EN Official Journal of the European Union C 129/14

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 EC 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 129/05)

Aid No: XA 22/08

Member State: Italy

Region: Provincia autonoma di Bolzano

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving an individual aid award: Criteri e modalità per la concessione di aiuti per la produzione di prodotti agricoli di alta qualità

Legal basis: Articolo 4, comma 1, e articolo 5 quater della legge provinciale 14 dicembre 1999, n. 10, e successive modifiche

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall amount of individual aid granted to the company: EUR 2 200 000

Maximum aid intensity: 100 %

Date of implementation:

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: Until 31 December 2013

Objective of aid: Article 14(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006

Sector(s) concerned: Raising of dairy cattle, other cattle, horses and other equine animals, sheep and goats, swine/pigs and poultry

Name and address of the granting authority:

Provincia autonoma di Bolzano Ripartizione provinciale agricoltura Via Brennero, 6 I-39100 Bolzano

Website: http://www.provincia.bz.it/agricoltura/publ/publ_getreso.asp?PRES_ID=94008

Head of Division

Martin PAZELLER

Aid No: XA 24/08

Member State: Italy

Region: Provincia autonoma di Bolzano

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving an individual aid award: Criteri e modalità per la concessione di aiuti per il controllo in agricoltura biologica

Legal basis: Articolo 17 della legge provinciale 20 gennaio 2003, n. 3

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall amount of individual aid granted to the company: EUR 70 000

Maximum aid intensity: 80 % of costs deemed eligible, up to EUR 3 000 a year per beneficiary

Date of implementation:

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: Until 31 December 2013

Objective of aid: Article 14(2)(f)

Sector(s) concerned: Perennial crops (apples and wine grapes); Livestock farming (cattle for dairy production and stock replacement)

Name and address of the granting authority:

Provincia autonoma di Bolzano Ripartizione provinciale agricoltura Via Brennero, 6 I-39100 Bolzano

Website: http://www.provincia.bz.it/agricoltura/dema/dema_getreso.asp?DRES_ID=2530

Head of Division

Martin PAZELLER

Aid No: XA 37/08

Member State: Italy

Region: Provincia autonoma di Bolzano

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving an individual aid award: Criteri e modalità riguardanti gli aiuti per la lotta alle fitopatie

Legal basis: Articolo 4, comma 1, lettera n), legge provinciale 14 dicembre 1998, n. 11, e successive modifiche

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall amount of individual aid granted to the company: EUR 150 000

Maximum aid intensity: 70 %

Date of implementation:

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: Until 31 December 2013

Objective of aid: Article 10(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006

Sector(s) concerned: Growing of grapes, apples and stone fruit

Name and address of the granting authority:

Provincia autonoma di Bolzano Ripartizione provinciale agricoltura Via Brennero, 6 I-39100 Bolzano

Website: http://www.provincia.bz.it/agricoltura/dema/dema_getreso.asp?DRES_ID=2505

Head of Division

Martin PAZELLER

Aid No: XA 52/08

Member State: Italy

Region: Regione autonoma Valle d'Aosta

Title of aid scheme: Assistenza tecnica e formazione

Legal basis: Articolo 59 del titolo III (Disciplina degli interventi regionali in materia di agricoltura e di sviluppo rurale. Modificazioni alle leggi regionali 16 novembre 1999, n. 36, e 28 aprile 2003, n. 18) della legge regionale 12 dicembre 2007, n. 32 «Disposizioni per la formazione del bilancio annuale e pluriennale della Regione autonoma Valle d'Aosta (Legge finanziaria per gli anni 2008/2010). Modificazioni di leggi regionali.»

Planned annual expenditure under the scheme: EUR 0,1 million

Maximum aid intensity and eligible costs: Aid may be granted in the form of subsidised services, without direct payments of money, for up to 100 % of costs for the following:

Date of implementation: From the day following the date of the Commission's formal acknowledgement, bearing an identification number, of receipt of the summary

Duration of scheme: Aid may be granted under the present scheme until 31 December 2013 and for six months thereafter

Objective of aid: To ensure that agricultural undertakings receive appropriate technical assistance and training.

Reference to Community legislation: Article 15 of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006

Sector(s) concerned: Livestock (cattle, sheep and goats, poultry and rabbits, small traditional pig holdings, equines and other minor species), fruit (apples, pears, nuts, small fruit and other traditional fruit, with a particular focus on traditional forms of cultivation that are in danger of dying out), wine, fodder crops, cereals, vegetables, medicinal plants, flowers and nursery plants, bee-keeping and other animal and crop sectors deemed eligible

Name and address of the authority granting the aid:

Regione autonoma Valle d'Aosta Assessorato agricoltura e risorse naturali Dipartimento Agricoltura Loc. Grande Charrière, 66 I-11020 Saint-Christophe (Aosta)

Website: http://www.regione.vda.it/gestione/sezioni_web/allegato.asp?pk_allegato=1247

Saint-Christophe

Coordinator, Agriculture Department

Emanuele DUPONT

Aid No: XA 77/08

Member State: Republic of Cyprus

Region: All the territory controlled by the Republic of Cyprus

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving individual aid: Ενίσχυση για την πληρωμή ασφαλίστρων

Legal basis: Ο περί Γεωργικής Ασφάλισης (τροποποιητικός) Νόμος του 2007 και οι περί Γεωργικής Ασφάλισης (τροποποιητικοί) Κανονισμοί του 2007

Annual expenditure planned or overall amount of aid granted to the company: Approximately CYP 2,2 million (average over the last three years)

Maximum aid intensity: 50 %

Date of implementation:

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: Until 30 June 2014

Objective of aid: Promotion of insurance for the primary production of small and medium-sized enterprises

Sector(s) concerned:

Agriculture — Crop production: deciduous trees (apple, pear, apricot, plum, almond, cherry, peach)

Vines (table grapes and wine grapes)

Cereals (wheat, barley)

Unirrigated forage plants (vetch, oats, cereal mixtures with legumes)

Citrus fruit (oranges, mandarin varieties, lemons, grapefruit, bergamot)

Potatoes

Beans

Artichokes

Loquats

Name and address of granting authority:

Website: Under construction

Other information: Large enterprises are not entitled to insurance premium subsidies

Giorgos FOTIOU

Director

Agricultural Insurance Organisation

12 December 2007