EN Official Journal of the European Union C 105/25

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 105/04

Aid No: XA 405/08

Member State: Italy

Region: Sardegna

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving individual aid: Regime di aiuto a favore delle PMI attive nella produzione di prodotti agricoli che partecipano ad attività di promozione istituzionale

Legal basis: Legge Regionale 5 marzo 2008, n. 3 — art. 7, comma 14

Deliberazione della Giunta regionale n. 58/10 del 28.10.2008

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall amount of individual aid granted to the company: Presumed annual amount: EUR 200 000

Maximum aid intensity: 100 % of the eligible costs

Date of implementation: The scheme will be implemented 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: Provision of technical support in the agricultural sector — Article 15 of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006.

Eligible expenditure under the scheme is as follows: participation fees, transport and publication costs, and rental and equipping of exhibition stands, including the supply of ancillary services, and prizes awarded following contests not exceeding EUR 250 per prize and per winner.

Sector(s) concerned: The sheep and goat sector and the fruit and vegetables sector.

Name and address of the granting authority:

Regione Autonoma della Sardegna — Assessorato dell’Agricoltura e Riforma Agro-Pastorale Via Pessagno, n. 4 09129 Cagliari ITALIA

Regione Autonoma della Sardegna — Agenzia Regionale Sardegna Promozione Viale Trieste n. 115 09123 Cagliari ITALIA

Website: http://www.regione.sardegna.it/j/v/80?s=75087&v=2&c=4426&t=1

http://www.regione.sardegna.it/documenti/1_73_20081028175620.pdf

Other information: —

Aid No: XA 419/08

Member State: Spain

Region: Galicia

Title of aid scheme: Ayudas a asociaciones de ganaderos y asociaciones de criadores de ganado vacuno de raza frisona

Legal basis: Ayudas para la realización de pruebas para determinar la calidad genética, el rendimiento del ganado vacuno lechero y a la realización de técnicas o prácticas innovadoras en el ámbito de cría de animales de ganado vacuno de raza frisona y se convocan para el año 2009

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme: EUR 1 895 927,00

Maximum aid intensity:

— 70 % of the cost of performing tests to determine the genetic quality of dairy cattle,

— 70 % of the cost of performing tests to determine the yield of dairy cattle,

— 40 % of the cost of introducing innovatory animal breeding techniques or practices on holdings.

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 2009.

Objective of aid: The scheme provides for aid for:

Improving the production and breeding characteristics and health of livestock by:

Determining the genetic quality or yield of livestock for the purpose of genetic improvement programmes. Aid is paid for performing tests.

Determining the yield of livestock for the purpose of improvement programmes. Aid is paid for collecting data.

Introducing new techniques and innovative practices in animal breeding so as to achieve genetic improvements in the breed. Aid is paid for breeding programmes.

This scheme is in accordance with Article 16 of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006, which indicates that such aid is compatible with the common market.

Sector(s) concerned: Livestock production.

Name and address of the granting authority: Xunta de Galicia. Consellería de Medio Rural.

Dirección Xeral de Produción, Industrias e Calidade Agroalimentaria.

Website: http://mediorural.xunta.es/

http://mediorural.xunta.es/externos/orde_cria_frison.pdf

Other information: e-mail address:

dxpica.mrural@xunta.es

gerardo.rivero.cuesta@xunta.es

Santiago de Compostela, 5 January 2009

THE SECRETARY-GENERAL

signed Alberte Souto Souto

Aid No: XA 437/08

Member State: Spain

Region: Castilla y León (provincia de Salamanca)

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving an individual aid: subvenciones dirigidas a cooperativas de ganaderos que tengan como fin la utilización de cebaderos y/o la comercialización de carne, anualidad 2009

Legal basis: Proyecto de bases reguladoras de la convocatoria de subvenciones dirigidas a cooperativas de ganaderos que tengan como fin la utilización de cebaderos y/o la comercialización de carne, anualidad 2009

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall amount of individual aid granted to the company: The annual expenditure planned under the scheme for 2009 is EUR 45 000 (forty-five thousand euros).

Maximum aid intensity: the grant may not exceed 70 % of the eligible expenditure or EUR 8 000 per applicant.

Moreover, aid aimed at defraying operating and management costs will be temporary — based on the date the cooperative was established — and degressive, i.e. subject to the percentages indicated below:

55 % of the costs concerned for cooperatives established in 2005,

60 % of the costs concerned for cooperatives established in 2006,

65 % of the costs concerned for cooperatives established in 2007,

70 % of the costs concerned for cooperatives established in 2008.

Date of implementation: From the date of 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 scheme or individual aid award: Until 31 December 2009.

Objective of aid: The purpose of the aid is to promote the development of livestock cooperatives in the province of Salamanca, thereby boosting the creation and maintenance of cooperative livestock bodies.

It is also aimed at increasing the presence of the said cooperatives at fairs and exhibitions organised by the Diputación Provincial at the Exhibition Centre, implying that the importance of these installations and of the activities taking place should extend to Autonomous Community and national level.

This aid scheme falls within the scope of Articles 9 and 15 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.

Eligible activities: participation in fairs and exhibitions organised by the Diputación de Salamanca, operational and management-related activities and the provision of technical assistance to the Salamancan livestock sector.

Eligible expenditure is taken to mean:

1. registration, space and stand rental, security, conference hosts and participation fees;

2. publications related to the activity;

3. travelling expenses;

4. technical symposia held in the Exhibition Centre during the fairs;

5. prizes awarded in the competitions organised by the body at the fairs, with a maximum limit of EUR 250 per prize and winner.

1. the cost of renting premises for headquarters;

2. legal and administrative expenses;

3. office equipment;

4. administrative staff costs;

5. overheads (maintenance, repairs, conservation, supplies, etc.).

1. training activities: the actual costs of organising the training programme;

2. attendance at national fairs: space and stand rental, security, conference hosts, participation fees, travelling expenses and publications related to the activity;

3. presentation of quality products at national and provincial level: only the rental of the installations where the presentation is made, travelling expenses and publications related to the activity may be subsidised;

4. publications such as catalogues or websites presenting information about producers from a given region or producers of a given product, provided that this information and the presentation are neutral and that all producers concerned have the same opportunity to feature in them;

5. prizes awarded in the competitions organised by the body at the fairs, with a maximum limit of EUR 250 per prize and winner.

Sector(s) concerned: Livestock sector.

Name and address of the granting authority:

Excma. Diputación Provincial de Salamanca C/Felipe Espino no 1 37002 Salamanca ESPAÑA

Website: —

http://www.lasalina.es/areas/eh/ProyConvocatorias/2009/Cooperativas.pdf

Other information: The aid will be compatible with any other grant, aid, resources or revenue assigned to the subsidised activity by a national or European Union authority or public or private body or international organisation, provided that the aid ceilings specified in Commission Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006 are not exceeded (in particular, in the case of the activities referred to in 3.B of the regional instrument concerned) and, more specifically, the operating and management costs, the total amount of public aid granted within the scope of Article 9 of the Regulation must not exceed EUR 400 000 per recipient.

If the applicant has been awarded another grant — for the same purpose — which is incompatible with that awarded by the Diputación, Article 33 of Spanish Royal Decree 887/2006 of 21 July 2006 establishing the Rules implementing the General Law on Subsidies will apply.

However, in no case may the amount of subsidies awarded by the Diputación be such that, on its own or together with other grants, aid, revenue or resource, it exceeds the cost of the subsidised activity.

Likewise, the grant will be incompatible with any other grant, aid, resource or revenue for the subsidised activity that is awarded by the Diputación de Salamanca — either by a direct award procedure or by a competitive procedure — covering the same eligible expenditure.

The aid will be granted by means of subsidised services and will not include direct payments of money to producers, in accordance with Article 15(3) of the Regulation.

The beneficiaries of the grant must comply with all the conditions laid down in Article 15 of the Regulation, including the provisions of paragraph 4 concerning conditions for access to a service.