EN Official Journal of the European Union C 262/14

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 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 262/09

Aid No: XA 5/09

Member State: Republic of Slovenia

Region: Municipality of Šmarješke Toplice

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving an individual aid: Podpora ohranjanju in spodbujanju razvoja kmetijstva in podeželja v Občini Šmarješke Toplice 2009–2013

Legal basis: Pravilnik o ohranjanju in spodbujanju razvoja kmetijstva in podeželja v Občini Šmarješke Toplice za programsko obdobje 2009–2013 (II Poglavje)

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall amount of individual aid granted to the company: 2009 — EUR 25 000

2010 — EUR 25 000

2011 — EUR 25 000

2012 — EUR 25 000

2013 — EUR 25 000

Maximum aid intensity:

1. Investment in agricultural holdings: — up to 40 % of eligible investment costs.

2. Conservation of traditional landscapes and buildings: — up to 40 % of actual costs in the case of non-productive features, — up to 60 % of actual costs in the case of productive assets, provided that there is no increase in the production capacity of the farm; — up to 100 % to cover the extra costs incurred by using traditional materials.

3. Relocation of farm buildings in the public interest: — up to 25 % of cost of the dismantling, removal and re-erection of existing facilities. — where the relocation in the public interest results in the farmer benefiting from more modern facilities or increases the production capacity, the farmer must contribute at least 60 % of the increase in the value of the facilities concerned after relocation. If the beneficiary is a young farmer, this contribution shall be at least 55 %.

4. Aid towards the payment of insurance premiums: — up to 50 % of the eligible costs of an insurance premium for insuring fruit and livestock against disease.

5. Aid for land reparcelling: — up to 100 % of the legal and administrative costs incurred.

6. Aid to encourage the production of quality agricultural products: — up to 100 % of the eligible costs of market research activities, product conception and design, including aid granted for the preparation of applications for recognition of geographical indications, designations of origin or certificates of specific character in accordance with the relevant Community regulations, the introduction of quality assurance schemes and training personnel to apply schemes and systems. The aid is to be granted in the form of subsidised services and does not involve direct payments of money to producers.

7. Provision of technical support in agriculture: — up to 100 % of eligible costs concerning education and training of farmers and farm workers, consultancy services which do not constitute a continuous or periodic activity, the organisation of forums for exchanging knowledge amongst farms, competitions, exhibitions and fairs, participation in such events, and publications. The aid is to be granted in the form of subsidised services and must not involve direct payments of money to producers

Date of implementation: 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: To support SMEs

Reference to Articles in Commission Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006 and eligible costs: Chapter II of the draft Rules on preserving and promoting the development of agriculture and rural areas in the municipality of Šmarješke Toplice for the programming period 2009-13 includes measures constituting State aid in accordance with the following Articles 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 and amending Regulation (EC) No 70/2001 (OJ L 358, 16.12.2006, p. 3) and Commission Regulation (EC) No 800/2008 of 6 August 2008 declaring certain categories of aid compatible with the common market in application of Articles 87 and 88 of the Treaty (General block exemption Regulation) (OJ L 214, 9.8.2008, p. 3).

Article 4 of the Commission Regulation: Investment in agricultural holdings;

Article 5 of the Commission Regulation: Conservation of traditional landscapes and buildings;

Article 6 of the Commission Regulation: Relocation of farm buildings in the public interest:

Article 12 of the Commission Regulation: Aid towards the payment of insurance premiums;

Article 13 of the Commission Regulation: Aid for land reparcelling;

Article 14 of the Commission Regulation: Aid to encourage the production of quality agricultural products;

Article 15 of the Commission Regulation: Provision of technical support in the agricultural sector

Sector(s) concerned: Agriculture

Name and address of the granting authority:

Občina Šmarješke Toplice Šmarjeta 66 SI-8220 Šmarješke Toplice SLOVENIJA

Website: http://www.uradni-list.si/1/objava.jsp?urlid=200951&objava=2557

Other information: The municipality’s Rules meet the requirements of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006 concerning the measures to be adopted by the municipality and the general provisions applicable (steps preceding grant of aid, cumulation, transparency and monitoring of aid).

Aid scheme XA 320/07 will expire on the date on which this scheme enters into force.

Bernardka KRNC Mayor of the municipality of Šmarješke Toplice

Aid No: XA 89/09

Member State: Italy

Region: Basilicata

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving an individual aid: Sostegno delle aziende agricole per l’abbattimento di frutteti colpiti da Sharka

Legal basis: Council Directive 2000/29/EC of 8 May 2000 on protective measures against the introduction into the Community of organisms harmful to plants or plant products and against their spread within the Community, in particular Article 16(1);

Legge 1 luglio 1997, n. 206 Norme in favore delle produzioni agricole danneggiate da organismi nocivi.

Decreto del ministero delle politiche agricole e forestali del 29 novembre 1996 recante «lotta obbligatoria contro il virus della vaiolatura delle drupacee» (Sharka).

Delibera di Giunta Regionale del 19 giugno 2009, n. 1152 Modifica della D.G.R. n. 1874 del 21 novembre 2008«L. 206/1997 — misure regionali di sostegno delle aziende agricole per l’abbattimento di frutteti colpiti da sharka. Approvazione criteri e modulistica e contestuale apertura bando»

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall amount of individual aid granted to the company: The total budget of the aid scheme for the entire period from 1 February 2009 to 30 April 2010 amounts to EUR 340 000,00

Maximum aid intensity: The aid will not exceed 100 % of the market value of grubbed-up plants and of the loss of income due to quarantine obligations and replanting difficulties.

Aid concerns only losses caused by sharka, the outbreaks of which were officially identified by the Regional Plant Health Service in 2008

Date of implementation:

Duration of scheme or individual aid award:

Objective of aid: Payments, in conformity with Article 10 of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006, are granted for the prevention, control and eradication of the plum pox virus, responsible for the disease known as sharka.

The virus is acknowledged to be a harmful organism requiring quarantine. The prohibition on its introduction and spread in the European Union and Italy is laid down respectively by Council Directive 2000/29/EC of 8 May 2000, the Decree of the Ministry of Agricultural and Forestry Policy of 29 November 1996 (Mandatory fight against the plum pox virus (Sharka)) and Legislative Decree No 214 of 19 August 2005

Sector(s) concerned: Apricot, peach and nectarine orchards

Name and address of the granting authority:

Regione Basilicata Dipartimento agricoltura, sviluppo rurale, economia montana Via Vincenzo Verrastro 12 85100 Potenza PZ ITALIA

Website: http://www.regione.basilicata.it/dipagricoltura/default.cfm?fuseaction=doc&dir=2906&doc=4166&link=

Other information: Compensation will be for fruit orchards infected by sharka, officially identified by the Regional Plant Health Service in 2008 and promptly grubbed up. This concerns a total of 18 fruit orchards covering an overall area of 20 hectares

Aid No: XA 154/09

Member State: Hungary

Region: Magyarország egész területe

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving an individual aid: Az Agrár-Vállalkozási Hitelgarancia Alapítvány kedvezményes díjú készfizető kezességvállalása az 1857/2006/EK bizottsági rendelettel összhangban nyújtott hitelekhez

Legal basis: a kezességvállaló intézmény által csoportmentességi rendelet alapján vállalt kedvezményes díjú készfizető kezesség szabályairól szóló …/2009. (…) FVM rendelet:

a kis- és középvállalkozásokról, fejlődésük támogatásáról szóló 2004. évi XXXIV. törvény,

a Magyar Köztársaság 2008. évi költségvetéséről szóló 2007. évi CLXIX. törvény

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall amount of individual aid granted to the company: The total planned budget of the aid guarantee programme: HUF 5 billion (~ EUR 18,8 million). The total budget of the guarantee programme (total credit): HUF 50 billion (~ EUR 188,6 million).

The total funding of the Foundation guarantee has not been established on an annual basis, the division will be made according to demand.

The guarantee agreement under the programme may be concluded up to 31 December 2013.

The guaranteed credit may be up to 1 billion HUF (~ EUR 3,8 million) per undertaking.

The HUF amount of the guarantee may be equivalent to maximum EUR 2 million per undertaking.

The amount of aid included in the loan guarantee shall be calculated on the basis of Commission Regulation C(2008) 4573 adopted on 18 August 2008

Maximum aid intensity: Pursuant to Articles 4 and 7 of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006.

Guarantee may be granted to credits that comply with the objectives of the provisions in Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006. In the current programme commercial banks give guaranteed credits, without State resources, under market interest terms, without State aid (e.g. interest rate subsidy), so there is no aid included in the loan. Therefore the grant equivalent in the given measure is found only in the reduced fee guarantee of the Foundation.

The Foundation examines and checks in every case whether the aid objective to which the credit has been granted complies with the requirements of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006. The Foundation verifies the maximum aid intensity depending on the item and the maximum amount of aid

Date of implementation: The aid programme shall be implemented after the summary information on the programme has been published in the Official Journal of the European Union

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: The guarantee agreement under the programme may be concluded up to 31 December 2013

Objective of aid:

Primary objectives: The Foundation provides guarantee according to Articles 4 and 7 of the Regulation in the framework of the guarantee programme for credits granted on the basis of the following items:

investment in agricultural holdings,

aid to young farmers for starting activities.

The Foundation analyses the budget of the investment (financial-technical content) and provides a guarantee for the loan in the framework of a block exemption provided the eligible costs of the investment are in line with the provisions of the Regulation

Secondary objectives: Aid for micro, small and medium-sized agricultural enterprises undertaking primary production of agricultural products with their headquarters in Hungary, or with their headquarters in the territory of the European Economic Area and a branch in Hungary

Sector(s) concerned: Agriculture (animal breeding, plant production)

Name and address of the granting authority:

Földművelésügyi és Vidékfejlesztési Minisztérium Budapest Kossuth Lajos tér 11. 1055 MAGYARORSZÁG/HUNGARY

Agrár-Vállalkozási Hitelgarancia Alapítvány Budapest Kálmán Imre u. 20. 1054 MAGYARORSZÁG/HUNGARY

Website: http://www.fvm.gov.hu/main.php?folderID=2376&articleID=14159&ctag=articlelist&iid=1

Other information: —

Budapest, 19 May 2009 MÁHR András

Aid No: XA 178/09

Member State: Spain

Region: Comunitat Valenciana

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving an individual aid: Laboratorio Interprofesional Lácteo de la Comunidad Valenciana (LICOVAL)

Legal basis: Resolución de la Consellera de Agricultura, Pesca y Alimentación, que concede la subvención basada en una línea nominativa descrita en la ley 17/2008 de presupuestos de la Generalitat

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall amount of individual aid granted to the company: EUR 30 000 in 2009

Maximum aid intensity: 100 % of the eligible expenditure

Date of implementation: From the date on which the identification number of the exemption request is published on the website of the Commission's Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: during 2009

Objective of aid: To provide the following services to dairy farmers and their organisations:

prospective studies to analyse the differing socio-economic, cultural and agri-environmental conditions of the different actors working in the dairy sector of the Autonomous Community of Valencia with a view to formulating proposals to adapt production to the demands of the market (Article 14(2)(a)),

certificates and set-up of quality assurance schemes, based on systems of traceability and risk analysis in order to assure authenticity and marketing norms or systems audits of milk and other dairy products (Article 14(2)(b)).

The eligible costs covered by the aid are those referred to in Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006 under Article 14(2)(a) (market research activities) and Article 14(2)(b) (set-up of systems to assure respect of authenticity and marketing norms)

Sector(s) concerned: Owners of dairy farms and their organisations

Name and address of the granting authority:

Conselleria de Agricultura, Pesca y Alimentación Amadeo de Saboya, 2 46010 Valencia ESPAÑA

Website: http://www.agricultura.gva.es/especiales/ayudas_agrarias/pdf/lilcoval09.pdf

Other information: —

Aid No: XA 181/09

Member State: France

Region: Languedoc-Roussillon

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving an individual aid: Indemnisation des pertes entraînées par la fièvre catarrhale ovine (FCO) en Languedoc-Roussillon (difficultés liées à la reconstitution du troupeau de souche)

Legal basis: Délibération du Conseil Régional de Languedoc-Roussillon du 21 avril 2009 approuvant le projet d’aide et comprenant le règlement d'intervention régional «Fièvre catarrhale ovine — Aide au renouvellement»

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall amount of individual aid granted to the company: EUR 100 000

The total proposed budget amounts to EUR 100 000, but the breakdown between 2009 and 2010 has not yet been adopted

Maximum aid intensity: 50 %

The aid intensity will vary, according to the type of animals and the new herd composition, from 16,7 % to 50 % of the financial losses caused by the death of the animals in question

Date of implementation: 20 July 2009 if possible, but in any event after publication of the exemption on the Commission's website

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: Until 30 June 2010 at the latest

Objective of aid: In accordance with the national programme to control bluetongue disease in sheep, and in addition to various measures taken to monitor and supervise this disease, the Languedoc-Roussillon Region wishes to grant aid to sheep farmers in the region to reduce the costs of replacing breeding animals which have died of bluetongue disease.

The amounts of aid and the eligible costs indicated above are in accordance with Article 10(2), concerning aid in respect of animal and plant diseases, 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 and amending Regulation (EC) No 70/2001 (OJ L 358, 16 December 2006).

The aid scheme which the Languedoc-Roussillon Region wishes to implement relates to the replacement of breeding sheep through purchases or self-renewal:

following direct deaths or deaths by euthanasia compensated by the State,

following the culling of rams as a result of established infertility caused by bluetongue disease.

The following flat-rate amounts are provided for:

ewe lamb, ewe: EUR 50 for an animal born on the farm, EUR 70 for an animal purchased by the farmer, EUR 90 for an animal that has been recognised by a selection body and has been purchased by the farmer,

breeding rams recognised by a selection body: EUR 150.

The number of animals for which aid is to be granted is capped at the number of breeding and renewal animals lost.

The intensity of this aid will vary, depending on the type of animals and the new herd composition, from 16,7 % to no more than 50 % of the financial losses caused by the death of these animals.

The financial loss incurred by replacing breeding ewes can be assessed as follows (the example given relates to the minimum amounts of losses. The amounts are higher in the case of milk production — loss increased by the value of the milk not produced over one or two lactations, and in the case of animals from selection schemes — loss greater due to higher purchase price):

in terms of sheep production (productivity: 1,3 lambs per ewe),

total minimum financial loss in terms of sheep production: EUR 300,

calculation of the financial loss of one ewe:

— replacement of ewe: purchase of ewe lamb: EUR 120 + aging: EUR 39 = EUR 159,

— production loss: 1,3 lambs × EUR 85 + ewe premium EUR 14 — feed EUR 16,5 = EUR 91,

— indirect flock losses per ewe (deaths, infertility, etc) = EUR 50,

— total: EUR 159 + EUR 91 + EUR 50 = EUR 300.

The aid from the Region (from EUR 50 to EUR 90 and EUR 150 for a ram recognised by the approved selection body), will therefore correspond to a maximum of 50 % of the estimated loss.

The aid granted by the State must not exceed EUR 150 per animal, and the cumulated aid rate must in any event be less than 100 %.

Beneficiaries will also be requested to declare any amounts they receive through insurance schemes; these amounts will be taken into account to ensure that the maximum 100 % aid rate is not exceeded

Sector(s) concerned: Sheep

Name and address of the granting authority:

Région Languedoc-Roussillon Hôtel de Région 201 avenue de la Pompignane 34064 Montpellier Cedex 2 FRANCE

Website: http://www.laregion.fr/2485-soutenir-les-filieres-d-elevage.htm

(Below ‘Télécharger’ in the section ‘Soutenir les filières d’élevage’ click on ‘Réglement Renouvellement ovins FCO’)

BLUETONGUE DISEASE

Aid planned by the Languedoc-Roussillon Region

Other information: —