Summary information communicated by the 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: 2006-09-01
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Latvia, Netherlands, Slovakia, Spain, State aid, United Kingdom, agro-industry, control of State aid, exchange of information, small and medium-sized enterprises

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Summary information communicated by the 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 210/05)

XA No: XA 43-06

Member State: The Netherlands

Region: Province of Limburg

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving indivi-
dual aid: Mr H.J.W.M. Bruls, dairy farmer

location. The renovation and restoration involves
reusing
existing materials and working with traditional materials.
Therefore complementary aid of up to 100 % may be granted
to cover the extra costs incurred by using traditional materials
that are necessary to maintain the heritage features of the
building.

Another reason for granting the subsidy is that it furthers addi-
tional objectives, such as nature conservation, conservation of
the main ecological structure and restoration of the original
tree-lines along the driveway

Legal Basis: Algemene subsidieverordening 2004

Sector(s) concerned:

Nadere subsidieregels ontwikkeling landelijk gebied

The aid is granted to an operator in the production sector, a
dairy farmer

Annual expenditure planned or overall amount of aid
granted to the company: Once-only provincial subsidy of
EUR 245 000. An advance of up to 80 % can be made avail-
able. Final settlement will take place no later than in 2008

total

cost of

Maximum aid intensity: The
renovation
amounts to EUR 382 000. The aid rate amounts to 64,1 %.
The EUR 245 000 subsidy lies below the permitted aid rate of
100 % of actual costs. Pursuant to Article 5(1) of Regulation
(EC) No 1/2004, the aid is granted for investment and capital
works which are aimed at conserving non-productive heritage
features of agricultural holdings such as archaeological or
historical features.

Name and address of the granting authority:

Provincie Limburg
Limburglaan 10
Postbus 5700
6202 MA Maastricht
Nederland

Web address: www.limburg.nl

The amount is also lower than the permitted aid rate of 40 %
of eligible expenditure for portions of the works which result
in an increasing production capacity or for which contem-
porary materials are used. Pursuant to Article 5(2) and (3) of
Regulation (EEC) No 1/2004, additional aid may be granted at
a rate of up to 100 % to cover the extra costs incurred by
using traditional materials necessary to maintain the heritage
features of the building

XA No: XA 45/2006

Member State: Netherlands

Region: Province of Fryslân

implementation: The decision concerning

Date of
the
granting of the subsidy will be despatched four weeks after the
EU has confirmed reception of this notice

Legal Basis:

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving indivi-
dual aid: Oevering (family)

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: From June
2006 to 1 December 2008

Objective of aid: Pursuant
to Article 5(3) of Regulation
1/2004, the objective of the aid is to contribute towards the
renovation budget of Bovenste Hoeve Printhagen, historical
farm classified as national monument. The renovation forms
part of a project to re-establish the dairy farm at its previous

Algemene wet bestuursrecht, titel 4.2

Algemene Subsidieverordening Provincie Fryslân 1998

Provinciewet artikel 145

Verordening met betrekking tot het verlenen van subsidies ten
behoeve van het plattelandsbeleid voor de jaren 2005-2008

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Annual expenditure planned or overall amount of aid
granted to the company: Maximum contribution will be
EUR 55 000. The expectation is that 80 % of this amount, i.e.
EUR 44 000 will be paid out in 2006. Settlement is expected
in 2007 or in 2008 at the latest

December 2003 on the application of Articles 87 and 88 of
the EC Treaty to State aid to small and medium-sized enter-
prises active in the production, processing and marketing of
agricultural products. The amount of investment aid to aid
applicants is as follows:

Maximum aid intensity: Maximum aid intensity is 40 % of
eligible costs. Maximum amount of aid is EUR 55 000

implementation: The decision concerning

Date of
the
granting of the subsidy will be despatched four weeks after the
EU has confirmed reception of this notice

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: The final
settlement date is 30 months after the decision has been noti-
fied. This would mean the end of 2008 at the latest. However,
the project is expected to be completed in 2007

1. eligible costs = greenhouse area indicated in the application
x coefficient (1,25 for cultivating plants in greenhouses in
various non-soil media or 0,625 for cultivating plants in
greenhouses in soil);

2. aid intensity 40 % of the eligible costs;

3. eligible costs are those that have occurred after the coming

into force of the Cabinet regulations

Date of implementation: 15 June 2006

Objective of aid: The objective of the project is conservation
of a historical farmhouse after adapting it to the requirements
of modern agricultural management.

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: 30 December
2006

Article 5(3) of Regulation 1/2004 is being applied

Sector(s) concerned: Dairy farming

Purpose of the aid: The purpose of the aid is to support
investments in agriculture to increase added value of produc-
tion and quality of agricultural products

Name and address of the granting authority:

Sector(s) concerned: The aid is
medium-sized enterprises active in agriculture

intended for

small and

Provincie Fryslân
Postbus 20120
8900 HM Leeuwarden
Nederland

Web address: www.fryslan.nl

XA No: XA 46/06

Member State: Latvia

Name and address of the granting authority:

Zemkopības ministrija
Rīga 31.5.2006.
Latvijas Republikas Zemkopības ministrija
LV-1981 Rīga

Web address: www.zm.gov.lv

in agriculture is
Other information: Aid to investments
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 enter-
prises active in the production, processing and marketing of
agricultural products

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving an indi-
vidual aid: Aid scheme ‘Investment aid to greenhouse areas’

Legal basis: Ministru kabineta 2006. gada 3.
janvāra notei-
kumi Nr. 21 “Noteikumi par valsts atbalstu lauksaimniecībai
2006. gadā un tā piešķiršanas kārtību” 3. pielikuma VI. nodaļa

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of individual aid granted to the company: Total
amount of the aid scheme in 2006: LVL 292 657

Aid Number: XA 49/06

Member State: Spain

Region: Comunidad Valenciana.

Maximum aid intensity: Aid to investments in agriculture is
granted under Commission Regulation (EC) No 1/2004 of 23

Title of aid scheme: Relocation of
public interest

farm buildings in the

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Legal basis:

Sector concerned: Livestock farms in the Autonomous Com-
munity of Valencia

— Orden de 12 de diciembre de 2005 de la Consellería de
Agricultura, Pesca y Alimentación, por la que se establecen
ayudas al Traslado de granjas por motivos de interés
público.

— Resolución de 18 de abril de 2006, de la Consellería de
Agricultura, Pesca y Alimentación, por la que se convocan
para el ejercicio 2006 determinadas subvenciones gestio-
nadas por la Dirección General de Investigación, Desarrollo
e Innovación Agropecuaria y se establecen modificaciones
puntuales para el presente ejercicio

Annual
me: EUR 980 000 (2006)

expenditure

planned

under

the

sche-

Name and address of the granting authority:

Consellería de Agricultura, Pesca y Alimentación
Amadeo de Saboya, 2
E-46010 Valencia

Web address:

Orden de 12 de diciembre de 2005, de la Consellería de Agri-
cultura, Pesca y Alimentación: http://www.gva.es/cidaj/pdf/
5160.pdf

Maximum aid intensity: The percentage of public support
will be as follows:

http://www.pre.gva.es/DIARIOCGI/BASIS/DIARIO/WEB/INSER-
CION_DOGV_C/DDW?W%3DCODIGO_INSERCION%3D%272
005/13913%27

— Where relocation in the public interest simply consists of
the dismantling, removal and re-erection of existing facil-
ities at the new locus: 90 % of the actual relocation costs.

Resolución de 18 de abril de 2006, de la Consellería de Agri-
cultura, Pesca y Alimentación:

— Where the relocation results in the farmer benefiting from
modernisation of facilities or in an increase in production
capacity:

— 90 % of the actual cost of relocating the facilities in

accordance with the preceding paragraph.

— 40 % of new inversion projects or 50 % where the new

holding is located in a less favoured area.

http://www.gva.es/cidaj/pdf/5261.pdf

http://www.pre.gva.es/DIARIOCGI/BASIS/DIARIO/WEB/INSER-
CION_DOGV_C/DDW?W%3DCODIGO_INSERCION%3D%272
006/5546 %27

‘New investment projects’ means those relating to the increase
the facilities concerned after relocation or the
in value of
increase in production capacity.

Aid Number: XA 50/06

Member State: Spain

These percentages will be increased by 5 percentage points
where the investments are made by young farmers

Implementation date: The time-limit for deciding and noti-
fying the decision terminating the procedure is set at 23 June
2006

Duration of the scheme: December 2006

Objective of aid: In accordance with Article 6 of Commission
Regulation (EC) No 1/2004, the relocation of facilities where
animals are kept and any re-usable equipment kept in them to
other locations within the territory of the Autonomous Com-
munity of Valencia, in the public interest, provided the condi-
tions laid down in Article 53 of the Ley de Ganadería (Law on
Livestock Farming) are met and the relocation of the livestock
farm is relocated to a less-favoured area.

The eligible costs will be those actually incurred in the disman-
tling, removal and re-erection of existing facilities, within the
limits laid down in Article 6 of Regulation (EC) No 1/2004

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving indivi-
dual aid: Aid scheme to subsidise projects aiming to promote
women in rural areas

Legal basis: Orden, pendiente de publicación, por la que se
establecen las bases reguladoras para la concesión de subven-
ciones destinadas a la promoción de las mujeres del medio
rural

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of individual aid granted to the company: The
planned expenditure from the public purse to be granted to all
the beneficiaries as a whole is EUR 300 000 for 2006

Maximum aid intensity: The maximum aid will be up to
80 % of the amount of each project but will not exceed,
in
respect of each beneficiary association, 30 % of the total expen-
diture out of the public purse and will remain within the limit
per beneficiary laid down in Article 14(3) of Regulation No
1/2004

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Implementation date: From the date of publication of the
invitation to apply for subsidies in the Boletín Oficial del
Estado

XA Number: XA 51/2006

Member State: United Kingdom

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: Until 31
December 2006, which may be extended every year by means
of the appropriate call for applications

Region: Cheshire

Objective of aid:

— The aid essentially falls within the scope of Article 14 of
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 agri-
cultural products (published in the Official Journal of the
European Communities of 3 January 2004).

Title of Aid scheme or name of company receiving an
individual aid: Sandstone Ridge ECOnet Partnership Conserva-
tion Programme

Legal basis: s. 39 1981 Wildlife and Countryside Act

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

Conservation of traditional landscapes:

— The aid is to cover eligible expenditure under Article

2006/2007 — GBP 255 700

14(2)(a)(i) and (ii) and Article 14(2)(d).

— Primary objective: Development of projects to be imple-
mented by associations, foundations, federations and other
rural women's groups at State level aiming to promote
women in rural areas.

— Secondary objectives: Promotion and assessment for the
setting-up of undertakings; search for new marketing and
distribution channels
for products manufactured by
women; the carrying out of gender-specific research; atten-
dance
activities on topics
concerning rural women.

conferences or

similar

at

2007/2008 — GBP 272 050

2008/2009 — GBP 120 000

Technical support:

2006/2007 — GBP 3 000

2007/2008 — GBP 3 000

2008/2009 — GBP 3 000

— Eligible expenditure: Staff, equipment, office equipment,

installations, travel, dietary requirements and similar

Any unspent budget will be rolled over to the following year

Economic sector(s) concerned: The sector concerned is the
agricultural sector and rural diversification projects

Name and address of the granting authority:

Ministerio de Agricultura, Pesca y Alimentación
Dirección General de Desarrollo Rural
Alfonso XII, 62
E-28014 Madrid

Web site: http://www.mapa.es/

Other information: The activities subsidised are intended to
promote rural women and support projects undertaken by
them in rural areas through consultancy services, attendance at
events to provide them with information and research into
social and working conditions. Moreover, the beneficiaries are
encouraged to diversify their activities

Maximum aid intensity: Up to 100 % for capital works
intended for
the conservation of non-productive heritage
features, 60 % for productive assets where there is no increase
in production capacity, and 40 % for capital works on produc-
tive assets where there is an increase in production capacity.
Where traditional materials are necessary the aid may be
granted at a rate up to 100 % for the extra costs incurred.
100 % for technical support

Date of implementation: 1st July 2006

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: Applications
will close on 31st
January each year. All works must be
completed and receipts submitted by 15th March each year. No
payment will be made after 31 March 2009

Objective of aid: Heritage conservation: to conserve the tradi-
tional landscapes and features in the Sandstone Ridge area of
Cheshire. The eligible costs will be real costs incurred as
regards investments or capital works intended for the conserva-
tion of heritage features located on agricultural holdings in line
with Article 5 of Regulation 1/2004 and the costs of organising
training programmes and consultancy services in line with
Article 14 of Regulation 1/2004

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Sector(s) concerned: The aid scheme is aimed at businesses
active in the production of agricultural products only. All sub-
sectors are eligible

Name and address of the granting authority:

Cheshire County Council
Environmental Planning, Backford Hall, Backford, Chester,
Cheshire, CH1 6PZ, UK

Web-Address:

Date of implementation: August 2006

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: Aid may be
granted until December 2006

Objective of aid: The purpose of the aid is to encourage
SMEs to take initiatives and steps to improve the marketing of
quality agricultural products, for example by publishing scien-
tific information, organising trade fairs and exhibitions, taking
part in them and any similar public-relations activity such as
market surveys and research.

http://www.cheshire.gov.uk/SREP/Srep_sate_aid_guidence_
download_page.htm

Article 13 — Aid to encourage the production and marketing
of quality agricultural products and Article 14 — Provision of
technical support in the agricultural sector.

Alternatively, you can visit
the UK's central website for
exempted agricultural State aids at www.defra.gov.uk/farm/
state-aid/setup/exist-exempt.htm. Click on the link ‘Sandstone
Ridge ECOnet Partnership Conservation Programme’

Other information: The scheme is aimed at landscape heri-
tage conservation. It is possible that land owned by businesses
not active in the agriculture sector might receive aid under the
In this case the aid will comply with Regulation
scheme.
69/2001 on de minimis aid or any Regulation replacing it.

Beneficiaries of technical support will not be able to choose
their own service provider. Where the service is not provided
by Cheshire County Council,
it will be provided by service
providers which have been selected and remunerated in accord-
ance with market principles

Aid Number: XA 55/2006

Member State: Spain

Region: Navarre

that

Advertising,
is to say activities involving mass media
intended to encourage consumers to buy certain quality agri-
cultural products and any material distributed directly to consu-
mers with the same objective, including advertising aimed at
consumers at the point of sale, does not fall within the scope
of this aid.

Eligible expenses include:

— Consultancy services costs: the fees for services which do
not constitute a continuous or periodic activity nor relate
to the enterprise's usual operating expenditure.

— the organisation of and participation in competitions, exhi-
bitions and trade fairs: Participation fees, travel costs, costs
of publication and the cost of renting exhibition premises.

— Market research costs

Economic sector(s) concerned: The marketing sector. The
subsectors concerned may be any provided that what
is
involved are quality agricultural products as defined in Regu-
lation (EC) No 1/2004 of 23 December 2003

Name and address of the granting authority:

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving indivi-
dual aid: Aid to encourage initiatives promoting improved
marketing of quality agricultural products

Gobierno de Navarra, Departamento de Agricultura, Ganadería
y Alimentación
Tudela, 20
E-31003 Pamplona

Legal basis: Orden foral del Consejero de agricultura, gana-
dería y alimentación, por la que se aprueba la convocatoria de
ayudas al fomento de iniciativas de promoción para la mejora
de la comercialización de productos agrarios de calidad para el
año 2006

Website: www.navarra.es

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of
compa-
ny: EUR 275 000 for 2006

aid granted to the

individual

Maximum aid intensity: 50 % of the value of the eligible
expenses for all the eligible actions provided for in the action
plan, with a ceiling of EUR 60 000 per applicant

XA Number: XA 56/2006

Member state: Slovak Republic

Region: Western Slovakia

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Title of aid scheme or name of the company receiving an
individual aid: Združenie Stupavských vlastníkov pôdy, a.s.

F. Kostku 55, SK-900 31 Stupava

Legal basis: Ustanovenie § 240 ods. 3 a § 241 ods. 3
v spojení s ustanovením § 277 a zákona č. 461/2003 Z. z.
o sociálnom poistení v znení zákona č. 721/2004 Z. z.

Ustanovenie § 5 ods. 2 písm. b) zákona 231/1999 Z. z.
o štátnej pomoci

Metodické usmernenie Sociálnej poisťovne č. 30/2005

Nariadenie Komisie (ES) č. 1/2004, čl. 4, ods. 3, písm. c) a d)

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of individual aid granted to the company: SKK
719 725, i.e. EUR 19 105,03282

Maximum aid intensity: 39,6 %

Date of implementation: 2006

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: July 2006

Objective of aid: SME — agriculture

Economic sector(s) concerned: Agriculture

Name and address of the granting authority:

Sociálna poisťovňa
pobočka Bratislava-okolie
Lazaretská 25
SK-814 99 Bratislava

Web address: www.socpoist.sk