EN Official Journal of the European Union C 303/3

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 303/03)

Aid No: XA 289/08

Member State: Italy

Region: Regione Lombardia (Comunità Montana Valtellina di Sondrio)

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving individual aid: Aiuti per la ricomposizione fondiaria — Accorpamento fondiario di terreni agricoli

Legal basis:

— Bozza di deliberazione del Consiglio direttivo della Comunità Montana Valtellina di Sondrio ‘Concessione di aiuti per la ricomposizione fondiaria (accorpamento fondiario di terreni agricoli mediante acquisto o permuta). Approvazione iniziativa’;

— Decreto legislativo 29.3.2004 n. 99 ‘Disposizioni in materia di soggetti e attività, integrità aziendale e semplificazione amministrativa, a norma dell'art. 1 lettere d), f), g), l), ee) della legge 7.3.2003 n. 38’ — capo II ‘integrità aziendale’ artt. 7 e 9;

— Legge 7.3.2003 n. 38 ‘Disposizioni in materia di agricoltura’ — art. 1;

— Decreto legislativo 18.5.2001 n. 228 ‘Orientamento e modernizzazione del settore agricolo, a norma dell'art. 7 della legge 5.3.2001 n. 57’ — capo II ‘contratti agrari, integrità aziendale e distretti’

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall amount of individual aid granted to the company: Maximum annual expenditure earmarked for the entire initiative EUR 30 000

Maximum aid intensity: The aid will be granted exclusively to cover legal and administrative costs up to 100 % of the expenditure actually incurred

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 December 2013

Objective of aid: Pursuant to Article 13 of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006 ‘Aid for land reparcelling’. The aid will be granted exclusively to cover legal and administrative costs up to 100 % of the expenditure really incurred in connection with the deeds necessary for the purchase or exchange of farmland for the purposes of consolidating holdings. This aid is provided with the aim of countering excessive fragmentation of land. There is every evidence that the excessive fragmentation of agricultural property typical of marginal mountain locations is an obstacle to the management of farmland there, while abandonment has negative repercussions on the hydrogeological structure, the environment and the landscape

Sector(s) concerned: Mountain farmland; in the district of the Comunità Montana Valtellina di Sondrio

Name and address of the granting authority:

Comunità Montana Valtellina di Sondrio via Nazario Sauro n. 33 I-23100 Sondrio

Website: www.agricoltura.regione.lombardia.it, click on ‘Per saperne di più’, then on ‘Aiuti di Stato’

www.cmsondrio.it, click on ‘versione integrale’, then on ‘area agricoltura’, ‘agricoltura’, ‘accorpamento fondiario’

Enrica GENNARI

Il Dirigente della Struttura

Raccordo con le Politiche Nazionali e Comunitarie

Aid No: XA 294/08

Member State: Kingdom of Spain

Region: Comunidad Autónoma de Canarias

Title of aid scheme: Subvenciones destinadas al fomento de las Agrupaciones de Defensa Sanitaria Ganaderas de Canarias

Legal basis: Proyecto de Orden de la Consejería De Agricultura, Ganadería, Pesca Y Alimentación por la que se convocan las subvenciones destinadas al fomento de las Agrupaciones de Defensa Sanitaria Ganaderas de Canarias

Annual expenditure planned under the aid scheme: EUR 784 409,09

Maximum aid intensity: Under Article 3 of the above draft Order, the aid approved by the Consejería de Agricultura, Ganadería, Pesca y Alimentación with respect to the budget may cover up to 75 % of the cost of the programme. The aid may be financed up to a maximum of 50 % of the health programme from funds provided by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Ministerio de Agricultura, Pesca y Alimentación — MAPA)

Date of implementation: From the date of publication of the registration number of the request for exemption provided for in Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006 on the website of the Commission's Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: Until 6 October 2008 or until the funding (EUR 787 409,09) has been exhausted

Objective of aid: To raise animal health standards in livestock holdings through programmes designed and implemented by the Agrupaciones de Defensa Sanitaria Ganaderas (ADSG) to prevent and eradicate animal diseases and pest infestations and to improve hygiene by means of veterinary checks in order to raise the standards of production and health, in accordance with Article 10 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 and amending Regulation (EC) No 70/2001

Sector(s) concerned: Under Article 10 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 and amending Regulation (EC) No 70/2001, beneficiaries of the aid shall include all those small and medium-sized agricultural enterprises in the livestock sector which belong to an Agrupación de Defensa Sanitaria Ganaderas (ADSG), as provided for by Royal Decree No 1880/1996 of 2 August 1996 (BOE No 229 of 21 September 1996), and are carrying out the health programmes provided for in Article 1(2) of the Draft Order in livestock holdings engaged in the primary production of livestock products, provided that they fulfil the requirements set out in Annex I to Commission Regulation (EC) No 70/2001 of 12 January 2001 on the application of Articles 87 and 88 of the EC Treaty to State aid to small and medium-sized enterprises

Name and address of the granting authority:

Consejería de Agricultura, Ganadería, Pesca y Alimentación (Dirección General de Ganadería) Edificio Usos Múltiples II Avda. José Manuel Guimerá, 10, 3a planta E-38071 Santa Cruz de Tenerife

Website: http://www.gobiernodecanarias.org/agricultura/otros/reglamento_CE_pynes.htm

http://www.gobiernodecanarias.org/agricultura/doc/otros/Reglamento_CE_1857_2006/Orden_ADS.pdf

Other information: —

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 21 July 2008.

Ildefonso SOCORRO QUEVEDO

Director General de Asuntos Económicos con la Unión Europea

Aid No: XA 297/08

Member State: France

Regions: Département de l'Isère

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving individual aid: Aides aux investissements de diversification agricole sans transformation

Legal basis:

— Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006,

— articles L 1511-1 et suivants et articles L 3231-1 et suivants du code général des collectivités territoriales

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme: EUR 100 000

Maximum aid intensity: The level of aid will be 35 % of eligible costs, subject to a limit of:

EUR 17 143 if only one activity is set up (for example, through direct sale at the farm in premises that are not separate),

EUR 34 286 if at least two types of activity are set up (for example, new production and direct sale at the farm in premises that are not separate).

Aid will be paid in one or two instalments on submission of the supporting documents. The outstanding amount will be paid at the latest three years from when the beneficiary is notified of the aid by the President of the Isère General Council, after submission of the receipted invoices, and a statement that the work has been completed

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: Until 31 December 2013

Objective of aid: The planned scheme aims to promote capital investment in agricultural diversification projects.

Eligible investment funded under the present scheme must aim to achieve the following objectives:

to improve and redeploy production, by diversifying production and activities so as to create a profitable market that provides value-added, in accordance with the territorial project,

to improve farms' overall profitability level and slow the reduction in the number of farms through diversification of the sources of income.

The planned aid is intended to fund in particular new areas of production such as honey, fresh fruit and vegetables, eggs, poultry, etc. and the equipment needed for their sale direct to consumers on farm premises.

Investment for the purchase of equipment and specific appliances for the primary production of these new products and where appropriate their packaging for retail sale on the farm (for example: hives, fine combed harrows, potato harvesters, apiculture equipment, refrigerated cabinets, electronic scales and scales for discharging a predetermined weight of material into a bag or container, etc.) is eligible for funding

Sector(s) concerned: SMEs throughout the department's agricultural production sector

Name and address of the granting authority:

Monsieur le Président du Conseil général de l'Isère Direction de l'aménagement des territoires Service agriculture et forêt 7 rue Fantin Latour – BP 1096 F-38022 Grenoble Cedex 1

Website: http://www.cg38.fr/uploads/Document/e2/WEB_CHEMIN_35597_1217342303.pdf

Aid No: XA 318/08

Member State: Estonia

Region: Estonia

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving an individual aid: Põllumajandustootja asendamise toetus

Legal basis:

1) „Maaelu- ja põllumajandusturu korraldamise seaduse” § 7 ja § 11

2) Põllumajandustootja asendamise toetuse saamiseks esitatavad nõuded, toetuse taotluse esitamise ja taotluse menetlemise kord (eelnõu)

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall amount of individual aid granted to the company: Annual expenditure EEK 2 000 000 (ca. EUR 127 823)

Maximum aid intensity: The aid intensity is until 100 % in line with Article 15 of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006

Date of implementation:

Duration of scheme or individual aid award:

Objective of aid: The aid is in accordance with Article 15 of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006 (eligible costs are stipulated in Article 15(2)b)).

The aid intensity is until 100 %. The aid does not involve direct payments of money to producers

Sector(s) concerned: Livestock sector (NACE code A104)

Name and address of the granting authority:

Ministère de l'agriculture Lai 39/41 EE-15056 Tallin

Website: http://www.agri.ee/?id=10989

https://www.riigiteataja.ee/ert/act.jsp?id=12997647

Other information: —

Aid No: XA 324/08

Member State: Spain

Region: Comunidad Valenciana

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving an individual aid: Universidad Politécnica de Valencia

Legal basis: Resolución de la Consellera de Agricultura Pesca y Alimentación, que concede la subvención basada en una línea nominativa descrita en la ley 15/2007 de presupuestos de la Generalitat

Annual expenditure planned: EUR 30 000 during 2008

Maximum aid intensity: 100 %

Date of implementation: As from the 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 individual aid award: Year 2008

Objective of aid: To develop livestock farming by training staff involved in this activity and by providing consultancy and technical services for the livestock sector (Article 15 of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006).

The aid will cover the eligible costs of training livestock farmers (costs of organising the training programme, participants' travel and subsistence expenses), consultancy services provided by third parties (not those usually used by the undertaking), the organisation of knowledge-sharing forums, and publications, such as catalogues or websites

Sector(s) concerned: Livestock sector

Name and address of the granting authority:

Conselleria de Agricultura, Pesca y Alimentación C/ Amadeo de Saboya, 2 E-46010 Valencia

Other information: —

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

Valencia, 2 July 2008.

Laura PEÑARROYA FABREGAT

La directora general de Producción Agraria