Authorisation for State aid pursuant to Articles 87 and 88 of the EC Treaty — Cases where the Commission raises no objections
Date: 2002-07-02
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EU Member State, State aid, advertising, control of State aid, cooperative, crop production, culture, marketing, nutrition, silviculture

2.7.2002

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Official Journal of the European Communities

C 157/25

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

Cases where the Commission raises no objections

(2002/C 157/04)

Date of adoption of the decision: 29.6.2002

Member State: Finland

Aid No: N 94/02

Title: Aid for advertising horticultural products

Objective: The objective of the advertising campaigns is to
increase the consumption of fruit and vegetables in Finland.
The Finnish authorities have explained that the undertakings
active in the horticultural sector in Finland are small and
medium-sized enterprises
the advertising
campaigns promote the development of such enterprise.

(SMEs) and that

Kotimaiset Kasvikset ry. (Finnish Horticultural Products Society,
a Finnish registered association whose membes include,
for
example, producer and wholesale organisations)
intends to
carry out several advertising campaigns, which promote the
consumption and use of horticultural products, i.e. fruit and
vegetables including flowers.

A maximum of 50 % of the costs of the advertising campaigns
is to be financed with the proposed aid scheme. The remaining
50 % or more of the costs will be financed by the member
organisations of Kotmaiset kasvikset ry. These member organi-
sations receive the financing from their members,
the
producers

i.e.

Objective: The aid programme envisages the maintenance of
field and grassland areas which are valuable from a nature
conservation point of view,
through sustainable, extensive
cultivation as well as the restoration of certain landscape
elements

Legal basis: Richtlinie zur Förderung aus Mitteln des Land-
schaftspflegefonds

Budget: Approximately EUR 290 691 per year

Aid intensity or amount: Variable

Duration: Five years

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: 29.6.2002

Member State: Spain (Catalonia)

Aid No: N 324/01

the Ministery of Agriculture and

Title: Measures to integrate, set up and extend cooperatives

Legal basis: Decision of
Forestry

Budget: Variable

Aid intensity or amount: Max. 50 % of the campaign costs,
which have been estimated at EUR 1,17 million for 2002

Duration: The subsidised advertising campaigns would be
carried out from 2002 to 2007

Other information: The draft measure would be carried out
under an existing aid scheme, which has notified to the
Commission on 24 April 1995 pursuant to Article 144 of
the Act of Accession

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

Objective: To promote the modernisation and integration of
producer groups so as to help improve their economic and
social direction by adopting management and marketing
measures

Legal basis: Ley 50/85 de 27 de diciembre de incentivos re-
gionales para la corrección de desequilibrios económicos inter-
territoriales. Real Decreto 1535/87, de 11 de diciembre, por el
que se aprueba el reglamento de desarrollo de dicha Ley 50/85.
Real Decreto 570/1988, de 3 de junio, de delimitación de la
zona de promoción económica de Castilla y León

Budget: EUR 21 799 721

Aid intensity or amount: Varies according to the type of aid

Duration: Six years (2001-2006)

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: 29.6.2002

Member State: Austria (Burgenland)

Date of adoption of the decision: 30.5.2002

Aid No: N 310/01

Member State: Italy (Veneto)

Title: Cultural landscape programme

Aid No: N 412/01

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Official Journal of the European Communities

2.7.2002

Title: Protection and improvement plan for the waters of the
Venice basin — Intervention in the farming sector

Aid No: N 611/01

Objective:
regional protected areas

Investments/agro-environmental commitments in

Legal basis: Piano per la prevenzione dell'inquinamento e il
risanamento delle acque del bacino idrografico immediata-
mente sversanti nella Laguna di Venezia

Budget: Total budget EUR 30 987 413,93

Aid intensity or amount: Depending on the measure

Duration: Undetermined

Title: Processing and marketing in the agricultural, forestry and
food sectors

Objective: To implement
technical assistance plans in the
sectors of processing and marketing agricultural, forestry and
food products

Legal basis: Proyecto de Orden por la que se establecen las
bases reguladoras de las subvenciones para planes de asistencia
técnica y de gestión en los sectores de transformación y co-
mercialización de productos agrarios, silvícolas, de pesca, acui-
cultura y alimentación

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

Budget: Unspecified

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

Aid intensity or amount: 50 % of expenditure

Date of adoption of the decision: 29.6.2002

Duration: One year

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

Member State: Spain

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

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

Cases where the Commission raises no objections

(2002/C 157/05)

Date of adoption of the decision: 17.5.2002

Duration: Until 31 June 2002

Member State: United Kingdom (Wales and England)

Aid No: N 10/02

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: Foot and mouth disease business recovery fund

Objective: Assist ancillary agricultural businesses indirectly
affected by foot and mouth disease but are not eligible for
schemes targeted at farmers

Legal basis: Regional Development Agencies Act 1998 Section
5 (England). Local Government Act 2000, Section 2(1) (Wales)

Budget: GBP 3,5 million

Aid intensity or amount: Aid to operators not involved in
the production, processing and marketing of Annex I products:
measure not constituting aid. Aid to operators involved in the
production, processing and marketing of Annex I products: up
to 100 %

Date of adoption of the decision: 17.5.2002

Member State: Italy (Sardegna)

Aid No: N 31/02

Title: Additional interventions to compensate the farmers for
losses due to blue tongue

Objective: Aid for recovering the losses due to the blue
tongue

Legal basis: Legge 12 dicembre 2001 n. 16 «Ulteriore sostegno
a favore degli allevatori per fronteggiare l'epizoozia denominata
Blue tongue»

Budget: EUR 43 898 838