EN Official Journal of the European Union C 108/8

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 108/07

Aid No: XA 38/09

Member State: Federal Republic of Germany

Region: Freistaat Bayern

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving individual aid: Übernahme eines Teils der Kosten für die Impfdurchführung im Rahmen einer Notimpfung gegen Blauzungenkrankheit bei Rindern

Legal basis:

— Verordnung zum Schutz gegen die Blauzungenkrankheit (konsolidierte Fassung), geändert durch Artikel 2 der Verordnung vom 22. August 2006 (elektronischer Bundesanzeiger Amtlicher Teil 43 2006 V1), geändert durch Artikel 3 der Verordnung vom 6. Juli 2007 (Bundesgesetzblatt I Seite 1264), geändert durch Artikel 3 der Verordnung vom 21. Dezember 2007 (Bundesgesetzblatt I Seite 3144), geändert durch Artikel 2 der Verordnung vom 3. Dezember 2008 (eBAnz AT142 2008 V1)

— Verordnung über bestimmte Impfstoffe zum Schutz vor der Blauzungenkrankheit vom 2. Mai 2008 (BAnz. 2008 Nr. 67 S. 1599)

— Regulation (EC) No 1266/2007 (bluetongue control implementing rules)

— Satzung über die Leistungen der Bayerischen Tierseuchenkasse (Leistungssatzung) vom 16. Oktober 2008 (StAnz Nr. 43/2008), (XA 287/2008)

— Commission Decision 2008/897/EC of 28 November 2008 approving annual and multi-annual national programmes and the financial contribution from the Community for the eradication, control and monitoring of certain animal diseases and zoonoses, presented by the Member States for 2009 and following years (OJ L 322, 2.12.2008, p. 39).

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

Maximum aid intensity: Up to 100 %

Date of implementation: The aid will be granted from the time of the Internet publication of the summary information on the aid scheme.

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: 1 March 2009 to 31 December 2009

Objective of aid: A swift emergency vaccination programme needs to be carried out throughout the whole of Bavaria to prevent the rapid spread of bluetongue disease and to avoid the threat which it poses to agricultural holdings. There is therefore an overwhelming State interest in the rapid immunisation of the livestock population. The main focus is not only to preserve the value of individual animals but primarily to immunise the livestock population concerned and reduce the sources of infection from which the disease is transmitted.

The purpose of the aid is to compensate farmers for the cost of using vaccines for the prevention and eradication of bluetongue, a contagious animal disease.

The beneficiaries are small and medium-sized enterprises within the meaning of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006.

The aid will not be given as direct monetary payments but in the form of subsidised services. The Bavarian State Ministry for the Environment and Health will bear part of the veterinary costs of the vaccination programme and pay the Bayerische Tierseuchenkasse, which bears the costs of the veterinarians performing the vaccinations. The farmers choose the veterinarians and instruct them to perform the vaccinations.

The aid does not concern measures whose costs are required by Community law to be borne by agricultural holdings themselves.

To bear the costs involved in Bavaria in connection with the basic immunisation of cattle that have not yet been vaccinated and the repeat immunisation of cattle that have already been vaccinated; the total costs of the vaccination programme are around EUR 6,3 million.

Legal basis of State aid: Article 10 of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006

Sector(s) concerned: Cattle owners (agricultural holdings)

Name and address of the granting authority:

Bayerisches Staatsministerium für Umwelt und Gesundheit Rosenkavalierplatz 2 Postfach 810140 81901 München DEUTSCHLAND

Queries may be addressed to:

Bavarian State Ministry for Food, Agriculture and Forestry (Bayerisches Staatsministerium für Landwirtschaft und Forsten) Referat C/6 Ludwigstr. 2 80539 München DEUTSCHLAND

Website:

Legal basis: http://www.bundesrecht.juris.de/bundesrecht/blauzungenimpfstv/gesamt.pdf http://www.lgl.bayern.de/tiergesundheit/blauzungenkrankheit.htm http://portal.versorgungskammer.de/portal/page/portal/btsk/btskrg/leistungssatzung2009.pdf http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2008:322:0039:0049:DE:PDF

For the aid scheme: http://www.stmug.bayern.de/tiergesundheit/krankheiten/blauzunge/beihilfe.htm

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