EN Official Journal of the European Union C 222/4

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

(2008/C 222/06)

Aid No: XA 51/08

Member State: Spain

Region: Principado de Asturias

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving an individual aid: Asociación Española de Criadores de Ganado Vacuno Selecto de raza Asturiana de la Montaña (ASEAMO)

Legal basis: Convenio de colaboración con la Asociación Española de Criadores de Ganado Vacuno Selecto de raza Asturiana de la Montaña para el desarrollo de un programa de conservación y mejora de dicha raza durante 2008

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall amount of individual aid granted to the company: EUR 148 000

Maximum aid intensity:

Eligible item Maximum subsidy intensity I. Maintenance of the herd-book 100 % II. Performance testing and tests to determine the genetic quality of livestock 70 % III. Introduction of innovative animal breeding practices 40 % IV. Technical support 100 %

Date of implementation: Decision of 30 January 2008 granting the aid (subject, in any case, to this form being sent to the Commission at least 10 working days beforehand)

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: Until December 2008

Objective of aid: To implement a genetic improvement programme for the Asturiana de la Montaña breed of cattle

The applicable Articles of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006 are as follows:

Article 15 — ‘Provision of technical support in the agricultural sector’. Eligible expenditure: expenditure on organising training programmes; expenditure on participating in training programmes; expenditure on editing publications and websites.

Article 16 — ‘Support for the livestock sector’. Eligible expenditure: expenditure on maintaining the herd-book; expenditure on performance testing and tests to determine the genetic quality of livestock; expenditure relating to the introduction of innovative animal breeding techniques

Sector(s) concerned: Cattle breeding

Name and address of the granting authority:

Consejería de Medio Ambiente y Desarrollo Rural del Principado de Asturias C/ Coronel Aranda, s/n, 4a planta E-33071 Oviedo (Asturias)

Website: The text of the cooperation agreement may be consulted on www.asturias.es, by following the links temáticas/ganadería/ayudas at the URL:

http://www.asturias.es/portal/site/Asturias/menuitem.fe57bf7c5fd38046e44f5310bb30a0a0/?vgnextoid=959f4749be187110VgnVCM10000097030a0aRCRD&vgnextchannel=d2907989c258f010VgnVCM100000b0030a0aRCRD&i18n.http.lang=es

Other information: —

Head of animal breeding and welfare

Luis Miguel ALVAREZ MORALES

Aid No: XA 70/08

Member State: Spain

Region: Principado de Asturias

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving an individual aid: Asociación de Criadores de Gochu Asturcelta (ACGA)

Legal basis: Convenio de colaboración con la Asociación de Criadores de Gochu Asturcelta para el desarrollo de un programa de conservación y fomento de dicha raza durante 2008

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall amount of individual aid granted to the company: EUR 21 000

Maximum aid intensity:

Eligible measure Maximum aid intensity I. Maintenance of a herd book 100 % II. Technical assistance 100 %

Date of implementation: The decision granting aid is due to be adopted on 30 January 2008 (provided that this form has been sent to the Commission at least ten working days before)

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: Until December 2008

Objective of aid: To implement the programme for the conservation of the Gochu Asturcelta pig breed.

The applicable Articles of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006 are:

Article 15 — ‘Provision of technical support in the agricultural sector’. Eligible costs: cost of organising training programmes, cost of participating in training programmes, cost of organising competitions and exhibitions, cost of publications.

Article 16 — ‘Support for the livestock sector’. Eligible costs: cost of maintaining a herd book

Sector(s) concerned: Pig breeding

Name and address of the granting authority:

Consejería de Medio Ambiente y Desarrollo Rural del Principado de Asturias C/ Coronel Aranda, s/n, 4a planta E-33071 Oviedo (Asturias)

Website: The text of the cooperation agreement can be consulted on the www.asturias.es website, by following the links to temáticas/ganadería/ayudas at the following address:

http://www.asturias.es/portal/site/Asturias/menuitem.fe57bf7c5fd38046e44f5310bb30a0a0/?vgnextoid=959f4749be187110VgnVCM10000097030a0aRCRD&vgnextchannel=d2907989c258f010VgnVCM100000b0030a0aRCRD&i18n.http.lang=es

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Head of the Livestock Production and Animal Welfare Department

Luis Miguel ALVAREZ MORALES

Aid No: XA 110/08

Member State: France

Region: DOM

Title of aid scheme: Aides aux groupements de producteurs dans les départements d'outre-mer

Legal basis:

— Articles L621-1 à L621-11, articles R621-1 à R621-43 et articles R684-1 à R684-12 du code rural

— Article 9 of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006

— Projet de décision du directeur de l'ODEADOM relatif à un régime d'aides aux groupements de producteurs dans les départements d'outre-mer

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme: EUR 650 000 (between several groups of beneficiaries)

Maximum aid intensity: Up to 95 % (but not more than EUR 400 000 per beneficiary for the entire period). Furthermore, aid will be degressive each year, decreasing by 5 percentage points per year

Date of implementation: On receipt of an acknowledgement of receipt from the Commission

Duration of the aid scheme: Until 31.12.2013

Objective and type of aid: This aid is intended for producer groups in the French overseas departments, and is financed from the budget of the Office de développement de l'économie agricole des départements d'Outre-mer (ODEADOM) (the overseas departments agricultural economy development office). The aid cannot be combined with any similar aid financed by the POSEI France programme.

The purpose of the aid will be to facilitate the establishment of producer groups and to launch their activities. Eventually, the establishment and successful launch of these groups should facilitate producers' technological and economic modernisation, help them adapt to market demands, strengthen producers' negotiating power when dealing with organised distribution centres and make farmers more professional.

This aid concerns the actions listed in Article 9 of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006, in particular rental of suitable premises, purchase of office equipment, including computer hardware and software, administrative costs (including staff), overheads and other expenses. If premises are purchased, the eligible expenses for premises should be limited to rental costs at market rates

Sectors concerned: Fruit and vegetables (subsistence and market-garden crops, roots and tubers, fresh fruit, citrus fruit, dry fruit), semi-permanent fruit crops, viticulture, horticulture, herbs, medicinal plants, plants used for perfume extraction, stimulant plants and rice.

Ruminants and intensive production sector

Name and address of the granting authority:

ODEADOM 12, rue Henri Rol-Tanguy TSA 60006 F-93555 Montreuil Cedex

Website: http://www.odeadom.fr/?page_id=12#5

Aid No: XA 145/08

Member State: Federal Republic of Germany

Region: Freistaat Sachsen

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving individual aid: Allgemeine Teilnahmebedingungen für vom Sächsischen Staatsministerium für Umwelt und Landwirtschaft geförderte Gemeinschaftsbeteiligungen in den Bereichen Verkaufsförderung und Messen als Anlage zum Rahmenvertrag

Legal basis:

— Haushaltsordnung des Freistaates Sachsen (Sächsische Haushaltsordnung — SäHO)

— Allgemeine Teilnahmebedingungen für vom Sächsischen Staatsministerium für Umwelt und Landwirtschaft geförderte Gemeinschaftsbeteiligungen in den Bereichen Verkaufsförderung und Messen als Anlage zum Rahmenvertrag

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall amount of individual aid granted to the company: EUR 1,9 million per annum

Maximum aid intensity:

— Participation in trade fairs, product presentations and markets, up to a maximum of 100 %.

— Presentations with neutral information on producers from a specific region or of a specific product, up to a maximum of 100 %

Date of implementation:

Duration of scheme or individual aid award:

Objective of aid: To provide support to agricultural undertakings in the field of marketing within the Community. Support for SMEs of this kind comes under the provisions of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006, specifically: Article 15 (Provision of technical support in the agricultural sector), in particular participation in trade fairs and exhibitions (participation fees, publication costs, the cost of renting exhibition space), presentations with neutral information on producers from a specific region or of a specific product, open to all; the aid must be granted by means of subsidised services and must not involve direct payments of money to producers

Economic sector(s) concerned: All sectors involved in animal and plant production

Name and address of the granting authority:

Sächsisches Staatsministerium für Umwelt und Landwirtschaft Archivstraße 1 D-01097 Dresden

Website: http://www.smul.sachsen.de/de/wu/Landwirtschaft/download/TB-Messen_050208__2_.pdf

Other information:

Sächsisches Staatsministerium für Umwelt und Landwirtschaft Referat 23 „Förderstrategie“ D-01076 Dresden Tel. (49) 351 564 68 47

TREPMANN

Head of Unit

Aid No: XA 148/08

Member State: Latvia

Region: —

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving individual aid: Atbalsta shēma „Lauku saimnieku aizvietotāji“

Legal basis: Ministru kabineta noteikumi „Noteikumi par valsts atbalstu lauksaimniecībai 2008. gadā un tā piešķiršanas kārtību“ 4. pielikuma V atbalsta programma 102.–108. punkts

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

Total amount under the aid scheme in 2008: LVL 30 500

Total amount under the aid scheme in 2009: LVL 50 000

Total amount under the aid scheme in 2010: LVL 70 000

Total amount under the aid scheme in 2011: LVL 90 000

Total amount under the aid scheme in 2012: LVL 110 000

Total amount under the aid scheme in 2013: LVL 130 000

Maximum aid intensity: The aid intensity is 100 %.

The aid may be claimed under a pilot project by dairy and veal farms (hereinafter ‘farms’) participating in the ‘Replacement farmers in Latvia’ pilot project, where:

Aid can be granted in respect of the use of replacements' services for eight hours (the hourly rate is LVL 3) per day (including travel time to and from the farm), up to 14 days or 112 hours per year (except in the case of pregnancy and parental leave) during the following instances of the farmer's enforced absence:

Date of implementation:

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: Until 30 December 2013

Objective of aid: The purpose of the aid is to make working conditions in the agricultural sector more attractive by enabling farmers in crisis situations to continue farming by using the services of replacement farmers.

The aid is granted under Article 15(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006

Economic sector(s) concerned: The aid is intended for small and medium-sized enterprises active in the primary production of agricultural products.

The aid is intended for the livestock farming and plant production sectors

Name and address of the granting authority:

Latvijas Republikas Zemkopības ministrija LV-1981 Rīga

Website: http://www.zm.gov.lv/doc_upl/4.pielikums.doc

Other information: Aid for small and medium-sized enterprises active in the primary production of agricultural products will be granted in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006. Pursuant to Article 15(3) the aid will be granted in kind in the form of subsidised services and will not involve direct payments of money to producers, and pursuant to Article 15(4) the aid will be accessible to all those eligible in the area concerned, based on objectively defined conditions.

No aid remains in an intermediary enterprise; all aid is passed on to the final beneficiaries.

Aid will not be granted retroactively in respect of activities which have already been carried out by the beneficiary