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: 2006-07-05
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: France, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, State aid, agricultural product, control of State aid, exchange of information, small and medium-sized enterprises

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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

(2006/C 156/02)

XA number: XA 27-06

Member State: Italy

Region: Campania

Legal basis: Orden TRI/97/2006, de 28 de febrero, por la que
se aprueban las bases reguladoras para la concesión de ayudas
para la subcontratación de actividades de investigación, desar-
rollo e innovación (DOGC 4595 de 17.3.2006)

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving an indi-
vidual aid: Promotion and support to set up and develop
producer associations for wine produced in campania

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of
individual aid granted to the company:
EUR 300 000

Legal basis: Legge 164/92 e successive modifiche ed integra-
zioni; D.G.R. 1208 del 23.9.2005

Maximum aid intensity: 35 %

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of
individual aid granted to the company:
EUR 100 000 overall maximum amount of aid per approved
programme and individual beneficiary, out of a total of
EUR 320 000 available in 2006

Maximum intensity of aid: 60 % of start-up expenditure
incurred; 100 % of incurred expenditure, degressing by 20 %
for each successive year of activity; overall no more than 80 %
of eligible overall expenditure

Date of implementation: starts 1 may 2006

Duration of aid scheme or individual aid: maximum dura-
tion of individual aid is 3 years

Objective of aid: start-up aid for producer associations, in par-
ticular for doc and docg wine production as defined by law
164/92

Sector(s) concerned: Quality wine production (doc and docg)

Name and address of granting authority: Regione Campania
— Assessorato all'agricoltura ed alle attività produttive —
Sesirca — Centro direzionale di Napoli Isola A6 — I-80143
Napoli (NA)

Website: www.regione.campania.it

Other information:

Aid is in line with regulation 1/2004 articles 10-13 on
measures to encourage the production and marketing of quality
agricultural products

Aid No: XA 17/2006

Member State: Spain

Region: Catalonia

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving an indi-
vidual aid:
subcontracting innovation activities’
(‘Ayudas para la subcontratación de actividades de innovación’)

‘Aid for

Date of implementation: 17 March 2006

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: 31 December
2006

Objective of aid:

The objective is to encourage SMEs to carry out innovation
projects,
innovation being regarded as the combination of
systematic actions implemented by an enterprise to secure a
competitive advantage by incorporating organisational, formal
or technological
innovations in its products and operational
methods. In more practical terms, a combination of activities
or projects designed to distinguish it from its competitors by
seeking new ways of doing things, new organisational methods,
new functions and uses for products and new approaches to
fostering and using knowledge within the enterprise

To this end, the subcontracting of external suppliers who carry
out the innovation projects is financed through grants or guar-
antees. Article 14 is used. The subcontracting of outside exper-
tise for carrying out the project will be regarded as eligible
expenditure

In the case of guarantees, Article 7 is also used. The purchase
of equipment,
instruments and supplies intended solely and
permanently for innovation may be regarded as eligible costs

Sector(s) concerned: Sectors relating to the processing of all
the products listed in Annex I to the Treaty, except fishery and
aquaculture products, and products falling under CN codes
4502, 4503 and 4504 and products intended to imitate or
replace milk and milk products

Name and address of the granting authority: Centro de
Desarrollo e Innovación Empresarial (CIDEM)

Web address:

http://www.cidem.com/cidem/cat/serveis/financament/ajuts/
ajutsrdit.doc

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XA Number: XA 20/2006

The objectives are:

Member State: France

Region: Franche-Comté

Title of aid scheme: Technical support: experiments and
demonstrations within the framework of the Interreg operation
‘French-Swiss development and application of medicinal and
aromatic plants’
the 2005
programme (see fiches XA 17/05 and XA 39/05)

(2nd phase) Continuation of

Legal basis:

— Article 14 du règlement (CE) no 1/2004 de la Commission;

— Décisions de la Commission du 16 novembre 2001 et du
8 décembre 2004 approuvant
le programme d'initiative
communautaire INTERREG III A entre la France et la Suisse,
dans le cadre de la mise en œuvre du règlement (CE) no
1260/1999 du Conseil du 21 juin 1999 portant disposi-
tions générales sur les fonds structurels;

— Décision de

la

commission permanente du Conseil

régional du 13 mai 2005;

— Articles L 1511 et suivants du Code général des collectivités
territoriales permettant aux collectivités territoriales d'inter-
venir dans le cadre de la création ou de l'extension d'acti-
vités économiques en accordant des aides directes et indir-
ectes aux entreprises

Annual expenditure forecast under
EUR 50 052

the aid scheme:

Maximum aid intensity: 30 % for the ‘technical support’ and
‘communication’ strands

Date of implementation: From receipt of the acknowledge-
ment of receipt from the European Commission

— to make information available to farmers and the general
public about products resulting from the processing of
aromatic and medicinal plants and the ways they can be
used in farming to treat animal diseases;

— to reinforce the trend in the practices of professionals and
amateurs towards a greater respect for the environment
(research and experimentation). Experiments carried out on
farms will allow this objective to be
sheep and beef
the
achieved and will help to make farmers aware of
different ways in which plants can be used in veterinary
medicine to treat their flocks and herds;

— to collect and select references, knowledge and know-how
on production, processing and ways in which plants can be
used for domestic and commercial use. These references
will facilitate demonstration, experimentation and localisa-
tion. Preparing the information and know-how gained
through the components of the project with a view to
making it available to people working in this sector and to
the general public. Promoting plants of the cross-border
Jura massif by developing production and harvesting on a
much larger scale and by assessing the socio-economic
impact, thus reducing the production and processing costs
by introducing machinery suitable for processing cultivated
plants,
forest by-products and plants growing in fallow
land;

that are cradles of

— to reinforce the image of our regions as welcoming, natural
regions
innovation and alternative
methods, to promote and draw attention to specific local
features in terms of the utilisation of plants found in the
initiatives and partnerships
Massif, and to promote local
related to these

Sector(s) concerned: Farmers in Franche-Comté who are
interested in this programme, whether they are interested in
the industrial and medicinal plants aspect (Chapter 12 of the
Combined Nomenclature) or in the live animals aspect (Chapter
1 of the Combined Nomenclature)

Duration of scheme: Until 31 December 2006 at the latest

Name and address of the granting authority:

Objective of the aid:

The aid is intended to fund the following actions, which fall
within the scope of Article 14 of Regulation (EC) No 1/2004
(technical support in the agricultural sector):

— definition, in cooperation with outside experts, of a demon-
stration protocol for the treatment of mastitis in bovine
animals with aromatherapy and herbal medicine;

— domestication and breeding programme for aromatic and
medicinal plants (definition,
in cooperation with outside
experts, of a demonstration protocol for cultivation, loca-
tion of sites and demonstration of cultivation, monitoring
and recording);

— agricultural extension and communication (events, informa-

tion centre, information activities)

M. le Président du Conseil Régional de Franche-Comté
Hôtel de région
4 Square Castan
F-25031 Besançon Cedex

Web addresses:

— www.cr-franche-comte.fr;

— www.interreg3afch.org/;

— www.cfppa-montmorot.fr/

Miscellaneous:

Implementation of the programme is the task of the local agri-
cultural college,
in Lons le Saunier — 614
avenue Edgar Faure — F-39570 Montmorot

‘Edgar Faure’,

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XA Number: XA 25/06

Member State: France

Title of aid scheme: Aid for farmer replacements

Legal basis:

— Article 14.2 b) du règlement (CE) no 1/2004 de la Commis-

sion;

— Article 25 de la loi no 2006-11 du 5 janvier 2006 d'orienta-

tion agricole;

— Article 200 undecies du code général des impôts.

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme: The tax
impact of the scheme is estimated at EUR 51 million per year

Maximum aid intensity: Tax credits to cover 50 % of the
daily cost of replacing farmers, up to a ceiling of EUR 130 for
a maximum of 14 days per year and EUR 910 per beneficiary
per year

Date of implementation: Starts 1 January 2006

Objective of aid: Replacement
is a solution that allows
farmers whose activity requires on-farm presence every day of
the year to have a work and life pattern comparable to other
economic sectors. Nevertheless, except
for cases where this
option is funded (by private insurance covering maternity, acci-
dents or illness), the cost of this service is a disincentive. This
scheme therefore offers farmers a measure, in the form of a tax
credit, designed to encourage take-up of these services

Sector(s) concerned: All sectors of agricultural production.
The scheme covers all farm managers or agricultural enterprises
that operate on an individual or partnership basis. The scheme
is limited to farmers whose principle activity requires on-farm
presence every day of the year

Name and address of the granting authority: Ministry of
Agriculture and Fisheries, Directorate-General for Forestry and
Rural Affairs, Directorate for Employment, Office for Employ-
ment and Activity Development, 19 Avenue du Maine F-75732
Paris cedex

Address of website:

www.legifrance.gouv.fr see ‘droit français’, ‘les autres textes légi-
slatifs et réglementaires’, and search with the terms ‘JO no 5
texte no 2’

XA Number: XA 26-06

Member State: Netherlands

Region: Gelderland

Name of company receiving individual aid: V.o.f. Cacao De
Klomp

Legal basis:

the Province of Gelderland, SenterNovem is
On behalf of
the Gelderland Market-Oriented Innovation &
carrying out
Implementation II subsidy scheme (SMI&IGII). This scheme is
designed to support small and medium-sized enterprises with
innovations in the field of technological, organisational and
market development

Aid has been granted to V.O.F Cacao De Klomp on the basis of
Article 1.3.2.a, SMI&IGII, whereby a grant can be awarded in
respect of activities related to the external costs of consulting
an independent expert with regard to the promotion of innova-
tion within the enterprise

As stated in recital 1 to Commission Regulation (EC) No
1/2004, Regulation (EC) No 994/98 empowers the Commis-
sion to declare, in accordance with Article 87 of the Treaty,
that, under certain conditions, aid to small and medium-sized
enterprises is compatible with the common market and not
subject to the notification requirement of Article 88(3) of the
Treaty

Article 14 of Regulation 1/2004 is concerned with technical
support in the agricultural sector. According to Article 14(1),
aid is compatible with the common market within the meaning
of Article 87(3)(c) of the Treaties and is exempt from the notifi-
cation requirement of Article 88(3) of the Treaty if it is granted
towards the eligible costs listed in paragraph 2 and fulfils the
conditions of paragraphs 3, 4 and 5

According to Article 14(2)(c), aid may be granted to cover the
following eligible costs:
in conjunction with consultancy
services, the costs of services which do not constitute a contin-
uous or periodic activity and do not relate to the enterprise's
usual operating expenditure

Total amount of individual aid granted to the enterprise:
The aid (grant) comes to EUR 15 040

Maximum aid intensity:

According to Article 14(3), the total amount of public support
granted under paragraph 2 must never exceed EUR 100 000
per beneficiary over any three-year period, or 50 % of the
eligible costs. For the purpose of calculating the amount of aid,
the beneficiary is considered to be the recipient of technical
support

The SMI&IGII further states that the grant must not exceed
EUR 20 000

In the present case, these requirements have been met

Date of
implementation: The grant will be awarded on
receipt of the European Commission's covering letter on this
notice

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Duration of individual aid award: Covers the project period
13 September 2005 to 1 August 2006

Objective of aid: In the present case, aid is being awarded, on
the basis of Article 14(2)(c) of Regulation 1/2004, to V.O.F.
Cacao De Klomp for consultancy services designed to promote
process development in respect of a new production line for
cocoa paste deemed to be up to Japanese standards. These
consultancy services are concerned with improving the quality
of cocoa beans

Economic sector concerned: Agriculture

Name and address of the granting authority:
Gedeputeerde Staten van Gelderland
Postbus 9090
6800GX Arnhem
Nederland

Website:
www.gelderland.nl/gelderlandbalie/provincialestukken