Summary information on State aid granted in conformity with Commission Regulation (EC) No 1595/2004 of  8 September 2004  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 fisheries products   (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2006-04-26
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: State aid, aid to undertakings, aquaculture, control of State aid, fishing industry, small and medium-sized enterprises

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Summary information on State aid granted in conformity with Commission Regulation (EC) No
1595/2004 of 8 September 2004 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
fisheries products

(2006/C 98/03)

(Text with EEA relevance)

Aid No: XF 5/2005

Summary information: By Regional Decrees Nos 3438/03 and 2515/04 the Campania Region approved
the ‘Programma Generale di attuazione delle misure nell'ambito del VI Piano Triennale della pesca e dell'ac-
quacoltura’ [General programme of implementation of measures within the framework of the Sixth Three-
year Fisheries and Aquaculture Plan] which includes the following activities:

Programme agreements (services and statistical data collection centre)

Promotion campaigns

Explanatory remarks: Programme agreements and promotion activities are among those exempted from
the notification requirement under Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 1595/2004 and can be broken down
according to the following table:

Purpose

Actions

Intended beneficiaries

Implementation of technical assistance
and advice to support the growth of
enterprises and encourage innovative
technology
environmentally
sustainable fishing techniques that will
minimise environmental impact.

and

Training and advice to focus and
increase the economic and occupa-
tional alternatives that can be created
within
in
Campania.

the maritime

sector

Databank for all regional planning
and programme evaluation needs.

Relevant workers within the sector.

technical

Advice
and
service for workers
(service centres).

assistance
in the sector

to

and

update
train
Activities
workers within the sector in relation
to the law currently in force and the
production alternatives linked to the
fisheries sector (service centres).

Relevant workers within the sector.

Relevant workers within the sector.

Consolidating and promoting fishing
and aquaculture together with regional
and local fish production.

Promotion and publicity activities for
regional
fish products and fishing-
related tourism.

Relevant workers within the sector.

Member State: Italy

Region: Campania

Title of aid scheme: Sixth Three-year Fisheries and Aquaculture Plan

Legal basis:

Legge nazionale 41/82

DM del 25.5.2000

Annual expenditure planned under the aid scheme:

EUR 581 136,02 broken down as follows:

— Programme agreements: EUR 373 622,28;

— Promotion: EUR 207 513,74

Maximum aid intensity: 100 % of costs

Date of implementation: Ten working days after the date when the form set out in Annex I to Regu-
lation (EC) No 1595/2004 is sent to the OJ for publication, in line with Article 16(1) of the Regulation

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Duration of scheme: Four years (an extra year following the comprehensive redistribution of financial
resources for 2003 approved by Regional Decree No 2515/04)

Objective:

— Implementation of technical assistance and advice to support the growth of enterprises and encourage
innovative technology and environmentally sustainable fishing techniques that will minimise environ-
mental impact, in order to help improve the conditions in which structural actions part-financed by the
European Union are implemented, and the creation of a regional databank for fishery statistics to
support fishery planning activities.

— Training and advice to focus and increase the economic and occupational alternatives that can be

created within the maritime sector in Campania.

— Consolidating and promoting fishing and aquaculture together with regional and local fish production.

Relevant articles:

— Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No 1595/04 (operations determined in conformity with Article 15(3)(h)

and (k) of Regulation (EC) No 2792/1999);

— Article 7 of Regulation (EC) No 1595/04 (operations determined in conformity with Article 14 and

point 3 of Annex III to Regulation (EC) No 2792/1999)

Sector concerned: Sea fishing and aquaculture sector

Name and address of the granting authority:

Regione Campania
Area generale di Coordinamento Sviluppo Attività Settore Primario

Web address: www.regione.campania.it/agricoltura

Aid No: XF 6/2005

Member State: Italy

Region: Apulia region

Title of aid scheme:
‘Invito alla presentazione di una proposta
di Accordo di Programma nel settore della pesca e dell'acqua-
coltura’ [Call for programme agreement proposals in the fish-
to the Regional
eries and aquaculture
Measures of the Fourth Three-year Fisheries and Aquaculture
Plan — Programme Agreements

sector], pursuant

Legal basis:

Legge 17 febbraio 1982 n. 41, art. 20, comma 3 lettera b),
modificata dalla legge 10 febbraio 1992 n. 165;

Primary and secondary objectives of aid:

— Support for small and medium-sized enterprises in the fish-
through the approval of
eries and aquaculture sector
programme
associations
agreements with professional
(AGCI Pesca, Federcopesca, Federpesca, Lega Pesca, UNCI
Pesca) lasting up to 24 months.

— Developing reference methods and models for aid in the
fisheries and aquaculture sector, with increased distribution
of the expected results amongst all staff in the sector who
request them.

Indication of the Article used (Articles 4 to 12) and of the
eligible costs covered by the scheme or the individual aid
award:

D.M. 25.5.2000, recante l'attuazione del VI Piano Nazionale
della Pesca e Acquicoltura.

The aid scheme in question is covered by Article 4 of Regu-
lation (EC) No 1595/2004.

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of individual aid granted to the company: Annual
expenditure of EUR 575 978,00 is anticipated for the scheme

Maximum aid intensity: The maximum aid intensity is 100 %
of the eligible costs

Date of implementation: The aid scheme will enter into force
following publication in the Regional Official Gazette and, in
any case, 10 working days after this form is sent, as provided
for in Article 16 of Regulation (EC) No 1595/2004

The following costs are eligible:

— General management costs

telephone, electricity,
heating and cleaning costs) directly linked to implementing
the projects that constitute the programme agreement.

(rent,

— Travel costs (transport, board and lodgings) directly linked
to implementing the projects that constitute the programme
agreement.

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: Two years

projects that constitute the programme agreement.

— Consumables directly necessary for

implementing the

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— Office equipment directly linked to implementing the

Aid No: XF 7/2005

projects that constitute the programme agreement.

— Costs of employing staff who work directly on imple-
menting the projects that constitute the programme agree-
ment.

— Costs of
purposes.

laying on seminars

for

information-sharing

— Costs relating to the formation of a Regional Fisheries and

Aquaculture Observatory.

— General planning,
(maximum 5 %).

coordination and

reporting

costs

this
Summary information: The measure
summary supplements Regional Law No 23 of 20 May 1996 as
amended.

covered

by

Under the measure aid may be granted to regional associations
in the sea fishing sector for implementing technical assistance
programmes; the Region is identified as a promoter and imple-
menter of promotion initiatives for the fisheries and aquacul-
ture sector.

Explanatory remarks: The text of
the Regional Law as
approved by the Regional Council on 16 February 2005 is
attached

— Other costs, outlined in suitable detail, directly linked to
the points indicated in
in connection with implementing the projects

implementing one or more of
Article 4,
that constitute the programme agreement.

Member State: Italy

Region: Liguria

Eligible costs within the aid scheme refer to Regulations (EC)
Nos 2792/1999 and 1685/2000, as amended

Sector(s) concerned: The sectors concerned with the aid
scheme in question are those indicated in Article 15(2) and (3)
of Regulation (EC) No 2792/1999, i.e. sea fishing, aquaculture,
processing and marketing

Name and address of the granting authority: The adminis-
tration responsible for managing the programme agreement is
the Regione Puglia — Assessorato all'Agricoltura, Acquacoltura,
Alimentazione, Riforma Fondiaria, Foreste, Caccia e Pesca. —
Settore Caccia e Pesca [Apulia Region — Regional Department
of Agriculture, Aquaculture, Food, Land Reform, Forests,
Hunting and Fisheries — Hunting and Fisheries Sector].

Responsibility for managing the implementation phases relating
to financial planning and receiving requests for aid will be
taken on by the Hunting and Fisheries Sector, under the
temporary manager, Dr Giuseppe Leo, and the responsible offi-
cial, Dr Giovanni Ninivaggi.

Applicants will be able to have sight of procedural documents
at

Regione Puglia
Settore Caccia e Pesca
Via Caduti di tutte le Guerre 13
I-70126 Bari

Manager: Dr Giuseppe Leo

e-mail: cacciapesca@regione.puglia.it

Responsible official: Dr Giovanni Ninivaggi

e-mail: g.ninivaggi.pesca@regione.puglia.it

The call for programme agreement proposals in the fisheries
and aquaculture sector will be published in the Apulia Region
Official Gazette and may be accessed on the Apulia Region
website — www.regione.puglia.it.

to
Title of aid scheme: Amendments and supplements
Regional Law No 23 of 20 May 1996 (regional measures for
encouraging and consolidating sea fishing and aquaculture
activities), amended and supplemented by Regional Law No 30
of 7 August 1997

Legal basis: Normativa nazionale: Legge regionale 20 maggio
1996 n. 23 e s.m. «Interventi regionali per l'incentivazione ed il
consolidamento delle attività della pesca e dell'acquacoltura
marittima» — Aiuto di Stato N 414/96-Italia (Liguria)

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme: Estimated
amount, dependent on annual budgetary provisions:

— Technical
annually;

assistance

=

approximately

EUR 200 000

— Promotion = approximately EUR 100 000 annually.

Maximum aid intensity: Technical assistance: rate of public
aid in conformance with the provisions of Regulation (EC) No
2792/1999 — Annex IV, Table 3:

— 100 % (group 1 — operations by members of the trade
with no financial participation by private beneficiaries),
when the operations are in the collective interest;

— Up to 40 % (group 3 — operations by members of the
trade with financial participation by private beneficiaries),
when the operations are in the interest of individuals.

Promotion: rate of public aid in accordance with Regulation
(EC) No 2792/1999, Annex IV, Table 3:

— 100 % (group 1 — measures to find and promote new
market outlets with no financial participation by private
beneficiaries, Article 14), when the measures are in the
collective interest;

— Up to 40 % (group 3 — measures to find and promote
new market outlets with financial participation by private
beneficiaries), when the measures are in the interest of indi-
viduals.

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Date of implementation: 15 days after the publication of the
Regional Law in the Liguria Region Official Gazette

products pursuant
Three-year Fisheries and Aquaculture Plan — Promotion

to the regional measures of

the Fourth

Duration of scheme: Until 31 December 2006

Legal basis:

Objective of aid:

— Creating support structures for regional planning, condu-
cive to developing and supporting SMEs through measures
primarily in the collective interest consisting of:

Legge 17 febbraio 1982 n. 41, modificata dalla Legge 10
febbraio 1992 n. 165

Decreto legislativo n. 154/2004

— access to technical, economic and commercial training for

fishermen;

D.M. 25.5.2000 recante l'attuazione del VI Piano Nazionale
della Pesca e acquicoltura

— promotion of technical measures for the conservation of

resources;

— promotion of measures designed to improve working

conditions;

— creation of added value through improvement and control
of quality, traceability, health conditions and experimenting
with innovative techniques.

Further objectives: Promoting consumption of species in
surplus

Indicate which article is used and the eligible costs
covered by the scheme:

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of individual aid granted to the company: Annual
expenditure of EUR 218 355,32 is anticipated for the scheme

Maximum aid intensity: The maximum aid intensity is 100 %
of eligible expenditure.

The maximum eligible
EUR 145 000

amount

for

each

project

is

Date of implementation: The aid scheme will enter into force
following publication in the Regional Official Gazette and, in
any case, 10 working days after this form is sent, pursuant to
Article 16 of Regulation (EC) No 1595/2004

Technical
1595/2004;

assistance: Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: Two years

Promotion: Article 7 of Regulation (EC) No 1595/2004.

Sectors concerned: Sea fishing and aquaculture enterprises

Primary and secondary objectives of aid: To increase
consumer awareness of fish products and to create a new,
more shared culture of fishing and the areas of work linked to
it

Name and address of the granting authority:

Regione Liguria
Dipartimento Agricoltura e Turismo
Ufficio Allevamento, Caccia, Pesca
Via D'Annunzio, 113
I-16121 Genova

Web address: www.regione.liguria.it

Aid No: XF 9/2005

Member State: Italy

Region: Apulia region

Title of aid scheme: Call
promotion of

fisheries activities and exploitation of

for aid applications relating to
fish

Indication of the Article used (Articles 4 to 12) and of the
eligible costs covered by the scheme or the individual aid
award:

The aid scheme in question is covered by Article 7 of Regu-
lation (EC) No 1595/2004.

Eligible measures are those entailing promotion of fisheries
activities and the exploitation of fish products through collec-
tive initiatives to find and promote new market outlets for fish-
eries and aquaculture products, and in particular:

1. Information and publicity campaigns,

including those
intended to highlight the quality and/or the variety of what
is available.

2. Market studies and consumer and market surveys.

3. Quality assurance measures, production of specifications

and exploitation of origins and traditional products.

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The following costs are eligible:

Manager: Dr Giuseppe Leo

— General management costs

telephone, electricity,
heating and cleaning costs) directly linked to implementing
the projects (maximum 8 %).

(rent,

e-mail: cacciapesca@regione.puglia.it

Responsible official: Dr. Giovanni Ninivaggi

— Travel costs (transport, board and lodgings) directly linked

to implementing the projects.

e-mail: g.ninivaggi.pesca@regione.puglia.it

— Consumables directly necessary for

implementing the

projects.

— Costs of employing staff who work directly on imple-

menting the projects.

The call for aid applications relating to promotion of fisheries
activities and exploitation of fish products will be published in
the Apulia Region Official Gazette and may be accessed on the
Apulia region website — www.regione.puglia.it.

— Costs of
purposes.

laying on seminars

for

information-sharing

Aid No: XF 10/2005

— General planning,
(maximum 4 %).

coordination and

reporting

costs

Member State: Italy

— Other costs, outlined in suitable detail, directly linked to

implementing the projects.

Eligible costs within the aid scheme refer to Regulations (EC)
Nos 2792/1999 and 1685/2000, as amended

Sector(s) concerned: The sectors concerned with the aid
scheme in question are those indicated in Article 14 of Regu-
lation (EC) No 2792/1999 ‘Measures to find and promote new
market outlets’

Name and address of the granting authority:

The administration responsible for managing the call for aid
applications relating to promotion of fisheries activities and
exploitation of fish products is the Regione Puglia — Asses-
sorato all'Agricoltura, Acquacoltura, Alimentazione, Riforma
Fondiaria, Foreste, Caccia e Pesca. — Settore Caccia e Pesca
[Apulia Region — Regional Department of Agriculture, Aqua-
culture, Food, Land Reform, Forests, Hunting and Fisheries —
Hunting and Fisheries Sector].

Responsibility for managing the implementation phases of
financial planning and receiving aid applications will be taken
on by the Hunting and Fisheries Sector, under the acting
manager, Dr Giuseppe Leo, and the responsible official, Dr
Giovanni Ninivaggi.

Applicants will be able to have sight of procedural documents
at:

Regione Puglia
Settore Caccia e Pesca
Via Caduti di tutte le Guerre, n. 13
I-70126 Bari

Region: Friuli-Venezia Giulia

Title of the aid scheme or name of the company in receipt
of an individual aid: Regulation laying down criteria and
arrangements for implementing assistance to reduce the envir-
impact of intensive freshwater fish-farming within
onmental
the meaning of Article 6(15) of Regional Law No 14 of 20
August 2003

Legal basis:

Legge 21 maggio 1998, n. 164 concernente misure in materia
di pesca e di acquacoltura

Legge regionale 20 agosto 2003, n. 14 «Assestamento del
bilancio 2003 e del bilancio pluriennale per gli anni 2003-
2005 ai sensi dell'articolo 18 della Legge regionale 16 aprile
1999, n. 7»

Annual expenditure under the scheme or total annual
amount of the individual aid granted to the company: The
financial allocation is EUR 222 503,27

Maximum intensity: The maximum contribution which may
be granted is 40 % of eligible expenditure

Date of application: 30 March 2004

Duration of scheme or individual aid: 31 December 2005

Purpose of the aid: Support for small firms specialising in
freshwater fish-farming through aid for investments to reduce
the environmental
impact of intensive fish-farming establish-
ments

The aid refers to Article 11 of Regulation (EC) No 1595/2004

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Typical eligible operations:

— Plant and/or equipment for oxygenating water

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of individual aid granted to the company: The
maximum amount of aid is EUR 120 000 per year. The break-
down is as follows:

— Plant and/or equipment (including electronic instruments
for monitoring the physical and

and specific software)
chemical parameters of the water

(a) Remote-sensing

and

echo-localisation

projects,

EUR 40 000/year

— Plant and/or equipment
other organic pollutants

to reduce suspended solids and

— Plant and/or equipment

to distribute feed intended to

improve the food-conversion index

— Plant and/or equipment for recirculating water

— Plant and/or equipment to protect breeding basins

— Other plant and/or equipment to reduce the environmental

impact.

Sector or sectors concerned: Aquaculture

Name and address of the authority granting the aid:

(b) Innovation projects relating to gear, EUR 40 000/year.

(c) Projects for waste recovery and treatment, EUR 40 000/

year.

Maximum aid intensity: The amount of each grant awarded
may not exceed 40 000 EUR per year over 3 years and may in
no case exceed 100 % of
the investment. Organisations'
ongoing operating costs are not eligible

Date of implementation: January 2005

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: The project
for which grant is paid shall run for no longer than three years

Objetive of aid: To finance projects geared towards the
following aims:

risorse

centrale

Direzione
montagna
Servizio pesca e acquacoltura
Via Caccia, 17
I-33100 Udine

agricole, naturali,

forestali

e

1. Innovation projects relating to fishing gear: improving cost-
effectiveness and reducing the impact on protected species.

2. Projects for waste treatment and recovery: reducing the

environmental impact.

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

3. Remote-sensing and echo-evaluation projects: reducing the

impact of fishing activities on protected species.

Other information: Pursuant to Article 17 of Regulation (EC)
No 1595/2004, this aid scheme may be considered compatible
with the common market under Article 87(3)(c) of the Treaty
and exempt from the obligation to notify provided all the
conditions laid down in Article 3 of that Regulation, apart
from those in paragraphs 1 and 2(b) and (c) of that Article are
met.

Indicate which one of Articles 4 to 12 is used and the
eligible costs covered by the scheme or individual aid: Ar-
ticle 6. All project costs except for organisations' ongoing oper-
ating costs, up to a maximum of EUR 40 000/year over 3
years.

Sector(s) concerned: Fish producers' organisations,
fisher-
men's associations, business associations representative of the
fisheries and aquaculture sector, and non-governmental organi-
sations

Aid No: XF 11/2005

Name and address of the granting authority:

Member State: Spain. Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and
Food.

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving an indi-
vidual aid: Aid for technological development in fisheries and
aquaculture

Legal basis: ORDEN APA/2747/2004, de 29 de julio, por la
que se establecen las bases reguladoras y la convocatoria de
ayudas al desarrollo tecnológico pesquero y acuícola.

Ministerio de Agricultura, Pesca y Alimentación
Secretaria General de Pesca Marítima
Dirección General de Estructuras y Mercados Pesqueros
C/ José Ortega y Gasset, 57
E-28006 Madrid

Web address: http://www.mapya.es/JACUMAR

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Aid No: XF 12/2005

Explanatory remarks: The Distinctly Cumbrian (Fisheries and
Aquaculture) Scheme has been set up in accordance with
Commission Regulation 1595/2004 on the application of Arti-
cles 87 and 88 of the EC Treaty to State aid to small and
medium sized enterprises active in the production, processing
and marketing of fisheries products

Member State: United Kingdom

Administrative Bodies with Responsibility for the Scheme

(a) Agency Officer:

Pauline Herbert
Distinctly Cumbrian
Rural Enterprise Centre
Redhills
Penrith CA11 0DT
Cumbria
Tel.: (44-768) 89 15 55
Fax: (44-768) 89 26 66
E-mail: Pauline@crea.co.uk

(b) UK Contact:

Jacinta Vaz
Fisheries Structures Division
Defra
Area 6D, 3 — 8 Whitehall Place West
London SW1A 2HH
United Kingdom
Tel.: (44-207) 270 80 42
Fax: (44-207) 270 80 19
E-mail: Jacinta.vaz@defra.gsi.gov.uk

Maximum aid intensity: Aid is paid by way of cash grants
and is paid against receipted invoice. No other form of aid is
payable.

The maximum aid intensity will be 40 % on any single
approved project (and 40 % on any single eligible item within
to a financial maximum of approximately
that project)
GBP 67 000 in total (EUR 100 000 calculated at the date of
the letter of offer)

Date of implementation: The scheme will be available from
25 May 2005.

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: The scheme
will be available until 31 December 2006 (closing date for
applications will be 30 September 2006)

Distinctly Cumbrian will wish to extend the scheme beyond 31
December 2006 to 30 June 2009 but applications will be made
under the regulations pertaining at that time

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

The scheme is available to small and medium sized enterprises
and targets businesses that have the potential to expand and
generate new employment. These are ‘producers of
local
products’ where association with Cumbria as a distinctive
brand could facilitate growth. The project aims to remove
some of the main barriers to growth experienced by these
producers

Region: Cumbria Rural Enterprise Agency

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving an indi-
vidual aid: The Distinctly Cumbrian (Fisheries and Aquacul-
ture) Scheme

Indication of the Article used (Articles 4 to 12) and of the
eligible costs covered by the scheme or the individual aid
award: Aid will be made available under Articles 8 and 11 of
Regulation (EC) No 1595/2004.

Legal basis: Regional Development Agencies Act 1998,
Section 5

Eligible expenditure under the scheme is:

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of individual aid granted to the company: The
scheme has a maximum budget of GBP 2,9 million. This
includes administrative and employment costs for officers
employed by the scheme to undertake its activities. The
expected annual spend profile is:

Period to 30.6.2005

Year to 30.6.2006

Year to 30.6.2007

Total

GBP (million)

0,800

1,200

0,900

2,90

(a) The construction, acquisition or improvement of immo-

vable 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
contract
interest refinancing costs,
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

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Sector(s) concerned: The Scheme will only be available to
those enterprises involved in the processing and marketing of
fisheries and aquaculture products

Eligible expenditure includes the general costs incurred in orga-
nising the trip: hire of the bus, interpreter, rental of meeting
rooms, lecture fees, chamber of commerce services, travel costs
of the trip leader.

Name and address of the granting authority:

Cumbria Rural Enterprise Agency
Distinctly Cumbrian
Rural Enterprise Centre
Redhills
Penrith CA11 0DT

Agency Officer responsible: Pauline Herbert

The individual travel costs for those taking part in the trip will
not be covered by the aid. The aid does not cover the benefi-
ciary's operating costs.

Sector(s) concerned: The aid is a collective fishing industry
project.

Central contact for UK fisheries state aids: Jacinta Vaz

Name and address of the granting authority.:

Web address: www:crea.co.uk

Aid No: XF 14/2005

Member State: Finland

Maa- ja metsätalousministeriö (Finnish Ministry of Agriculture
and Forestry)
Kala- ja riistaosasto (Fisheries and Game Department)
PL 30
FIN-00023 Valtioneuvosto

address: http://www.mmm.fi/kalastus_riista_porot/elin-

Web
keinokalatalous/tuki/#Kansalliset%20%20tuet

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving an indi-
vidual aid:

(the webpages are currently being updated)

Pro Kala ry

Legal basis:

Laki valtion tulo- ja menoarviosta (423/1988); tuki myönne-
tään eduskunnan maa-
ja metsätalousministeriölle valtion
vuosittaisessa tulo- ja menoarviossa antaman yleisen valtuu-
tuksen perusteella
kalatalouden edellytysten edistämiseen
tarkoitetusta alamomentista.

Tuen myöntämisessä, valvonnassa ja takaisinperinnässä nouda-
tetaan valtionavustuslakia (688/2001).

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of individual aid granted to the company: Not
more than EUR 7 500 will be granted as one-off aid

Maximum aid intensity: 100 % of the eligible costs

Date of implementation: 4 July 2005 at the earliest.

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: November
2005

Objective of aid: Support for the internationalisation of SME
workers and others working in the sector (fact-finding trip to
Saint Petersburg)

Indication of the Article used (Articles 4 to 12) and of the
eligible costs covered by the scheme or the individual aid
award:

Aid No: XF 15/2005

Explanatory remarks: The main purpose of these financial
interventions in the fisheries sector is to aid fish farmers and
fishermen and train them in high quality, adequate and appro-
priate fisheries production techniques with a view to the
preservation and development of fishing as a traditional activity
in the municipality of Piran. The aid is granted to co-finance
(subsidise) measures in the fisheries and aquaculture sectors in
accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1595/2004 and is
intended for natural and legal persons (SMEs which produce,
process and market fisheries products) who engage in fishing
as their sole or principal activity or hold a registration for aqua-
culture activities and meet all
for
conducting that activity

requirements

the legal

Member State: Republic of Slovenia

Region (indicate the name of the region if the aid is
granted by a subcentral authority): Municipality of Piran
(NUTS 5)

Article 7 of Regulation (EC) No 1595/2004 (Article 14 of
Regulation (EC) No 2792/1999 and Annex III.3 thereto)

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving an indi-
vidual aid: Interventions in the fisheries sector in the munici-
pality of Piran

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Legal basis:

— Pravilnik o finančni pomoči za ohranjanje in razvoj ribištva
ter pridobivanje hrane iz morja v občini Piran (Uradne
objave Primorskih novic, št. 22/2003)

— Predlog Pravilnika o spremembah in dopolnitvah Pravilnika
o finančni pomoči za ohranjanje in razvoj ribištva ter
pridobivanje hrane iz morja v občini Piran

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

ques with a view to the preservation and development of
fishing as a traditional activity

Indication of the Article used (Articles 4 to 12) and of the
eligible costs covered by the scheme or the individual aid
award: The aid will be granted on the basis of Articles 4, 6, 9
and 11 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1595/2004

Aid for investments for innovative measures and technical
assistance (Article 6)

— co-financing of occupational training measures,

2005

2006

Total

SIT 3 000 000 (EUR 12 516) (*)

SIT 3 000 000 (EUR 12 516) (*)

SIT 6 000 000 (EUR 25 032) (*)

— co-financing the costs of preparing investment programmes
and business plans in accordance with the single metho-
dology rules,

— co-financing of fisheries pilot projects in connection with
the introduction of more selective fishing techniques and
with a view to the conservation of fisheries resources.

(*) Spring 2005 report of the national macroeconomic analysis and

economic development office (EUR/SIT = 239,7)

Aid for investments in aquaculture (Article 11)

Maximum aid intensity:

— co-financing of capital

in production and
management — construction, extension, equipment and
modernisation of facilities, including on-board facilities;

investments

Measure I:

Co-financing of
measures and technical assistance

investments

for

innovative

Level of co-financing: up to 100 % of the eligible
costs under Annex IV to Regulation (EC) No
2792/1999

— co-financing of capital

investments to improve hygiene,
health conditions and product quality or to reduce environ-
mental pollution;

— co-financing of capital

investments designed to increase

production.

Measure II: Aid for investments in aquaculture

Aid for investments in fishing port facilities (Article 9)

Level of co-financing: up to 60 % of the recog-
nised value of the investments or of the eligible
costs under Annex IV to Regulation (EC) No
2792/1999

Measure III: Co-financing investments in fishing port facilities

Level of co-financing: up to 60 % of the recog-
nised value of the investments or of the eligible
costs under Annex IV to Regulation (EC) No
2792/1999

— co-financing of capital investments in infrastructure/build-

ings in fishing ports

Aid for producer groups or associations or members of the
trade (Article 4)

— to cover administrative costs in the first year following the
establishment of an appropriate fisheries body as laid down
by Article 51 of Zakon o morskem ribištvu (Uradni list RS, št.
58/02) (Marine Fisheries Act, Official Gazette No 58/02)

Measure IV: Aid for producer groups or associations or

members of the trade

Sector(s) concerned: Fisheries and aquaculture sector

Level of co-financing: up to 60 % of the eligible
costs in the first year of operation under Article
15 of Regulation (EC) No 2792/1999

Name and address of the granting authority:

Date of implementation: August 2005

Občina Piran
Tartinijev TRG 2
SLO-6330 Piran

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: 31.12.2006

Web address: http://www.piran.si

Objective of aid: To train fish farmers and fishermen in high
quality, adequate and appropriate fisheries production techni-

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Aid No: XF 16/2005

Member State: Spain

award: Article 6 Aid for investments for innovative measures
and technical assistance

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving an indi-
vidual aid: Aid for technological development in fisheries and
aquaculture

All project costs except for organisations' ongoing operating
costs, up to a maximum of EUR 50 000/EUR 40 000 /year
over 3 years

Legal basis:

— Artículo 149.1.15a de la Constitución Española.

Sector(s) concerned: Fish producers' organisations,
fisher-
men's associations, business associations representative of the
fisheries and aquaculture sector, and non-governmental organi-
sations

— Artículo 3 de la Ley 3/2001, de 26 de marzo, de Pesca

Marítima.

Name and address of the granting authority:

— Proyecto de Orden APA/…/2005, de …, por la que se esta-
blecen las bases reguladoras de ayudas al desarrollo tecnoló-
gico pesquero y acuícola.

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of individual aid granted to the company: The
maximum amount of aid is EUR 130 000 per year
(one
hundred and thirty thousand EUR per year). The breakdown is
as follows:

(a) Remote-sensing and echo-evaluation projects, EUR 50 000/

year.

Ministerio de Agricultura, Pesca y Alimentación
Secretaria General de Pesca Marítima
Dirección General de Estructuras y Mercados Pesqueros
C/ José Ortega y Gasset, 57
E-28006 Madrid

Web address: (http://www.mapya.es/JACUMAR)

b) Projects relating to gear; optimising and saving on use of
vessels,

alternative

fishing

energy

on

fuel,
using
EUR 40 000/year.

Aid No: XF 18/2005

(c) Projects for waste treatment and recovery, EUR 40 000/

year.

Maximum aid intensity: The amount of each grant awarded
may not exceed, annually over 3 years, EUR 50 000 in the case
of a) or EUR 40 000 in the cases of b) and c) and may in no
case exceed 100 % of the investment. Organisations' ongoing
operating costs are not eligible

Explanatory remarks: Under Decree No 98/2005 of the Esto-
nian Minister for Agriculture, compensation may be granted to
fishery undertakings engaged in fishing inland waters for part
of the excise duties on diesel fuel paid or payable in 2005. The
national budget provides the sum of EEK 1 445 000 EEK
(EUR 92 352) for this compensation, allocated to all benefici-
aries on a proportional basis, based on the power of the main
engine in the fishing vessels they own.

Date of implementation: 6 months from the date of publica-
tion of the scheme in the Official State Gazette

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: The project
for which grant is paid shall run for no longer than three years

Objective of aid: To finance projects geared towards the
following aims:

1. Innovation projects relating to fishing gear: improving cost-
effectiveness and reducing the impact on protected species.

2. Projects for the treatment and recovery of by-products and

waste: reducing the environmental impact.

3. Remote-sensing and echo-evaluation projects: reducing the

impact of fishing activities on protected species

This compensation is available to small and medium-sized
fishery undertakings engaged in fishing inland waters that have
a professional fishing licence for 2005 and a fishing vessel.

Member State: Republic of Estonia

Title of aid scheme: Compensation granted to fishery under-
takings in 2005 to offset the increase in specific excise duties
on diesel.

Legal basis: EV Põllumajandusministri määrus nr 98, “2005.
aastal kalandustoodete tootjale eriotstarbelise diislikütuse aktsii-
simäära tõusu kompenseerimise taotlemise ja taotluse menetle-
mise kord.”

Indication of the Article used (Articles 4 to 12) and of the
eligible costs covered by the scheme or the individual aid

Annual expenditure planned under
the scheme: The
scheme provides for aid of EEK 1 445 000 (EUR 92 352) for
fishermen engaged in fishing inland waters

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Maximum aid intensity: Undertakings fishing inland waters
annually pay EEK 1 445 000 in excise duties on fuel; the same
amount will be granted in 2005 and distributed proportionally
on the basis of engine power

Date of implementation: The applications round ends on 9
November 2005 and the competent authority (Põllumajanduse
Registrite ja Informatsiooni Ameti — the Estonian Agricultural
Registers and Information Board) will have 40 days from that date
to process applications, after which the compensation will be
paid

Duration: Until 31 December 2005

Objective of aid: The aim of the measure is to help small and
medium-sized undertakings by compensating them for the
excise duties paid on fuel in 2005

The aid scheme is based on Article 13 of Commision Regu-
lation (EC) No 1595/2004; excise duties on fuel are eligible
expenditure

Sector(s) concerned: Inland fisheries sector

Name and address of the granting authority:

Põllumajanduse Registrite ja Informatsiooni Amet
Narva mnt. 3
EE-Tartu 51009

of

implementation: grant

Date
be
submitted within 30 days of the publication of the call for
applications in the BURT

applications may

Objective: to promote the modernisation of aquaculture
undertakings.

Indicate which Article of Regulation (EC) No 1595/2004 is
being used: Article 11

Indicate the eligible costs: in accordance with Regulations
(EC) No 2792/1999 and (EC) No 448/2004, expenditure on
the following is considered to be eligible:

— the purchase of equipment

to modernise plant (feeders,
oxygenators, various types of machinery, purification filters,
etc.),

— the construction of breeding, fattening and decanting tanks,

— the construction of working premises at the undertaking
(fry tanks, product processing and marketing, sheds for
equipment and machinery, etc.).

Sector concerned: Aquaculture

Web address: https://www.riigiteataja.ee/ert/act.jsp?id=944632

Name and address of the granting authority:

Aid No: XF 19/2005

Regione Toscana
Settore Produzioni Agricole Zootecniche
Via di Novoli n. 26
I-50127 Firenze

Explanatory remarks: the aid scheme provides for grants for
modernising aquaculture undertakings

Web
tura/Pesca.htm

address: www.rete.toscana.it/sett/agric/Pesca-acquacol-

Member State: Italy

Region: Tuscany

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving an indi-
vidual aid: approval and publication in the BURT (Bollettino
Ufficiale della Regione Toscana — Official Journal of the Region
of Tuscany) of a call for applications for grants for aquaculture
measures

Legal basis: Decreto dirigenziale n. 4589 del 24 agosto 2005

expenditure

Annual
the
scheme: EUR 311 267,92. This amount is for 2005 and it is
not planned to fund the scheme in subsequent years

planned

under

Aid No: XF 20/2005

Explanatory remarks: Nephrops are identified as a stock of
key strategic importance to Scottish Sea Fisheries. Seafood Scot-
land will assist the Scottish Executive to implement its ‘Sustain-
able framework for Scottish Sea Fisheries’ by jointly developing
a strategic framework for improving the profitability of the
Scottish Nephrops Fishery,
in accordance with Commission
Regulation 1595/2004 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 fisheries products

Maximum aid intensity: the scheme provides for the grant of
a maximum of 40 % of a total investment cost not exceeding
EUR 250 000

Member State: United Kingdom

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Region: Scotland

Administrative Bodies with Responsibility for the Scheme

(a) Scottish Executive Environment and Rural Affairs Depart-

ment
Pentland House
47 Robb's Loan
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Website: www.scotland.gov.uk
Tel: (44–131) 244 64 14
Fax: (44–131) 244 62 88

(b) Libby Woodhatch
Seafood Scotland
Tel: (44–131) 557 93 44
Fax: (44–131) 557 93 44
Website: www.seafoodscotland.org

(c) UK Contact

Jacinta Vaz
Marine Fisheries Agency
Grants Team
Area 6D, 3 — 8 Whitehall Place West
London SW1A 2HH
United Kingdom
Tel: (44–207) 270 80 42
Fax: (44–207) 270 80 19
E-mail: Jacinta.vaz@defra.gsi.gov.uk

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving an indi-
vidual aid: Aid to Seafood Scotland

Legal basis: Column 1 of the item of Schedule 1 to the Budget
(Scotland) Act 2005

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of individual aid granted to the company: The
scheme is a one-off payment of GBP 150 000 to be made to
Seafood Scotland. Total GBP 150 000

Maximum aid intensity: One off payment of GBP 150 000
to Seafood Scotland. Aid is paid by way of cash grants and is
paid against receipted invoice. No other form of aid is payable.

The amount of aid intensity will be not exceed,
in subsidy
equivalent, the total rate of national and Community subsidies
fixed by Annex IV, of Regulation (EC) No 2792/1999 on any
single approved project

Date of implementation: The aid will be made available from
14 December 2005, immediately following publication in the
Official Journal after 10 working days from submission of this
form, as provided for in article 16(1) of Regulation (EC) No
1595/2004

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: Until funds
are exhausted and in any event not beyond the validity of the
exempting Regulation (Commission Regulation (EC) No
1595/2004) i.e. 31 December 2006

Objective of aid: The aim of the scheme is to develop a
strategy to improve the profitability of the Nephrops fishery.
The strategy will require market analysis and dissemination,
training, and the development of systems to improve transpar-
ency within the Nephrops supply chain

Indication of the Article used (Articles 4 to 12) and of the
eligible costs covered by the scheme or the individual aid
award: Aid will be made available under Articles 4 and 7 of
Regulation EC 1595/2004. Under Article 4 and Art 7 of
Commission Regulation (EC) No 1595/2004,
i.e. aid for
producer groups or associations or members of the trade and
Aid for investments for promotion and advertising of fisheries
products. Eligible costs will include the following:

— promotion of measures improving the working conditions
and the sanitary conditions concerning the products, on
board and landed;

— organisation of electronic trade and other information tech-
nologies to disseminate technical and commercial informa-
tion

— access to training, particularly in quality, and organisation
and transmission of know-how on board vessels and on
land

— design and application of systems to improve and control
quality, traceability, health conditions, statistical instruments
and environmental impact

— creation of added value in products

— improvement of knowledge and transparency in production

and in the market

Sector(s) concerned: The scheme applies to Sea fisheries,
processing and marketing.

Please see Annex II for further details of the scheme

Name and address of the granting authority.:

Scottish Executive Environment and Rural Affairs Department
Pentland House
47 Robb's Loan
Edinburgh EH14 1TY
United Kingdom

Officer responsible: Gillian Barclay, Head of Seafish Trade,
Markets and Communities Branch.

Web
eries

address: www.scotland.gov.uk/topics/fisheries/sea-fish-