 240, EUR 600 and EUR 800 depending on the genetic value of the animal being replaced. Under no circumstances may the average aid amount per animal, added to the compensation per animal slaughtered and that for the meat value exceed the justified average value of the purchased animals for which aid is sought.

The maximum number of animals for which compensation is to be granted will correspond to 75 % of the average herd number of the farm in the three years preceding the depopulation.

The maximum amount per applicant will be EUR 59 999

Date of application: 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 or individual aid award: Until 31.12.2013

Objective of aid: The objective of the aid is to compensate farmers for losses caused by the slaughter of meat and dairy breeding cattle, breeding sheep and goats owing to the implementation of the National Eradication Programmes, and to facilitate the replacement of animals with the aim of restoring the stock of breeding animals to the number that existed before the outbreak of the disease, in accordance with Article 10 of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006.

The aid is granted in the context of the fight against diseases covered by National Eradication Programmes, in particular bovine tuberculosis and/or brucellosis. Thus:

these are diseases for which an outbreak has been formally recognised by the public authorities,

the aid is part of a statutory public eradication programme at Community, national and regional level,

aid is not granted for measures for which the cost is to be borne by the agricultural holdings,

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

the animals on the holding must have been slaughtered for official health reasons,

the scheme complies with the requirement set out in Article 10(8) of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006,

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

Eligible costs: purchase value of replacement animals. Under no circumstances may the average aid amount per animal, added to the compensation per animal slaughtered and that for the meat value exceed the justified average value of the purchased animal for which aid is sought

Sector(s) concerned: Meat or dairy cattle breeding, meat or dairy sheep and goat breeding

Name and address of the granting authority:

Consejeria de Desarrollo Rural, Ganaderia, Pesca y Biodiversidad Dirección General de Ganaderia C/Gutierrez Solana s/n (Edificio Europa) 39011 Santander ESPAÑA

Website: http://boc.gobcantabria.es/boc/datos/MES%202008-12/OR%202008-12-04%20235/PDF/16375-16378.pdf

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