Authorisation for State aid pursuant to Articles 87 and 88 of the EC Treaty — Cases where the Commission raises no objections
Date: 2002-05-18
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: State aid, control of State aid

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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 117/04)

Date of adoption of the decision: 16.4.2002

Member State: Finland

Aid No: N 137/01

Title: Aid to apiculture

Objective: To support the keeping of bees

Legal basis:

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1059/1994

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Aid intensity or amount: The aid intensity amounts up to
100 % of the extra costs that result from the use of environ-
mentally friendly lubricants

Duration: Indefinite

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

Date of adoption of the decision: 16.4.2002

(Act on national aids in agriculture and horticulture)

Budget: EUR 1 million per year

Aid intensity or amount: Maximum EUR 25 per bee colony

Member State: Germany

Aid No: N 766/01

Duration: Unlimited

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

Title: Bio-diesel tanks on agricultural holdings

Objective: The use and possible spread into the environment
of normal diesel contributes to the increase in CO2 levels and
the pollution of the environment. The measure is intended to
address these problems by supporting the introduction of diesel
from plants

Legal basis: Support for projects to build or refit mobile or
stationary bio-diesel and oil
tanks that are used for own
consumption only in agriculture and forestry undertakings

Date of adoption of the decision: 16.4.2002

Budget: EUR 10 225 838 per year

Member State: Germany

Aid No: N 765/01

Title: Promotion of
degradable lubricants

the use of vegetable-based, quickly

Objective: Promotion of the introduction of lubricants and
forming oils based on agricultural
raw materials, which
degrade quickly and have no negative effects on CO2 levels

Legal basis: Richtlinien zur Förderung von Projekten zum
Schwerpunkt „Praxiseinsatz von biologisch schnell abbaubaren
Schmier- und Verfahrensstoffen auf Basis nachwachsender Roh-
stoffe in land- und forstwirtschaftlichen Maschinen“ im Rah-
men des Markteinführungsprogramms „Biogene Treib- und
Schmierstoffe“ des Bundesministeriums für Ernährung, Land-
wirtschaft und Forsten (BML)

Aid intensity or amount: The aid is granted in the form of a
direct grant. The aid amounts to 40 % of the costs of new
tanks and of the costs necessary to refit existing tanks (this
aid amount can be increased to 50 % in less favoured areas
in the sense of Article 17-20 of Regulation (EC) 1257/1999)

Duration: Until 31 December 2004

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

Date of adoption of the decision: 16.4.2002

Budget: EUR 8 million per year

Member State: Germany (Niedersachsen)

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Aid No: N 788/01

Title: Traceability in the cereals sector

Title: Setting-up a consultancy centre for organic farming

Objective: The aim of the measure is to provide information
and advice to enterprises interested in converting to organic
farming and to improve the consultancy skills available for
organic farming

Objective: To safeguard technological quality and control
cereal product safety

Budget: EUR 3,74 million in 2002

Legal basis: Haushaltsordnung des Landes Niedersachsen

Aid intensity or amount: 20 % of expenditure

Budget: EUR 1 022 584 per year

Aid intensity or amount: The aid is in the form of direct
subsidies. The maximum aid intensity
a
percentage of eligible expenditure) is 100 %, the aid amounts
to a maximum of EUR 100 000 per beneficiary within three
years

(expressed as

Duration: Until 31 December 2005

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

Date of adoption of the decision: 16.4.2002

Member State: France

Aid No: N 795/01

Title: Programmes of
research, dissemination of
information, and technical and economic development in the
milk sector

studies,

Objective: To collect useful financial
information, technical
and economic data and results of studies and disseminate
them to professionals in the milk sector

Budget: EUR 1,09 million in 2001

Aid intensity or amount: 100 % of expenditure

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

Date of adoption of the decision: 16.4.2002

Member State: France

Aid No: N 821/01

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

Date of adoption of the decision: 16.4.2002

Member State: Austria (Burgenland)

Aid No: N 838/01

Title: Aid towards partial compensation for the frost damage
to commercial fruit growing in 2001

Objective:

the minimum temperatures

On the basis of the weather data on Burgenland provided by
in
the Austrian authorities
Burgenland on 15 and 16 April 2001 were from – 5,1 up to
– 2,7 °C. The actual temperature would have been about 1 °C
lower due to air humidity. The Austrian authorities have
argued
in
temperatures under – 2 °C and flower buds in temperatures
under – 3 °C.

fruit blossoms would sustain damage

that

In the view of this damage the Land Burgenland proposes the
to partly compensate the
following aid scheme in order
commercial fruit growers for frost-related losses sustained.

Only the fruit growing undertakings that have sustained a
damage of more that 50 % of average crops will receive
compensation. The average crop is the average yearly crop of
the period 1998-2000. The extent of the damage has been
determined on the basis of the damage report filed by the
undertaking with the appropriate public authorities. Öster-
reichische Hagelversicherung acting as an independent expertise
body on behalf of the Land has verified the content of the
damage report. To control
the damage
reports and to assess the damage the representatives of the
Hagelversicherung visited the undertakings.

the accuracy of

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sustained a

the undertaking has

than
If
ATS 300 000 and the damage to production was more than
50 % of the average total fruit production the compensation
will be 40 % of the actual documented loss calculated using the
above method.

loss of

less

the undertaking has

sustained a loss of more

If
than
ATS 300 000 the compensation will be paid only in respect
of those fruit cultures where the damage to production was
more than 50 % of the average total fruit production. The
compensation will be 40 % of
the actual documented loss
calculated using the above method

Legal basis: Richtlinie der Burgenländischen Landesregierung
über die teilweise Schadensabgeltung für Frostschäden im Er-
werbsobstbau 2001

Objective:
regional protected areas

Investments/agro-environmental commitments in

Legal basis: Delibera della Giunta regionale della Lombardia n.
2867, del 22.12.2000, «Approvazione del Progetto speciale
agricoltura per le aree protette regionali»

Budget:
the
EUR 1 975 500 (ITL 3 825 000 000)

three

first

For

years:

approximately

Aid intensity or amount: Depending on the measure

Duration: Undertermined

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

Budget: ATS 10 173 189 (approximately EUR 739 314,48
million), nationally financed

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

Aid intensity or amount: 40 % of
sustained in 2001

the economic loss

Duration: One-off measure

Date of adoption of the decision: 16.4.2002

Member State: France

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

Aid No: N 168/02

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

Title: Aid to promote the livestock and meat products sector

Objective: To inform consumers and the various economic
operators about these products

Date of adoption of the decision: 16.4.2002

Budget: EUR 7,5 million per year

Member State: Italy (Lombardia)

Aid intensity or amount: 100 % of expenditure

Aid No: N 105/01

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

Title: Aid for agricultural undertakings falling within protected
regional areas

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