Authorisation for State aid pursuant to Articles 87 and 88 of the EC Treaty — Cases where the Commission raises no objections
Date: 2003-12-10
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Germany, Spain, State aid, United Kingdom, aid to agriculture, control of State aid

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Name and address of the granting authority: Title IV of
Regional Law No 44 of 26 April 2000 adopting the
implementing provisions of Decree-Law No 112 of 31 March
1998 sets out the distribution of functions between the region
and the provinces in the field of training, allocating to the
latter,
in addition to the functions already transferred to
them under preceding Regional Law No 63 of 13 April
1995, other functions linked to vocational training and,
in
particular, the management of the training activities provided
for by the annual directives referred to in Article 18 of
Regional Law No 63/95, including the launching of calls for
the presentation of financing applications, their evaluation and
the granting of the relevant aid, which will be transferred
gradually from January 2001. However, under Regional Law
No 44 of 26 April 2000, the Region retains responsibility for
experimental or
training activities, which require
uniform management at regional level.

regional

Accordingly,
in accordance with the abovementioned legal
framework, the authorities granting the aid are, depending on
the type of activity provided for by the Directive concerned,
the Region itself and the Piedmont provincial administrative
departments:

— Regione Piemonte — Direzione regionale alla Formazione
Professionale — Lavoro Settore Attività Formativa, via
Magenta, 12, I-10128 Torino

— Provincia di Torino, via Maria Vittoria, 12, I-10100 Torino

— Provincia di Vercelli, via San Cristoforo, 7, I-13100 Vercelli

— Provincia di Novara, p.zza G. Matteotti, 1, I-28100 Novara

— Provincia di Cuneo, c.so Nizza, 21, I-12100 Cuneo

— Provincia di Asti, p.zza V. Alfieri, 33, I-14100 Asti

— Provincia di Alessandria, p.zza Libertà, 17, I-15100 Aless-

andria

— Provincia di Biella, via Quintino Sella, 12, I-13051 Biella

— Provincia del Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, via dell'Industria, 25,

I-28924 Verbania

Other information: The total public contribution that may
be allocated to a single firm for training programmes under
in any event exceed EUR 1 million
this Directive may not
(ITL 1 936 270 000)

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

Cases where the Commission raises no objections

(2003/C 299/06)

Date of adoption of the decision: 14.11.2003

Member State: United Kingdom

Aid No: N 5/03

Title: Agri-environment Entry Level Scheme — Pilot

Objective: The Entry Level Scheme will aim to deliver environ-
mental and landscape benefits across a wide area. In particular,
it is being designed to address the following environmental
problems:

— diffuse pollution — can only be tackled and prevented
effectively by environmental management measures that
affect a high proportion of land from which the pollution
is coming,

— loss of biodiversity — a broad approach is deemed
necessary to tackle and prevent declines
in dispersed
species such as farmland birds, brown hares, bats and
many common invertebrates (e.g. butterflies, bees),

— loss of landscape character — a broad approach is deemed
necessary to consistently influence what happens across
large tracts of the countryside, to avoid the fragmentation
of traditional landscape patterns,

— damage

to the historic

environment — safeguarding
extensive aspects of
the historic environment, such as
archaeological sites and ridge and furrow grassland which
are at
risk of plough damage, also requires a broad
approach

Legal basis: Non-statutory initiative

for the Entry Level Scheme Pilot

Budget: The budget
is
GBP 2,2 million (EUR 3,42 million) a year. This budget
consists of direct costs (payments to farmers) of GBP 1,6
million (EUR 2,49 million) and government administration
costs of GBP 0,6 million. The actual expenditure will depend
upon the levels of uptake of the scheme in the four pilot areas

Aid intensity or amount: Variable

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Duration: Agreements under the Entry Level Scheme Pilot will
be for five years

assistance. Its aim is to favour the organisation of production
and the provision of advisory services to farmers

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

Legal basis: Legge Regionale 8 luglio 2000 n. 24 (Interventi a
favore del settore agricolo e agroalimentare)

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

Budget: EUR 500 000 for 2004

Date of adoption of the decision: 14.11.2003

Member State: Spain (Navarre)

Aid No: N 278/03

Title: Aid for the promotion of agri-environmental measures in
the production of seed potatoes

Objective: The promotion of agri-environmental measures in
the production of seed potatoes

Aid intensity or amount: Start-up aid for producer organi-
sations: 100 % of start-up costs, degressive over five years.
Technical assistance: maximum EUR 100 000 per beneficiary
over three years (50 % of eligible expenses if SMEs)

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

Legal basis: Proyecto de orden por la que se fomenta la apli-
cación de medidas agroambientales en el cultivo de patata de
siembra

Date of adoption of the decision: 14.11.2003

Member State: Germany (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern)

Budget: EUR 75 000 per year

Aid No: N 793/02

Aid intensity or amount: Variable

Title: Aid for the destruction of carcasses

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

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

Date of adoption of the decision: 14.11.2003

Budget: EUR 1 890 000

Member State: Italy (Calabria)

Aid No: N 317/03

Title: Regional Law No 24 of 8 July 2000, Article 3, paragraph
letter (a) — ‘Aid for the setting up and extension of
1,
producer organisations in the agriculture and livestock sector’

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

Duration: One year (from 1 January 2003 to 31 December
2003)

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

Objective: The scheme consists of two aid measures: start-up
aid for producer organisations, and aid in the form of technical

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