Authorisation for State aid pursuant to Articles 87 and 88 of the EC Treaty — Cases where the Commission raises no objections
Date: 2005-08-27
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EU Member State, State aid, agro-industry, aid to agriculture, livestock farming

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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 210/03)

Date of adoption of the decision: 22.12.2004

Duration: Una tantum

Member State: Germany

Aid No: N 69/04

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tial information has been removed, can be found at:

Title: East Friesian barrier hedgerow landscape

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

Objective: The aim is to preserve the historical hedgerow
landscape through maintenance and development of the hedge-
rows and agricultural use of the small areas between them

Budget: EUR 83 500 per year

Aid intensity or amount: Varying

Duration: 5 years

Date of adoption of the decision: 18.8.2004

Member State: United Kingdom

Aid No: N 76/04

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tial information has been removed, can be found at:

Title: Brucellosis Control Scheme

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

Objective: Preventative measures aimed at controlling Brucel-
losis in Northern Ireland

Budget: GBP 2 289 500 (approx. EUR 3 436 660) over 7
years

Aid intensity or amount: 100 %

Date of adoption of the decision: 14.7.2004

Duration: From Commission approval until 31.3.2010.

Member State: Italy (Lombardy)

Aid No: N 75/2004

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tial information has been removed, can be found at:

Title: Rescue Aid in favour of Parmalat suppliers

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

Objective: Provision of credit guarantees to milk producers
delivering directly to the Parmalat Group in Lombardy who
have been delivering milk to the Parmalat group and have not
been paid for a period up to 6 months (second semester 2003)

Legal basis: Delibera regionale n. 16316 del 6.2.2004 ‘Intervento
a favore di imprese singole, associate e cooperative conferenti a stabili-
menti aderenti al gruppo Parmalat’

Budget: EUR 1 million

Date of adoption of the decision: 6.7.2004

Member State: Grand Duchy of Luxembourg

Aid No: N 80/2004

Aid intensity or amount: The maximum value of the guar-
antee eligible under the present scheme is EUR 500 000 for
individual companies and EUR 5 000 000 for cooperatives

Title: Aid to assist the income of farmers who suffered losses
as a result of the exceptional drought in 2003

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Objective: To compensate fodder-producing farmers who
suffered losses to their harvest as a result of the drought in
2003

died or was destroyed due to certain animal diseases or where
there is an obligation to perform BSE-tests on fallen stock

Legal basis: Non statutory

Budget: EUR 6,733 million

Aid intensity or amount: Varies according to the damage
(determined using a formula). The level of compensation may
not exceed EUR 150 per hectare

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tial information has been removed, can be found at:

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

Duration: Until 31.12.2013

Other information: The German authorities have specified
that before the expiration of the contracts between the Bavarian
authorities and the rendering plants (at the latest in 2010 in
case of contracts of indeterminate duration) the providers of
future carcass disposal services would be selected in an open
tendering procedure and according to market principles.

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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: 20.10.2004

Member State: Italy (Veneto)

Member State: Germany (Bavaria)

Aid No: N 82/2004

Date of adoption of the decision: 22.7.2004

Aid No: N 81/2004

Title: Regional plan for the regeneration and development of
the poultrymeat sector

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

Legal basis: Delibere della Giunta regionale del Veneto n. 2884 del
3 ottobre 2003 e n. 890 del 6 aprile 2004

Objective: According to national
law the owners of animal
carcasses, parts thereof and animal by-products have to deliver
them to the designated rendering plant, and bear the costs of
pick-up, transport, storage, processing and rendering. However,
§ 4 point 2 sentence 1 of the Gesetz zur Ausführung des Tierkör-
perbeseitigungsgesetzes (AGTierKBG), as amended, provides that
the owners of animals must pay 25 % of the disposal costs
while the transport costs and the remaining costs of
the
disposal are paid by the government of Bavaria and the Tierseu-
chenkasse. Moreover, § 4 point 3 of the AGTierKBG provides
that the authorities bear all costs of transport and disposal
where there is an obligation to perform BSE/TSE–tests on fallen
stock or where the animals have died or been destroyed due to
an animal disease. In the latter case compensation is paid only
if
law of
1.6.1991, as amended (Verordnung über anzeigepflichtige Tierseu-
chen). The authorities are required by law to take measures
against the diseases enumerated in that law

the disease in question falls under the national

Objective: To compensate poultry producers for income lost
as a result of preventive measures imposed by the public autho-
rities following the avian influenza epidemics in the Veneto
region between 1999 and 2003

Budget: The 2004 regional budget allocates a total of
EUR 4 500 000 to funding these measures

Aid intensity or amount: Up to 100 % of income lost, calcu-
lated on the basis of EUR 0,046 per square metre of holding
area per day of compulsory cessation of activity

Duration: Ad-hoc measures covering the income lost by
poultry-breeding holdings as a result of the compulsory cessa-
tion of activity imposed by the regional health authorities from
7 October 2003 to 7 October 2004

Legal basis: Gesetz zur Ausführung des Tierkörperbeseitigungsge-
setzes (AGTierKBG)

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tial information has been removed, can be found at:

Budget: Approximately EUR 16 million per year

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

Aid intensity or amount: 75 % of the costs except 100 % of
transport costs. Aid intensity is 100 % also if the animal has

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Date of adoption of the decision: 22.7.2004

Member State: Spain

Aid No: N 87/2004

Title: Aid to promote purebred horses

Aid under agri-environmental commitments: up to EUR 500
for the birth of a Pentro foal. The aid is granted as a single
one-off payment one year after the birth of the foal.

Technical assistance: 50 % of eligible expenditure

Duration: Five years, until 31.12.2009

Objective: Promotion of purebred horses by means of invest-
ment aid and technical support

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tial information has been removed, can be found at:

Legal basis: Proyecto de orden por la que se establecen para el ejer-
cicio 2004 subvenciones destinadas a la promoción y defensa de las
razas puras equinas

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

Budget: EUR 2 million

Aid intensity or amount: Varies according to the aid

Duration: 1 year

Date of adoption of the decision: 6.7.2004

Member State: France

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tial information has been removed, can be found at:

Aid No: N 96/2004

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

Title: Aid in the cattle, sheep and pig breeding sectors

Objective: To encourage unions and mergers of producer
organisations

Budget: EUR 3 million

Date of adoption of the decision: 7.12.2004

Aid intensity or amount: Deressive rate (100 % the first year,
80 % the second and 60 % the third)

Member State: Italy (Molise)

Duration: 5 years

Aid No: N 88/2003

Title: Measures to protect and develop the Pentro horse breed

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tial information has been removed, can be found at:

Legal basis: Legge regionale 15 gennaio 1991, n. 30

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

Decreto ministeriale 19 luglio 2000, n. 403

Proposta di legge regionale n. 23/2002

law No
Objective: The aim of
23/2002 and the aid measures indicated therein is to preserve
the Pentro horse breed, which has its origins in the Pantano
della Zitola area in the province of Isernia

the notified draft regional

Budget: The regional authorities have allocated a budget of
EUR 120 000 for 2004

Aid intensity or amount: Investment aid: 50 % of eligible
investments in less-favoured areas and 40 % in other areas;
around 40 % for building natural servicing stations and the first
purchase of breeding animals (mares and stallions) recorded in
the Pentro horse herdbook.

Date of adoption of the decision: 18.6.2004

Member State: France

Aid No: N 100/2004

Title: Aid to improve the quality of pigmeat in mountain areas

Objective: To improve the quality of pigmeat produced in
mountain areas

Budget: EUR 5 million per year

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Aid intensity or amount: Variable

Duration: 3 years

Objective: To implement
sectors of processing and marketing agricultural,
fishery and food products

technical assistance plans in the
forestry,

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tial information has been removed, can be found at:

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

Legal basis: Proyecto de orden por el que se establecen las bases
reguladoras de las subvenciones para planes de asistencia técnica y de
sectores de transformación y comercialización de
gestión en los
productos agrarios, silvícolas, de la pesca, la acuicultura y la alimenta-
ción y se convocan para el ejercicio 2004

Date of adoption of the decision: 7.12.2004

Member State: Italy (Bologna)

Aid No: N 108/2004

‘Aid to agricultural undertakings to favour access to

Title:
credit’

Objective: to grant investment aid (capital contributions and/
or guarantees) to agricultural undertakings which take out a
loan to finance the purchase of machinery and equipment

Legal basis: Delibera della Camera di Commercio I.A.A. di
Bologna n. 25 del 16 dicembre 2003 ‘Regolamento per la conces-
sione di contributi volti a favorire l'accesso al credito delle imprese del
settore agricolo operanti nella provincia di Bologna’

Budget: EUR 300 000 per year

Budget: EUR 459 230

Aid intensity or amount: 50 % of the cost

Duration: 2004

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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: 22.6.2004

Aid intensity or amount: 40 % (45 % for young farmers)

Member State: Italy

Duration: 10 years

Aid No: N 110/2004

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tial information has been removed, can be found at:

Title: Assistance for holdings hit by bluetongue. Article 66(5)
of Law No 448/2001

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

Date of adoption of the decision: 22.7.2004

Member State: Spain

Aid No: N 109/2004

Title: Aid for
marketing sector for agricultural,
products

technical assistance in the processing and
fishery and food
forestry,

Legal basis: Articolo 129(1), a) della Legge 388/2000 e decreti
del Ministero delle Politiche agricole e forestali n. 100522 del 9
aprile 2001 e n. 100652 del 29 marzo 2002

Objective: In accordance with Article 129(1)(a) of Law No
388/2000, as amended by Article 66(5) of Law No 448/2001:
to finance structural measures and compensation to ensure the
future of livestock holdings (cows and calves), and preventive
measures for livestock and sheep farmers, in the protection and
surveillance zones identified by the health authorities following
outbreaks of bluetongue in ruminants

Budget: Contribution
of
EUR 10 329 138, as planned, for each of the years 2002 and
2003

Law No

388/2000

under

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Aid intensity or amount: The maximum rate of public aid
for eligible investments, 40 %, or 50 % in less-favoured areas as
defined in Article 17 of the rural development Regulation.
These rates may be increased to 45 %, or 55 % in the less-
favoured areas, where the investments are by young farmers

Duration: 2 years

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tial information has been removed, can be found at:

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

Budget: EUR 1,195 billion per year (co-financed and nation-
ally financed)

Aid intensity or amount: Variable

Duration: 2004-2007

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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: 15.10.2004

Member State: Germany

Aid No: N 113/04

Title: Framework plan of the joint task ‘improvement of the
agrarian structure and the coastal protection’ for the period
2004 — 2007; amendments 2004

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 2004 — 2007 ‘Improvement of the
agricultural structures and the coast protection’. The changes
concern the integrated development of rural areas, agrarian
investment aid programme, management systems and promo-
tion of organic and regional agricultural products

Legal basis: Gesetz über die Gemeinschaftsaufgabe ‘Verbesserung der
Agrarstruktur und des Küstenschutzes’, Rahmenplan ‘Verbesserung der
Agrarstruktur und des Küstenschutzes’

Date of adoption of the decision: 24.5.2004

Member State: The Netherlands

Aid No: N 122/2004

Title: Research aid and parafiscal taxes in the poultry and egg,
rabbit keeping and mink/fox keeping sectors (amendment of an
existing scheme)

Objective: Research related to fur farming.

Legal basis: Verordening tot wijziging van de verordening heffingen
edelpelsdieren 2004

Budget: EUR 870 000

Aid intensity or amount: 100 %

Duration: Indefinite

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/