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

Cases where the Commission raises no objections

(2001/C 350/06)

Date of adoption of the decision: 7.11.2001

Member State: Italy (Lombardy)

Aid No: N 106/01

Title: Organisation and management of a technical assistance service for livestock holdings

Objective: To assist stockfarmers

Legal basis: Deliberazione n. 2923 del 29 dicembre 2000: "Approvazione dell'intervento: Servizio di Assistenza tecnica agli Allevamenti - SATA"

Budget: ITL 7,3 billion (approximately EUR 3,65 million) in 2001

Aid intensity or amount: Between 30 % and 100 % depending on the type of service provided

Duration: Unlimited

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Date of adoption of the decision: 7.11.2001

Member State: Italy

Aid No: N 181/01

Title: Milk quality system

Objective: To improve the quality of milk production systems

Legal basis: Point 14 of the "Orientamenti della Comunità per gli aiuti di Stato nel settore agricolo" (1)

Budget: EUR 100000 per recipient and per three-year period

Aid intensity or amount: 100 %

Duration: Unspecified

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Date of adoption of the decision: 7.11.2001

Member State: Italy (Calabria)

Aid No: N 447/01

Title: Aid for technical assistance programmes for stockfarming

Objective: Aid for technical assistance, quality programmes, genetic improvement, research and development for quality improvement

Legal basis: Delibera della Giunta Regionale n. 457 del 23.5.2001 "Regimi di aiuto per i servizi di assistenza tecnica agli allevatori"

Budget: ITL 10 billion (approximately EUR 5 million) for 2001

Aid intensity or amount: For technical assistance: 100 % of eligible costs

For genetic improvement: variable intensity (from 100 % for herd books to 30 % for keeping individual male breeding animals)

For quality improvement 100 % (degressive for quality controls)

For research and development: 100 % of the eligible costs

Duration: Indeterminate

Other information: Article 5 concerning aid for animal diseases has been withdrawn from the draft Decree

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Date of adoption of the decision: 7.11.2001

Member State: Italy (Friuli-Venezia-Giulia)

Aid No: N 454/01

Title: Aid for the development of local wine productions and for the forestry sector

Objective: Improvement of wine production facilities and enhancement of local forestry resources

Legal basis: Legge Regionale 8 aprile 1997, n. 10 che istituisce il Fondo regionale per lo sviluppo della montagna

Budget: Grape-wilting centre: ITL 100000000

Forestry measures: ITL 225000000

Aid intensity or amount: 40 % in the case of the grape-wilting centre

75 % in the case of the forestry measures

Duration: Expenditure relating to the interventions under the scheme must be sustained by the beneficiaries by 30 November 2002

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Date of adoption of the decision: 7.11.2001

Member State: Spain

Aid No: N 465/01

Title: Aid to promote the food industry

Objective: To promote the Spanish food industry and foodstuffs on international markets

Legal basis: Proyecto de Orden por la que se establecen las bases reguladoras y la convocatoria de concesión de ayudas destinadas al fomento de la industria agroalimentaria y a la promoción de los productos alimentarios

Budget: ESP 57 million (EUR 342576)

Aid intensity or amount: Up to 85 % of costs

Duration: One year

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Date of adoption of the decision: 7.11.2001

Member State: Ireland

Aid No: N 483/01

Title: Aid in addition to regional operational programmes (Scheme 5)

Objective: Improvement in equine breeding infrastructure

Legal basis: An administrative provision under Council Regulation (EC) No 1257/1999 on support for rural development

Budget: EUR 1500000

Aid intensity or amount: 100 %

Duration: 2000-2006

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Date of adoption of the decision: 7.11.2001

Member State: Spain (Asturias)

Aid No: N 600 C/01

Title: Employment assistance

Objective: To encourage employment

Legal basis: Resolución de la Consejería de Trabajo y promoción del empleo, de 16 de marzo de 2001

Budget: Not specified

Aid intensity or amount: Between ESP 300000 (EUR 1803) and ESP 800000 (EUR 4808) per job

Duration: Unlimited

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Date of adoption of the decision: 7.11.2001

Member State: Belgium

Aid No: N 657/01

Title: Aid to stockfarmers hit by the BSE crisis

Objective: Second tranche of aid to compensate stockfarmers for losses due to the crisis

Budget: BEF 1200 million (approximately EUR 29,7 million)

Aid intensity or amount: Maximum 100 % of losses

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Date of adoption of the decision: 7.11.2001

Member State: France (Landes)

Aid No: N 794/2000

Title: Aid to stockfarming

Objective: To adapt local stockfarming to preserve and improve the environment with the aim of achieving a complete lack of controllable nitrogen leaks into the natural environment

Budget: FRF 105 million (approximately EUR 16 million)

Aid intensity or amount: 20 % increase of the ceilings allowed for investment aid in the French rural development plan (fixed at 40 % and 45 % of the cost of investment)

Duration: 2000-2006

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Date of adoption of the decision: 7.11.2001

Member State: Germany (Rheinland-Pfalz)

Aid No: N 855/2000

Title: Support for participation in fairs

Objective: Stimulate participation in fairs. The aid consists of a fixed amount for costs linked with the exhibition, increased with a sum for the rental costs for space for stands in the exhibition

Legal basis: Förderung der Beteiligung mittelständischer Unternehmen an exportorientierten Veranstaltungen - Messeförderungsprogramm

Budget: For 2001, a budget of DEM 3,18 million is foreseen

Aid intensity or amount: One can receive at most DEM 180000 or EUR 92032,54 over a three-year period

Duration: 2001-2006

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

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(1) OJ C 232, 12.8.2000, p. 17.