Summary information communicated by Member States regarding State aid granted under Commission Regulation (EC) No 1/2004 of 23 December 2003 on the application of Articles 87 and 88 of the EC Treaty to State aid to small and medium-sized enterprises active in the production, processing and marketing of agricultural products
Date: 2005-04-30
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Belgium, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, State aid, United Kingdom, exchange of information

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Summary information communicated by Member States regarding State aid granted under
Commission Regulation (EC) No 1/2004 of 23 December 2003 on the application of Articles 87
and 88 of the EC Treaty to State aid to small and medium-sized enterprises active in the produc-
tion, processing and marketing of agricultural products

(2005/C 105/03)

Aid number: XA 66/04

Member State: United Kingdom

Region: England

Title of Aid scheme or name of company receiving an
individual aid: Farming Activities Programme (England)

Name and address of the granting authority:
Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
Farm Advice Unit
Rural Development Service
Area 4A, Ergon House
Horseferry Road
London
United Kingdom
SW1P 2JR

Web-address:
www.defra.gov.uk/farm/state-aid/setup/exist-exempt.htm

Legal basis: The scheme is non-statutory. The Agriculture Act
1986 (section 1) provides the legal base for the provision by
Government of advice in connection with any agricultural
activity.

Click on ‘Farming Activities Programme (England)’. Alterna-
tively, you can go direct to
www.defra.gov.uk/farm/state-aid/setup/schemes/fap-
england.pdf.

Annual expenditure planned under
800 000

the scheme: GBP

Maximum aid intensity: The aid intensity is 100 %

Date of implementation: Farmers will be able to sign up
from 1 December the first meetings will take place on or after
6 December 2004.

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: The scheme
will be open to new participants throughout. Activities funded
under the scheme will take place after 6 December 2004 and
until 24 March 2005. The Programme closes on 31 March
2005.

Objective of aid: Sectoral development. This is a programme
the programme,
for practising farmers. The purpose of
consisting of a range of conferences, workshops and seminars,
is to help farmers understand current issues that may impact
upon their businesses such as CAP reform, catchment sensitive
farming, and the introduction of new Environmental Steward-
ship Schemes. This will
increase the professionalism of the
sector.

The aid will be paid in line with Article 14 of Regulation (EC)
No 1/2004 and the eligible costs will be costs of organising
and delivering training programmes.

Aid No: XA No 49/04

Member State: Italy

Region: Friuli-Venezia Giulia

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving an indi-
vidual aid: Regulation laying down criteria and detailed rules
for granting financial assistance for the recapitalisation of agri-
cultural cooperatives and consortia thereof as provided for in
Article 31 of Regional Law 20/1992 and payable in accordance
with Article 5(n) of Regional Law 80/82 and subsequent
amendments and additions (Regolamento recante criteri e modalità
per la concessione di finanziamenti agevolati per la ricapitalizzazione
delle cooperative agricole e dei loro consorzi, previsti dall'articolo 31
della LR 20/1992 ed erogabili ai sensi dell'articolo 5, lettera n) della
legge regionale 80/82 e successive modificazioni ed integrazioni).

Legal basis: Legge regionale 17 luglio 1992, n. 20 (art. 31) —
‘Modificazioni ed integrazioni alla legge regionale 29 marzo 1988,
n. 16, in materia di apicoltura e alla legge regionale 20 novembre
1982, n. 80, concernente il Fondo di rotazione regionale. Norme di
interpretazione, modificazione ed integrazione di altre leggi regionali
nel settore dell' agricoltura. Interventi di razionalizzazione, ammoder-
namento e sviluppo di alcuni comparti produttivi del settore primario’.

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of individual aid granted to the company: The
indicative maximum annual expenditure is EUR 2 million.

Sector(s) concerned: The scheme applies to businesses active
in the production of agricultural products only. The scheme is
open to businesses producing any type of agricultural product.

Maximum aid intensity: The maximum intensity is 40 %
GGE.

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Date of implementation: The aid scheme comes into force
on the 15th day following its publication in the Official Journal
of the Region and 10 days after this form is sent, as provided
for in Article 19(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1/2004.

Aid No: XA No 51/04

Member State: Italy

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: Until funds
are exhausted but not beyond the term of validity of Regulation
(EC) No 1/2004, i.e. 31 December 2006.

Region: Marche

for

the

investments

Objective of aid: Support for SMEs subject to approval of
the
programmes
recapitalisation of cooperatives and
for
lasting up to five years and providing for
consortia thereof,
suitable
restructuring,
reorganisation,
consolidation and development of cooperative bodies. SMEs
interested must meet the profitabilty criteria and the minimum
environmental and animal health and welfare requirements and
the investments must ensure market outlets in accordance with
the rural development plan for the Friuli-Venezia Giulia Region
(approved by Decision (EC) No C (2000) 2902 def. of 29
September 2000).

The aid is granted under Article 7 of Regulation (EC) No 1/
2004.

Expenditure admissible under the recapitalisation programmes
covers:

— the construction, acquisition or improvement of immovable

property;

— the purchase or lease-purchase of new machinery and
equipment, including computer software up to the market
value of the asset; other costs connected with a leasing
contract
interest refinancing costs,
overheads, insurance charges, etc.) are not admissible;

lessor's margin,

(tax,

Title of aid scheme: Assistance to promote the production
and marketing of quality agricultural products through the
introduction of company management systems for the certifica-
tion of environmental and ethical quality standards in accord-
ance with national and Community provisions and standards of
the SA 8000, UNI EN ISO 9000 and 14000 series and
company and food-chain traceability systems meeting national
and Community provisions and standards of the UNI 10939
and UNI 11020 series and compliance with existing rules on
quality products.

Legal basis: Articoli 3, 4 e 6 della legge regionale 10 dicembre
2003, n. 23 ‘Interventi per il sostegno dei sistemi di certifica-
zione della qualità e della tracciabilità delle produzioni agricole
ed agro-alimentari’.

Maximum expenditure planned: The overall budget under
the Regional Law for 2004 is EUR 774 685,35, of which not
more than EUR 700 000 is for measures under
this aid
scheme.

For subsequent years, the maximum under the Regional Law
can amount to EUR 2 million per year, of which not more
than EUR 1 500 000 is for measures under this aid scheme.

— general costs, such as architects', engineers' and consultants'
fees,
the acquisition of patents and
licences, of up to 12 % of the expenditure covered by the
preceding indents.

feasibility studies,

Maximum aid intensity: The aid may amount to up to 60 %
of
the admissible expenditure but may not exceed EUR
100 000 per beneficiary over a three-year period.

Sector(s) concerned: Processing and/or marketing of products
listed in Annex I to the Treaty.

Date of implementation: From 2004, and 10 working days
after this form is sent, as provided for in Article 19(1) of Regu-
lation (EC) No 1/2004.

Name and address of the granting authority:
Direzione centrale delle risorse agricole, naturali,
della montagna
Servizio per il credito agrario, la cooperazione e lo sviluppo
agricolo
Via Caccia, 17
33100 — Udine (I)

forestali e

Web site:

www.regione.fvg.it/istituzionale/bur/bur.htm

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: There is no
time limit on the scheme's duration, which depends on the
funds set aside in the annual budget of the Marche Region.

Objective of aid: Granting of assistance to small and medium-
sized agricultural enterprises active in the production, proces-
sing and marketing of agricultural products, to support:

(a) Market research, conception and design of products for the
preparation of applications for recognition of denomina-
tions of origin and certificates of specific character in
accordance with the relevant Community regulations.

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systems

(b) Projects that provide for the introduction of company
management
for certifying environmental and
ethical quality standards in accordance with national and
Community provisions and standards of the SA 8000, UNI
EN ISO 9000 and 14000 series, with which compliance
must be certified by specially authorised or accredited
bodies.

The beneficiaries must use the management system devel-
oped using the regional aid for a minimum period laid
down by the Regional Executive.

(c) Projects that provide for the introduction of company and
food-chain traceability in accordance with national and
Community provisions or the standards of the UNI 10939
and UNI 11020 series, with which compliance must be
certified by specially authorised or accredited bodies. The
beneficiaries must use the management system developed
using the regional assistance for a minimum period laid
down by the Regional Executive.

(d) Projects to amend, or comply with, the new requirements
for, denominations of origin and certificates of specific
character
in accordance with the relevant Community
provisions through work carried out by third parties.

provisions and for the amendment of and/or compliance
with existing production rules.

— introduction of quality assurance schemes, such as ISO
9000 and 14000 standards, traceability systems, systems to
ensure compliance with standards of authenticity, rules on
marketing and environmental audit systems and standards
for the certification of social responsibilty (SA 8000);

— training of personnel to apply the above systems;

— charges levied by recognised certifying bodies for the initial

certification of quality assurance and similar systems.

Costs of external consultants for work carried out by profes-
sional consultants or consultancy companies with proven
experience in the sector, for the implementation of the quality
management system, including specialised technical assistance
(e.g. for instrument calibration), can also be covered.

Ineligible costs

Drafting of company self-monitoring manuals in compliance
with Legislative Decree No 155/97.

Reference articles of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1/
2004: Article 13(2)(a) to (d) and Article 14(2)(c).

Admissible costs are eligible from the date of granting of the
aid.

and agri-food enterprises, both individual

Beneficiaries of the aid: Small and medium-sized agricultural
holdings
and
grouped, those processing agricultural products as defined in
Article 32 of, and Annex I to, the Treaty establishing the Euro-
pean Community, and producer organisations, consortia for
the protection and committees for the promotion of new
denominations of origin operating within the Region may
qualify for the aid.

All persons qualifying in the area concerned on the basis of
objectively defined criteria may be granted the aid, subject to
compliance with Articles 13(6) and (7) and 14(4) and (5) of
Regulation (EC) No 1/2004.

concerned: The

and
scheme
Sectors
medium-sized enterprises producing, processing and marketing
agricultural products listed in Annex I to the EC Treaty.

to small

applies

Name and address of the authority granting the aid: RE-
GIONE MARCHE Servizio Sviluppo e Gestione Attività Agri-
cole e Rurali e Servizio Sistema Agroalimentare, Ambiente
rurale e Foreste, Via Tiziano 44, 60100 ANCONA

Web address: www.agri.marche.it

Costs:

Eligible costs

Aid No: XA 53/04

Member State: Belgium

The following may be eligible for aid

— market research, product conception and design, including
aid granted for the preparation of applications for recogni-
tion of denominations of origin and certificates of specific
in accordance with the relevant Community
character

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving indivi-
dual aid: prefinancing of TSE tests

Legal basis:

— Regulation (EC) No 999/2001

— Law of 27 December 2002 on the general expenditure

budget for the 2003

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Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of individual aid granted to the company: The
overall amount for carrying out mandatory TSE tests on cattle
slaughtered for human consumption is estimated at approxi-
mately EUR 25 700 000 (357 398 × EUR 40 for 2003 and
approximately
at
15 October 2004), depending on when the draft decision on
financing TSE tests enters into force.

285 000

2005

EUR

for

40

×

Maximum aid intensity: EUR 40,00 per test

Date of implementation: since 1 January 2003

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: For as long as
mandatory TSE tests on cattle slaughtered for human consump-
tion apply and until the draft decision on financing TSE tests,
which has been submitted to the Commission, enters into
force.

Objective of aid: The main objective of the measure is to
provide support to the animal production sector in accordance
with Article 15(d) of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1/2004
of 23 December 2003 on the application of Articles 87 and 88
of the EC Treaty to state aid to small and medium-sized enter-
prises active in the production, processing and marketing of
agricultural products. There are no secondary objectives. The
eligible costs comprise: the total cost of testing, including the
test kit and taking, transporting, testing, storing and destroying
the samples.

Economic sector(s) concerned: The scheme applies to the
cattle subsector of the production sector.

Name and address of
the granting authority: Federal
Agency for the Safety of the Food Chain (FASFC), Avenue
Simon Bolivarlaan 30, B-1000 Brussels

Website: www.favv-afsca.fgov.be

— loi du 22 décembre 2003 contenant
dépenses pour l'exercice budgétaire 2004

le budget général des

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of individual aid granted to the company:: The
overall amount for carrying out mandatory TSE tests on cattle
slaughtered for human consumption is estimated at approxi-
mately EUR 12 016 800 (360 000 tests × EUR 33,38 over
12 months), varying according to the number of slaughtered
cattle in the age category to be tested and the date when the
decision applies.

Maximum aid intensity: EUR 33,38 per test

Date of implementation: 15 October 2004

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: For as long as
mandatory TSE tests on cattle slaughtered for human consump-
tion apply.

Objective of aid: The main objective of the measure is to
provide support to the animal production sector in accordance
with Article 15(d) of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1/2004
of 23 December 2003 on the application of Articles 87 and 88
of the EC Treaty to state aid to small and medium-sized enter-
prises active in the production, processing and marketing of
agricultural products. There are no secondary objectives. The
eligible costs comprise: the total cost of testing, including the
test kit and taking, transporting, testing, storing and destroying
the samples.

Economic sector(s) concerned: The
animal production.

scheme

applies

to

Name and address of
the granting authority: Federal
Agency for the Safety of the Food Chain (FASFC), Avenue
Simon Bolivarlaan 30, B-1000 Brussels

Website: www.favv-afsca.fgov.be

Aid No: XA 54/04

Member State: Belgium

Aid number: XA 56-04

Member State: United Kingdom

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving indivi-
dual aid: financing of TSE tests

Region: England

Legal basis:

— Verordening (EG) nr. 999/2001

— Wet van 22 december 2003 houdende de algemene uitgavenbe-

groting voor het begrotingsjaar 2004

— Règlement (CE) no 999/2001

Title of Aid scheme or name of company receiving an
individual aid: Self-help groups for farmers — pilot scheme
(England)

Legal basis: The scheme is non-statutory. The Agriculture Act
1986 (section 1) provides the legal base for the provision by
Government of advice in connection with any agricultural
activity.

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Annual expenditure planned under
117 750

the scheme: GBP

Legal basis: Legge Provinciale 14 dicembre 1998, n. 11, art. 4,
lettera k

Maximum aid intensity: The maximum aid intensity is
100 %. Each participant will receive services at a value of GBP
235,50 and this therefore represents the maximum amount of
aid granted under the scheme.

Date of implementation: Farmers will be able to sign up
from 22 October and the first meetings will take place after 1
November 2004.

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: The scheme
will be open to new participants throughout. Activities funded
under the scheme will take place after 1 November 2004 and
until 31 March 2005.

Objective of aid: The purpose of this scheme is to pilot new
mechanisms
for engaging with farmers with a view to
promoting the sharing of knowledge and best practice within
the sector. The mechanisms will be to provide discussion
groups to discuss specific issues affecting farming. The aid will
be paid in line with Article 14 of Regulation (EC) No 1/2004
and the eligible costs will be costs of organising training
programmes and in some cases the travel and subsistence costs
of participants.

Sector(s) concerned: The scheme applies to businesses active
in the production of agricultural products only. The scheme is
open to businesses producing any type of agricultural product.

Name and address of the granting authority:
Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
Challenge Fund: Self-help groups for farmers — pilot project
Area 4A
Ergon House
London
United Kingdom
SW1P 2JR

Web-address:
www.defra.gov.uk/farm/state-aid/setup/exist-exempt.htm

Click on 'Self-help groups for farmers — pilot scheme'. Alterna-
tively, you can go direct to
www.defra.gov.uk/farm/state-aid/setup/schemes/self-help.pdf.

Aid No: XA No 57/04

Member State: Italy

Decreto legislativo 29 marzo 2004, n. 102.

Annual
3 000 000

expenditure planned at Province

level: EUR

Maximum aid intensity: 50 % and 80 % respectively

Date of
2004

implementation: 10 days after

referral, October

Duration of scheme: Open-ended

Objectives of aid: Support for agricultural holdings through
prevention schemes addressing the damages to agricultural
production, under Article 11 of Regulation (EC) No 1/2004.

Sector concerned: Arable (fruit, wine grapes)

Name and address of authority: Provincia Autonoma di
Bolzano, Ripartizione Agricoltura, 39100 Bolzano, via Bren-
nero 6.

Web address:

http://www.provinz.bz.it/landwirtschaft/dema/dema_getre-
so.asp?DRES_ID=1865

Aid number: XA 59-04

Member State: United Kingdom

Region: Cumbria

Title of Aid scheme or name of company receiving an
individual
aid: Distinctly Cumbrian Agricultural Produce
Scheme

Legal basis: Section 5 of the Regional Development Agencies
Act 1998

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of individual aid granted to the company:

12.11.2004 — 30.6.2005: GBP 0,83 m

1.7.2005 — 30.6.2006: GBP 1,2 m

1.7.2006 — 30.6.2007: GBP 0,9 m

Maximum aid intensity:

Region: Autonomous Province of Bolzano

Small Capital Grants 40 %

Title of scheme: Criteria and arrangements for granting aid
for insurance policies covering the losses incurred by agri-
cultural holdings as a result of adverse climatic events.

Large Grants 25 %

Website Development Grants 50 %

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Date of implementation: The scheme will open to new appli-
cations on 12 November 2004.

Web-address:
www.defra.gov.uk/farm/state-aid/setup/exist-exempt.htm

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: The closing
date for applications under the Large and Small Grant Schemes
will be 31 December 2006.

Click on ‘Distinctly Cumbrian Agricultural Produce Scheme’.
Alternatively, you can go direct to
http://defraweb/farm/state-aid/setup/schemes/cumbrian-aps.pdf

The closing date for applications for Website Development
Grants will be 31 March 2007.

Other information:

The scheme consists of 3 measures:

Final claims for grant payment in all cases will be 30 June
2007.

1. Small Capital Grants — for investments in the processing
and marketing of added value agricultural products where
eligible expenditure totals GBP 20 000 or less.

Objective of aid: The aim of the scheme is to help regenerate
and strengthen the rural economy of Cumbria by encouraging
the processing, distribution and marketing of Cumbrian added
value products.

2. Large grants for the same type of investments as Small
Capital Grants but where the eligible costs total between
GBP 20 000 and EUR 400 000.

The Large and Small Grant schemes are being implemented
under Article 7 of Regulation (EC) No 1/2004 (for investments
in processing and marketing). The eligible costs are:

3. Website Development Grants — a maximum of GBP 1 000
for consultancy for website development the purpose of
which is the marketing of agricultural products.

(a) the construction, acquisition or improvement of immovable

property;

(b) the purchase or lease purchase of new machinery and
equipment, including computer software up to the market
value of the asset; other costs connected with a leasing
interest refinancing costs,
contract
overheads, insurance charges etc) are not eligible expendi-
ture;

lessor's margin,

(tax,

(c) General costs, such as architects, engineers and consultation
the acquisition of patents and
the expenditure referred to in

feasibility studies,

fees,
licences, up to 12 % of
points (a) and (b) above.

The Website Development Grants are being implemented
under Article 14 of Regulation (EC) No 1/2004. The eligible
costs are consultancy fees.

Sector(s) concerned: The scheme applies to the processing
and marketing of agricultural products. All subsectors are
eligible with the exception of the manufacture and marketing
of products which imitate or substitute for milk and milk
products and the processing and marketing of sugar or sugar
products.

Name and address of the granting authority:
Distinctly Cumbrian
Rural Enterprise Centre
Redhills
PENRITH
United Kingdom
CA11 0DT

Aid No: XA-60/04

Member State: The Netherlands

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving an indi-
vidual aid: Grant towards partnerships' organisation costs

Legal basis: Kaderwet LNV-subsidies (artikelen 2 en 4)

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of individual aid granted to the company: The
planned annual expenditure under this scheme amounts to
EUR 2 million, 1,4 million of which is for technical support
for farmers.

Maximum aid intensity: The maximum aid intensity per
farmer per year is about EUR 535. The maximum aid intensity
depends on a number of factors: 1. the size of the agricultural
nature management association or other partnership; 2. the
number of farmer members; 3. the number of hectares for
which the partnership concerned receives a management grant
under the heading and part (a) of Article 2 of the Agricultural
Nature Management Payment Scheme and/or a landscape grant
under the heading and part
(b) of Article 2 of the above
scheme.

The aid is within the ceiling allowed under Regulation (EC) No
1/2004.
the aid may not exceed
EUR 100 000 per farmer over a three-year period.

It will be stipulated that

Date of implementation: 10 working days after acknowledg-
ment of receipt by the European Commission

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Duration of scheme or individual aid award: This is a new
scheme covering the period 2004 to 2014 inclusive. Aid under
this scheme can be granted for a single period of up to six
years. Aid applications must be submitted not later than 1 May
2009.

Objective of aid: The purpose of the aid is technical support
for farmers (under Article 14 of Regulation (EC) No 1/2004)
for agricultural nature management. Aid can be obtained for
the following costs: activities in connection with advancing
knowledge, improving professionalism and ecological manage-
ment, recruitment, guidance on applications, and administra-
tion.

Sector(s) concerned: Farmers engaged in agricultural nature
management on their holding or planning to undertake such
measures. These farmers may be engaged in livestock or arable
farming.

Name and address of the granting authority: Ministerie van
LNV (Ministry for Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality) (p/a
Dienst Regelingen, Postbus 965, 6040 AZ Roermond)

Website: www.hetlnvloket.nl

information: The activities covered by the grant
Other
towards partnerships' organisation costs are technical support
measures within the meaning of Article 14 of the exemption
Regulation. The aid will be granted — in order to promote
joint nature management initiatives and skills — to partner-
ships to assist the organisation of activities such as advancing
knowledge, improving professionalism and ecological manage-
ment, recruitment, guidance on applications, and administra-
tion. The aid will not be granted directly to farmers but will
benefit
them. The partnerships concerned are made up of
farmers and the beneficiaries of the activities organised will be
farmers.

The grant towards partnerships' organisation costs is included
in Chapter 8 of the Agricultural Nature Management Payment
Scheme. It is governed by the arrangements laid down for the
scheme. The Agricultural Nature Management Payment Scheme
was approved by the Commission by Decision C (2001) 2814
of 9 October 2001. The aid in question will be granted only if
the management aid under Article 2 (a) of the Agricultural
Nature Management Payment Scheme and/or the landscape aid
under Article 2 (b) thereof is also granted. Joint nature manage-
ment is boosted by aid for joint nature management being
granted for the relevant number of hectares. The ecological
value of joint environment management is greater than the

sum of the value of individual initiatives. The reason for joint
efforts is to optimise nature management.

The aid in question is, however, a separate aid scheme. Unlike
the exception mentioned below, the management grant and
landscape grant, the aid does not entail environmental commit-
ments. The aid relates to the costs of activities regarded as orga-
nisation costs for a partnership. These costs do not include the
development, management and/or maintenance of
specific
plots of land and/or landscape features.

As can be seen from the enclosed draft, under Chapter 8 of the
Agricultural Nature Management Payment Scheme, aid can also
be granted for activities outside the scope of Regulation (EC)
No 1/2004.

First and foremost, this aid concerns activities which are not
regarded as aid. It covers support for activities which primarily
benefit the partnerships themselves, such as activities designed
to expand the scope of agricultural nature management and
strengthen collaboration among those involved in nature
management.

Secondly, the grant relates to activities such as quality assur-
ance, monitoring and reporting that can be regarded as agri-
environment measures. Aid is not yet granted for the latter
activities. The conditions relating to this category of aid will be
sent to you shortly via the normal channels. The aid in ques-
tion will not be paid until
the Commission has given its
approval.

Aid No: XA 63/04

Member State: Germany

Region: Baden-Württemberg

Title of aid scheme: Directive on countryside conservation/
grants for the organisation of producer groups

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme: Approxi-
mately EUR 10 000

Maximum aid intensity: 90 % of eligible costs in the first
year, 70 % in the second year, up to 50 % in the third year, up
to 30 % in the fourth year and up to 20 % in the fifth year.

Date of implementation: Ongoing

Duration of scheme: Until 30 June 2007

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Objective of aid: Grants for the organisation of producer
groups aimed at promoting nature protection, countryside
conservation and indigenous crops within the framework of
agricultural products and
marketing organic or
products arising from countryside conservation.

regional

Sectors concerned: Various
sectors each working in the
public interest with regard to nature protection, countryside
conservation or indigenous crops.

Name and address of granting authority:
Ministry for Food and Rural Development, Kernerplatz 10,
70182 Stuttgart;

the four Regional Councils of the Federal State of Baden-Würt-
temberg.

Web address:

http://www.landwirtschaft-mlr.baden-wuerttemberg.de/

Aid No: XA 64/04

Member State: Germany

Region: Baden-Württemberg

Title of aid scheme: Directive on countryside conservation/
management and consultancy

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme: Approxi-
mately EUR 500 000

Maximum aid intensity: Up to 90 % of eligible costs.

Date of implementation: Ongoing

Duration of scheme: Until 30 June 2007

Objective of aid: To manage and advise in the public interest
on the implementation of measures aimed at promoting nature
protection, countryside conservation and indigenous crops.

Name and address of granting authority:
Ministry for Food and the Rural Development, Kernerplatz 10,
70182 Stuttgart;

the four Regional Councils of the Federal State of Baden-Würt-
temberg; the lower nature protection authorities agencies for
agriculture, countryside and soil cultivation.

Web address:

http://www.landwirtschaft-mlr.baden-wuerttemberg.de/

Aid No: XA 65/04

Member State: Germany

Region: Bavaria

Title of aid scheme or name of the company receiving
individual aid: Bavarian loan programme for environmental
protection (Bayerisches Umweltkreditprogramm)

Legal basis: Directive on loans to small and medium-sized
commercial enterprises for the promotion of environmental
protection and energy-saving measures (joint publication by the
Bavarian State Ministry for
the Environment, Health and
Consumer Protection, and the Bavarian State Ministry for
Economics, Infrastructure, Transport and Technology)

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of individual aid granted to the company: Overall
amount approximately EUR 3 million per year.

Maximum aid intensity: The subsidy equivalent of
low-
interest loans is a maximum of 15 % for small enterprises and
7,5 % for medium-sized enterprises.

Date of implementation: Planned for 1 December 2004

Duration of scheme or individual aid grant: Until 31
December 2008

Objective of aid: Investment aid is granted to small and
medium-sized enterprises that process or market agricultural
products in accordance with Annex I to the EC Treaty and
within the framework of Article 7 of Regulation (EC) No
1/2004. Aid takes the form of low-interest loans not exceeding
a subsidy equivalent of 15 % for small enterprises and 7,5 % for
medium-sized enterprises.

sectors each working in the
Sectors concerned: Various
public interest within the framework of providing technical
assistance to the agricultural sector with regard to nature
protection, countryside conservation or indigenous crops.

The loans are designed to assist commercial SMEs in making
their own investments in environmental protection, especially
in combination with other operational
investments, thereby
contributing to significant improvements in the environmental
situation.

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Sectors concerned: Commercial enterprises involved in the
processing and marketing of agricultural products. The manu-
facture and marketing of products that imitate or substitute
milk or milk products, and processing and marketing activities
in the sugar sector are not eligible.

Name and address of granting authority:

LfA Förderbank Bayern
Königinstraße 17
80539 München

Web address: The text of the Directive on loans to small and
medium-sized commercial enterprises for the promotion of

environmental protection and energy-saving measures will be
published at the following web address:

http://www.stmugv.bayern.de/de/wirtschaft/kredit.htm

Other information: Measures relating to the identification
and redevelopment of abandoned contaminated sites under
Section III of the Directive are not covered by the Exemption
Regulation. The Directive indicates that exemption under the
(EC) No 69/2001, No
current Community Regulations
70/2001 and No 1/2004 expires on 30 June 2007. The
scheme and any individual measures implemented under it will
be adapted to take account of any amendments to Regulation
(EC) No 1/2004 and the Commission will be informed.