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: France, Italy, Spain, State aid, application of EU law, control of State aid

9.4.2002

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Official Journal of the European Communities

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

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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’

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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

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Date of adoption of the decision: 5.3.2002

Member State: France

Aid No: N 523/01

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Title: Aid to the greenhouse horticulture sector

Aid intensity or amount: ESP 4 500 per suckler cow

Objective: To grant aid to investments with the aim of main-
taining and developing a production tool meeting the highest
quality standards

Budget: An appropriation of EUR 9 million per year
planned

is

Aid intensity or amount: Maximum 40 % of expenditure
incurred

Duration: Five years

Duration: One-off

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Date of adoption of the decision: 5.3.2002

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Member State: Italy (Provincia autonoma di Bolzano)

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Aid No: N 689/01

Date of adoption of the decision: 5.3.2002

Member State: France

Aid No: N 572/01

Title: Aid to the glasshouse horticulture sector

Objective: To grant aid to investments to maintain and
develop a production tool providing the highest quality
standards

Budget: A provisional annual credit of EUR 3,8 million is
envisaged in 2001 for this measure

Aid intensity or amount: Maximum 40 % of expenditure

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Title: Aids for investments in agricultural holdings and for
investments in connection with the processing and marketing
of agricultural products

Objective: Improvement of agricultural conditions

Legal basis: Legge Provinciale 14 dicembre 1998, n. 11 e
successive modifiche

Budget: Estimated yearly expenses: EUR 33 million

Aid intensity or amount:

Individual agricultural undertakings and groups thereof

— For the building, purchase and restructuring of fixed assets:
up to 50 % of eligible expenses for holdings located in
less-favoured areas and up to 40 % for those in normal
areas; up to 30 % for aid in favour of fruit and vegetable
producing holdings, tree and vine nurseries

— For the purchase of new containers up to 40 % of eligible

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expenses

Date of adoption of the decision: 5.3.2002

Member State: Spain (Castile-Leon)

Aid No: N 654/01

Title: Aid to stockfarmers (BSE)

Objective: Partial compensation for
livestock farms as a result of BSE

losses in income by

Legal basis: Proyecto de convocatoria por la que se convoca
una ayuda excepcional por vaca nodriza en aplicación del Real
Decreto Ley 9/2001, de 6 de abril, por el que se adoptan
medidas adicionales en el marco de la erradicación de las EEB

— For

the purchase of new machinery, equipment and

facilities up to 30 % of eligible expenses

Collective undertakings for the processing and marketing of agri-
cultural products

— For the building, restructuring and purchase of fixed assets
and for the purchase of new containers up to 40 % of
eligible expenses

— For the purchase of new machinery and plants up to 40 %

of eligible expenses

Duration: Indefinite

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Budget: EUR 14,54 million

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