EN Official Journal of the European Union C 105/12

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

Cases where the Commission raises no objections

(2005/C 105/04)

Date of adoption of the decision:

Member State (Region): Italy (Abruzzi)

Aid No: N 261/2004

Title: Subsidised farm credit

Legal basis:

Legge regionale 14 settembre 1994, n. 62 e Legge regionale 9 marzo 2004, n. 11.

Objective: Regional Law No 11 of 9 March 2004 amends Regional Law No 62 of 14 September 1994 on subsidised farm credit

Budget: The regional authorities are allocating total funding of EUR 900 000 for 2004

Aid intensity or amount: Investment aid for the first purchase of livestock, materials and equipment: 50 % in less-favoured areas and 40 % in other areas. 1,10 % of the applicable interest rate

Duration: Five years, until 31 December 2009

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Date of adoption of the decision:

Member State: Italy (Friuli-Venezia Giulia)

Aid No: N 262/04

Title: Aid to compensate for production losses due to adverse weather events

Objective: To grant compensation to farmers for production losses due to drought and torrential rain in the Region in 2003.

Legal basis: Legge Regionale 13 agosto 2002, n. 22 art. 1 e successive modificazioni;

Delibera della Giunta regionale n. 1239 del 14 maggio 2004

Budget: EUR 1 825 068 (Fondo Regionale per la gestione delle emergenze in agricoltura)

Aid intensity or amount: 80 % of actual losses, minus 15 % normal business risk

Duration: One year.

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Date of adoption of the decision:

Member State: Belgium

Aid No: N 270/2004

Title: Draft royal decree fixing the temporary crisis contributions due by potato producers to compensate losses suffered as a result of measures to combat harmful organisms

Objective: To compensate potato producers for losses suffered as a result of measures to combat harmful organisms

Legal basis:

— Loi du 2 avril 1971 relative à la lutte contre les organismes nuisibles aux végétaux et aux produits végétaux (Wet van 2 april 1971 betreffende de bestrijding van voor planten en plantaardige producten schadelijke organismen)

— 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 (Wet van 17 maart 1993 betreffende de oprichting van een begrotingsfonds voor de produktie en de bescherming van planten en plantaardige produkten)

— Le projet d'arrêté royal fixant les cotisations de crise temporaires dues par les producteurs de pommes de terre pour l'indemnisation de pertes subies suite aux mesures prises contre des organismes nuisibles (Ontwerp van koninklijk besluit tot vaststelling van de door de aarappelproducenten verschuldigde tijdelijke crisibijdragen voor het vergoeden van verliezen ingevolge maatregelen tegen schadelijke organismen)

Budget: EUR 1 500 000

Aid intensity or amount: Up to 100 %

Duration: Until the harmful organisms in question have been eradicated in Belgium

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

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Date of adoption of the decision:

Member State: Italy (Abruzzi)

Aid No: N 272/04

Title: Programme of assistance for the relocation or cessation of agricultural activities for public health or similar reasons

Objective: To promote relocation of holdings, or withdrawal from farming and closure of production capacity

Legal basis:

Legge regionale n. 15 del 26 aprile 2004 — ‘Disposizioni finanziarie per la redazione del bilancio annuale 2004 e pluriennale 2004/2006 della Regione Abruzzo’

Budget: EUR 5 000 000

Aid intensity or amount: From 30 to 100 % or unamortised value of property plus 20 %

Duration: 1 year

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Date of adoption of the decision:

Member State: Italy (Basilicata)

No of the aid: N 274/2004

Title: Aid to compensate farmers for the losses caused by heavy snow.

Objective: To compensate for damages due to the heavy snow in the county of Potenza on 23-24.12.2003.

Legal basis:

Legge n. 185/1992 e successive modifiche e Delibera n. 680 del 23.3.2004 — Proposta di declaratoria dell'eccezionalità dell'evento calamitoso ‘Nevicate nei giorni 23 e 24 dicembre 2003 — Provincia di Potenza’.

Budget: EUR 1 280 000.

Aid intensity or amount: As specified in Commission Decision C (2003) 4328 of 16.12.2003 (aid C 12/B/1995).

Duration: Una tantum.

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Date of adoption of the decision:

Member State: Italy (Apulia)

Aid No: N 280/04

Title: Assistance for stockfarmers participating in the bluetongue vaccination plan

Objective: To offset losses incurred in the control of animal diseases

Legal basis:

Disegno di legge ‘Interventi a favore degli allevatori partecipanti all'attuazione del piano di sorveglianza sierologica e del piano vaccinale per la febbre catarrale degli ovini (Blue Tongue)’

Budget: EUR 748 914,98

Aid intensity or amount:

— 90 % for losses due to death, abortions and reduced milk production.

— EUR 60 per animal per year for making animals available (with reduction of aid according to the actual length of time the animal is made available)

Duration: The time needed to make the payments

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Date of adoption of the decision:

Member State: Italy

No of the aid: N 281/2004

Title: Accord interprofessionnel 2004 pour les pommes de terre destinées à la transformation industrielle et aide au stockage privé de pommes de terre de consommation

Objective: Aid for the stocking of potatoes.

Legal basis:

Accordo interprofessionale 2004 per le patate destinate alla trasformazione industriale e aiuto all'ammasso privato di patate alimentari.

Budget: EUR 7 600 000.

Aid intensity or amount: Depending on the measure

Duration: One year.

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Date of adoption of the decision:

Member State: Italy (Veneto)

Aid No: N 289/B/2003

Title: ‘Interventi di indennizzo per i pulcini che non hanno potuto essere accasati in conseguenza di influenza aviaria’ (compensation for chicks which could not be placed as a result of avian influenza)

Legal basis:

Allegato B) della deliberazione della Giunta regionale del Veneto n. 808 del 28 maggio 2003 di attuazione della legge regionale 7 aprile 2000, n. 8

Objective: To compensate hatcheries located outside the protection and surveillance zones established by the veterinary authorities for day-old chicks which could not be placed in the holdings that had ordered them because they were located inside those zones. The measure also addressed animal welfare problems as the chicks could not remain in the hatcheries for more than a day after hatching because they did not have the proper structures to raise them (brooding houses). The day-old chicks were therefore put down and incinerated in accordance with the health rules in force

Budget: The regional authorities plan to allocate a budget of around EUR 800 000

Aid intensity or amount: Up to 80 % of the income lost calculated on the average market values of the day-old chicks in the area concerned during the periods in question

Duration: Ad hoc measures covering the income lost by poultry-breeding holdings as a result of the epidemics which hit the Veneto region in the periods from the end of August 2000 to the end of March 2001, and from the end of October 2002 to the beginning of October 2003.

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Date of adoption of the decision:

Member State: Italy (Apulia)

Aid No: N 290/04

Title: Assistance in agricultural areas hit by natural disasters

Objective: To compensate farmers for losses due to adverse weather

Legal basis: Legge 14 febbraio 1992, n. 185 ‘Nuova disciplina del Fondo di solidarietà nazionale’. Deliberazione della Giunta regionale n. 1924 del 28 novembre 2003‘Proposta urgente al Ministero delle politiche agricole di declaratoria delle eccezionali avversità atmosferiche. Piogge alluvionali del 29/9/2003. Provincia di Brindisi’

Budget: Part of the budget laid down for implementation of the scheme approved under aid No C/12/B/95

Aid intensity or amount: Rates approved under aid No C 12/B/95

Duration: Time needed to pay the aid

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Date of adoption of the decision:

Member State: Finland.

No of the aid: N 292/2004.

Title: Deferred payments of subsidised loans.

Objective: The notified scheme would make it possible to defer loan payments of subsidised loans by two years at a time or five years in total. For certain types of subsidised loans (state loans) no interest would be paid on the period of deferral. Such deferrals and interest-free periods could be granted on subsidised loans granted for investments, housing or as start-up aid for young farmers pursuant to the national aid scheme, the amendment of which was lastly approved by the Commission with Decision C (2003) 1872. The Finnish authorities have specified that the arrangement does not increase the aid amount or intensity.

Legal basis: Maaseutuelinkeinojen rahoituslaki, valtioneuvoston asetus eräistä maaseudun kehittämiseen myönnettävistä lainoista ja valtioneuvoston asetus maaseudun kehittämisestä, sellaisena kuin se on muutettuna vuonna 2004

Lagen om finansiering av landsbygdsindustri (Maaseutuelinkeinojen rahoituslaki), regeringens rättsakt om vissa lån som beviljas för landsbygdsutveckling, regeringens rättsakt om landsbygdsutveckling efter ändring 2004.

Budget: No budgetary impact

Aid intensity or amount: No changes to the existing aid scheme.

Duration: Unlimited.

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Date of adoption of the decision:

Member State: France

Aid No: N 294/2004

Title: Aid for the regeneration of grassland (Moselle)

Objective: To regenerate permanent grassland following the drought in the summer of 2003

Budget: EUR 350 000

Aid intensity or amount: Maximum 100 %

Duration: Once

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Date of adoption of the decision:

Member State: France

Aid No: N 295/2004

Title: Aid for the rice sector

Objective: To adapt the sector to the new market conditions by financing aid for research and development, investment, improving product quality and technical assistance

Budget: EUR 200 000

Aid intensity or amount: Variable

Duration: Five years (2004-08)

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Date of adoption of the decision:

Member State: Italy (Veneto)

No of the aid: N 302/2004

Title: Regional Law 40/2003 Articles 52, 53, 55 and 56 ‘Short term loans and guarantees to the agricultural sector’.

Objective: To provide short-term loans, guarantees and technical assistance to the agricultural sector.

Legal basis: Legge regionale 12 Dicembre 2003 n. 40 ‘Nuove norme per gli interventi in agricoltura’ articoli 52, 53, 55 e 56.

Budget: Approximately EUR 900 000 (EUR 600 000 for the measures provided for in Article 53 and EUR 300 000 for the measures provided for in Article 56)

Aid intensity or amount: As specified in the letter to the Member State.

Duration: Until 31.12.2010

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Date of adoption of the decision:

Member State: Netherlands

Aid No: N 326/2004

Title: Platform Biologica 2001 (2001 organic platform)

Objective: Market studies, technical support and publicity for the organic sector

Legal basis: Decreet van de minister van Landbouw, natuurbeheer en visserij.

Budget: EUR 174 705,38 per year

Aid intensity or amount: 50 %-100 % depending on the measures

Duration: 2005-08

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

http://europa.eu.int/comm/sg/sgb/state_aids/