EN Official Journal of the European Union C 303/23

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 303/10

Aid No: XA 33/09

Member State: Italy

Region: Trentino — Alto Adige — Provincia autonoma di Bolzano

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving an individual aid: Investimenti per il miglioramento delle malghe e dei pascoli.

Legal basis: Legge provinciale del 21 ottobre 1996 n. 21;

Delibera della giunta provinciale n. 2365 del 7 luglio 2008

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall amount of individual aid granted to the company: The total annual budget allocation is EUR 3 000 000

Maximum aid intensity: Aid amounting to 50 % of the eligible costs is provided. The investments do not involve an increase in the productive capacity of the Alpine summer pasture itself. EUR 10 000 is the minimum eligible cost per project covered by the scheme.

Date of implementation: From the date of publication of the registration 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 31.12.2013

Objective of aid: Aid for investments within the meaning of Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006. Please note that aid in the following areas is excluded from this scheme:

aid for cheese production facilities (for which an exemption request will be made under Regulation (EC) No 800/2008),

aid for work to maintain meadows and farmland (this aid is being notified under Article 88(3) of the Treaty),

aid for the ‘wood — pasture regulation’ (the nature of these activities is being more clearly specified in a notification within the meaning of Article 88(3) of the Treaty),

aid for ‘other interventions, measures, work, actions to maintain the hydro-geological equilibrium of mountain areas’ (the nature of these activities being more clearly specified in a notification within the meaning of Article 88(3) of the Treaty),

aid for building forest roads (an exemption request for this type of action has been submitted under Regulation (EC) No 800/2008).

Sector(s) concerned: The entire agricultural sector

Name and address of the granting authority:

Provincia autonoma di Bolzano Ripartizione Foreste Ufficio Economia Montana Via Brennero 6 39100 Bolzano BZ ITALIA E-mail: Economia.montana@provincia.bz.it

Website: http://www.provincia.bz.it/foreste/sussidi/sussidi.asp

Other information: The provincial legal basis has been adapted and completed in accordance with Article 18 of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006. Please note that all references to ordinary and extraordinary maintenance have been removed.

Aid No: XA 177/09

Member State: Spain

Region: Comunitat Valenciana

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving an individual aid: Centro de Calidad Avícola y Alimentación Animal de la C.V. (CECAV).

Legal basis: Resolución de la Consellera de Agricultura Pesca y Alimentación, que concede la subvención basada en la línea nominativa descrita en la ley 17/2008 de presupuestos de la Generalitat.

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall amount of individual aid granted to the company: EUR 16 000 in 2009

Maximum aid intensity: 100 % of the eligible expenditure

Date of implementation: from the date on which the identification number of the exemption request is published on the website of the Commission's Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development.

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: during 2009

Objective of aid: Provision of poultry quality and health control services to poultry farmers and their organisations.

The eligible costs covered by the aid are the costs of self-checks carried out under the Poultry Health Plan established by Royal Decree 328/2003 of 14 March establishing and regulating the Poultry Health Plan; these are covered by Article 10 of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006 (health checks granted in kind in the form of subsidised services).

Sectors concerned: owners of Valencian poultry farms and their organisations

Name and address of the granting authority:

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

Website: http://www.agricultura.gva.es/especiales/ayudas_agrarias/pdf/cecav09.pdf

Other information: —

Aid No: XA 230/09

Member State: Federal Republic of Germany

Region: —

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving an individual aid: Richtlinien des Bundesministeriums für Ernährung, Landwirtschaft und Verbraucherschutz (BMELV) und des Bundesministeriums für Umwelt, Naturschutz und Reaktorsicherheit (BMU) für ein Bundesprogramm zur Steigerung der Energieeffizienz in der Landwirtschaft und im Gartenbau.

Legal basis: Gesetz über die Feststellung des Bundeshaushaltsplans für das Haushaltsjahr 2009 (Haushaltsgesetz 2009) of 21 December 2008 (BGBl. I, p. 2899) read in conjunction with the Richtlinien des Bundesministeriums für Ernährung, Landwirtschaft und Verbraucherschutz (BMELV) und des Bundesministeriums für Umwelt, Naturschutz und Reaktorsicherheit (BMU) für ein Bundesprogramm zur Steigerung der Energieeffizienz in der Landwirtschaft und im Gartenbau.

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall amount of individual aid granted to the company: EUR 7 million

Maximum aid intensity: 40 %, up to a maximum of EUR 400 000 over three calendar years

Date of implementation: From the day following publication of the above-mentioned guidelines in the Federal Gazette. The guidelines have been submitted for publication in the Federal Gazette. They will be published at the earliest 10 working days after notification of the aid number by the Commission.

Duration of scheme or individual aid award:

Objective of aid: Scheme to help SMEs increase energy efficiency in agriculture and horticulture (Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006).

Sectors concerned: Agriculture and horticulture

Name and address of the granting authority:

Bundesanstalt für Landwirtschaft und Ernährung Deichmanns Aue 29 53179 Bonn DEUTSCHLAND

Website: http://www.bmelv.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/EU/BuProgrEnergieeffizienz

Other information: —

Aid No: XA 231/09

Member State: Italy

Region: Veneto

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving an individual aid: Progetti formativi rivolti a favore delle imprese attive nella produzione di prodotti agricoli

Legal basis: L.R. n. 10 del 30 gennaio 1990«Ordinamento del sistema della formazione professionale e organizzazione delle politiche regionali del lavoro»;

DGR n. 2467 del 4 agosto 2009.

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall amount of individual aid granted to the company: Committed amounts: EUR 1 300 000

Maximum aid intensity: 100 %

Date of implementation: As from the publication of the registration 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 December 2012

Objective of aid: Technical support (Article 15 of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006).

Aid will serve to provide vocational training for farmers in the following areas:

training for the purposes of achieving authorisation for the purchase and use of plant protection products,

training leading to the award of a trade qualification or certificate of competency as referred to in applicable legislation and for which the training element or skills updating element is of prime importance,

training to update or perfect subject-knowledge,

training with a view to acquiring adequate ‘occupational skill and competence’ as referred to in Community legislation and/or the certification referred to in Legislative Decree 99/2004 (professional farmer).

Sector(s) concerned: Agriculture, forestry and fisheries

Name and address of the granting authority:

Regione del Veneto Palazzo Balbi Dorsoduro 3901 30123 Venezia VE ITALIA Tel. +39 412795030 Fax +39 412795085 E-mail: dir.formazione@regione.veneto.it

Website: http://www.regione.veneto.it/Servizi+alla+Persona/Formazione+e+Lavoro/ModulisticaREG.htm#primario

Other information: For more information please contact:

Direzione Regionale Formazione

Via Allegri 29

30174 Venezia Mestre VE

ITALIA

Tel. +39 412795029 / 412795030

Fax +39 412795085

E-mail: dir.formazione@regione.veneto.it