Authorisation for State aid pursuant to Articles 87 and 88 of the EC Treaty — Cases where the Commission raises no objections
Date: 2003-03-28
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: State aid, aid for restructuring, animal disease, control of State aid, health control, livestock farming, organic farming, slaughter of animals, transport of animals, vaccination

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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

(2003/C 76/04)

Date of adoption of the decision: 25.2.2003.

Duration: Until 31 December 2008.

Member State: France.

Aid No: N 3/03.

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dential information has been removed, can be found at

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Title: Aid to restructure the poultry industry.

Objective: To reduce capacity for economic, health and
environmental reasons.

Budget: EUR 6 000 000.

Date of adoption of the decision: 24.2.2003.

Aid intensity or amount: EUR 14 per square metre of closed
poultry house.

Member State: Spain (Cantabria).

Aid No: N 13/03.

Duration: Two years.

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dential information has been removed, can be found at

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Date of adoption of the decision: 25.2.2003.

Member State: Germany.

Aid No: N 07/03.

Title: Promotion of research and development projects in
organic farming.

Objective: To close knowledge and experience gaps in organic
farming and to strengthen the competitiveness of organic
farming
from production through to marketing on a
long-term basis.

Legal basis: Richtlinie zur Durchführung des Programms zur
Förderung von Forschungs- und Entwicklungsvorhaben sowie
von Maßnahmen zum Technologie- und Wissenstransfer im
ökologischen Landbau — Teil A: Vorhaben im Bereich der
Erzeugung, Verarbeitung und Vermarktung von Produkten
des Anhangs I des EG-Vertrags

Budget: EUR 45 million.

Aid intensity or amount: Variable.

Title: Aid for setting up centres to clean livestock transport
vehicles.

Objective: To support investments needed to set up centres to
clean livestock transport vehicles.

Legal basis: Proyecto de orden por la que se regulan y con-
vocan ayudas a la instalación y adecuación de centros de lim-
pieza y desinfección de los vehículos destinados al transporte
de animales en la Comunidad de Cantabria

Budget: EUR 216 000 per year.

Aid intensity or amount: 35 % of the cost.

Duration: Unspecified.

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dential information has been removed, can be found at

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Date of adoption of the decision: 25.2.2003.

Member State: Spain.

Aid No: N 357/02.

Title: Aid for livestock health protection groups.

Objective: To allow livestock health protection groups to
undertake health programmes.

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Legal basis: Proyecto de Real Decreto por el que se establece la
normativa básica de las subvenciones estatales destinadas al
fomento de las agrupaciones de defensa sanitaria ganaderas

Aid intensity or amount: Variable according to the measure.

Duration: Five years.

Budget: EUR 9 616 194 a year.

Aid intensity or amount: Up to 50 %.

Duration: Unspecified.

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dential information has been removed, can be found at

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dential information has been removed, can be found at

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

Date of adoption of the decision: 25.2.2003.

Date of adoption of the decision: 24.2.2003.

Member State: the Netherlands.

Aid No: N 521/02.

Title: Pig Farming 2000.

Objective: Technical support to pig farmers.

Legal basis: Kaderwet LNV-subsidies (artikel 2 en 5, onderdeel
a)

Budget: Maximum EUR 45 378,02.

Aid intensity or amount: 50 %.

Duration: Once off.

Member State: Italy (Tuscany).

Aid No: N 628/02.

Title: Aid for producers participating in the serological
surveillance and vaccination plans for Blue Tongue.

Objective: Aid to compensate farmers for animal losses as a
the
result of compulsory vaccination. Compensation for
additional costs borne by producers as a result of
their
voluntary inclusion in the serological surveillance plan for
Blue Tongue.

Legal basis: Legge regionale n. 24 del 9 ottobre 2002 (ex
disegno di legge regionale n. 12/2002)

Budget: EUR 400 000 (EUR 200 000 in 2002 and 2003).

Aid intensity or amount: Varies, depending on the measure.

Duration: Until 31 December 2003.

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dential information has been emoved, can be found at

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dential information has been removed, can be found at

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

Date of adoption of the decision: 25.2.2003.

Date of adoption of the decision: 25.2.2003.

Member State: Italy (Molise).

Member State: Spain (Navarre).

Aid No: N 576/02.

Aid No: N 637/02.

Title: Rules
apiculture.

for

the

enhancement

and development of

Title: Aid for cessation of milk production.

Objective: To promote the development of the beekeeping
sector in the Molise region.

Objective: To restructure milk production through the
definitive cessation of milk production in accordance with
Article 8 of Regulation (EEC) No 3950/92.

Legal basis: Disegno di legge regionale n. 89 del 2002

Budget: EUR 200 000 for 2002.

Legal basis: Proyecto de orden Foral por la que se aprueba un
programma de abandono voluntario y definitivo de la produc-
ción lechera

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Budget: EUR 90 151,82.

Budget: EUR 275 000 for each three-year period.

Aid intensity or amount: Varies according to the beneficiaries

Duration: 2003.

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dential information has been removed, can be found at

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Aid intensity or amount: 25 % of
the expenditure (not
including tax), with a ceiling of EUR 7 700 per hatchery in
respect of the investment and 50 % in respect of the technical
investment costs, with a ceiling of EUR 100 000 for each
three-year period.

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dential information has been removed, can be found at

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Date of adoption of the decision: 24.2.2003.

Member State: United Kingdom.

Date of adoption of the decision: 25.2.2003.

Aid No: N 659/02.

Member State: France.

Title: National Scrapie Plan (NSP) and Northern Ireland Scrapie
Plan (NISP) Semen Archive.

Aid No: N 719/02.

Objective: The proposed semen archive aims to establish an
archive of sheep semen which would ensure that viable popu-
lations of sheep could be produced and re-admitted to the
national
it should be discovered that
genotypes being removed from the national sheep flock were
needed in a future animal disease situation (TSE or otherwise).

flock in the case if

Title: To promote genetic developments on pig breeding
undertakings.

Objective: To improve the pig gene pool.

Budget: EUR 750 000.

Legal basis: Non-statutory initiative.

Budget: GBP 1 466 000 (EUR 2 219 195).

Aid intensity or amount: Up to 100 %.

Duration: 2002 to 2007.

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dential information has been removed, can be found at

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Aid intensity or amount: 40 % of eligible expenditure for
investments in animal reproduction centres and 50 % for the
costs of technical assistance, with a ceiling of EUR 100 000
per three-year period.

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dential information has been removed, can be found at

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Date of adoption of the decision: 25.2.2003.

Member State: France.

Aid No: N 718/02.

Objective: To encourage meat poultry hatcheries to apply
health protection measures as set out
in the quality chart
established by the Syndicat National des Accouveurs (the
French hatcherymen's association) and to undertake investment
with a view to better preventing health risks to breeding flocks.

Date of adoption of the decision: 25.2.2003.

Member State: France.

Aid No: N 732/02.

Title: Aid for the purchase of breeding animals of high genetic
quality — C.G. Cher.

Objective: To pay some of
registered in the Charolais Herd Book.

the costs of buying animals

Budget: EUR 45 000 per year.

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Aid intensity or amount: 15 % (40 % maximum).

Duration: Three years.

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dential information has been removed, can be found at

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Date of adoption of the decision: 24.2.2003.

Member State: Germany (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern).

Aid No: N 793/02.

Title: Aid for the destruction of carcasses.

Objective: To compensate livestock farmers for the extra
disposal costs arising from the new Community rules on
specified risk material and meat and bone meal.

Legal basis: Zuwendungsbescheid des Landes Mecklenburg-
Vorpommern; Landeshaushaltsordnung (LHO) Mecklenburg-
Vorpommern in der Fassung der Bekanntmachung vom 10.
April 2000 (GVOBI. M-V S. 159) in Verbindung mit den All-
gemeinen Nebenbestimmungen für Zuwendungen zur Projekt-
förderung

Budget: EUR 1 890 000.

Aid intensity or amount: 33,33 % of total disposal costs.

Duration: One year (from 1.1.2003 to 31.12.2003).

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dential information has been removed, can be found at

farms are
to stockfarmers whose agricultural
Title: Aids
affected by avian flu. Regional Decree 11427 of 29.11.2002.

Objective: Compensation for loss of income in favour of the
breeders of poultry and game affected by avian flu.

Legal basis: Legge regionale n. 7/2000 «misure regionali di
sostegno a favore degli allevamenti avicoli e fauna selvatica
colpiti dall'influenza aviaria — indennizzi per mancato reddito»
e delibera 11427 del 29.11.2002

Budget: EUR 5 000 000 for the first three years.

Aid intensity or amount: Up to 80 % of the losses.

Duration: 10 years.

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dential information has been removed, can be found at

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Date of adoption of the decision: 19.2.2003.

Member State: Germany (Saarland).

Aid No: N 386/02.

Title: Aid towards the costs of disposal of specified risk
material to slaughtering enterprises.

Objective: The aid would cover all
companies in Saarland have incurred for
specified risk material
animals in 2001 and 2002.

from bovine,

the costs slaughtering
the disposal of
and ovine

caprine

Legal basis: A decision of the Government of Saarland.

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Budget: Up to EUR 100 000 for 2001 and 2002.

Date of adoption of the decision: 25.2.2003.

Member State: Italy (Lombardy).

Aid No: N 808/02.

Aid intensity or amount: 100 % of the documented costs.

Duration: Until end 2002.

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dential information has been removed, can be found at

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