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

Cases where the Commission raises no objections

(2002/C 157/04)

Date of adoption of the decision: 29.6.2002

Member State: Finland

Aid No: N 94/02

Title: Aid for advertising horticultural products

Objective: The objective of the advertising campaigns is to increase the consumption of fruit and vegetables in Finland. The Finnish authorities have explained that the undertakings active in the horticultural sector in Finland are small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and that the advertising campaigns promote the development of such enterprise.

Kotimaiset Kasvikset ry. (Finnish Horticultural Products Society, a Finnish registered association whose membes include, for example, producer and wholesale organisations) intends to carry out several advertising campaigns, which promote the consumption and use of horticultural products, i.e. fruit and vegetables including flowers.

A maximum of 50 % of the costs of the advertising campaigns is to be financed with the proposed aid scheme. The remaining 50 % or more of the costs will be financed by the member organisations of Kotmaiset kasvikset ry. These member organisations receive the financing from their members, i.e. the producers

Legal basis: Decision of the Ministery of Agriculture and Forestry

Budget: Variable

Aid intensity or amount: Max. 50 % of the campaign costs, which have been estimated at EUR 1,17 million for 2002

Duration: The subsidised advertising campaigns would be carried out from 2002 to 2007

Other information: The draft measure would be carried out under an existing aid scheme, which has notified to the Commission on 24 April 1995 pursuant to Article 144 of the Act of Accession

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

Date of adoption of the decision: 29.6.2002

Member State: Austria (Burgenland)

Aid No: N 310/01

Title: Cultural landscape programme

Objective: The aid programme envisages the maintenance of field and grassland areas which are valuable from a nature conservation point of view, through sustainable, extensive cultivation as well as the restoration of certain landscape elements

Legal basis: Richtlinie zur Förderung aus Mitteln des Landschaftspflegefonds

Budget: Approximately EUR 290691 per year

Aid intensity or amount: Variable

Duration: Five years

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

Date of adoption of the decision: 29.6.2002

Member State: Spain (Catalonia)

Aid No: N 324/01

Title: Measures to integrate, set up and extend cooperatives

Objective: To promote the modernisation and integration of producer groups so as to help improve their economic and social direction by adopting management and marketing measures

Legal basis: Ley 50/85 de 27 de diciembre de incentivos regionales para la corrección de desequilibrios económicos interterritoriales. Real Decreto 1535/87, de 11 de diciembre, por el que se aprueba el reglamento de desarrollo de dicha Ley 50/85. Real Decreto 570/1988, de 3 de junio, de delimitación de la zona de promoción económica de Castilla y León

Budget: EUR 21799721

Aid intensity or amount: Varies according to the type of aid

Duration: Six years (2001-2006)

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

Date of adoption of the decision: 30.5.2002

Member State: Italy (Veneto)

Aid No: N 412/01

Title: Protection and improvement plan for the waters of the Venice basin - Intervention in the farming sector

Objective: Investments/agro-environmental commitments in regional protected areas

Legal basis: Piano per la prevenzione dell'inquinamento e il risanamento delle acque del bacino idrografico immediatamente sversanti nella Laguna di Venezia

Budget: Total budget EUR 30987413,93

Aid intensity or amount: Depending on the measure

Duration: Undetermined

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

Date of adoption of the decision: 29.6.2002

Member State: Spain

Aid No: N 611/01

Title: Processing and marketing in the agricultural, forestry and food sectors

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

Legal basis: Proyecto de Orden por la 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 pesca, acuicultura y alimentación

Budget: Unspecified

Aid intensity or amount: 50 % of expenditure

Duration: One year

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