EN Official Journal of the European Union C 91/27

Summary information communicated by Member States regarding State aid granted under Commission Regulation (EC) No 1/2004 of 23 December 2003 on the application of Articles 87 and 88 of the EC Treaty to State aid to small and medium-sized enterprises active in the production, processing and marketing of agricultural products

(2007/C 91/08)

XA number: XA 2/07

Member State: Federal Republic of Germany

Region: All German Länder as aid providers

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving individual aid: Principles for promoting measures to improve the genetic quality of farm animals

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: EUR 20 million per year

Maximum aid intensity: A maximum of 60 % of costs that arise within the framework of the measures set out in the ‘Objective of aid ’section. Furthermore, the subsidy is limited to the following amounts:

EUR 10,23 per cow per year,

EUR 0,69 per fattening pig for all fattening pigs inspected by the end of the fattening period and sold during the financial year in question,

EUR 2,76 per sow's litter for all sow's litters inspected during the financial year in question,

EUR 0,28 per month for each fattening bovine undergoing inspection by the end of the fattening period,

EUR 0,61 per animal for all fattening lambs inspected by the end of the fattening period and sold during the financial year in question.

Date of implementation:

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: December 2010

Objective of aid: Collection and analysis of data on maintaining and improving the genetic quality of farm animals in breeding programmes. To this end, the service provider will carry out tests and collect and analyse data. The service provider will be paid at the market rate, with the costs covered partially by aid and partially borne by the farmer. The cost of routine milk quality checks is not covered by aid

This measure is based on Article 15 (Support for the livestock sector).

Sectors concerned: Cattle, pig and sheep farming.

Name and address of the granting authority: Aid is granted by the relevant provincial authorities.

Internet address: www.bmelv.de > Landwirtschaft > Förderung > GAK

Other information: —

XA Number: XA 8/07

Member State: Federal Republic of Germany

Region: All the German Länder as aid-granting authorities

Title of aid scheme: Framework plan for the joint task ‘improving agricultural structure and coastal protection’

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

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme: Approximately EUR 1 billion for all measures under the framework plan for the joint task of improving agricultural structure and coastal protection, the majority of which will be used to part-finance the national framework plan in accordance with Article 15(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1698/2005.

Maximum aid intensity for:

— Investment in agricultural holdings: maximum 40 % and maximum EUR 400 000 over three marketing years

— Support for advice to individual holdings in connection with management systems: maximum 80 % and maximum EUR 2 000

— Land consolidation: maximum 90 %

— Cost of establishing producer groups: maximum 60 %, but in total not more than EUR 400 000 per group over five years.

Date of implementation:

Duration of scheme: Until 31 December 2010

Objective of aid:

— Investment in agricultural holdings (‘Agrarinvestitionsförderungsprogramm (AFP)’) In order to support agriculture which is competitive, sustainable and environment-friendly, takes proper account of animal welfare and is multifunctional, aid can be granted to promote investment in agricultural undertakings for the primary production of agricultural products. The interests of consumers, the development of rural areas and the preservation of biodiversity are to be taken into account just as much as the improvement of living, working and production conditions The measure is based on Article 4 (investment in agricultural holdings).

— Support for advice to individual holdings in connection with management systems (AFP) Support will be granted for advice to individual holdings which goes beyond routine advice and which relates to the application of documentation systems. The measure is intended to help farmers comply with the standards of modern agriculture with its emphasis on quality, and in particular with the requirements under Articles 4 and 5 of and Annexes III and IV to Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 (cross-compliance). The advisory services will be provided by public and private bodies which must be approved by the Länder. The records from the documentation systems form the basis for the holding-based advice. The measure is in principle open to all aid recipients and is paid to the advisory bodies as a contribution The measure is based on Article 15 (provision of technical assistance in the agricultural sector)

— Land consolidation (principles for promoting integrated rural development (promoting reorganisation of rural land ownership)) The objective of support is to reorganise rural land ownership and the arrangement of rural areas in order to improve agricultural structures in procedures under the Law on land consolidation and the Law on agricultural adjustment, including measures to ensure a sustainably efficient natural balance and plans for voluntary exchange of use. Procedural costs arising are eligible for support The measure is based on Article 13 (aid for land consolidation).

— Cost of establishing producer groups (principles for promoting market structure improvement (formation of groups)) The assistance is aimed at supporting the establishment and working of groups and improving the competitiveness of firms involved in processing and marketing agricultural products, thereby contributing to ensuring sales or creating profit advantages at producer level The assistance helps to adapt the collection, processing and marketing of agricultural products to market requirements with regard to the nature, quantity and quality of the products on offer The promotion of groups is based on Article 9 (aid for producer groups).

Sector(s) concerned: Agriculture

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

Web address: www.bmelv.de > Landwirtschaft > Förderung > GAK > Rahmenplan 2007

Grundsätze für die einzelbetriebliche Förderung landwirtschaftlicher Unternehmen

Grundsätze für die Förderung der integrierten ländlichen Entwicklung (Förderung der Neuordnung des ländlichen Grundbesitzes)

Grundsätze für die Förderung zur Marktstrukturverbesserung (Zusammenschlüsse)

http://www.bmelv.de/cln_044/nn_751002/DE/04-Landwirtschaft/Foerderung/GAK/Rahmenplan/Rahmenplan2007.html__nnn=true

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XA Number: XA 9/07

Member State: Netherlands

Region: Province of North Brabant

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving individual aid:

Legal basis: Volgens AWB (art. 4:23 lid 3 sub d) en provinciale ASV (art. 33) aangemerkt als incidentele subsidie

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall amount of individual aid granted to the company: EUR 38 000 in 2007

Maximum aid intensity: 40 %

Date of implementation: February/March 2007

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: December 2007

Objective of aid: Implementation in 2007 of a new generation of air washers which reduce emissions of odours, ammonia and particulate matter. These air washers will be demonstrated, tested and studied for a period of three years. The scheme involves aid for investment in environmental measures over and above the statutory requirements to improve air quality.

State which of Articles 4 to 12 inclusive applies and the costs eligible for the scheme or individual aid: Article 4(2)(B), Article 4(3)(D) and Article 4(4)(A)

Economic sector(s) concerned: Livestock production sector, specifically primary pig farming

Name and address of the granting authority:

Provincie Noord-Brabant Brabantlaan 1 Postbus 90151 5200 MC 's-Hertogenbosch Nederland

Internet address for legal basis: http://wettenbank.sdu.nl/wettenbank.sdu.nl/demo/awb_main.html

http://www.brabant.nl/Beleid/Regels%20en%20kaders/Algemene%20subsidieverordening.aspx?docindexid={6E5EE4A7-1D3F-480A-900D-975DD48879C6}

Other information: —

XA Number: XA 11/07

Member State: Netherlands

Region: Province of Limburg

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving individual aid: Subsidieverordening Inrichting Landelijk Gebied Limburg (Subsidy Ordinance for Rural Development in the Province of Limburg)

Paragraph 1.1: reparcelling and exchange of plots of land by agreement to improve the structure of agriculture (legal and land registry costs)

Paragraph 6.4: promoting groundwater-friendly land use (part of reparcelling; legal and land registry costs)

Legal basis: Artikel 11, lid 3 Wet Inrichting Landelijk Gebied, juncto Subsidieverordening inrichting landelijk gebied Limburg

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall amount of individual aid granted to the company: Approximately EUR 10 000 000 for the 2007-13 period

Maximum aid intensity: Up to a maximum of 100 % of legal and land registry costs (surveying and registration costs)

Date of implementation: Grants shall be awarded only after Subsidieverordening Inrichting Landelijk Gebied Limburg has been approved by the Minister for Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality in accordance with Article 11(3) of the Wet Inrichting Landelijk Gebied and not before this Subsidy Ordinance has been notified in accordance with Regulation (EC) 1857/2006.

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: From 2007 until 31 December 2013 inclusive

Objective of aid: Aid for reparcelling, to meet the legal and administrative costs, in accordance with Article 13.

Economic sector(s) concerned: The aid scheme applies to small and medium-sized agricultural holdings (farms) active in the primary production of agricultural products.

Name and address of the granting authority:

Provincie Limburg Limburglaan 10 Postbus 5700 6202 MA Maastricht Nederland

Internet address: www.limburg.nl

Other information: —

XA Number: XA 12/07

Member State: Netherlands

Region: Province of Limburg

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving individual aid: Subsidieverordening Inrichting Landelijk Gebied Limburg (Subsidy Ordinance for Rural Development in the Province of Limburg)

Paragraph 1.2: planned sites for intensive livestock farming;

Paragraph 1.4: merging intensive livestock farms on sustainable sites;

Paragraph 1.5: improving knowledge and innovation in agriculture (Greenport);

Paragraph 1.9: extensification of dairy farms;

Paragraph 6.1: restoration of natural areas that have dried out;

Paragraph 6.4: promoting groundwater-friendly land use.

Legal basis: Artikel 11, lid 3 Wet Inrichting Landelijk Gebied, juncto Subsidieverordening inrichting landelijk gebied Limburg

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

— Paragraph 1.2: EUR 3 000 000 for the 2007-13 period;

— Paragraph 1.4: EUR 60 000 for the 2007-13 period;

— Paragraph 1.5: EUR 1 250 000 for the 2007-13 period;

— Paragraph 1.9: EUR 4 500 000 for the 2007-13 period;

— Paragraph 6.1: EUR 3 000 000 for the 2007-13 period;

— Paragraph 6.4: EUR 1 200 000 for the 2007-13 period.

(These amounts are an estimation of the maximum share of the available funds that will go to farmers. The same paragraphs will, in fact, also form the basis for aid to be granted to non-entrepreneurs.)

Maximum aid intensity:

— Paragraph 1.2: a maximum of 60 % of the eligible costs, up to a maximum of EUR 1,2 million per planned site, in accordance with Articles 4(2)(e), 4(4)(a) and 4(4)(c);

— Paragraph 1.9: a maximum of 60 % of the eligible costs, in accordance with Articles 4(2)(e), 4(4)(a) and 4(4)(c);

— Paragraph 6.1: a maximum of 60 % of the eligible costs, in accordance with Articles 4(2)(e), 4(4)(a) and 4(4)(c);

— Paragraph 1.4: a maximum of 50 % of the eligible costs, up to a maximum of EUR 20 000 per project, in accordance with Articles 4(2)(e), 4(4)(a) and 4(4)(c);

— Paragraph 1.5: a maximum of 50 % of the eligible costs, up to a maximum of EUR 1,25 million, in accordance with Articles 4(2)(e), 4(4)(a) and 4(4)(c);

— Paragraph 6.4: a maximum of 50 % of the eligible costs, up to a maximum of EUR 50 000 per project, in accordance with Articles 4(2)(e), 4(4)(a) and 4(4)(c).

(Farmers only; the same paragraphs will also form the basis for aid to be granted to non-entrepreneurs.)

Date of implementation: Grants will be awarded only after Subsidieverordening Inrichting Landelijk Gebied Limburg has been approved by the Minister for Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality in accordance with Article 11(3) of the Wet Inrichting Landelijk Gebied and not before this Subsidy Ordinance has been notified in accordance with Regulation (EC) 1857/2006.

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: From 2007 to 31 December 2013 inclusive

Objective of aid:

— Paragraph 1.2: aid applies to the costs of feasibility studies and business plans as well as to constructing and improving property in line with the objectives set out in Article 4(3)(a) to (d);

— Paragraph 1.9: aid applies to the costs of constructing and improving property in line with the objectives set out in Article 4(3)(a) to (d);

— Paragraph 6.1: aid applies to the costs of constructing and improving property in line with the objectives set out in Article 4(3)(a) to (d);

— Paragraph 1.4: aid applies to the costs of feasibility studies and business plans focusing on constructing and improving property in line with the objectives set out in Article 4(3)(a) to (d);

— Paragraph 1.5: aid applies to the costs of feasibility studies and business plans as well as to constructing and improving property in line with the objectives set out in Article 4(3)(a) to (d);

— Paragraph 6.4: aid applies to the costs of feasibility studies and business plans focusing on improving property in line with the objectives set out in Article 4(3)(a) to (d).

Economic sector(s) concerned: The aid scheme applies to small and medium-sized agricultural holdings (farms) active in the primary production of agricultural products.

Name and address of the granting authority:

Provincie Limburg Limburglaan 10 Postbus 5700 6202 MA Maastricht Nederland

Internet address: www.limburg.nl

Other information: —

XA Number: XA 14/07

Member State: Netherlands

Region: Province of Limburg

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving individual aid: Subsidieverordening Inrichting Landelijk Gebied Limburg (Subsidy Ordinance for Rural Development in the Province of Limburg),

Paragraph 5.1: creation, restoration and conservation of natural, semi-natural and heritage sites.

Legal basis: Artikel 11, lid 3 Wet Inrichting Landelijk Gebied, juncto Subsidieverordening inrichting landelijk gebied Limburg

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall amount of individual aid granted to the company: EUR 400 000 for the 2007-13 period.

(This amount is an estimation of the maximum share of the available funds that will go to farmers. The same paragraph will, in fact, also form the basis for aid to be granted to non-entrepreneurs.)

Maximum aid intensity: Up to a maximum of 100 % of the eligible costs for non-productive landscape features and up to a maximum of 60 % for (partially) productive landscape features. As part of the aid, a maximum of EUR 10 000 per year may be granted for work carried out by the farmers themselves or by their employees. (Farmers only; the same paragraph will also form the basis for aid to be granted to non-entrepreneurs.)

Date of implementation: Grants shall be awarded only after Subsidieverordening Inrichting Landelijk Gebied Limburg has been approved by the Minister for Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality in accordance with Article 11(3) of the Wet Inrichting Landelijk Gebied and not before this Subsidy Ordinance has been notified in accordance with Regulation (EC) 1857/2006.

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: From 2007 until 31 December 2013 inclusive

Objective of aid: The objective is to conserve traditional landscapes by granting aid for the costs of creating and restoring traditional landscape features such as standard orchards, hedgerows, rows of pollarded trees, lynchets, sunken lanes and ponds in accordance with Article 5.

Economic sector(s) concerned: The aid scheme applies to small and medium-sized agricultural holdings (farms) active in the primary production of agricultural products.

Name and address of the granting authority:

Provincie Limburg Limburglaan 10 Postbus 5700 6202 MA Maastricht Nederland

Internet address: www.limburg.nl

Other information: —

XA Number: XA 15/07

Member State: The Netherlands

Region: Province of Limburg

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving individual aid: Subsidieverordening Inrichting Landelijk Gebied Limburg (Subsidy Ordinance for Rural Development in the Province of Limburg)

Paragraph 1.14: relocation of dairy farms

Legal basis: Artikel 11, lid 3 Wet Inrichting Landelijk Gebied, juncto Subsidieverordening inrichting landelijk gebied Limburg

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall amount of individual aid granted to the company: Paragraph 1.14: EUR 700 000 for the 2007-13 period

Maximum aid intensity: Paragraph 1.14: a maximum of 40 % of the costs of dismantling the facilities at the old site, moving them and re-erecting them at the new site, up to a maximum of EUR 100 000 per relocation.

Date of implementation: Subsidies shall be granted only after Subsidieverordening Inrichting Landelijk Gebied Limburg has been approved by the Minister for Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality in accordance with Article 11(3) of the Wet Inrichting Landelijk Gebied and not before this Subsidy Ordinance has been notified in accordance with Regulation (EC) 1857/2006.

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: From 2007 until 31 December 2013

Objective of aid: Relocating and closing down farms in the public interest, with particular focus on nature and the quality of the landscape and environment, in accordance with Article 6.

Economic sector(s) concerned: This aid shall apply to small and medium-sized agricultural holdings (farms) active in the primary production of agricultural products.

Name and address of the granting authority:

Provincie Limburg Limburglaan 10 Postbus 5700 6202 MA Maastricht Nederland

Internet address: www.limburg.nl

Other information: —

XA Number: XA 16/07

Member State: Czech Republic

Region: —

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving an individual aid: Podpora poradenství v zemědělství – Metodická činnost k podpoře zemědělského poradenského systému

Legal basis: Zákon č. 252/1997 Sb., o zemědělství

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall amount of individual aid granted to the company: Up to CZK 15 million

Maximum aid intensity: Up to 100 % of proven expenditure, up to a maximum of CZK 500 000, per methodological tool

Date of implementation: From 16 February 2007

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

Objective of aid: The aid is granted on the basis of Article 15 (Provision of technical support in the agricultural sector) of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006.

The objective is to assist with methodological activities under the agricultural consultancy system and create methodological tools for the practical application of scientific and research knowledge, particularly with regard to legal requirements and good agricultural practice. Aid applicants submit a plan for the creation of methodological tools for agricultural undertakings and consultants. The plans which best fulfil the practical requirements will be selected for implementation

The selection will be made by a committee from the Research, Training and Establishment Activities Department of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Czech Republic, together with a representative from the farming sector, acting on a proposal from the National Advisory Board for Agriculture and Rural Development of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Czech Republic. Projects will be evaluated and allocated a score, and a list will be drawn up in order of rank; applicants will be awarded a grant in the proposed order until the available resources are exhausted.

Sectors(s) concerned: Primary agricultural production

Name and address of the granting authority:

Ministerstvo zemědělství ČR Těšnov 17 CZ-117 05 Praha 1

Web address: http://www.mze.cz/Index.aspx?deploy=1802&typ=2&ch=74&ids=1802&val=1802

Other information: The Ministry of Agriculture of the Czech Republic declares that the conditions laid down in Commission Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006 will be met, i.e. the aid will be targeted at small and medium-sized enterprises engaged in primary agricultural production, and in particular the conditions mentioned in Article 15 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006 will be fulfilled. Applicants are mainly public research institutions and universities, but also other bodies involved in research. The measures are aimed at the practical application of research results in the farming sector

Projects are targeted at designing and distributing methodological materials which can be used in the management of agricultural undertakings. The project selection criteria are contained in the rules published on the granting of aid.

XA Number: XA 17/07

Member State: Czech Republic

Region: —

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving an individual aid: Podpora poradenství v zemědělství – Regionální přenos informací o realizaci společné zemědělské politiky, zejména požadavků na plnění cross compliance, zajišťovaný prostřednictvím Krajských informačních středisek pro rozvoj zemědělství a venkova (KIS)

Legal basis: Zákon č. 252/1997 Sb., o zemědělství

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall amount of individual aid granted to the company: Up to CZK 10 million

Maximum aid intensity: Up to 100 % of proven costs, up to a maximum of CZK 500 000 a year, for each regional information centre for agricultural and rural development, which will supply services to the final beneficiary, i.e. the person receiving technical support.

Date of implementation: From 16 February 2007

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

Objective of aid: The aid is granted on the basis of Article 15 (Provision of technical support in the agricultural sector) of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006.

The objective of the aid is to support consultancy activities carried out by accredited consultants for agricultural entities, regional transfer of information on the common agricultural policy and standards of good farming practice, and information on rural development programmes and consumer protection (food safety)

Information will be provided free of charge using various methods, particularly electronic means of communication (internet, e-mail, SMS), but also in paper form (letters, information leaflets and similar) and through personal contacts (in the course of seminars and consultations); it will be supplied in a non-discriminatory manner to all target groups in the region focusing on the area's agricultural and rural development problems

The eligible costs are:

actual cost of organising information services;

travel expenses;

fees for consultancy services which neither constitute a continuous or periodic activity nor relate to the enterprise's usual operating expenditure.

Sectors(s) concerned: Primary agricultural production

Name and address of the granting authority:

Ministerstvo zemědělství ČR Těšnov 17 CZ-117 05 Praha 1

Web address: http://www.mze.cz/Index.aspx?deploy=1802&typ=2&ch=74&ids=1802&val=1802

Other information: The Ministry of Agriculture of the Czech Republic declares that the conditions laid down in Commission Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006 will be met, i.e. the aid will be targeted at small and medium-sized enterprises engaged in primary agricultural production, and in particular the conditions mentioned in Article 15 (Provision of technical support in the agricultural sector) will be fulfilled.