EN Official Journal of the European Union C 212/2

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

Cases where the Commission raises no objections

(2005/C 212/02)

Date of adoption of the decision:

Member State: Belgium

Aid No: N 282/2004

Title: Compensation for the damage caused to flax, potato and cereal crops by the rains in September 2001

Objective: To compensate flax, potato and cereal growers who incurred losses as a result of the exceptional rains in September 2001

Legal basis: Loi du 12 juillet 1976 relative à la réparation de certains dommages causés à des biens privés par des calamités naturelles. Moniteur belge du 13 août 1976.

Wet van 12 juli 1976 betreffende het herstel van zekere schade veroorzaakt aan private goederen door natuurrampen. Belgisch Staatsblad van 13 augustus 1976.

Projet d'arrêté royal modifiant l'arrêté royal du 11 juillet 2003 considérant comme une calamité agricole les dégâts causés aux cultures de lin, de pommes de terre et de céréales par les pluies abondantes du mois de septembre 2001, délimitant l'étendue géographique de cette calamité et déterminant l'indemnisation des dommages.

Ontwerp van koninklijk besluit tot wijziging van het koninklijk besluit van 11 juli 2003, waarbij de schade veroorzaakt aan de teelten van vlas, van aardappelen en van granen door de over- vloedige regenval van september 2001 als een landbouwramp wordt beschouwd, waarbij de geografische omvang van deze ramp afgebakend wordt en waarbij de schadeloosstelling van de schade wordt vastgesteld

Budget: 2 250 000 EUR

Aid intensity or amount: Maximum 100 % of the loss

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Date of adoption of the decision:

Member State: Italy (autonomous province of Trento)

Aid No: N 129/2004

Title: Aid to compensate the members of six agricultural cooperatives

Objective: To compensate the members of agricultural cooperatives for losses resulting from bad weather (hail)

Legal basis: Articolo 91 della Legge provinciale n. 1/2002.

Deliberazioni del Consiglio Regionale N. 484, 485, 486, 495, 496, 502 del 2004

Budget: EUR 2 299 999,78

Aid intensity or amount:

1. Cooperative SOA: EUR 450 698,95

2. Cooperative SABAC: EUR 756 923,74

3. Cooperative CBS: EUR 414 263,50

4. Cooperative COBAV: EUR 242 093,74

5. Cooperative SAV: EUR 215 017,15

6. Cooperative APASO: EUR 221 022,70

Duration: Ad hoc aid

Other information: Measures applying a scheme approved by the Commission under Decision C(2002) 4860 of 12.12.2002 (aid N 301/2002)

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Date of adoption of the decision:

Member State: The Netherlands

Aid No: N 131/2004

Title: Research and Sales promotion related to mushrooms

Objective: Research and Sales promotion related to mushrooms

Legal basis: Verordening PT bijzondere heffing teelt fruit en champignons 2004

Budget:

Research 2004 EUR 1 000 000 2005 ff. EUR 1 500 000 Sales promotion 2004 EUR 759 000 2005 ff. EUR 1 000 000

Aid intensity or amount: 100 %

Duration: Indefinite

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Date of adoption of the decision:

Member State: Italy (Valle d'Aosta)

Aid No: N 136/04

Title: Establishment of a system for the collection and disposal of fallen stock

Objective: To grant compensation to farmers for the disposal of their fallen stock

Legal basis: Decreto legislativo 14 dicembre 1992, n. 508 ‘Attuazione della direttiva 90/667/CEE del Consiglio del 27 novembre 1990, che stabilisce le norme sanitarie per l'eliminazione, la trasformazione e l'immissione sul mercato di rifiuti di origine animale e la protezione dagli agenti patogeni degli alimenti per animali di origine animale o a base di pesce e che modifica la direttiva 90/425/CEE’;

Ordinanza Ministero della Sanità 3 gennaio 2001 (misure d'urgenza per la distruzione di materiali specifici a rischio e di farine di carne ed ossa);

Legge 9 marzo 2001 n. 9 ‘Disposizioni urgenti per la distruzione del materiale specifico a rischio per encefalopatie spongiformi bovine e delle proteine animali ad alto rischio, nonché per l'ammasso pubblico temporaneo delle proteine animali a basso rischio’

Budget: EUR 500 000 per year

Aid intensity or amount: 75 % of destruction costs; 100 % of removal costs

Duration: Until 31.12.2013

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Date of adoption of the decision:

Member State: France

Aid No: N 145/2004

Title: Aid for milk producers — Parmalat

Objective: To assist dairy farms which are in a precarious financial situation as a result of their irrecoverable claims following the bankruptcy of the Parmalat group

Budget: EUR 200 000

Aid intensity or amount: Variable

Duration: One off

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Date of adoption of the decision:

Member State: Italy (autonomous province of Trento)

Aid No: N 157/2004

Title: Aid to winegrowers for losses due to bad weather (hail) in the summer of 2003

Objective: To compensate farmers for damage suffered as a result of bad weather (hail)

Legal basis: Articolo 3, comma 2, lettera a) della legge 185/1992. Deliberazione della Giunta provinciale n. 2842 del 23 ottobre 2003

Budget: The damage for which the regional authorities are granting compensation amounts to around EUR 500 000

Aid intensity or amount: 80 % of damage

Duration: Measure applying a scheme approved by the Commission

Other information: Measures applying the scheme approved by the Commission under state aid dossier C 12/b/95 (Commission Decision 2004/307/EC, 16.12.2003, OJ L 99/2004)

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Date of adoption of the decision:

Member State: Spain (Cantabria)

Aid No: N 169/2004

Title: Aid for the disinfection of livestock housing as part of animal disease control

Objective: To grant aid for the disinfection of livestock housing as part of the control of tuberculosis, brucellosis, leucosis and peripneumonia following an animal disposal programme

Legal basis: Proyecto de orden por la que se regulan y convocan ayudas para la desinfección de los establos de la Comunidad Autónoma de Cantabria afectados por enfermedades objeto de campaña de saneamiento

Budget: EUR 32 000 per year

Aid intensity or amount: Up to 50 % of the costs

Duration: Not specified

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Date of adoption of the decision:

Member State: United Kingdom

Aid No: N 196/03

Title: Meat and Livestock Commission Quality Pig Meat Advertising Scheme

Objective: The aim of the scheme is to promote and advertise on a quality basis the advantages of eating pig meat and their products complying with quality specifications. Promotion and advertising will take place in the United Kingdom, in the European Union outside the United Kingdom, and elsewhere

Legal basis: The Agricultural Act 1967

Budget: GBP 23 300 000 (EUR 35 200 000)

Aid intensity or amount: Up to 100 % (para-fiscal levy)

Duration: From the date of approval of the Commission until 31 March 2008

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Date of adoption of the decision:

Member State: The Netherlands

Aid No: N 209/2004

Title: Sales promotion for meat and meat products

Objective: Advertising beef and veal in the Netherlands and abroad

Legal basis: Heffingsverordening Promotiefonds (PVV) (2004)

Heffingsverordening Propagandafonds (vlees) (PVV) (2004)

Budget: EUR 1 200 000

Aid intensity or amount: Max 100 %.

Duration: 2004

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Date of adoption of the decision:

Member State: Italy (Autonomous Province of Trento)

Aid No: N 217/03

Title: Support for the agricultural economy

Objective: To promote farming

Legal basis: Legge provinciale 28 marzo 2003, n. 4 ‘Sostegno dell'economia agricola, disciplina dell'agricoltura biologica e della contrassegnazione di prodotti geneticamente non modificati’

Budget: Between EUR 100 000 000 and EUR 150 000 000

Aid intensity or amount: Variable depending on the measure (from 50 % to 100 %); EUR 440 per hectare for the agri-environmental measure; some measures do not constitute aid within the meaning of Article 87(1) of the Treaty

Duration: Until the end of 2006

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Date of adoption of the decision:

Member State: Belgium

Aid No: N 219/2004

Title: Royal decree fixing the fees payable by operators in the food chain in the potato sector

Objective: To collect the funds needed to finance a programme to detect and control certain organisms highly harmful to potatoes, namely: Ralstonia solanacearum (Smith, 1896; Yabuuchi et al. 1996), Clavibacter michiganensis (Smith, 1910; Davis et al. 1984) ssp. sepedonicus. (Spieckermann and Kotthoff 1914; Davis et al .1984; Zgurskaya et al. 1993)

Legal basis: Projet d'arrêté royal fixant les redevances dues par les opérateurs participant à la chaîne alimentaire dans le secteur pommes de terre.

Ontwerp-koninklijk besluit tot vaststelling van de door de operatoren die deelnemen aan de voedselketen in de sector aardappelen verschuldigde bijdragen.

Loi du 2 avril 1971 relative à la lutte contre les organismes nuisibles aux végétaux et aux produits végétaux (Moniteur belge du 1er janvier 2002, 188-190).

Wet van 2 april 1971 betreffende de bestrijding van voor planten en plantaardige producten schadelijke organismen (Belgisch Staatsblad van 1 januari 2002, blz. 188-190).

Loi du 17 mars 1993 relative à la création d'un Fonds budgétaire pour la production et la protection des végétaux et des produits végétaux (Moniteur belge du 28.05.2003 12906).

Wet van 17 maart 1993 betreffende de oprichting van een Begrotingsfonds voor de productie en de bescherming van planten en plantaardige producten (Belgisch Staatsblad van 28.5.2003 12906)

Budget: EUR 400 000 per year

Aid intensity or amount: 100 % of the cost of the programme

Duration: Same as that of the crisis measures introduced in Belgium for intensified monitoring to detect the quarantine organisms responsible for brown rot and ring rot

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Date of adoption of the decision:

Member State: Spain (Cantabria)

Aid No: N 226/2004

Title: Aid for setting up cleaning centres for animal transport vehicles

Objective: Investments for setting up cleaning centres for animal transport vehicles

Legal basis: Proyecto de orden por la que se regulan y convocan ayudas a la instalación y adecuación de centros de limpieza y desinfección de los vehículos destinados al transporte de animales en la Comunidad de Cantabria

Budget: EUR 216 000 per year

Aid intensity or amount: 40 % (50 % in less-favoured areas and in installations for processing and marketing agricultural products)

Duration: Not specified

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Date of adoption of the decision:

Member State: United Kingdom (England)

Aid No: N 234/2004

Title: The Woodland Grant Scheme (England) (1988) — Sustainable Forestry Operations Grant

Objective: Aid aims at supporting investments in woodlands to secure significant environmental, social and economic benefits which bring the woodlands to a condition where the owner can resume normal management operations.

Legal basis: The Forestry Act 1979

Budget: GBP 1 000 000 per year

Aid intensity or amount: Variable. Payments for investments will not exceed 100 % of eligible costs.

Duration: 1 year, starting from July 2004.

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Date of adoption of the decision:

Member State: France

Aid No: N 235/2004

Title: Plan for restructuring the pig sector

Objective: To resize pig production in France. The plan should result in a 3 % cut in production in two years (2004-05)

Budget: EUR 7 000 000 in 2004

Aid intensity or amount: Variable

Duration: 2 years

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