EN Official Journal of the European Union C 258/7

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

(2007/C 258/05)

XA Number: XA 127/07

Member State: Italy

Region: Emilia Romagna

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving an individual aid award: Fondo di rotazione per la promozione e lo sviluppo della cooperazione — Foncooper — in relazione alle iniziative nella regione Emilia Romagna.

Legal basis:

— Titolo I della legge 27 febbraio 1985 n. 49, modificata con legge 5 marzo 2001 n. 57, art. 12 (G.U. n. 66 del 20 marzo 2001)

— Direttiva del ministero dell'Industria, del commercio e dell'artigianato (ora ministero dello Sviluppo economico) del 9 maggio 2001 (G.U. n. 171 del 25 luglio 2001)

— Deliberazione regionale n. 792 del 4.6.2007

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall amount of individual aid granted to the company: Aid scheme: overall annual amount is EUR 5 million.

Maximum aid intensity: In accordance with Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006, the aid intensity may not exceed:

Date of implementation: As provided for in Article 20(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006, after confirmation from the Commission (within ten working days from receipt of the summary) in the form of an acknowledgement bearing an identification number and publication on the internet.

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

Objective of aid: Transparent aid to cooperative agricultural SMEs engaged in primary production for carrying out investment projects in tangible fixed assets, to be implemented after the decision to grant the funding is taken.

Eligible expenditure: Expenditure (excluding VAT) on building works, the purchase and improvement of buildings, and the purchase, modernisation and restructuring of machinery, equipment and facilities.

Expenditure on the purchase of land other than that intended for building work may be eligible, provided that it does not exceed 10 % of the eligible investment expenditure.

Sector(s) concerned: The scheme applies to small and medium-sized cooperative enterprises engaged in primary production, excluding those cases referred to in Articles 1 and 4 of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006.

Name and address of the granting authority:

Regione Emilia Romagna Direzione generale Attività produttive, commercio e industria Via Aldo Moro, 44 I-40127 Bologna

Website: http://prodotti.bnl.it/pagina.asp?Page=2213

Other information: Individual finance projects may not exceed EUR 2 million or 70 % of the eligible investment, and the overall amount of aid granted to an individual enterprise (calculated as the difference between the repayments at market rates and the repayments at the subsidised rate applicable under the scheme) may not exceed EUR 400 000 over any three-year period or EUR 500 000 if the enterprise is located in a less-favoured area or in one of the areas as referred to in Article 36(a)(i), (ii) and (iii) of Regulation (EC) No 1698/2005, which are designated by Member States in accordance with Articles 50 and 94 of that Regulation.

XA number: XA 128/07

Member State: Spain

Region: Castilla-La Mancha

Title of aid scheme: Ayudas para paliar los daños ocasionados en el viñedo afectado por las tormentas acaecidas en mayo y junio de 2007.

Legal basis: Decreto no 66/2007, de 25.5.2007, por el que se adoptan medidas urgentes para la atención a determinadas necesidades derivadas de situaciones de naturaleza catastrófica producidas por fenómenos meteorológicos adversos en el territorio de Castilla-La Mancha durante el mes de mayo de 2007; Resolución de 1.6.2007, del Vicepresidente Primero, por la que se determinan los términos municipales afectados por situaciones de naturaleza catastrófica producidas por fenómenos meteorológicos adversos en el territorio de Castilla-La Mancha, durante el mes de mayo de 2007; Orden de 11.6.2007, de la Consejería de Agricultura, por la que se declara como fenómeno climático adverso asimilable a desastre natural las tormentas acaecidas en junio de 2007 en determinados municipios de Castilla-La Mancha.

Orden de 14.6.2007, de la Consejería de Agricultura, por la que se establecen las bases reguladoras y se convoca la concesión de ayudas para la recuperación del viñedo afectado por las tormentas de 2007

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall amount of individual aid granted to the company: EUR 12 000 000 lump-sum payment

Maximum aid intensity: 49 % of the damage

Date of implementation:

Duration of scheme or individual aid award:

Objective of aid: to compensate for the reduction in income from the sale of the product due to the adverse climatic event and to help with the costs met by the farmer as a result of the event (costs of pruning and regenerating the affected parts of the vine, costs of cicatrising and cryptogamic treatments to prevent fungal attack), in accordance with Article 11(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006.

Sector(s) concerned: Crop production: vines

Name and address of the granting authority:

Consejería de Agricultura C/ Pintor Matías Moreno, no 4 E-45004 Toledo

Internet address: Provisionally:

www.jccm.es/agricul/paginas/ayudas/agricultura/vinedo.htm

Once published:

www.jccm.es/cgi-bin/docm.php3

XA number: XA 129/07

Member State: Spain

Region: Cantabria

Title of aid scheme: Ayudas al sacrificio de animales positivos a paratuberculosis bovina.

Legal basis: Orden GAN/26/2007, de 2 de mayo, por la que se establecen las bases reguladoras y se aprueba la convocatoria para la Anualidad 2007, de las ayudas por el sacrificio de animales positivos a paratuberculosis bovina dentro del marco de la ejecución de los programas sanitarios de las Agrupaciones de Defensa Sanitaria Ganadera

BOC no 92, de 14 de mayo de 2007

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme: EUR 300 000

Maximum aid intensity:

— The amount of aid will be set on the basis of the rates laid down in Annex I to Order GAN/26/2007, and may not exceed EUR 59 999 for any beneficiary.

— The aforementioned rates establish different amounts which applicants may receive, based on the age of the slaughtered animals and their productive capacity, ranging from EUR 117,20 to EUR 360,61 per animal.

Date of implementation: May 2007

Duration of scheme: 2007-2013

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

To compensate livestock holders for the losses caused by slaughtering animals diagnosed with bovine paratuberculosis, as part of the implementation of the health programmes of Livestock Health Protection Groups.

The eligible costs relate to the difference between the slaughtered animals' meat value and their commercial value, based on their age and productive capacity.

Sector(s) concerned: Bovine livestock farming

Name and address of the granting authority:

Consejería de Ganadería, Agricultura y Pesca del Gobierno de Cantabria Edificio Europa E-39011 Santander (Cantabria)

Internet address: http://boc.gobcantabria.es/boc/datos/MES %202007-05/OR %202007-05-14 %20092/HTML/2007-6586.asp?volver=1

Other information: —

In Santander, on 5 June 2007

Head of the Animal Health and Welfare Service

Signed: Francisco Manuel Fernandez Martinez

XA Number: XA 130/07

Member State: Italy

Region: Umbria

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving an individual aid award: Fondo di rotazione per la promozione e lo sviluppo della cooperazione — Foncooper — in relazione alle iniziative nella regione Umbria.

Legal basis:

— Titolo I della legge 27 febbraio 1985 n. 49, modificata con legge 5 marzo 2001 n. 57, art. 12 (G.U. n. 66 del 20 marzo 2001)

— Direttiva del ministero dell'Industria, del commercio e dell'artigianato (ora ministero dello Sviluppo economico) del 9 maggio 2001 (G.U. n. 171 del 25 luglio 2001)

— Deliberazione regionale n. 1095 del 31.7.2002.

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall amount of individual aid granted to the company: Aid scheme: the overall annual amount is EUR 3 million.

Maximum aid intensity: In accordance with Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006, the aid intensity may not exceed:

Date of implementation: As provided for in Article 20(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006, the scheme will be implemented after confirmation from the Commission (within ten working days from receipt of the summary) in the form of an acknowledgement bearing an identification number and publication on the internet.

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

Objective of aid: Transparent aid to cooperative agricultural SMEs engaged in primary production, for carrying out investment projects in tangible fixed assets, implemented after the decision to grant the funding is taken.

Eligible expenditure: (excluding VAT) on building works, the purchase and improvement of buildings, and the purchase, modernisation and restructuring of machinery, equipment and facilities.

Expenditure on the purchase of land other than that intended for building work may be eligible, provided that it does not exceed 10 % of the eligible investment expenditure.

Sector(s) concerned: The scheme applies to small and medium-sized cooperative enterprises engaged in primary production, excluding those cases referred to in Articles 1 and 4 of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006.

Name and address of the granting authority:

«Regione Umbria — Servizio Politiche di sostegno alle imprese» Via Mario Angeloni, 61 I-06100 Perugia

Decision-making body: ‘Comitato di Gestione Foncooper’ (Foncooper Management Committee), provided for in the agreement concluded on 26 June 2000 between the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Crafts (now the Ministry of Economic Development) and Coopercredito SpA (now Banca Nazionale del Lavoro SpA, Via Veneto 119, I-00187 Rome) and the Addenda adopted on 31 October 2002 between the Umbria Region and Coopercredito SpA (now Banca Nazionale del Lavoro SpA) and on 9 November 2006 between the Umbria Region and Banca Nazionale del Lavoro SpA.

Website: http://prodotti.bnl.it/pagina.asp?Page=2212

Other information: Individual finance projects may not exceed EUR 2 million or 70 % of the eligible investment, and the overall amount of aid granted to an individual enterprise (calculated as the difference between the repayments at market rates and the repayments at the subsidised rate applicable under the scheme) may not exceed EUR 400 000 over any three-year period or EUR 500 000 if the enterprise is located in a less-favoured area or in one of the areas referred to in Article 36(a)(i), (ii) and (iii) of Regulation (EC) No 1698/2005, which are designated by Member States in accordance with Articles 50 and 94 of that Regulation.

The annual expenditure planned for the aid scheme includes the annual expenditure under the scheme, with the same legal basis, intended for SMEs that are not covered by Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006 but are covered by Regulation (EC) No 70/2001.

XA Number: XA 131/07

Member State: Ireland

Region: —

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving an individual aid: On-Farm Scheme of Grant Aid for the Development of the Organic Sector.

Legal basis: Statutory Instrument No 112 of 2004 — European Communities (Organic Farming) Regulations 2004.

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall amount of individual aid granted to the company: EUR 3,5 million over 7 year period (2007-2013)

Maximum aid intensity: 40 % of approved eligible investment with additional amount of 10 % for eligible young farmers

Date of implementation:

Duration of scheme or individual aid award:

Objective of aid: The objective of the Scheme is to facilitate the development of the organic sector so as to ensure a regular supply of high quality organic produce to the market. The Scheme is in accordance with Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006. Eligible costs covered include investment towards equipment and facilities for production, preparation, grading, packing and storage of organic products. Only activities preparing a product for first sale are eligible for investment aid under this Scheme.

Sector(s) concerned: All Agriculture sectors

Name and address of the granting authority:

Organic Unit, Department of Agriculture and Food Johnstown Castle Estate Co. Wexford Ireland

Web-address: www.agriculture.gov.ie/organics

The Scheme documentation and conditions will be located in the Organic Food and Farming page of the Department of Agriculture and Food website: www.agriculture.gov.ie