EN Official Journal of the European Union C 227/13

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

(2008/C 227/05)

Aid No: XA 163/08

Member State: Spain

Region: Navarra

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving an individual aid: Ayudas a entidades asociativas para proyectos colectivos de implantación de sistemas de trazabilidad en las explotaciones agrarias

Legal basis: Orden Foral de la Consejera de Desarrollo Rural y Medio Ambiente, por la que se establecen las normas que regulan la concesión de ayudas a entidades asociativas para proyectos colectivos de implantación de sistemas de trazabilidad en las explotaciones agrarias

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

Maximum aid intensity: Up to 40 % of eligible expenditure for investments on agricultural holdings.

Up to 75 % of eligible expenditure on encouraging the production of quality agricultural products

Date of application:

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: 1 April 2008 to 31 December 2011

Objective of aid: The principal objective is to ensure the introduction and improvement of systems guaranteeing food safety throughout the production chain. The secondary objectives are to:

enable producers to identify problem batches in the event of a food alert,

permit the health authorities to deal with food crises rapidly,

provide consumers in an efficient manner with correct and adequate information regarding the origin of products.

Article 4(4)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006: Aid for investments in agricultural holdings. Eligible costs: the purchase of IT hardware and software.

Article 14(2)(c) of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006: Aid to promote the production of quality products. Eligible costs: the cost of training personnel to apply traceability systems

Sector(s) concerned: The animal and plant-production sectors listed in Annex I

Name and address of the granting authority:

Gobierno de Navarra Departamento de Desarrollo Rural y Medio Ambiente C/ Tudela, 20 E-31003 Pamplona

Website: http://www.cfnavarra.es/agricultura/COYUNTURA/AyudasEstado/pdfs/STNO08028 %20OF.pdf

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Aid No: XA 164/08

Member State: Spain

Region: Navarra

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving an individual aid: Ayudas a explotaciones ganaderas por la inmovilización de ganado o el vacío sanitario obligatorio en el marco de campañas de saneamiento ganadero, en el año 2008

Legal basis: Orden Foral de la Consejera de Desarrollo Rural y Medio Ambiente, por la que se establecen las bases por las que se regulan las ayudas a explotaciones ganaderas por la inmovilización de ganado o el vacío sanitario en el marco de campañas de saneamiento ganadero, y se aprueba la convocatoria para el año 2008

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

Maximum aid intensity: The maximum aid intensity will in no case exceed 100 % of the accredited losses

Date of implementation:

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: 15 April 2008 to 31 December 2008

Objective of aid: The principal objective of the aid is to provide compensation for financial losses suffered by agricultural holdings following the compulsory immobilisation of livestock provided for in eradication programmes.

Article 10(2): Aid to compensate farmers for losses caused by animal diseases. Eligible costs: Article 10(2)(a)(ii). Aid for income losses due to quarantine obligations

Sector(s) concerned: Animal production and health

Name and address of granting authority:

Gobierno de Navarra Dirección General de Agricultura y Ganadería Servicio de Ganadería C/ Tudela, 20 E-31003 Pamplona (Navarra)

Website: http://www.cfnavarra.es/agricultura/COYUNTURA/AyudasEstado/pdfs/STNO07085 %20OF.pdf

Other information:

Dirección General de Agricultura y Ganadería C/ Tudela, 20 E-31003 Pamplona Tel. (34) 848 42 29 33 E-mail: izabalzv@cfnavarra.es Gobierno de Navarra

Aid No: XA 166/08

Member State: Federal Republic of Germany

Region: All the German Länder as aid-granting authorities

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving individual aid: Grundsätze für die einzelbetriebliche Förderung landwirtschaftlicher Unternehmen: Förderung der einzelbetrieblichen Energieberatung

Legal basis: Rahmenplan der Gemeinschaftsaufgabe „Verbesserung der Agrarstruktur und des Küstenschutzes“

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall amount of individual aid granted to the company: Approximately EUR 1,1 billion for all measures under the GAK framework plan

Maximum aid intensity: 80 %, subject to a maximum of EUR 1 500

Date of implementation:

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: December 2010

Objective of aid: Aid may be granted for energy advice given to individual enterprises with the aim of improving energy efficiency, including through the production and use of renewable energy.

Such consultancy services consist of:

analysis of present energy consumption levels and costs,

evaluation of the present situation, including an economic assessment and, in particular, identification of weaknesses,

practical recommendations, with guidelines on how to implement the recommended measures for improving energy efficiency,

suggestions for possible use and production of renewable energy, including an economic assessment,

documents setting out the advice and recommendations given, and

details of funding opportunities.

Other services (e.g. investment advice) provided to the agricultural holdings in question are not eligible for funding under these aid rules.

The consultancy services are to be provided by publicly or privately owned specialist bodies which must be recognised by the Länder or authorised by the Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (Reconstruction Loan Corporation) to give energy advice to small and medium-sized enterprises active in the production of agricultural products.

The scheme is based on Article 15(2)(c) of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006.

It complies with Article 15(3) and (4) of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006

Sector(s) concerned: All agricultural sectors

Name and address of the granting authority: The aid will be granted by the relevant Land authorities

Website: http://www.bmelv.de/cln_044/nn_751002/SharedDocs/downloads/04-Landwirtschaft/Foerderung/GAK/Foerderungsgrundsaetze/2008/Energieberatung,templateId=raw,property=publicationFile.pdf/Energieberatung.pdf

Other information:

Bundesministerium für Ernährung, Landwirtschaft und Verbraucherschutz Referat 521 D-53123 Bonn Dr. SCHWEIZER

Aid No: XA 169/08

Member State: Italy

Region: Provincia autonoma di Trento

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving individual aid: L.P. 28.3.2003, n. 4 «Sostegno dell'economia agricola, disciplina dell'agricoltura biologica e della contrassegnazione di prodotti geneticamente non modificati» — Art. 3 — Termini di presentazione delle domande, modalità attuative e condizioni di ammissibilità relativamente all'articolo 25 [Alpicoltura]

Legal basis:

1. L.P. 28.3.2003, n. 4 «Sostegno dell'economia agricola, disciplina dell'agricoltura biologica e della contrassegnazione di prodotti geneticamente non modificati», articolo 25

2. Deliberazione della Giunta provinciale n. 3006 del 21 dicembre 2007, avente per oggetto: L.P. 28.3.2003, n. 4 «Sostegno dell'economia agricola, disciplina dell'agricoltura biologica e della contrassegnazione di prodotti geneticamente non modificati» — Art. 3 — Termini di presentazione delle domande, modalità attuative e condizioni di ammissibilità relativamente agli artt. 17 (Premio d'insediamento), 25 (Alpicoltura), 42 (Agevolazioni per la zootecnia), 44 (Agevolazioni per l'apicoltura) e 46, 1o e 3o comma (Agevolazioni per le produzioni vegetali)

3. Deliberazione della Giunta provinciale n. 122 del 25 gennaio 2008 avente per oggetto la modifica alla deliberazione n. 3006 del 21 dicembre 2007

4. Deliberazione della Giunta provinciale n. 876 del 4 aprile 2008 avente per oggetto la modifica alla deliberazione n. 3006 del 21 dicembre 2007

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall amount of individual aid granted to the company: EUR 6 million

Maximum aid intensity: The aid will be granted up to 80 % of eligible expenditure, with varying intensity depending on the type of subsidy (see, in particular, the attached Decisions (Deliberazioni) constituting the legal basis)

Date of implementation: From the date of the publication of the final number assigned to the aid on the official website of the Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development of the European Commission

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: Aid may be granted up to 31 December 2013

Objective of aid: The aid is aimed at bringing up to standard mountain or other pastures and proteting them by planning and improvement needed to ensure and improve their management, including related infrastructure, in accordance with Articles 4 and 5 of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006

Degree of aid: Up to 80 % of eligible expenditure with varying intensity depending on the type of subsidy. Aid for simple replacement investments is not eligible

Sector(s) concerned: NACE Codes: A.01.41 (Raising of dairy cattle), A.01.42 (Raising of other cattle and buffaloes); A.01.43 (Raising of horses and other equines), A.01.45 (Raising of sheep and goats); A.01.50 (Mixed farming)

Name and address of the authority granting the aid:

Provincia autonoma di Trento — Servizio Aziende agricole e territorio rurale Via G.B. Trener, 3 I-38100 Trento

Website:

1. www.trentinoagricoltura.net

2. http://www.consiglio.provincia.tn.it/banche_dati/codice_provinciale/clex_ricerca_per_campi.it.asp (per quanto riguarda le leggi provinciali)

3. http://www.delibere.provincia.tn.it/ (per quanto riguarda le deliberazioni)

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Aid No: XA 170/08

Member State: Italy

Region: Provincia autonoma di Trento

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving individual aid: L.P. 28.3.2003, n. 4 «Sostegno dell'economia agricola, disciplina dell'agricoltura biologica e della contrassegnazione di prodotti geneticamente non modificati» — Art. 3 — Termini di presentazione delle domande, modalità attuative e condizioni di ammissibilità relativamente all'art. 44 [Agevolazioni per l'apicoltura]

Legal basis:

1. L.P. 28.3.2003, n. 4 «Sostegno dell'economia agricola, disciplina dell'agricoltura biologica e della contrassegnazione di prodotti geneticamente non modificati», articolo 44

2. Deliberazione della Giunta provinciale n. 3006 del 21 dicembre 2007, avente per oggetto: L.P. 28.3.2003, n. 4 «Sostegno dell'economia agricola, disciplina dell'agricoltura biologica e della contrassegnazione di prodotti geneticamente non modificati» — Art. 3 — Termini di presentazione delle domande, modalità attuative e condizioni di ammissibilità relativamente agli artt. 17 (Premio d'insediamento), 25 (Alpicoltura), 42 (Agevolazioni per la zootecnia), 44 (Agevolazioni per l'apicoltura) e 46, 1o e 3o comma (Agevolazioni per le produzioni vegetali)

3. Deliberazione della Giunta provinciale n. 122 del 25 gennaio 2008 avente per oggetto la modifica alla deliberazione n. 3006 del 21 dicembre 2007

4. Deliberazione della Giunta provinciale n. 876 del 4 aprile 2008 avente per oggetto la modifica alla deliberazione n. 3006 del 21 dicembre 2007

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall amount of individual aid granted to the company: EUR 1 million

Maximum aid intensity: Aid will be granted up to 50 % of eligible expenditure. This percentage may be increased to 55 % for investments made by young farmers within five years of setting-up

Date of implementation: From the date of the publication of the final number assigned to the aid on the official website of the Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development of the European Commission

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: Aid may be granted up to 31 December 2013

Objective of aid: The aid is aimed at stepping up the competitiveness and income of agricultural holdings by supporting material investments for their modernisation, in accordance with Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006

Degree of aid: Aid will be granted up to 50 % of eligible expenditure. This percentage may be increased to 55 % for investments made by young farmers within five years of setting-up

Sector(s) concerned: NACE Codes: A.01.49 (Raising of other animals), A.01.50 (Mixed farming)

Name and address of the authority granting the aid:

Provincia autonoma di Trento — Servizio Aziende agricole e territorio rurale Via G.B. Trener, 3 I-38100 Trento

Website:

1. www.trentinoagricoltura.net

2. http://www.consiglio.provincia.tn.it/banche_dati/codice_provinciale/clex_ricerca_per_campi.it.asp (per quanto riguarda le leggi provinciali)

3. http://www.delibere.provincia.tn.it/ (per quanto riguarda le deliberazioni)

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