Authorisation for State aid pursuant to Articles 87 and 88 of the EC Treaty — Cases where the Commission raises no objections
Date: 2002-04-09
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Finland, Italy, Netherlands, State aid, application of EU law, control of State aid

C 85/26

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Official Journal of the European Communities

9.4.2002

Authorisation for State aid pursuant to Articles 87 and 88 of the EC Treaty

Cases where the Commission raises no objections

(2002/C 85/06)

Date of adoption of the decision: 27.2.2002

Date of adoption of the decision: 27.2.2002

Member State: The Netherlands

Aid No: N 25/02

Title: Extension of funding for an advertising campaign for
mushrooms

Objective: To promote mushroom sales abroad

Member State: Finland

Aid No: N 732/01

Title: Amendments to Skolt Act

Objective: To improve the economic situation of Skolts the
following articles of Skolt Act would be amended as follows:

Legal basis: Verordening PT bijzondere heffing fruit en cham-
pignons 2001

(a) Article 14; reduction of interest rate on new state loans to
Skolts from 4 % to 3 %. Existing loans will not be affected

Budget: Unspecified

Aid intensity or amount: 50 %

Duration: Unspecified

The authentic text(s) of the decision, from which all confi-
dential information has been removed, can be found at

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Date of adoption of the decision: 27.2.2002

Member State: Italy

Aid No: N 30/02

Title: Aid for advertising products listed in Annex I to the
Treaty

Objective: To promote sales of agricultural products

(b) Article 60; possibility

to grant postponements on
instalments and interest payments on loans taken under
the Skolt Act would be introduced (applies to debt restruc-
turing)

(c) Article 60; possibility would be introduced to grant
exemptions in exceptional circumstances of
instalments
and interest payments on loans taken under the Skolt Act
even when the instalment in question could be paid by
realising the assets used as collateral for the loan

(d) Article 68; possibility to revise interest rates upwards or
downwards on loans granted to Skolts under the legislation
preceding the Skolt Act would be introduced. The revision
would reflect the changes in the interest rates applied on
the financial markets

(e) Article 68; interest rates on housing loans granted to Skolts
between 1985 and 1991 would be maintained at 4 %.
Under applicable legislation this interest rate would be
otherwise 9,25-9,50 % from the beginning of 2000

(a) and (d) modify the existing aid scheme
Amendment
N 579/96; amendments (b) and (c) modify the existing aid
scheme N 589/96. The
are not
existing
otherwise affected

aid schemes

Legal basis: Aid schemes approved under files N 558/2000
and N 729/A/2000

Legal basis:

Budget: Unspecified (the advertising measures are part of a
wide range of measures financed within the framework of
the two schemes referred to above: the budget for the first is
approximately EUR 500 million, while the budget
for the
second has not been specified)

Aid intensity or amount: 50 % (may be increased to 75 % for
Objective 1 regions)

Duration: Unspecified

Kolttalain muuttamisesta annettu laki N:o 296/2001; laki kolt-
talain 68 §:n muuttamisesta

Lag om ändring av skoltlagen nr 296/2001 – Lag om ändring
av art. 68 i skoltlagen

Budget: Approximately EUR 6 000 per year

Aid intensity or amount: Variable

Duration: Unlimited

The authentic text(s) of the decision, from which all confi-
dential information has been removed, can be found at

The authentic text(s) of the decision, from which all confi-
dential information has been removed, can be found at

http://europa.eu.int/comm/secretariat_general/sgb/state_aids

http://europa.eu.int/comm/secretariat_general/sgb/state_aids

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C 85/27

Date of adoption of the decision: 10.10.2001

Date of adoption of the decision: 27.2.2002

Member State: The Netherlands

Aid No: N 266/01

Member State: Italy

Aid No: NN 103/99

Title: Animal welfare measures in Annex I and II areas
following the foot-and-mouth disease

Title: National Law No 441 of 15 December 1998, Article 14
‘Aid to young farmers’

Objective: To alleviate animal welfare problems. This measure
aims to stimulate the slaughtering of piglets which cannot be
exported live and for which there is also no use in the
Netherlands. Only for piglets where in the view of a veterinary
serious animal welfare problems are present, the subsidy for
destruction can be granted

Legal basis: Regeling MKZ-welzijnsmaatregelen

Budget: NLG 121 500 (EUR 55 134,30)

Aid intensity or amount: The subsidy amounts to NLG 55
per piglet

Duration: Only applications made before 9 May 2001 will be
honoured

The authentic text(s) of the decision, from which all confi-
dential information has been removed, can be found at

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Objective:
To
purchase/lease of
favour the introduction of accountability

donation/inheritance,
land in favour of young farmers and to

increase

the

Legal basis: Legge 15 dicembre 1998, n. 441 «Norme per la
diffusione e la valorizzazione dell'imprenditoria giovanile in
agricoltura» articolo 14, paragrafi da 1 a 6

Budget: Undefined

Aid intensity or amount: Up to 55 % in case of
exemptions that can be assimilated to investments

fiscal

Duration: Undefined

Other information: Aid provided for in paragraphs 3 and 4
‘non-application of the re-evaluation of income in favour of the
landowner’ is granted within Commission Regulation (EC) No
69/2001 ‘de-minimis aid’

The authentic text(s) of the decision, from which all confi-
dential information has been removed, can be found at

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Authorisation for State aid pursuant to Articles 87 and 88 of the EC Treaty

Cases where the Commission raises no objections

(2002/C 85/07)

Date of adoption of the decision: 5.3.2002

Budget: EUR 648 492,10 (ESP 107 900 000)

Member State: Spain (Murcia)

Aid No: N 52/02

Title: Aid to stockfarmers and slaughterhouses to compensate
for managing SRM

Objective: To compensate stockfarmers and slaughterhouses
for the costs of operations to obtain or remove, withdraw,
transport and destroy SRM which were carried out directly
by them in the period 1 May to 30 November 2001

Legal basis: Proyecto de Orden de la Consejería de Agricultura,
Agua, y Medio Ambiente de la Comunidad Autónoma de Mur-
cia, por la que se establece la convocatoria y el régimen jurí-
dico de la concesión de ayudas compensatorias para ganaderos
y mataderos que han asumido los gastos de gestión de material
especificado de riesgo tras el sacrificio de animales producidos
en la región de Murcia

Aid intensity or amount: Variable but limited amount per
animal (between EUR 0,15 and EUR 19,1)

Duration: 1 May to 30 November 2001

The authentic text(s) of the decision, from which all confi-
dential information has been removed, can be found at

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Date of adoption of the decision: 5.3.2002

Member State: France

Aid No: N 523/01