Authorisation for State aid pursuant to Articles 87 and 88 of the EC Treaty — Cases where the Commission raises no objections
Date: 2005-05-03
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: France, Germany, Italy, 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

(2005/C 107/03)

Date of adoption of the decision: 20 October 2004

Date of adoption of the decision: 11 June 2004

Member State: France

Aid No: NN 154/2003

Title: Comprehensive plan for farmers hit by drought in 2003

Objective: To compensate for losses caused by the drought

Budget: +/- EUR 664 million

Aid intensity or amount: Maximum 100 %

Duration: Variable

Member State: United Kingdom

Aid No: N 571/2003

Title: Extension of aid No N 480/98 — Strategy of Marketing
of Red Meat

the scheme is to implement

Objective: The aim of
the
remaining elements of the scheme N 480/98: technical aid and
quality improvements. Eligible costs are those for arranging
and hosting visits to Northern Ireland and of consultancy fees
for quality control measures.

The authentic text(s) of this decision, from which all confiden-
tial information has been removed, can be found at:

Legal basis: Livestock Marketing Commission Act (Northern
Ireland) 1967 as amended

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

Budget: GBP 1,9 million (EUR 2,9 million)

Aid intensity or amount: Up to 50 %

Date of adoption of the decision: 26 November 2004

Duration: Until 30 June 2004

Member State: Spain — Murcia.

Aid No: N 404/2004.

Title: Aid for investment in the agricultural products sector.

Objective: To invest in the sector of agricultural products in
order to improve environmental conditions in the fruit and
vegetable processing sector.

Legal basis: Orden de 9 de marzo de 2004 por la que se establece
las bases reguladoras de la concesión de las subvenciones a las
PYMES de
los productos
transformación y comercialización de
agrarios en el sector de la conserva vegetal para la ecoeficiencia y
mejora de las condiciones medioambientales y se procede a la convoca-
toria de las mismas.

Budget: EUR 500 000 per year.

The authentic text(s) of the decision, from which all confiden-
tial 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 August 2004

Member State: Italy

Aid No: N 580/A/2003

Intensity or amount of aid: Less than 50 % of the cost of
investment.

Title: Assistance for growing citrus fruit in Italy

Duration: Four years.

Objective: Aid for investment,
control, promotion and publicity

technical assistance, quality

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

Legal basis: Legge 2 dicembre 1998, art. 1, ‘Interventi strutturali e
urgenti nel settore agricolo, agrumicolo e zootecnico’

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

Budget: Part of an allocation of EUR 12 911 422, which is
added to the budget of EUR 60 012 290 approved under State
aid N 313/01

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Aid intensity or amount: Varies according to the measures
(from 30 % to 100 %; degressive in some cases)

sorveglianza sierologica e del piano vaccinale per la febbre catarrale
degli ovini (Blue Tongue)

Duration: 3 years

The authentic text(s) of this decision, from which all confiden-
tial information has been removed, can be found at:

Proposta di deliberazione: Interventi a favore degli allevatori parteci-
panti all'attuazione del piano di sorveglianza sierologica e del piano
vaccinale per la febbre catarrale degli ovini (Blue Tongue) — moda-
lità e termini per la concessione dei benefici

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

Budget: EUR 1 426 919,51 in 2003

Date of adoption of the decision: 26 July 2004

Member State: Italy

Aid No: N 619/2003

Aid intensity or amount: 90 % for losses due to deaths, abor-
tions and a decline in milk production.

EUR 60 per animal per year for making animals available (with
a reduction in the aid in accordance with the period over
which animals are actually made available to the plan)

Duration: Unlimited

Title: Law No 488/92 ‘Aid for productive activities
depressed areas’ — Individual aid in favour of I.C.O. OLII SrL

in

The authentic text(s) of this decision, from which all confiden-
tial information has been removed, can be found at:

Objective: to grant investment aid in order to improve the
quality of agricultural products in areas eligible for regional aid.

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

Legal basis: Legge n. 488/92 ‘Agevolazioni in favore delle attività
produttive nelle aree depresse del paese’ — Aiuto individuale a favore
della I.C.O. OLII Srl

Budget: EUR 14 526 702

Duration: the aid will be paid in three yearly instalments

The authentic text(s) of the decision, from which all confiden-
tial 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 August 2004

Member State: Italy (Lazio)

Aid No: N 624/03

Title: Assistance for farmers taking part
vaccination plan

in the bluetongue

Objective: To compensate farmers for losses as a result of
mandatory vaccination of animals

Date of adoption of the decision: 14 October 2004

Member State: Germany (Sachsen).

No of the aid: N 633/2003.

Title: Aid for the costs of transporting and destroying fallen
stock.

Objective: Safe disposal of animal carcasses. SächsAGTier-
NebG provides that the costs of pick-up, transport, storage,
processing and rendering fallen stock within the meaning of
Tierseuchengesetz of 11.4.2001 are borne by those having the
duty of disposal. Nevertheless, SächsAGTierNebG provides that
the owners of animals must pay 25 % of the disposal costs.
The disposal costs of carcasses of animals that have been killed
within a context of veterinary measures against an animal
disease are borne by the municipal districts and cities.

Legal basis: Sächsisches Ausführungsgesetz zum Tierische Neben-
produkte-Beseitigungsgesetz (SächsAGTierNebG).

Budget: Approximately EUR 1,5 million per year.

Aid intensity or amount: 75 % of the costs except 100 % in
case of animals killed as a veterinary measure.

Legal basis: Legge regionale 29 settembre 2003, n. 30 — Inter-
venti a favore degli allevatori partecipanti all'attuazione del piano di

Duration: Until 31 December 2013.

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Other information: The German authorities have specified
that one year before the expiration of the contract between the
Sachsen authorities and the rendering plant a tendering proce-
dure satisfying the requirements of Community law would be
organised for future carcass disposal services.

Title: Rules on the removal of spontaneous vegetation and
crop residues

Objective: To aid investment

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

Legal basis: Deliberazione n. 1653 del 15 dicembre 2003.
Proposta di legge recante norme in materia di eliminazione della vege-
tazione spontanea infestante e dei residui delle coltivazioni

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

Budget: EUR 500 000 in 2004

Date of adoption of the decision: 16 September 2004

Member State: Italy

Aid No: N 782/2002

Title: 2003 budget law: Articles 66, 68 and 69 of Italian Law
No 289/2002

Objective: Aid to compensate farmers and to promote preven-
tive measures in the context of implementation of the plan for
the prevention and eradication of swine vesicular disease

Legal basis: Legge finanziaria 2003 Sostegno alla filiera agroin-
dustriale (Legge 27/12/2002 n. 289 (Legge 27/12/2002 n. 289,
articoli 66, 68 e 69

Budget: EUR 5 million

Aid intensity or amount: 100 % of eligible expenditure and
income aid calculated on the basis of the gross production
margin, which is the difference between the value of produc-
tion and specific expenditure which has not been borne by live-
stock farmers

Duration: Duration of the plans for the prevention and eradi-
cation of swine vesicular disease

Other information: Articles 66 and 69 of Law No Loi
289/2002 do not provide for State aid within the meaning of
Article 87(1) of the EC Treaty

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tial information has been removed, can be found at:

Aid intensity or amount: Below the ceiling for de minimis aid
(i.e. not considered to be State aid) or 40/50 %

Duration: 5 years

The authentic text(s) of this decision, from which all confiden-
tial information has been removed, can be found at:

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

Date of adoption of the decision: 28 July 2004

Member State: Germany (Bremen)

Aid No: NN 2/2004

Title: Aid for destruction of carcasses

Objective: to compensate livestock farmers for the disposal of
fallen stock at farm level.

Legal basis: Bremische Ausführungsgesetz zum Tierkörperbeseiti-
gungsgesetz (BremAG-TierKBG) vom 15. Juni 1981 (Brem. BGl. S.
125 — 7831-k-1)

Budget:

1. Expenditure from 1 January 1993 to 30

June 2003

EUR 141 500

2. from 1 July 2003 to 31 December 2003:

EUR 23 800

3. from 1 January 2004 onwards:

EUR 45 000

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

Aid intensity: 100 % for removal and collection costs, 75 %
for destruction costs.

Date of adoption of the decision: 3 November 2004

Member State: Italy (Molise)

Aid No: NN 2/03 (ex N 650/2000)

Duration: until 2013

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

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

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Date of adoption of the decision: 1 December 2004

Member State: Italy

No of the aid: NN 151/2002 ex N 113/B/2001

Title: Aids for the BSE crisis. Law 49/2001. Articles other than
Article 7-bis.

Objective: Article 1 of Law 49/2001 concerns compulsory
destruction of specific risk materials, of high risk materials and
of products processed/obtained/derived thereof; Article 2
concerns compulsory public storage of
low risk animal
proteins, Article 7 ter concerns the suspension/prolongation of
tax deadlines and social security obligations for beef farmers
and downstream sector.

Legal basis: Legge 9 marzo 2001 n. 49, ‘Conversione in legge con
modificazioni del decreto legge 11 gennaio 2001, n. 1 recante Dispo-
sizioni urgenti per la distruzione del materiale specifico a rischio per
encefalopatie spongiformi bovine e delle proteine animali ad alto

rischio, nonché per l'ammasso pubblico temporaneo delle proteine
animali a basso rischio’ come modificata dalla Legge 25 luglio 2001
n. 305.

Budget: The budget of Law 49/2001, as modified by Law
305/2001, including paragraph 1 and 2 of Article 7 ter is EUR
169 846 263,00

Aid intensity or amount: As indicated in the letter to the
Member State.

Duration: Articles 1 and 2: until 31 December 2001. Article
7 ter, subsection 1: six months until 31 October 2002; subsec-
tion 2: until 15 December 2001.

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

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