EN Official Journal of the European Union C 210/7

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

Cases where the Commission raises no objections

(2005/C 210/03)

Date of adoption of the decision:

Member State: Germany

Aid No: N 69/04

Title: East Friesian barrier hedgerow landscape

Objective: The aim is to preserve the historical hedgerow landscape through maintenance and development of the hedgerows and agricultural use of the small areas between them

Budget: EUR 83 500 per year

Aid intensity or amount: Varying

Duration: 5 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 (Lombardy)

Aid No: N 75/2004

Title: Rescue Aid in favour of Parmalat suppliers

Objective: Provision of credit guarantees to milk producers delivering directly to the Parmalat Group in Lombardy who have been delivering milk to the Parmalat group and have not been paid for a period up to 6 months (second semester 2003)

Legal basis:

Delibera regionale n. 16316 del 6.2.2004‘Intervento a favore di imprese singole, associate e cooperative conferenti a stabilimenti aderenti al gruppo Parmalat’

Budget: EUR 1 million

Aid intensity or amount: The maximum value of the guarantee eligible under the present scheme is EUR 500 000 for individual companies and EUR 5 000 000 for cooperatives

Duration: Una tantum

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: United Kingdom

Aid No: N 76/04

Title: Brucellosis Control Scheme

Objective: Preventative measures aimed at controlling Brucellosis in Northern Ireland

Budget: GBP 2 289 500 (approx. EUR 3 436 660) over 7 years

Aid intensity or amount: 100 %

Duration: From Commission approval until 31.3.2010.

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: Grand Duchy of Luxembourg

Aid No: N 80/2004

Title: Aid to assist the income of farmers who suffered losses as a result of the exceptional drought in 2003

Objective: To compensate fodder-producing farmers who suffered losses to their harvest as a result of the drought in 2003

Legal basis: Non statutory

Budget: EUR 6,733 million

Aid intensity or amount: Varies according to the damage (determined using a formula). The level of compensation may not exceed EUR 150 per hectare

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)

Aid No: N 81/2004

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

Objective: 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 sentence 1 of the Gesetz zur Ausführung des Tierkörperbeseitigungsgesetzes (AGTierKBG), as amended, provides that the owners of animals must pay 25 % of the disposal costs while the transport costs and the remaining costs of the disposal are paid by the government of Bavaria and the Tierseuchenkasse. Moreover, § 4 point 3 of the AGTierKBG provides that the authorities bear all costs of transport and disposal where there is an obligation to perform BSE/TSE–tests on fallen stock or where the animals have died or been destroyed due to an animal disease. In the latter case compensation is paid only if the disease in question falls under the national law of 1.6.1991, as amended (Verordnung über anzeigepflichtige Tierseuchen). The authorities are required by law to take measures against the diseases enumerated in that law

Legal basis:

Gesetz zur Ausführung des Tierkörperbeseitigungsgesetzes (AGTierKBG)

Budget: Approximately EUR 16 million per year

Aid intensity or amount: 75 % of the costs except 100 % of transport costs. Aid intensity is 100 % also if the animal has died or was destroyed due to certain animal diseases or where there is an obligation to perform BSE-tests on fallen stock

Duration: Until 31.12.2013

Other information: The German authorities have specified that before the expiration of the contracts between the Bavarian authorities and the rendering plants (at the latest in 2010 in case of contracts of indeterminate duration) the providers of future carcass disposal services would be selected in an open tendering procedure and according to 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 (Veneto)

Aid No: N 82/2004

Title: Regional plan for the regeneration and development of the poultrymeat sector

Legal basis:

Delibere della Giunta regionale del Veneto n. 2884 del 3 ottobre 2003 e n. 890 del 6 aprile 2004

Objective: To compensate poultry producers for income lost as a result of preventive measures imposed by the public authorities following the avian influenza epidemics in the Veneto region between 1999 and 2003

Budget: The 2004 regional budget allocates a total of EUR 4 500 000 to funding these measures

Aid intensity or amount: Up to 100 % of income lost, calculated on the basis of EUR 0,046 per square metre of holding area per day of compulsory cessation of activity

Duration: Ad-hoc measures covering the income lost by poultry-breeding holdings as a result of the compulsory cessation of activity imposed by the regional health authorities from 7 October 2003 to 7 October 2004

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: Spain

Aid No: N 87/2004

Title: Aid to promote purebred horses

Objective: Promotion of purebred horses by means of investment aid and technical support

Legal basis:

Proyecto de orden por la que se establecen para el ejercicio 2004 subvenciones destinadas a la promoción y defensa de las razas puras equinas

Budget: EUR 2 million

Aid intensity or amount: Varies according to the aid

Duration: 1 year

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 (Molise)

Aid No: N 88/2003

Title: Measures to protect and develop the Pentro horse breed

Legal basis: Legge regionale 15 gennaio 1991, n. 30

Decreto ministeriale 19 luglio 2000, n. 403

Proposta di legge regionale n. 23/2002

Objective: The aim of the notified draft regional law No 23/2002 and the aid measures indicated therein is to preserve the Pentro horse breed, which has its origins in the Pantano della Zitola area in the province of Isernia

Budget: The regional authorities have allocated a budget of EUR 120 000 for 2004

Aid intensity or amount: Investment aid: 50 % of eligible investments in less-favoured areas and 40 % in other areas; around 40 % for building natural servicing stations and the first purchase of breeding animals (mares and stallions) recorded in the Pentro horse herdbook.

Aid under agri-environmental commitments: up to EUR 500 for the birth of a Pentro foal. The aid is granted as a single one-off payment one year after the birth of the foal.

Technical assistance: 50 % of eligible expenditure

Duration: Five years, until 31.12.2009

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: France

Aid No: N 96/2004

Title: Aid in the cattle, sheep and pig breeding sectors

Objective: To encourage unions and mergers of producer organisations

Budget: EUR 3 million

Aid intensity or amount: Deressive rate (100 % the first year, 80 % the second and 60 % the third)

Duration: 5 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: France

Aid No: N 100/2004

Title: Aid to improve the quality of pigmeat in mountain areas

Objective: To improve the quality of pigmeat produced in mountain areas

Budget: EUR 5 million per year

Aid intensity or amount: Variable

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: Italy (Bologna)

Aid No: N 108/2004

Title: ‘Aid to agricultural undertakings to favour access to credit’

Objective: to grant investment aid (capital contributions and/or guarantees) to agricultural undertakings which take out a loan to finance the purchase of machinery and equipment

Legal basis:

Delibera della Camera di Commercio I.A.A. di Bologna n. 25 del 16 dicembre 2003‘Regolamento per la concessione di contributi volti a favorire l'accesso al credito delle imprese del settore agricolo operanti nella provincia di Bologna’

Budget: EUR 300 000 per year

Aid intensity or amount: 40 % (45 % for young farmers)

Duration: 10 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: Spain

Aid No: N 109/2004

Title: Aid for technical assistance in the processing and marketing sector for agricultural, forestry, fishery and food products

Objective: To implement technical assistance plans in the sectors of processing and marketing agricultural, forestry, fishery and food products

Legal basis:

Proyecto de orden por el que se establecen las bases reguladoras de las subvenciones para planes de asistencia técnica y de gestión en los sectores de transformación y comercialización de productos agrarios, silvícolas, de la pesca, la acuicultura y la alimentación y se convocan para el ejercicio 2004

Budget: EUR 459 230

Aid intensity or amount: 50 % of the cost

Duration: 2004

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

Aid No: N 110/2004

Title: Assistance for holdings hit by bluetongue. Article 66(5) of Law No 448/2001

Legal basis:

Articolo 129(1), a) della Legge 388/2000 e decreti del Ministero delle Politiche agricole e forestali n. 100522 del 9 aprile 2001 e n. 100652 del 29 marzo 2002

Objective: In accordance with Article 129(1)(a) of Law No 388/2000, as amended by Article 66(5) of Law No 448/2001: to finance structural measures and compensation to ensure the future of livestock holdings (cows and calves), and preventive measures for livestock and sheep farmers, in the protection and surveillance zones identified by the health authorities following outbreaks of bluetongue in ruminants

Budget: Contribution under Law No 388/2000 of EUR 10 329 138, as planned, for each of the years 2002 and 2003

Aid intensity or amount: The maximum rate of public aid for eligible investments, 40 %, or 50 % in less-favoured areas as defined in Article 17 of the rural development Regulation. These rates may be increased to 45 %, or 55 % in the less-favoured areas, where the investments are by young farmers

Duration: 2 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: Germany

Aid No: N 113/04

Title: Framework plan of the joint task ‘improvement of the agrarian structure and the coastal protection’ for the period 2004 — 2007; amendments 2004

Objective: The scheme concerns amendments to the approved programme ‘Implementation of measures to improve the efficiency of agricultural structures in Germany’ in the context of the framework programme 2004 — 2007 ‘Improvement of the agricultural structures and the coast protection’. The changes concern the integrated development of rural areas, agrarian investment aid programme, management systems and promotion of organic and regional agricultural products

Legal basis:

Gesetz über die Gemeinschaftsaufgabe ‘Verbesserung der Agrarstruktur und des Küstenschutzes’, Rahmenplan ‘Verbesserung der Agrarstruktur und des Küstenschutzes’

Budget: EUR 1,195 billion per year (co-financed and nationally financed)

Aid intensity or amount: Variable

Duration: 2004-2007

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: The Netherlands

Aid No: N 122/2004

Title: Research aid and parafiscal taxes in the poultry and egg, rabbit keeping and mink/fox keeping sectors (amendment of an existing scheme)

Objective: Research related to fur farming.

Legal basis:

Verordening tot wijziging van de verordening heffingen edelpelsdieren 2004

Budget: EUR 870 000

Aid intensity or amount: 100 %

Duration: Indefinite

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

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