Authorisation for State aid pursuant to Articles 87 and 88 of the EC Treaty — Cases where the Commission raises no objections
Date: 2002-07-25
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EU Member State, State aid, advertising, control of State aid, genetic engineering, harvest, livestock farming, poultry, quality label

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Official Journal of the European Communities

25.7.2002

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

Cases where the Commission raises no objections

(2002/C 177/03)

Date of adoption of the decision: 24.6.2002

Member State: Germany

Aid No: N 56/02

Legal basis: Articolo 5 comma 7 della Legge 17.3.2001 n. 122
«Disposizioni modificative e integrative alla normativa che di-
sciplina il settore agricolo e forestale»

Budget: ITL 160 billion (approximately EUR 80 million)

Aid intensity or amount: Depending on the measure

Title: Investment aid for animal welfare appropriate rearing
methods

Duration: 2002-2003

Objective:
in
Improvement of animal welfare
chicken rearing. The notified draft directive provides aid
towards investments whose purpose is to transform existing
chicken rearing facilities in order to adopt alternative rearing
techniques within the meaning of paragraph 13 of Tierschutz-
Nutztierhaltungsverordnung

standards

Legal basis: Entwurf der Richtlinien des Bundesministeriums
für Verbraucherschutz, Ernährung und Landwirtschaft für ein
Bundesprogramm „tiergerechte Haltungsverfahren“

Budget: EUR 12 782 000 in 2002

Aid intensity or amount: The aid is given in form of a
reduced-interest loan from Landwirtschaftliche Rentenbank. Such
least EUR 10 000 and may not
loans must amount
exceed EUR 500 000. The reduction of
the
most 5 %, and the loans must bear a minimum interest of
2 %. The interest
the
eligible investment costs

subsidy may not exceed 30 % of

interest

to at

is at

Duration: The measure would be applied until 31 December
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: 24.6.2002

Member State: Italy

Aid No: N 211/02

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

Date of adoption of the decision: 24.6.2002

Member State: Italy (Umbria)

Aid No: N 721/01

Title: Protection of indigenous genetic resources of agricultural
interest

Objective: To protect the regions's zootechnical and plant
heritage

Legal basis: Legge regionale n. 25/2001: «Tutela delle risorse
genetiche autoctone di interesse agricolo»

Budget: EUR 25 823 in 2002; budget for following years to
be laid down in annual finance law

Aid intensity or amount: Unspecified

Duration: Unspecified

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: 24.6.2002

Title: Loi nationale 122/01 article 5, par 7 ‘Modification de la
Discipline agricole et des forêts’

Member State: Sweden

Aid No: N 816/01

Objective:
quality certification

Investment aid, publicity and promotion and

Title: Aid towards crop management plans

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Objective: To help farmers set up crop management plans. A
crop management plan is a form in which the farmer each year
records his plan concerning the use of his/her arable land and,
after harvest, notes how the plan has been followed. The plan
includes information on soil quality, use of crops on each plot
as well as the amounts of seed, fertiliser and plan protection
chemicals used. The plans would be drafted and followed up
with the help of consultants who also perform the necessary
tests to establish e.g. the quality of soil as well as the need of
fertilisers and plant protection chemicals. The farmers would
also receive training to help them to draft, analyse and follow
up crop management plans without consultants after
the
commitment period

Budget:
EUR 30 536 350) per year, nationally financed

SEK 280 million

Maximum

(approximately

Aid intensity or amount: SEK 100 or approximately EUR 11
per hectare and year

Duration: From 2002 until 2004

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

Legal basis: Ett regeringsdekret om stöd för växtodlingsplaner

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

Prior notification of a concentration

(Case COMP/M.2882 — Terex/Demag)

(2002/C 177/04)

(Text with EEA relevance)

1.
On 16 July 2002 the Commission received notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to
Article 4 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 4064/89 (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1310/97 (2),
by which the undertaking Terex Corporation (Terex) of the US, acquires, within the meaning of Article
3(1)(b) of the Regulation, control of the whole of the undertaking Demag Mobile Cranes GmbH & Co. KG
(Demag) of Germany, by way of purchase of shares.

2.

The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:

— Terex: Manufacture of equipment for the construction, infrastructure development, quarrying, recycling

and surface mining industry,

— Demag: Manufacture and marketing of lattice boom cranes and mobile telescopic cranes.

On preliminary examination, the Commission finds that the notified concentration could fall within

3.
the scope of Regulation (EEC) No 4064/89. However, the final decision on this point is reserved.

The Commission invites interested third parties to submit

4.
proposed operation.

their possible observations on the

Observations must reach the Commission not later than 10 days following the date of this publication.
Observations can be sent by fax (No (32-2) 296 43 01 or 296 72 44) or by post, under reference
COMP/M.2882 — Terex/Demag, to:

European Commission,
Directorate-General for Competition,
Directorate B — Merger Task Force,
J-70,
B-1049 Brussels.

(1) OJ L 395, 30.12.1989, p. 1; corrigendum: OJ L 257, 21.9.1990, p. 13.
(2) OJ L 180, 9.7.1997, p. 1; corrigendum: OJ L 40, 13.2.1998, p. 17.