EN Official Journal of the European Union C 105/21

Authorisation for State aid pursuant to Articles 87 and 88 of the EC Treaty

Cases where the Commission raises no objections

(2005/C 105/06)

Date of adoption of the decision:

Member State: The Netherlands

Aid No: N 534/2003

Title: Flax fund (amendment of existing measure)

Objective: Research and Sales promotion related to flax.

Legal basis: Heffingsverordening HPA vlasfonds.

Budget: EUR 55 000 in 2004

Aid intensity or amount: 100 %

Duration: Indefinite

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Date of adoption of the decision:

Member State: Germany (Bavaria)

Aid No: N 426/2003

Title: Implementation of a Programme for Combating and Controlling BVD/MD in Bavaria

Objective: The aim of the regional scheme is to combat and control Bovine Virusdiarrhoe/Mucosal Disease (BVD/MD). Eligible costs are: test costs, remunerations for cattle losses and vaccinations. The participation in this programme is voluntarily for farmers.

Legal basis:

Entwurf einer Bekanntmachung des Bayerischen Staatsministeriums für Gesundheit, Ernährung und Verbraucherschutz über ein ‘Freiwilliges Bekämpfungsverfahren zum Schutz der Rinder vor einer Infektion mit dem Virus der Bovinen Virusdiarrhoe (BVD/MD)’; Entwurf einer Bekanntmachung des Bayerischen Staatsministeriums für Gesundheit, Ernährung und Verbraucherschutz ‘Kostenregelung für Maßnahmen zur Bekämpfung der Bovinen Virusdiarrhoe/Mucosal Disease (BVD/MD)’

Budget: EUR 7 million

Aid intensity or amount: Up to 50 %

Duration: 3 years

The authentic text(s) of the decision, from which all confidential information has been removed, can be found at:

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Date of adoption of the decision:

Member State: Netherlands

Aid No: N 429/03

Title: Financing of measures following the outbreak of avian influenza (amendment to approved aid N 700/2000)

Objective: Aid to combat epizootic diseases

Legal basis:

Gezondheids- en welzijnswet voor dieren

Budget: Maximum EUR 11 344 505

Aid intensity or amount: Up to 100 %

Duration: Until 1 January 2010

The authentic text(s) of the decision, from which all confidential information has been removed, can be found at:

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Date of adoption of the decision:

Member State: Netherlands

Aid No: N 431/03

Title: Funding for measures following an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease (amendment of approved aid scheme No N 700/2000)

Objective: To combat epizootic diseases

Legal basis:

Gezondheids- en welzijnswet voor dieren

Budget: EUR 2 268 901

Aid intensity or amount: Up to 100 %

Duration: Until 1 January 2010

The authentic text(s) of this decision, from which all confidential information has been removed, can be found at:

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Date of adoption of the decision:

Member State: United Kingdom

Aid No: N 443/02

Title: Amendment to aid scheme no. N 771/99 for advertising milk and milk products

Objective: The measure covers promotion and advertising for milk and milk products in Great Britain. Measures include organisation of fairs, exhibitions and competitions and visits to schools and generic advertising.

Legal basis: Milk Development Council Order 1995 made under the Industrial Organisation and Development Act 1947

Budget: GBP 2,4 million per year up to GBP 4,8 million per year

Aid intensity or amount: Up of 50 % of costs of promotion and advertising (para-fiscal levy)

Duration: Unlimited

The authentic text(s) of the decision, from which all confidential information has been removed, can be found at:

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Date of adoption of the decision:

Member State: Germany (Bavaria)

No of the aid: N 451/2003

Title: Promotion of livestock breeding in Bavaria

Objective: Ais is given for the promotion of livestock breeding and the livestock sector by supporting recognised breeders' associations and implementing specific breeding measures and measures to protect farm animal breeds in danger of extinction.

Legal basis:

Richtlinien für die Förderung der Tierzucht

Budget: EUR 1,7 million per year

Aid intensity or amount: Variable.

Duration: Up to 31 December 2010.

The authentic text(s) of the decision, from which all confidential information has been removed, can be found at:

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Date of adoption of the decision:

Member State: Italy (Val D'Aosta)

No of the aid: N 480/2004

Title: Aid to compensate farmers for the losses caused by the adverse weather events (hail and frost).

Objective: To compensate for damages to the apple production caused by hail occurred on 8-9.04.2003, on 16.07.2003 and on 21.07.2003 in some municipalities of the Region Val d'Aosta.

Legal basis:

Modifica dell'aiuto di Stato della misura III.1, azione III.1.2 –calamità naturali e danni da fauna selvatica– del Piano di sviluppo rurale della Valle d'Aosta e la procedura di attuazione dell'azione stessa.

Budget: Around 50 % of the ascertained damage EUR 73 113,28

Aid intensity or amount: Around 50 % of the ascertained damage.

Duration: Una tantum.

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Date of adoption of the decision:

Member State: Germany (Brandenburg)

No of the aid: N 483/2003.

Title: Investment aid for ethyl alcohol factory.

Objective: Aid would be provided to the company for the construction in Brandenburg of a new factory, which would produce ethyl alcohol from cereals.

Legal basis:

28. Rahmenplan der Gemeinschaftsaufgabe ‘Verbesserung der regionalen Wirtschaftsstruktur’; Investitionszulagegesetz 1999; Bund-Länder-Programm für Unmittelbare Bundesbürgschaften in den neuen Ländern einschließlich Berlin.

Budget: EUR 24,75 million

Aid intensity or amount: 50 % of the eligible costs.

Duration: One-off.

The authentic text(s) of the decision, from which all confidential information has been removed, can be found at:

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Date of adoption of the decision:

Member State: Germany (Sachsen-Anhalt).

No of the aid: N 491/2003.

Title: Aid for the costs of transporting and destroying fallen stock.

Objective: Safe disposal of animal carcasses. According to national law the owners of animal carcasses, parts thereof and animal by-products have to deliver them to the designated rendering plant and bear the costs of pick-up, transport, storage, processing and rendering. However, § 4 point 2 of the AGTierKBG of 1.2.2002 provides that 75 % of the costs of pick-up, transport, storage, processing and rendering fallen stock are borne by the Land Sachsen-Anhalt, cities and municipal districts. The remaining 25 % is paid by the owner of the fallen stock in question.

Legal basis: Ausführungsgesetz zum Tierköperbeseitigungsgesetz (AG TierKBG) vom 1.2.2002.

Budget: Projected budget 2004: EUR 3 525 013

Aid intensity or amount: 75 % of the costs.

Duration: Until 31.12.2013.

Other information: The German authorities have specified that before the expiry of present contract with Saria the firms providing transport and disposal services will be chosen by the municipal districts and cities in an open procedure and according to the market principles.

The authentic text(s) of the decision, from which all confidential information has been removed, can be found at:

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Date of adoption of the decision:

Member State: Italy (Umbria)

No of the aid: N 491/2004

Title: Aid for the disposal of fallen stock.

Objective: The notified measure aims to compensate livestock farmers for the removal and disposal of fallen stock occurring at farm level.

Legal basis:

Modificazioni ed integrazioni della legge 27 novembre 2003, n. 20 ‘Interventi a favore degli allevatori partecipanti al piano vaccinale per la febbre catarrale degli ovini’ — Articolo 4 comma c.

Budget: EUR 150 000,00

Aid intensity or amount: 75 % of removal and destruction costs.

Duration: Until 2013.

The authentic text(s) of the decision, from which all confidential information has been removed, can be found at:

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Date of adoption of the decision:

Member State: France

Aid No: N 502/2003

Title: Aid from the Limousin Regional Council — 2003 drought

Objective: To establish secondary crops or temporary grassland, reconstitute permanent grassland and replace specialist crop planting materials

Budget: EUR 1,2 million

Aid intensity or amount: Maximum 100 %

Duration: Once

The authentic text(s) of the decision, from which all confidential information has been removed, can be found at:

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Date of adoption of the decision:

Member State: Germany (Hessen)

Aid No: N 508/03

Title: Aid in connection with transport and disposal of fallen stock.

Objective: To compensate livestock farmers for the costs of removal and disposal of fallen stock arising at farm level.

Legal basis:

§ 15.2 des hessischen Ausführungsgesetzes zum Tierseuchengesetz.

Budget: 2003: EUR 4 502 111

2004: EUR 4 337 800

Aid intensity or amount: 67 2/3 %

Duration: Until 31.12.2013.

The authentic text(s) of the decision, from which all confidential information has been removed, can be found at:

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Date of adoption of the decision:

Member State (Region): Spain (Catalonia)

Aid No: N 509/2003

Title: Aid for the recovery of olive trees

Objective: To repair frost damage to olive trees

Legal basis:

Orden ARP/320/2003 de 11 de julio, por la que se convocan las ayudas destinadas a cubrir los costes del primer año no cubiertos por el plan de choque en relación con los daños catastróficos producidos por el temporal de frió de la segunda quincena de diciembre de 2001 en las explotaciones agrícolas de olivo

Aid intensity or amount: Less than the damage to the olive trees

Duration: Five years

The authentic text(s) of the decision, from which all confidential information has been removed, can be found at:

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Date of adoption of the decision:

Member State: Italy (Veneto)

Aid No: N 509/04

Title: Start-up aid for producer organisations

Objective: To encourage the creation of producer organisations or the expansion of their activities

Legal basis:

Legge regionale 12 dicembre 2003, n. 40 ‘Nuove norme per gli interventi in agricoltura’, modificata dalla legge regionale 9 aprile 2004, n. 8

Budget: EUR 300 000 for the first year and then the sum specified in the annual financing laws

Aid intensity or amount: Degressive aid over five years (100 % — 80 % — 60 % — 40 % — 20 %)

Duration: Until 31 December 2009

The authentic text(s) of the decision, from which all confidential information has been removed, can be found at:

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Date of adoption of the decision:

Member State: Cyprus

Aid No: N 522/04

Title: Aid for the promotion and advertising of agriculture and fisheries products

Objective: To encourage the consumption of agricultural and fisheries products

Legal basis: Απóφαση Υπουργικού Συμβουλίου ημερομηνίας 19.10.2004: ΚΑΘΕΣΤΩΣ ΚΡΑΤΙΚΩΝ ΕΝΙΣΧΥΣΕΩΝ ΓΙΑ ΕΝΕΡΓΙΕΣ ΠΡΟΩΘΗΣΗΣ Η/ΚΑΙ ΔΙΑΦΗΜΙΣΗΣ ΤΩΝ ΓΕΩΡΓΙΚΩΝ ΠΡΟΙΟΝΤΩΝ

Budget: CYP 8 400 000 (EUR 14 400 000)

Aid intensity or amount: 70-100 % for promotion. 50 % for publicity

Duration: Until 31 December 2010

The authentic text(s) of the decision, from which all confidential information has been removed, can be found at:

http://europa.eu.int/comm/sg/sgb/state_aids/