Authorisation for State aid pursuant to Articles 87 and 88 of the EC Treaty — Cases where the Commission raises no objections
Date: 2003-12-24
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, State aid, United Kingdom, aid to agriculture, control of State aid

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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 315/05)

Date of adoption of the decision: 19.11.2003

Duration: Until 31 December 2008

Member State: Germany

Aid No: N 101/03

Title: Framework plan of the joint task ‘improvement of the
agrarian structure and the coastal protection’ for the period
2003-2006; amendments 2003

Objective: The scheme concerns amendments to the approved
programme ‘Implementation of measures to improve the effi-
ciency of agricultural structures in Germany’ in the context of
the framework programme 2003-2006 ‘Improvement of the
agricultural structures and the coast protection’. The changes
concern the agrarian investment aid programme and forestry
measures

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: 26.11.2003

Member State: Spain

Aid No: N 233/03

Title: Aid for the firm ‘Garcia Carrión La Mancha SA’

Legal basis: Gesetz über die Gemeinschaftsaufgabe „Verbes-
serung der Agrarstruktur und des Küstenschutzes“, Rahmen-
plan „Verbesserung der Agrarstruktur und des Küstenschutzes“

Objective: Investment in the fruit juice and wine production
sector

Budget: EUR 1,55 billion per year (co-financed and nationally
financed)

Legal basis: Ley 50/85 de 27 de diciembre de incentivos re-
gionales para la corrección de desequilibrios económicos inter-
territoriales

Aid intensity or amount: Variable

Duration: 2003-2006

Budget: EUR 4 061 522

Aid intensity or amount: 10 % of the cost of the investment

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

Duration: One-off aid

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

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: 26.11.2003

Member State: Germany (Niedersachsen)

Aid No: N 200/03

Title: Aid for sales promotion and advertising measures

Date of adoption of the decision: 26.11.2003

Member State: Spain

Aid No: N 251/03

Objective: To stimulate the sale of agricultural products
through communication measures

Title: Aid for cucumber producers

Legal basis: Richtlinie über die Gewährung von Zuwendungen
zur Förderung des Absatzes landwirtschaftlicher Erzeugnisse
und Qualitätsprodukte

Budget: EUR 360 000 per year

Objective: Compensation for losses incurred by cucumber
producers as a result of cucumber yellow vein virus

Legal basis: Proyecto de orden por la que se establecen ayudas
a los cultivadores de pepinos en determinados ámbitos territo-
riales de la Comunidad autónoma de Andalucía

Aid intensity or amount: Up to 50 % direct aid and
EUR 70 000 per beneficiary within a two-year period

Budget: EUR 2 100 000

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Aid intensity or amount: Less than the losses incurred

Duration: Five years (2003 to 2008)

Legal basis: Verwaltungsvorschrift zur Förderung der Erhaltung
des vom Aussterben bedrohten Glanrindes im Saarland zur
Erhaltung der genetischen Vielfalt in der Tierzucht

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

Budget: EUR 2 500 per year

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

Aid intensity or amount: Maximum of EUR 50 per female
animal

Duration: Indefinite

Date of adoption of the decision: 26.11.2003

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

Member State: Denmark

Aid No: N 272/03

Title: Extension of the scheme for aid in connection with
combat and prevention of animal diseases

Objective: The aim of the scheme is to provide compensation
for farmers' expenditure and losses in connection with combat
and prevention of animal diseases. This scheme is a modifi-
cation of Aid N 209/98, and amounts to allowing compen-
sation for 100 % of the loss of profit that is due to compulsory
slaughtering of healthy animals in zones around the outbreak
of the animal disease

Legal basis:

— Lov nr. 351 af 2. juni 1999 om sygdomme og infektioner
hos dyr, som ændret ved lov nr. 966 af 4. december 2002

— Bekendtgørelse om udgifter og erstatning ved bekæmpelse
og forebyggelse af sygdomme og infektioner hos dyr

Budget: DKK 6,9 millions (EUR 928 500) per year

Aid intensity or amount: Up to 100 %

Duration: Permanent

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

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

Date of adoption of the decision: 26.11.2003

Member State: Germany (Sachsen)

Aid No: N 371/03

Title: Aid towards the costs of BSE-tests within the special
program on the consequences of BSE in the Land Sachsen

Objective: Financial aid for rapid BSE-tests on bovine animals.

The aid concerns the statutory rapid BSE-tests on bovine
slaughter animals of more than 24 months carried out
between 1 June 2003 and 31 December 2003. The aid
would be paid only towards the test costs of EUR 27. The
aid is EUR 20 per test
for slaughtered bovine animals of
24-30 months and EUR 10 per test for slaughtered bovine
animals older than 30 months. The aid for tests on animals
of more than 30 months may be combined with a Community
is
contribution
EUR 10,50 for the period covered by the present notification.
The aid does not cover the fee for taking and transporting
samples. The aid is paid to the slaughterhouses but benefits
the owners of slaughtered animals

2002/934/EC, which

under Decision

Legal basis: Richtlinie des Sächsischen Staatsministeriums für
Soziales über die Gewährung von Zuwendungen im Rahmen
des Sonderprogramms für BSE-Auswirkungen vom 18.7.2003

Date of adoption of the decision: 26.11.2003

Member State: Germany (Saarland)

Aid No: N 366/03

Budget: EUR 140 000 (nationally financed)

Aid intensity or amount: Variable

Duration: 1 June 2003-31 December 2003

Title: Aid for the preservation of the Glanrind in Saarland,
which is theatened with extinction

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

Objective: To safeguard the genetic material of the Glanrind,
which is threatened with extinction, and thus to maintain
genetic diversity in livestock breeding

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

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Date of adoption of the decision: 26.11.2003

Date of adoption of the decision: 26.11.2003

Member State: Spain (Murcia)

Member State: Italy (Umbria)

Aid No: N 379/03

Aid No: N 593/02

Title: Aid for the installation of irrigation systems on farms

Objective: Modernisation of irrigation systems

Legal basis: Proyecto de Orden de la Consejería de Agricultura,
Agua y Medio Ambiente por la que se convocan ayudas a la
implantación de riego localizado en explotaciones agrarias en
el ámbito de alguna Comunidad de Regantes

Budget: EUR 580 000 per year

Aid intensity or amount: Less than 40 %

Duration: Five years

Title: Improvement of the livestock population. Invitation to
tender approved by Decision of the Regional Government n.
1045 of 29 July 2002

Objective: To improve the livestock population through the
purchase and the upkeep of high quality breeding animals and
the first purchase of livestock

Legal basis:

— Interventi di miglioramento del patrimonio zootecnico.
Bando di concorso approvato con deliberazione della
Giunta regionale n. 1045 del 29 luglio 2002.

— Legge regionale 23 aprile 2002, n. 6, di bilancio di previ-

sione per l'esercizio finanziario 2002

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

Budget: EUR 250 000 for the first year

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

Aid intensity or amount:

Date of adoption of the decision: 26.11.2003

Member State: United Kingdom (Isle of Man)

Aid No: N 475/02

Title: Dairy Industry Emergency Financial Assistance Scheme
2002

Objective: To remedy the sudden drop in returns to Isle of
Man milk producers in result of the British cheese market price
decrease caused by increased milk and cheese production in
United Kingdom

— 40 % for the first purchase of livestock and the purchase of
high quality breeding animals (males and females) registered
in herd-books or their equivalent.

— 30 % for the keeping of high quality male breeding animals

of ovine species registered in herd books

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

Legal basis: Dairy Industry Emergency Financial Assistance
Scheme 2002

Member State: The Netherlands

Date of adoption of the decision: 26.11.2003

Budget: GBP 556 000/EUR 794 285 per year

Aid No: N 749/02

Aid intensity or amount: Variable

Title: Employability in the agricultural sector

Duration: 1 year

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: The project is aimed at making employers and
employees in the agricultural sector aware of the importance
of employability

Legal basis: Subsidieverordening van de Provincie Limburg van
9 juli 1999, Verordening subsidies economisch beleid en ar-
beidsmarktbeleid provincie Noord-Brabant 2001 en Uitvoe-
ringsregeling Economisch en Toeristisch Ontwikkelingsfonds
van de provincie Zeeland van 2 juni 1996

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Budget: EUR 104 545

Aid intensity or amount: 20 %

Objective: To organise the management of the disposal of
animal carcases on farms in the Walloon region by means of
a public service contract awarded by the regional authorities

Duration: 1 April 2002-31 December 2003

Budget: EUR 6 017 080,5

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: 26.11.2003

the cost of services
Aid intensity or amount: 100 % of
relating to the removal,
treatment or processing
transport,
and destruction of animal carcases found on farms in the
Walloon region. From 1 January 2004, up to 100 % of the
cost of the removal of animals found dead, and up to 75 % of
the cost of destruction of the carcases

Member State: Belgium (Wallonia)

Duration: Five years beginning on 31 January 2002

Aid No: NN 48/03 (ex N 157/03)

Title: Gestion de l'enlèvement et la destruction des cadavres
d'animaux générés dans les exploitations agricoles de la Région
wallonne

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

Non-opposition to a notified concentration

(Case COMP/M.3342 — TPG/JPMP/KRATON)

(2003/C 315/06)

(Text with EEA relevance)

On 18 December 2003, the Commission decided not to oppose the above notified concentration and to
declare it compatible with the common market. This decision is based on Article 6(1)(b) of Council
Regulation (EEC) No 4064/89. The full text of the decision is only available in English and will be
made public after it is cleared of any business secrets it may contain. It will be available:

— as a paper version through the sales offices of the Office for Official Publications of the European

Communities (see list on the last page),

— in electronic form in the ‘CEN’ version of the CELEX database, under document No 303M3342. CELEX

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