EN Official Journal of the European Union C 176/10

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 176/04

Aid No: XA 436/08

Member State: Spain

Region: Castilla y León (provincia de Salamanca)

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving an individual aid: subvenciones dirigidas a asociaciones y cooperativas de ganaderos para la financiación de sistemas de control lechero, anualidad 2009

Legal basis: proyecto de bases reguladoras de la convocatoria de subvenciones dirigidas a asociaciones y cooperativas de ganaderos para la financiación de sistemas de control lechero, anualidad 2009

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall amount of individual aid granted to the company: the annual expenditure planned under the scheme for 2009 is EUR 20 500 (twenty thousand five hundred euro), to include a loan facility totalling EUR 12 000 (twelve thousand euro) for cooperatives and a loan facility totalling EUR 8 500 (eight thousand five hundred euro) for associations.

Maximum aid intensity: the maximum amount of the grant may not exceed 50 % of the eligible expenditure or EUR 12 000 in the case of cooperatives or EUR 8 500 in the case of applicant associations.

Date of implementation: from the date of 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: until 31.12.2009

Objective of aid: The purpose of the aid is to help maintain and improve the genetic quality of the livestock population in Salamanca through monitoring of the quality of the milk from and the genetic quality of dairy breeds of cows, sheep and goats to be conducted by livestock associations and cooperatives in the province of Salamanca.

The aid scheme falls within the scope of Article 16(1)(b) of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006 of 15 December 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.

Eligible costs are taken to mean current expenditure which has a clear and direct link to the subsidised activity (the implementation of programmes to establish the genetic quality or yield of livestock) and which concerns:

tests performed by third parties to establish the genetic quality or yield of livestock.

Indirect taxes will not be eligible.

Sector(s) concerned: livestock sector

Name and address of the granting authority:

Excma. Diputación Provincial de Salamanca C/Felipe Espino, 1 37002 Salamanca ESPAÑA

Website: http://www.lasalina.es/areas/eh/ProyConvocatorias/2009/ControlLechero.pdf

Other information: The grant will be compatible with any other grant, aid, resource or revenue for the subsidised activity awarded by any public or private national or European Union administration or authority or international organisation, provided that it does not exceed the quantitative limits for aid set out in Article 16(1)(b) of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006 (up to 70 % of the costs of the tests performed).

If the applicant has been awarded another grant — for the same purpose — which is incompatible with that awarded by the Diputación, Article 33 of Spanish Royal Decree 887/2006 of 21 July 2006 establishing the Rules implementing the General Law on Subsidies will apply.

However, in no case may the amount of subsidies awarded by the Diputación be such that, on its own or together with other grants, aid, revenue or resource, it exceeds the cost of the subsidised activity.

Likewise, the grant will be incompatible with any other grant, aid, resource or revenue for the subsidised activity that is awarded by the Diputación de Salamanca — either by a direct award procedure or by a competitive procedure — covering the same eligible expenditure.

Beneficiaries of the grant must comply with all the conditions laid down in Article 16(1)(b) of the Regulation, which means that routine controls of milk quality are excluded.

Aid No: XA 167/09

Member State: United Kingdom

Region: Northern Ireland

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving an individual aid: BSE testing of cattle over 48 months of age slaughtered for human consumption (Northern Ireland)

Legal basis: SR 2008 No 508 — Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008; Regulation (EC) No 999/2001; Commission Decision 2008/908/EC

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall amount of individual aid granted to the company: GBP 4,60 million paid over six years

Maximum aid intensity: 100 %

Date of implementation:

Duration of scheme or individual aid award:

Objective of aid: Livestock sector (Article 16 of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006)

Sector(s) concerned: A1 — Crop and animal production, hunting and related service activities

Name and address of the granting authority:

Department of Agriculture and Rural development Dundonald House Upper Newtownards Road Belfast BT4 3SB Northern Ireland UNITED KINGDOM

Website: http://www.dardni.gov.uk/index/animal-health/animal-diseases/bse/active-surveillance.htm

Other information: The aid in question is in respect of a service provided to enable Northern Ireland compliance with a mandatory EU requirement for BSE testing of bovine animals over 48 months for human consumption. It is indirect aid — the farmer does not have to apply and does not receive payment. Details of the department's TSE monitoring can be found on the Department's website and a web address has been provided.

This Scheme shall apply to transparent aid granted to small and medium-sized agricultural holdings (farms) active in the primary production of agricultural products within Northern Ireland.

The eligible costs are the TSE test costs (all costs, including those for test kits, taking, transporting, testing, storing and destruction of samples necessary for tests undertaken in accordance with Annex X, Chapter C to Regulation (EC) No 999/2001. The Scheme will fund up to 100 % of the eligible costs but will be limited to a maximum of EUR 40 per test in compliance with Article 16 of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006.