Authorisation for State aid pursuant to Articles 87 and 88 of the EC Treaty — Cases where the Commission raises no objections
Date: 2003-01-23
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: State aid, aid to agriculture, animal disease, floriculture, fodder, horticulture, less-favoured agricultural area, natural disaster

C 16/2

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

23.1.2003

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

Cases where the Commission raises no objections

(2003/C 16/02)

Date of adoption of the decision: 12.12.2002

Member State: Italy (Autonomous Province of Trento)

Legal basis: Legge Regionale n. 32/2000, articolo 123: Dispo-
sizioni per l'attuazione del POR 2000-2006 e di riordino di
regimi di aiuto

Aid No: N 301/02

Title: Measures connected to the 2002 financial exercise

Objective:

— Aid to compensate farmers for

losses due to adverse

weather, through the cooperatives to which they belong

— Agri-environmental aid

Legal basis: Articoli 91 e 97 della Legge provinciale 19 feb-
braio 2002, n. 1

Budget: Around EUR 60 million

Aid intensity or amount: Variable

Duration: Until the end of 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

Budget: Article 91: EUR 1 800 000 in the 2003 budget;
Article 97: EUR 800 000 in the 2003 budget

Date of adoption of the decision: 12.12.2002

Aid intensity or amount: Article 91: 60 % of actual losses
suffered by farmers who are members of cooperatives; Article
97: depending on the crop, the additional cost due to using
environmentally-sound products

Duration: Five years (1 January 2001-31 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

Member State: France

Aid No: N 625/02

Title: Aid in the perfume, aromatic and medicinal plants sector

Objective: To support research and experimentation, technical
assistance and promotion measures, and promote the launch of
producer organisations

Budget:

— Aid for research and experimentation: EUR 400 000 per

year;

— Technical assistance: EUR 150 000 per year;

— Start-up aid for producer organisations: EUR 100 000 per

year;

Date of adoption of the decision: 11.12.2002

— Promotion measures: EUR 300 000 per year

Member State: Italy (Sicily)

Aid No: N 590/A/01

Title: Provisions
the
2000-2006 Regional Operational Programme and the restruc-
turing of aid schemes

implementation of

relating to the

Objective: To pay compensatory payments to farmers in less-
favoured areas in Sicily

Aid intensity or amount: Varies according to the measure

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

23.1.2003

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

C 16/3

Date of adoption of the decision: 12.12.2002

Aid intensity or amount: 80 % of the costs for all measures;
except for marketing measures, where the aid intensity is 50 %

Member State: France

Aid No: N 723/02

Title: State-region planning contracts: aid in the perfume,
aromatic and medicinal plants sector

Objective: To support producers of perfume plants by means
of
research and experimentation and technical assistance
measures, and development of high-quality products

Budget: EUR 525 000 per year

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

Aid intensity or amount: Varies according to the measure

Date of adoption of the decision: 12.12.2002

Duration: 2002-2006

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: 12.12.2002

Member State: Denmark

Aid No: N 608/02

Member State: Germany

Aid No: N 666/02

Title: Promotion of consulting of agricultural and horticultural
enterprises

Objective: Consulting services are subsidised for agricultural
and horticultural enterprises in Lower Saxony in order to
support
the development of sustainable, environment- and
animal-friendly production in agriculture and horticulture as
well as the conversion to the ecological agriculture and horti-
culture

Legal basis: Landeshaushaltsordnung Niedersachsen, Entwurf
einer Richtlinie über die Gewährung von Zuwendungen zur
Förderung der landwirtschaftlichen Beratung und von Leis-
tungsprüfungen in der tierischen Erzeugung

Title: Fund for Ecological Agriculture

Budget: EUR 2 800 000 per year

Objective: The purpose of the Fund for Ecological Agriculture
is to promote ecological agricultural production by providing
support for marketing, research and experimentation, product
sanitary
development,
measures, sanity control and special measures approved by
the Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries

training, preventative

consultation,

Legal basis:

— Lov om administration af EU's forordninger om fælles

markedsordninger for landbrugsprodukter

— Foreningsvedtægter for Fonden for Økologisk Landbrug

— Cirkulærer om produktion og Promillefonden for Landbrug

og Havebrug

Aid intensity or amount: 70 % of the costs of the consulting
services but not more than EUR 100 000 per undertaking
within a period of three years

Duration: 2002-2006

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

— Revisionsinstrukser om produktion og Promillefonden for

Landbrug og Havebrug

Member State: Italy (Sicilia)

Date of adoption of the decision: 11.12.2002

Budget: DKK 5 Million (EUR 673 000) for 2002

Aid No: NN 37/98 (ex N 808/97) and NN 138/02

C 16/4

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

23.1.2003

Title: Article 11 of Regional Law n. 40/1997 (Aid NN 37/98)
and Article 7 of Regional Law n. 22/1999 (Aid NN 138/02):
aids for animal diseases

Legal basis: Koninklijk besluit betreffende de verplichte bijdra-
gen aan het Begrotingsfonds voor de kwaliteit van de dieren en
de dierlijke producten, vastgesteld volgens de sanitaire risisco's
verbonden aan bedrijven waar runderen gehouden worden

Objective: Compensation for animal diseases and allowances
for the related veterinary costs

Legal basis: Articolo 11 (Interventi per la zootecnia) della
Legge 7 novembre 1997, n. 40. Variazioni al bilancio della
Regione ed al bilancio dell'Azienda delle foreste demaniali della
regione siciliana per l'anno finanziario 1997 — Assestamento.
Modifica dell'articolo 49 della legge regionale 7 agosto 1997,
n. 30; Articolo 7 (Interventi per il risanamento degli alleva-
menti zootecnici) della Legge 28 settembre 1999, n. 22. Inter-
venti urgenti per il settore agricolo

Projet d'arrêté royal relatif aux cotisations obligatoires au fonds
budgétaire pour la santé et
la qualité des animaux et des
produits animaux,
fixées en fonction des risques sanitaires
liés aux entreprises détenant des bovins

Budget: EUR 25 827 000 in 2002

Aid intensity or amount: Up to 100 %

Duration: Unspecified

Budget: The budget envisaged by Article 11 of Law n. 40/97
amounts
the
budget envisaged by Article 7 of Law n. 22/99 amounts to
ITL 20 000 million (± EUR 10 329 138)

to ITL 16 000 million (± EUR 8 263 310);

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

Aid intensity or amount: Compensation: 50 % of the damage
suffered by the owners of the animals. Allowance for veterinary
expenses: undetermined

Duration: Compensations for the animals suppressed because
of tubercolosis, brucellosis, and leucosis in the years 1993,
1994, 1995, 1996, and 1997, and the related veterinary
allowances

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: 13.12.2002

Member State: Belgium

Aid No: N 257/02

Date of adoption of the decision: 13.12.2002

Member State: Austria

Aid No: N 621/02

Title: Financial aid for the purchase of
forage and forage
replacement products to agricultural and forestry enterprises
having sustained damage due to the exceptional weather
conditions

Objective: To compensate for the drought and flood damage
to the forage production of
livestock farms during 2002
Austria proposes to grant the following aid towards purchasing
roughage or roughage substitute:

— EUR 6 per 100 kg of hay purchased

— EUR 3 per 100 kg silage balls purchased

— EUR 12 per each corn/grass silage ball purchased

— EUR 262 per ha of corn on the cob (Mais am Stamm)

purchased

Title: Draft Royal Decree on the obligatory contributions to
the Budgetary Fund for the health and quality of livestock and
animal products, as fixed on the basis of
the health risks
associated with bovine animal holdings

— EUR 1 per 100 kg of silage purchased

— EUR 2 per 100 kg of feeding straw purchased

Objective: To finance the slaughter premiums that are part of
statutory animal disease prevention and the controls relating to
the improvement of hygiene, health and the quality of livestock
and animal products

— EUR 6 per 100 kg of

roughage replacement product

purchased

— EUR 4 per 100 kg dry forage purchased

23.1.2003

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

C 16/5

The forage purchased must be intended to replace a shortfall in
the beneficiary's own forage production. Livestock farmers with
no forage area and sellers of roughage or its substitutes will
receive no aid under the draft directive. The aid is granted as a
one-off measure and only upon presentation of the proof of
purchase completed in the period between 1 May 2002 and 31
January 2003

Legal basis: Sonderrichtlinie des Bundesministers für Land-
und Forstwirtschaft, Umwelt und Wasserwirtschaft (BMLFUW)
für eine finanzielle Hilfe zum Zukauf von Raufutter und Rau-
futterersatzprodukten in von außergewöhnlichen klimatischen
Umständen geschädigten land- und forstwirtschaftlichen Betrie-
ben

Budget: Available resources at the time of the notification:
EUR 5,4 million. Actual expenses are not yet foreseeable

Aid intensity or amount: The maximum amount of aid per
holding is EUR 150 for each hectare of forage area. Minimum
payable aid amount is EUR 150 per holding and the aid may
not exceed EUR 3 000 per holding

Duration: One-off measure

in the kind of the event,

Other information: The flooding in central Europe in the
summer 2002 was exceptional
its
special intensity and its extreme damage. Without doubt the
flooding can be classified as natural disaster. The Austrian auth-
orities have submitted appropriate information on the weather
conditions and their impact on agricultural production during
2002

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: 13.12.2002

Member State: Germany

Aid No: N 682/02

Title: Aid programme of the Federal Government (Bund) and
the Länder in the form of an 80 % release from liability for
loans from the Landwirtschaftliche Rentenbank for liquidity aid
and for investments in agricultural and forestry holdings that
were necessary due to the consequences of the flood 2002

Objective: Recovery assistance to companies in the agriculture,
forestry and fishery sector, which are affected by the flood
2002

Legal basis:

— Verwaltungsvereinbarung zwischen Bund und Ländern über
die Beteiligung der Länder an einer achtzigprozentigen Haf-
tungsfreistellung für Kredite der Landwirtschaftlichen Ren-
tenbank für Liquiditätshilfen sowie Investitionen in land-
und forstwirtschaftlichen Betrieben, die durch die Folgen
des Hochwassers 2002 notwendig wurden, vom 26. August
2002

— Vertrag zwischen der Bundesrepublik Deutschland und der
Landwirtschaftlichen Rentenbank (LR) über die Abwicklung
einer 80 %-Haftungsfreistellung für die Hausbanken im
Rahmen des LR-Sonderprogramms Hochwasser für land-
und forstwirtschaftliche Antragsteller

Budget: EUR 8,2 Millions

Aid intensity or amount: 8,2 % of the loans granted

Duration: 2003-2022

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