Authorisation for State aid pursuant to Articles 87 and 88 of the EC Treaty — Cases where the Commission raises no objections
Date: 2005-08-31
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Belgium, France, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, State aid, United Kingdom, 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 212/02)

Date of adoption of the decision: 12.8.2004

Aid No: N 129/2004

Member State: Belgium

Aid No: N 282/2004

Title: Compensation for the damage caused to flax, potato and
cereal crops by the rains in September 2001

Objective: To compensate flax, potato and cereal growers
who incurred losses as a result of the exceptional rains in
September 2001

Legal basis:

Loi du 12 juillet 1976 relative à la réparation de certains
dommages causés à des biens privés par des calamités natur-
elles. Moniteur belge du 13 août 1976.

Wet van 12 juli 1976 betreffende het herstel van zekere schade
veroorzaakt aan private goederen door natuurrampen. Belgisch
Staatsblad van 13 augustus 1976.

Projet d'arrêté royal modifiant l'arrêté royal du 11 juillet 2003
considérant comme une calamité agricole les dégâts causés aux
cultures de lin, de pommes de terre et de céréales par les pluies
abondantes du mois de septembre 2001, délimitant l'étendue
géographique de cette calamité et déterminant l'indemnisation
des dommages.

Ontwerp van koninklijk besluit tot wijziging van het koninklijk
besluit van 11 juli 2003, waarbij de schade veroorzaakt aan de
teelten van vlas, van aardappelen en van granen door de over-
vloedige regenval van september 2001 als een landbouwramp
wordt beschouwd, waarbij de geografische omvang van deze
ramp afgebakend wordt en waarbij de schadeloosstelling van de
schade wordt vastgesteld

Title: Aid to compensate the members of six agricultural coop-
eratives

Objective: To compensate the members of agricultural coop-
eratives for losses resulting from bad weather (hail)

Legal basis: Articolo 91 della Legge provinciale n. 1/2002.

Deliberazioni del Consiglio Regionale N. 484, 485, 486, 495,
496, 502 del 2004

Budget: EUR 2 299 999,78

Aid intensity or amount:

1. Cooperative SOA: EUR 450 698,95

2. Cooperative SABAC: EUR 756 923,74

3. Cooperative CBS: EUR 414 263,50

4. Cooperative COBAV: EUR 242 093,74

5. Cooperative SAV: EUR 215 017,15

6. Cooperative APASO: EUR 221 022,70

Duration: Ad hoc aid

Other information: Measures applying a scheme approved by
the Commission under Decision C(2002) 4860 of 12.12.2002
(aid N 301/2002)

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

Budget: 2 250 000 EUR

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

Aid intensity or amount: Maximum 100 % of the loss

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: 18.8.2004

Member State: The Netherlands

Aid No: N 131/2004

Title: Research and Sales promotion related to mushrooms

Objective: Research and Sales promotion related to mush-
rooms

Legal basis: Verordening PT bijzondere heffing teelt fruit en
champignons 2004

Date of adoption of the decision: 7.9.2004

Member State: Italy (autonomous province of Trento)

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Budget:

Duration: Until 31.12.2013

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/

Research

EUR 1 000 000

EUR 1 500 000

Sales promotion

EUR 759 000

EUR 1 000 000

2004

2005 ff.

2004

2005 ff.

Aid intensity or amount: 100 %

Duration: Indefinite

Date of adoption of the decision: 14.7.2004

Member State: France

Aid No: N 145/2004

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/

Title: Aid for milk producers — Parmalat

Objective: To assist dairy farms which are in a precarious
financial situation as a result of
their irrecoverable claims
following the bankruptcy of the Parmalat group

Date of adoption of the decision: 14.7.2004

Member State: Italy (Valle d'Aosta)

Aid No: N 136/04

Title: Establishment of a system for the collection and disposal
of fallen stock

Objective: To grant compensation to farmers for the disposal
of their fallen stock

Legal basis: Decreto legislativo 14 dicembre 1992, n. 508
‘Attuazione della direttiva 90/667/CEE del Consiglio del 27
novembre 1990, che stabilisce le norme sanitarie per l'elimina-
zione, la trasformazione e l'immissione sul mercato di rifiuti di
origine animale e la protezione dagli agenti patogeni degli
alimenti per animali di origine animale o a base di pesce e che
modifica la direttiva 90/425/CEE’;

Ordinanza Ministero della Sanità 3 gennaio 2001 (misure d'ur-
genza per la distruzione di materiali specifici a rischio e di
farine di carne ed ossa);

Legge 9 marzo 2001 n. 9 ‘Disposizioni urgenti per la distru-
zione del materiale specifico a rischio per encefalopatie spongi-
formi bovine e delle proteine animali ad alto rischio, nonché
per l'ammasso pubblico temporaneo delle proteine animali a
basso rischio’

Budget: EUR 200 000

Aid intensity or amount: Variable

Duration: One off

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: 8.9.2004

Member State: Italy (autonomous province of Trento)

Aid No: N 157/2004

Title: Aid to winegrowers for losses due to bad weather (hail)
in the summer of 2003

Objective: To compensate farmers for damage suffered as a
result of bad weather (hail)

Legal basis: Articolo 3, comma 2,
lettera a) della legge
185/1992. Deliberazione della Giunta provinciale n. 2842 del
23 ottobre 2003

Budget: The damage for which the regional authorities are
granting compensation amounts to around EUR 500 000

Budget: EUR 500 000 per year

Aid intensity or amount: 80 % of damage

Aid intensity or amount: 75 % of destruction costs; 100 % of
removal costs

Duration: Measure applying a scheme approved by the
Commission

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Other information: Measures applying the scheme approved
state aid dossier C 12/b/95
by the Commission under
(Commission Decision 2004/307/EC, 16.12.2003, OJ
L
99/2004)

Aid intensity or amount: Up to 100 % (para-fiscal levy)

Duration: From the date of approval of the Commission until
31 March 2008

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

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/

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

Date of adoption of the decision: 28.8.2004

Date of adoption of the decision: 22.7.2004

Member State: Spain (Cantabria)

Aid No: N 169/2004

Member State: The Netherlands

Aid No: N 209/2004

Title: Aid for the disinfection of livestock housing as part of
animal disease control

livestock
Objective: To grant aid for
housing as part of
tuberculosis, brucellosis,
leucosis and peripneumonia following an animal disposal
programme

the disinfection of

the control of

Legal basis: Proyecto de orden por
la que se regulan y
convocan ayudas para la desinfección de los establos de la
Comunidad Autónoma de Cantabria afectados por enferme-
dades objeto de campaña de saneamiento

Budget: EUR 32 000 per year

Aid intensity or amount: Up to 50 % of the costs

Duration: Not specified

Title: Sales promotion for meat and meat products

Objective: Advertising beef and veal in the Netherlands and
abroad

Legal basis:

Heffingsverordening Promotiefonds (PVV) (2004)

Heffingsverordening Propagandafonds (vlees) (PVV) (2004)

Budget: EUR 1 200 000

Aid intensity or amount: Max 100 %.

Duration: 2004

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

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/

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

Date of adoption of the decision: 28.7.2004

Member State: United Kingdom

Aid No: N 196/03

Title: Meat and Livestock Commission Quality Pig Meat Adver-
tising Scheme

Objective: The aim of the scheme is to promote and advertise
on a quality basis the advantages of eating pig meat and their
products complying with quality specifications. Promotion and
advertising will take place in the United Kingdom, in the Euro-
pean Union outside the United Kingdom, and elsewhere

Legal basis: The Agricultural Act 1967

Budget: GBP 23 300 000 (EUR 35 200 000)

Date of adoption of the decision: 27.5.2004

Member State: Italy (Autonomous Province of Trento)

Aid No: N 217/03

Title: Support for the agricultural economy

Objective: To promote farming

Legal basis: Legge provinciale 28 marzo 2003, n. 4 ‘Sostegno
dell'economia agricola, disciplina dell'agricoltura biologica e
della contrassegnazione di prodotti geneticamente non modifi-
cati’

Budget: Between EUR 100 000 000 and EUR 150 000 000

Aid intensity or amount: Variable depending on the measure
(from 50 % to 100 %); EUR 440 per hectare for the agri-envir-
onmental measure; some measures do not constitute aid within
the meaning of Article 87(1) of the Treaty

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Duration: Until the end of 2006

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

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/

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

Date of adoption of the decision: 9.9.2004

Member State: Belgium

Aid No: N 219/2004

Date of adoption of the decision: 6.7.2004

Member State: Spain (Cantabria)

Aid No: N 226/2004

Title: Aid for setting up cleaning centres for animal transport
vehicles

Title: Royal decree fixing the fees payable by operators in the
food chain in the potato sector

Objective: Investments for setting up cleaning centres for
animal transport vehicles

the

funds needed to finance

a
Objective: To collect
programme to detect and control certain organisms highly
harmful
to potatoes, namely: Ralstonia solanacearum (Smith,
1896; Yabuuchi et al. 1996), Clavibacter michiganensis (Smith,
1910; Davis et al. 1984) ssp. sepedonicus. (Spieckermann and
Kotthoff 1914; Davis et al .1984; Zgurskaya et al. 1993)

Legal basis:

Projet d'arrêté royal fixant les redevances dues par les opéra-
le secteur
teurs participant à la chaîne alimentaire dans
pommes de terre.

Ontwerp-koninklijk besluit tot vaststelling van de door de oper-
atoren die deelnemen aan de voedselketen in de sector aardap-
pelen verschuldigde bijdragen.

Loi du 2 avril 1971 relative à la lutte contre les organismes
nuisibles aux végétaux et aux produits végétaux (Moniteur
belge du 1er janvier 2002, 188-190).

Wet van 2 april 1971 betreffende de bestrijding van voor
planten en plantaardige producten schadelijke organismen
(Belgisch Staatsblad van 1 januari 2002, blz. 188-190).

Loi du 17 mars 1993 relative à la création d'un Fonds budgé-
taire pour la production et la protection des végétaux et des
produits végétaux (Moniteur belge du 28.05.2003 12906).

Wet van 17 maart 1993 betreffende de oprichting van een
Begrotingsfonds voor de productie en de bescherming van
planten en plantaardige producten (Belgisch Staatsblad van
28.5.2003 12906)

Budget: EUR 400 000 per year

Aid intensity or amount: 100 % of
programme

the

cost of

the

Duration: Same as that of the crisis measures introduced in
Belgium for intensified monitoring to detect the quarantine
organisms responsible for brown rot and ring rot

la que se regulan y
Legal basis: Proyecto de orden por
convocan ayudas a la instalación y adecuación de centros de
limpieza y desinfección de los vehículos destinados al trans-
porte de animales en la Comunidad de Cantabria

Budget: EUR 216 000 per year

Aid intensity or amount: 40 % (50 % in less-favoured areas
and in installations for processing and marketing agricultural
products)

Duration: Not specified

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: 22.7.2004

Member State: United Kingdom (England)

Aid No: N 234/2004

Title: The Woodland Grant Scheme (England)
Sustainable Forestry Operations Grant

(1988) —

Objective: Aid aims at supporting investments in woodlands
to secure significant environmental, social and economic bene-
fits which bring the woodlands to a condition where the owner
can resume normal management operations.

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Legal basis: The Forestry Act 1979

Budget: GBP 1 000 000 per year

Member State: France

Aid No: N 235/2004

Aid intensity or amount: Variable. Payments for investments
will not exceed 100 % of eligible costs.

Duration: 1 year, starting from July 2004.

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/

Title: Plan for restructuring the pig sector

Objective: To resize pig production in France. The plan
should result in a 3 % cut in production in two years (2004-
05)

Budget: EUR 7 000 000 in 2004

Aid intensity or amount: Variable

Duration: 2 years

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

Date of adoption of the decision: 12.8.2004

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