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: 2006-10-31
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: France, Italy, Poland, Slovakia, State aid, United Kingdom, agricultural product, agro-industry, control of State aid, 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 262/04)

XA Number: XA 57/06

Member State: United Kingdom

Region: Highlands and Islands of Scotland

Title of Aid scheme: Highlands and Islands Croft Entrant
Scheme

Legal Basis:

Maximum aid intensity: 35 % up to a maximum of
GBP 3 000

Date of implementation: 21 July 2006

Duration of scheme: The scheme will open on 21 July 2006.
The scheme will close on 31 December 2008 with the last
payments being made by 31 March 2009. However alterations
may need to be made to the scheme rules before this time to
reflect any changes to European state aid rules

Title: Congested Districts (Scotland) Act 1897 (Chapter LIII,):

Objective of aid:

‘An Act to provide for the administration of sums avail-
able for the improvement of Congested Districts in the
Highlands and Islands of Scotland’.

Title: Small Landholders (Scotland) Act 1911 (Section 28(I))

Under this Act, ‘all the powers and duties invested in or
imposed on the Congested Districts (Scotland) Commis-
sioners by the Congested Districts (Scotland) Act 1897,
shall, subject as aforesaid, be vested in, transferred to,
and imposed on the Board’. This refers to the Board of
Agriculture which was superseded by the Department of
Agriculture for Scotland in 1929, and is now the Scot-
tish Executive Environment and Rural Affairs Depart-
ment.

Title: Enterprise and New Towns (Scotland) 1990 (Section

8(1))

Under this Act provision was made for Scottish Enter-
prise and Highlands and Islands Enterprise to ‘…do
anything, whether in Scotland or elsewhere, which is
calculated to facilitate or is incidental or conducive to
the discharge of their respective functions;…’ S8(1)(a)(i)
included the specific provision to make grants.

Title: Crofter (Scotland) Act 1993

Section 42(1) of this act includes provision that ‘the
Secretary of State may, after consultation with the
(Crofters) Commission and with the approval of
the
Treasury, make schemes for providing grants and loans
to crofters’

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme:

2005-2006: GBP 137 107

2006-2007: GBP 85 279

2007-2008: GBP 17 372

2008-2009: GBP 34 743

Total: GBP 274 500

The general aim of the Scheme is reversing population decline
and improving the age structure of the population in certain
crofting areas. This complies with Rural Development Regu-
lation Articles 7 & 8 in relation to Aid for setting up Young
Farmers and Article 8 of the Exemption regulations 1/2004

This objective will be met by

— Identifying suitable would be young entrants to crofting

— Facilitating entry into crofting of suitable young entrants

— Providing financial

support, administrative advice and
guidance to assist young would be entrants to establish
themselves in crofting.

Sectors concerned: Agriculture

Name and Address of the granting authority:

Scottish Executive Environment and Rural Affairs Department
Land Reform and Rural Policy Division
Area 1D
Pentland House
47 Robbs Loan
Edinburgh
EH14 1TY
United Kingdom

Web address:

Highlands and Islands Croft Entrant Scheme Leaflet:

http://www.crofterscommission.org.uk/documents/060607-
HighlandsandIslandsCroftEntrantScheme-InformationBook-
let2006.pdf

Other information:

Further and more detailed information relating to eligibility and
rules for the scheme can be found in the weblink above.

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Signed and dated on behalf of the Department of Environment,
Food and Rural Affairs (UK competent authority)

Web-Address:

Neil Marr
Agricultural State Aid Advisor
Defra
8E 9 Millbank
c/o 17 Smith Square
London
SW1P 3JR
United Kingdom

XA Number: XA 62/2006

Member State: United Kingdom

The Rural Enterprise Gateway website, which is www.sw-gate-
way.com; the REG Collaboration Service text can be found on
the website at

http://www.sw-gateway.com/index.html?contact_categor-
ies.cfm~mainframe

Select Farming and Food Partnership, then scroll down the
page and select download document

Other information:

The scheme will be made available to all rural businesses, not
just agricultural businesses. Aid to non-agricultural businesses
will be paid with regard to Commission Regulation 69/2001
on de minimis aid.

Title of Aid scheme or name of company receiving an
individual aid: Rural Enterprise Gateway's Collaboration
Service

Signed and dated on behalf of the Department of Environment,
Food and Rural Affairs (UK competent authority)

Legal basis: Section 5 of the Regional Development Agencies
Act 1998

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of individual aid granted to the company: 1.6.2006
to 31.3.2007: GBP 60 000

Maximum aid intensity: 100 %

Date of implementation: 28 July 2006

Neil Marr
Agricultural State Aid Advisor
Defra
8E 9 Millbank
c/o 17 Smith Square
London
SW1P 3JR
United Kingdom

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: The scheme
closes to new applicants on 31 March 2007. The last date for
submitting grant claims is 31 May 2007. However alterations
may need to be made to the scheme rules before this time to
reflect any changes to European state aid rules

XA number: XA 63/2006

Member State: France

Objective of aid:

Region:

Sector development — the aim of the scheme is to encourage,
promote and support collaborative activity between agricultural
and land-based businesses.

The eligible costs will be consultancy services in line with
Article 14 of Regulation 1/2004

Sector(s) concerned: The scheme applies to all agricultural
businesses,
including production, processing and marketing.
The scheme is open to all sub-sectors

Name and address of the granting authority: The statutory
body responsible for the scheme is:

South West Regional Development Agency
Sterling House
Dix's Field
Exeter
EX1 1QA
United Kingdom

Midi-Pyrénées — département des Hautes-Pyrénées

Parc National des Pyrénées [Pyrenees National Park] (peripheral
areas)

Title of aid scheme: Aid to conserve biodiversity, the land-
scape and traditional buildings

Legal basis:

— Articles 4(3)(d) and 5 of Commission Regulation (EC)

No 1/2004

— loi no 60-708 du 22 juillet 1960 relative à la création des

parcs nationaux;

— circulaire DGFAR/SDEA/C2005-5008 du 22 février 2005
du ministère de l'agriculture, de l'alimentation, de la pêche
et des affaires rurales;

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— circulaire DGFAR/SDEA/C2005-5004 DPEI/SDEA/C2005-
4005 du 24 janvier 2005 du ministère de l'agriculture, de
l'alimentation, de la pêche et des affaires rurales;

— délibération du conseil d'administration du Parc national

des Pyrénées

Annual
EUR 100 000

expenditure

planned

under

the

scheme:

Maximum aid intensity:: A ceiling has been set on grants
towards investments of EUR 7 500 by holding and by five-year
period (this amount is increased to EUR 17 500 for projects to
renovate traditional buildings).

— For investments in small mountain equipment used in the
production process and necessary to maintain the value of
natural hay meadows:

— the maximum rate of aid is 60 % (in addition to State
and EU financing of between 20 % and 35 % up to a
maximum of EUR 16 000 and aid from the Midi-Pyré-
nées
region of between 20 % and 25 % up to a
maximum of EUR 16 000).

Aid may not entail any increase in production capacity but
may help improve feed autonomy. Second-hand equipment
is not eligible.

— For the renovation of traditional barns, building and land-
scape heritage features linked to natural hay meadows
which play a role in the production process:

— the maximum rate of aid is 75 % for investments over
EUR 15 000 (in addition to State and EU financing of
between 35 % and 50 % up to a maximum of
EUR 35 000, and aid from the Midi-Pyrénées region
and the EU of a maximum 7,5 % up to a maximum of
EUR 5 250);

Nature of operations eligible for aid:

— For the renovation of traditional buildings:

internal and
floors,
external masonry in stone with lime plaster,
carpentry and joinery work, slating work. Such renovation
may not change the volumes and surface areas of
the
building.

— For the purchase of small mountain equipment adapted to
steep slopes or to difficult conditions (accessibility, altitude,
parcel size):

— haymaking

equipment

(self-propelled motorised
mowers, automatic mowers, self-loading trailers compa-
tible with low-loading carriers);

— traction or transport equipment (low-loading carriers,
tracked transporters, multi-purpose low-loading moun-
tain tractors and tool holders, rollover safety structures
for tractors in use);

— brush cutters, adaptable shredders on any base;

— mobile or transported equipment for spreading livestock
manure (distributors, fertiliser drills, windrow turners
for composting the manure, solid and liquid manure
spreaders, compressors).

— For work to rehabilitate landscape features: low walls, drai-
nage channels, hedges, etc. (work not funded by agri-envir-
onmental measures)

Conditions for eligibility:

In the case of
the complementary aid, beneficiaries must
comply with Ministry of Agriculture, Food, Fisheries and Rural
Affairs circulars DGFAR/SDEA/C2005-5008 of 22 February
2005 and DGFAR/SDEA/C2005-5004 DPEI/SDEA/C2005-
4005 of 24 January 2005.

Aid to maintain the production potential and value of natural
grassland may moreover be provided at the request of the
farmer and on the basis of an analysis of the natural hay
meadows and a sustainable development project which must
guarantee:

— the environmental benefit of the project;

— that it will not entail any increase in production capacity.

— the maximum rate of aid is 75 % for investments below

EUR 15 000 (with no part-financing).

The Pyrenees National Park standing committee may adopt
more restrictive conditions.

In the case of projects to renovate traditional buildings, the
scheme complements the national mechanism providing a
financial contribution towards the additional costs gener-
ated by the specifications for the renovation of traditional
buildings.

The aid is subject to the condition that renovation does not
increase production capacity.

Aid will be monitored and targeted by the Hautes-Pyrénées
Departmental Directorate for Agriculture and Forestry

Date of implementation: On receipt of an acknowledgement
of receipt from the European Commission

Duration of scheme:

Ends 31 December 2006.

— Maximum 75 % for investments in work to rehabilitate

landscape features (with no part-financing)

The aid scheme may be extended until 2010 (when the Pyre-
nees National Park development programme comes to an end)
when the annual vote is taken on the budget of the Pyrenees
National Park by its management board

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Objective of aid:

Title of aid scheme or name of the company receiving an
individual aid:

The aim of the aid is to help maintain the specific mountain
biodiversity and that of neighbouring landscapes by supporting
certain investment projects by agricultural holdings focusing on
traditional practices. Mountain and hill farming is very diverse,
with a strong grazing base, with fodder resources provided
almost exclusively by natural vegetation. Grazing is often asso-
ciated with a high degree of biodiversity in mountain areas, as
grazing pressure opens up mountain environments and creates
exclusive habitats with a range of flora and fauna. In view of
their natural heritage value and practical value, and their
level, grazing
importance at European, national and regional
meadows are an extremely important natural environment.
Thus grazing and farming activity play a key role in main-
taining the variety of natural habitats which are the source of
biodiversity.

Abandoning grazing would ‘close off’ the environments and
result in their impoverishment and hence a long-term decline
in biodiversity.

Mountain biodiversity is of great natural value in enabling the
existence of a number of endemic animal and plant species in
isolated environments. Like islands and deserts, mountain areas
(particularly the Pyrenees) are geographical areas with the
highest rates of endemic species. The number of species inha-
biting mountain areas is highly dependent on the degree of
openness of these mountains to the neighbouring plains and
hills.

This aid is intended primarily for smallholdings, with a produc-
tion system built on natural hay meadows requiring a great
deal of labour input (which cannot be mechanised). It does not
aim to increase production capacity. It must contribute to the
maintenance of mountain and hill
farming by encouraging
investments which help maintain productivity and preserve the
fodder production potential of
livestock-farming
infrastructures

traditional

Sector(s) concerned: All agricultural holdings in the Pyrenees
National Park (central and peripheral areas)

Name and address of the granting authority:

Monsieur Rouchdy KBAIER, Directeur
Parc National des Pyrénées
59, route de Pau
F-65000 Tarbes

Website:
tion/exemptionpdf/exemption.pdf

http://www.parc-pyrenees.com/francais/documenta-

XA Number: XA 64/06

Member state: Slovak Republic

Region: Western Slovakia

Poľnohospodárske družstvo Veľké Zálužie
Hlavná 1
SK-951 35 Veľké Zálužie

Legal basis:

— Ustanovenie § 240 ods. 3 a § 241 ods. 3 v spojení
č. 461/2003 Z. z.

s ustanovením § 277a zákona
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

— Article 4(3)(c) of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1/2004

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of
individual aid granted to the company:
SKK 3 226 779 i.e. EUR 84 311,742 (exchange rate in force on
23.6.2006)

Maximum aid intensity: 40 %

Date of implementation: 2006

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: July 2006

Objective of aid: SME — Agriculture

Sector concerned: Agriculture

Name and address of the granting authority:

Sociálna poisťovňa
pobočka Nitra
Slančíkovej 3
SK-950 43 Nitra

Web address: www.socpoist.sk

XA number: XA 65/06

Member State: Poland

Region: Śląskie Voivodship

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving an indi-
vidual aid: Rolnicza Spółdzielnia Produkcyjna ‘Przełom’

Legal basis: Ustawa dnia 27 kwietnia 2001 r. Prawo ochrony
środowiska (Dz.U. nr 62, poz. 627, z późniejszymi zmianami)
— art. 405, art. 406 pkt 4 i 7a, art. 409

Annual expenditure planned or overall amount of indivi-
dual aid granted to the company: The aid is granted as a soft
loan of PLN 1 835 976. The loan will be paid out until 30
September 2006. Repayment will be made between January
2008 and October 2018.The gross grant equivalent amounts to
PLN 262 534,36

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Maximum aid intensity: The gross aid intensity is 11,97 %

Other information:

Date of application: After confirmation, by means of a notifi-
cation and identification number, that the European Commis-
sion has received this summary information on the individual
aid in question and following its publication in the Official
Journal of the European Union

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: Estimated —
from June 2006 to October 2018.

Objective of aid:

The aid is intended to build a plant
for the mechanical,
chemical and biological treatment of sewage at the Przełom
farming cooperative in Bujaków, with a view to maintaining
and improving environmental protection standards by reaching
the reference values laid down for treated sewage.

Sewage at the Pzełom farming cooperative is currently treated
in a plant that is over twenty years old. This investment is
needed because the technology used is unable to ensure that
the values for treated sewage laid down in the regulations in
force are reached (Decree of the Minister for the Environment
of 8 July 2004 on the conditions to be met as regards the
release of sewage into the water or onto the land and on the
substances that are particularly harmful to the aquatic environ-
ment). On 30 January 2006 the Environmental Inspector for
the Śląskie Voivodship in Katowice decided to fine the Prełom
farming cooperative PLN 54 128,7 for having spread sewage
on the land in violation of the conditions laid down in the
permit issued pursuant to the Water Law.

Under a sewage collection contract the current treatment plant
also treats effluent from the processing of fruit and vegetables
at the ROLNIK Sp. z.o.o. factory.

It is planned to build a mechanical and chemical treatment
plant (primary treatment) with a biological unit
(secondary
treatment using SBR reactors). The treated wastewater will be
discharged into the Jasienica watercourse through an open
culvert.

The aid will be granted under Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No
1/2004 for an investment to modernise the Pzełom farming
cooperative's sewage treatment plant. The eligible costs will
include the investment costs associated with building the treat-
ment plant

The gross amount of aid (gross aid intensity) will be calculated
in accordance with the definition laid down in Article 2(5) 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 agricultural products.
This is the relationship of the gross grant equivalent to the
eligible costs.

The gross grant equivalent resulting from the soft loan will be
calculated in accordance with the Rozporządzeniem Rady Minis-
trów z dnia 11 sierpnia 2004 r. w sprawie szczegółowego sposobu
obliczania wartości pomocy publicznej udzielanej w różnych formach
(Decree of the Polish Council of Ministers of 11 August 2004
on the method of calculating the value of public aid granted in
item 1983).
various forms) (Polish Official Gazette No 194,
The gross grant equivalent is PLN 262 534,36.

Eligible costs attracting assistance: PLN 2 192 867.

Total gross aid: PLN 262 534,36/2 192 867 = 11,97 %

The gross grant equivalent and the gross aid intensity have
been calculated on the assumption that the loan will be paid
out in the following instalments:

1) 30.6.2006: 1 019 231 PLN,

2) 31.7.2006: 400 000 PLN,

3) 31.8.2006: 300 000 PLN,

4) 30.9.2006: 116 745 PLN

Aid No: XA 66/06

Member State: France

insurance
Title of aid scheme: Aid for the payment of
premiums and contributions
relating to losses caused by
various adverse weather conditions, covering in each case at
least drought, hail, frost and flooding or excessive rainfall

Legal basis:

— Article 11 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1/2004

— Loi 64.706 du 10 juillet 1964

Sector(s) concerned: The aid is granted to a food business
(cereals growing, raising and slaughtering of pigs, meat and
cured meats production

— Article L 361-8 du livre III (nouveau) du code rural

— Article L 122.7 du code des assurances

Name and address of the granting authority: The aid is
granted from the Wojewódzki Fundusz Ochrony Środowiska i
Gospodarki Wodnej w Katowicach (Voivod Fund for the Protection
of the Environment and Water Management in Katowice), ulica
Plebiscytowa 19, 40-035 Katowice

Web address: www.wfosigw.katowice.pl

— Décret no 2006-370 fixant les modalités d'application de
l'article L.361-8 du livre II (nouveau) du code rural en vue
de favoriser le développement de l'assurance contre certains
risques agricoles

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme: EUR 30
million from the National Guarantee Fund for Agricultural
Disasters (FNGCA)

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Maximum aid intensity: 35 % of the premium or contribution
invoiced to the insured party, net of tax, for eligible cover.
Eligible cover concerns the part of the contract with an excess
of 25 % in the case of crop insurance, and 20 % in the case of
farm insurance. Aid percentages are increased by 5 % for
young farmers who have been established for less than 5 years

Date of implementation: 2006

Duration of scheme: One year

Objective of aid: To promote the spread of insurance against
various agricultural risks. The insurance premiums for which
aid is granted are those referred to in Article 11 of Commission
Regulation (EC) No 1/2004

Sector(s) concerned: Enterprises involved in the primary
fruit, vegetables, vines, cereals, oilseeds and
production of
protein plants

Name and address of the granting authority:

Ministère de l'agriculture et de la pêche
Direction des affaires financières et de la logistique
Bureau du crédit et de l'assurance
78, rue de Varenne
F-75700 Paris

Address of website:

www.agriculture.gouv.fr

— Eligible expenses may be journeys and visits, special advice
and feasibility studies, purchases of documents or software,
the cost of replacing farmers when they take part in the
group's work, as invoiced by an approved organisation. The
aid, at a rate of 80 %, is subject to a ceiling of EUR 8 500
per group for a period of 18 to 24 months. The self-
financed 20 % may be provided by beneficiaries contri-
buting high value-added time. The aid is paid either to the
group, where this has been duly set up (association or
cooperative), or to the organisation promoting it and incur-
ring its own expenditure (Chamber of Agriculture). The
group or the organisation therefore pays all the operating
costs

Date of implementation: 1 July 2006

Duration of scheme: One year renewable on the basis of an
annual assessment indicating any changes to be made and the
date when the current arrangements will cease

Objective of aid: To promote projects consistent with sustain-
able development, as part of a collective approach.
Initially
(2006-2007), seven groups representing 85 farmers will be
involved. The achievements of the groups will be disseminated
to promote the values of sustainable development which this
collective dynamic will have demonstrated

Sector(s) concerned: All sectors of agricultural production

Under the heading ‘Ressources’ in the ‘Recherche’ section, enter
‘Calamités’

Name and address of the granting authority:

Monsieur le Président du Conseil général de Loire-Atlantique
3 quai Ceineray
BP 94109
F-44041 Nantes Cedex 1

Web address: www.cg44.fr

(1) Examples of proposed topics: utilisation of pasture, development of
local management of green waste, transfer of holdings,

biofuels,
protection of water resources, information management.

Aid No: XA 67/06

Member State: France

Region: Département de Loire-Atlantique

Title of aid scheme: Aid to promote discussions by groups of
farmers of common problems associated with sustainable devel-
opment (1)

Legal basis:

— Article 14 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1/2004.

XA Number: XA 68/06

— Articles L 1511-2 et L 1511-5 du code général des collecti-

Member State: United Kingdom

vités territoriales

— Délibération du Conseil général de Loire-Atlantique du 19

Region: Kent Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

planned

under

the

scheme:

Title of Aid scheme or name of company receiving an
individual aid: The Kent Downs Rural Advice Service

juin 2006

Annual
EUR 150 000

expenditure

Maximum aid intensity:

— Aid for promotion is paid to the promoting organisation
(chamber of agriculture, CUMA federation, or association).
Subject to a ceiling of EUR 10 000 per group for a period
of 18 to 24 months, it is paid for each day of promotion
provided.

Legal basis: Sections 84 and 85 of The Countryside and Rights
of Way Act 2000

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of
individual aid granted to the company: 1
August 2006 to 31 March 2007: GBP 12 000

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Maximum aid intensity: 100 %

Date of implementation: 1 August 2006

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: The scheme
will close to new applicants on 31 March 2007. Aid will be
paid until 30th June 2007

Objective of aid:

Sectoral Development

The objective of the aid is to provide timely advice which will
lead to diversification changes that are financially viable, envir-
onmentally sound and acceptable in planning terms. The aid is
being implemented under Article 14 of Regulation 1/2004.
The eligible costs are consultancy services

Sector(s) concerned: Farmers and land based rural businesses
are defined as those growing and harvesting combinable crops,
field vegetables, salad crops, ornamentals (including nursery
stock, flowers and bulbs), herbage seeds and turf, beef sheep,
pigs, dairy products, poultry and eggs, serviced tourist accom-
modation on farms (bed and breakfast) self catering tourist
accommodation, provision of horse livery and riding stables or
farm-based visitor attractions

Name and address of the granting authority:

Kent County Council
Invicta House
County Hall
Maidstone
Kent ME 14 1XX
United Kingdom

The organisation operating the scheme is

The Kent Downs Rural Advice Service (KDAS)
Kent Downs Unit
West Barn
Penstock Hall Farm
Canterbury Road
East Brabourne
Ashford
Kent TN25 5LL
United Kingdom

Web address:

http://www.kentdowns.org.uk/Rural%20Advice.htm

able in connection with diversification from farming into non-
agricultural activities.

Beneficiaries will not be able to choose the service provider.
The service provider will be The Kent Downs Rural Advice
Service (KDAS) who will provide consultants who were selected
using a tendering exercise.

The existing Kent Downs Rural advice services scheme XA
43/2005 is due to expire on 31 July 2006. This measure will
extend the scheme from 1st August 2006 to 31 March 2007,
also increasing the budget further by GBP 12 000. There are
no other changes that occur to the scheme and the details
remain the same.

Signed and dated on behalf of the Department of Environment,
Food and Rural Affairs (UK competent authority)

Neil Marr
Agricultural State Aid Advisor
Defra
8E 9 Millbank
c/o 17 Smith Square
London
SW1P 3JR
United Kingdom

Aid Number: XA 70/06

Member State: Italy

Region: Veneto

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving an indi-
vidual aid: Annual plan for training in agriculture — Academic
year 2006/07. Decision No 2113 of 4 July 2006 of the Veneto
Regional Government

Legal basis:

L. 845/1978 ‘Legge quadro in materia di formazione professio-
nale’

L.R. n. 10 del 30.1.1990 ‘Ordinamento del sistema della forma-
zione professionale e organizzazione delle politiche regionali
del lavoro’

Scroll down the page and click on the Defra State Aid link on
the right hand side

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

Other information:

The Scheme will be made available to all land managers, not
just farmers. Aid for non-agricultural activities will be paid
with regard to Commission Regulation 69/2001 on de minimis
aid or any Regulation which replaces it. Aid will also be avail-

Decision No 2113 of 4 July 2006 of the Veneto Regional
Government authorised the allocation of EUR 2 000 000 of
regional funds under regional budget heading 72040 for 2006.

Training at the workplace pursuant to the above law and aimed
at agricultural workers is eligible for the scheme

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Maximum aid intensity: Under Article 14(c)(3) of Regulation
(EC) No 1/2004, the overall amount of aid granted may not
exceed EUR 100 000 per beneficiary for a three-year period, or
50 % of the eligible costs (whichever is greater)

Date of application: Aid is granted after the scheme is
authorised by a Decision of the Regional Government and
published in the Veneto Region's Official Gazette

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: The aid
scheme ends after the final results of the statement of costs are
verified, in any case by 30 June 2009

Objective of the aid:

The Veneto Region allocates resources for implementing conti-
nuing vocational training programmes that support farmers
and their assistants, technical support staff and other tradesmen
working in the agricultural sector with the aim of:

— promoting a culture of entrepreneurship;

— improving the occupational qualifications of agricultural

workers;

— raising awareness of technological innovations.

Regional Law No 2113/2006 refers to Article 14 of Regulation
(EC) No 1/2004. In particular, the eligible costs covered by the
aid scheme are those involved in implementing the training
programme

Title of aid scheme or name of the company receiving
individual aid:

Zakłady Mięsne ‘Aleksandria’ — Dariusz Moczarski
Aleksandria, ul. Gościnna 6
PL-42-274 Konopiska

Legal basis: Ustawa z dnia 27 kwietnia 2001 r. Prawo ochrony
środowiska (Dz.U. nr 62, poz. 627, z późniejszymi zmianami)
— art. 405, art. 406, pkt 7, 7a, art. 409 pkt 4 oraz art. 411
pkt 3

Annual expenditure planned or overall amount of indivi-
dual aid granted to the company:

Aid is provided in the form of partial remission (under the Law
on Environmental Protection) of a preferential loan granted in
2000 for the implementation of the task ‘Modernization of the
wastewater treatment plant at the Aleksandria Meat Processing
Works’.

Gross aid (GGE) equals PLN 102 840

Maximum aid intensity: The gross aid intensity is 50 %

Date of application: Following confirmation, by means of a
notification and identification number,
the European
Commission has received this summary information on the
individual aid in question and following its publication in the
Official Journal of the European Union

that

Sector(s) concerned: The
to vocational
training in agriculture for individuals who qualify for education
and training under Law No 53/2003

scheme applies

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: From August
2006 until October 2006

Name and address of granting authority:

Regione Veneto
Segreteria Attività Produttive, Istruzione e Formazione
Direzione Regionale Formazione
Via G. allegri, n. 29
I-30174 Mestre — Venezia

Website: www.regione.veneto.it/servizi
zione e lavoro/formazione continua e permanente

alla persona/forma-

Other information:

For further details: Direzione Regionale Formazione

Tel. 0039 412795030 5029

Fax 0039 412795085

Aid number: XA 71/06

Member State: Poland

Region: Śląskie Voivodship (Województwo Śląskie)

Objectives of aid:

The aid is intended for the implementation of the task ‘Sanitary
hot water supply installation with heat recuperation from
refrigeration unit and reduction of water and chemicals
consumption at the return containers washing unit’. As part of
the projected investment, a sanitary hot water supply installa-
tion will be executed that will enable heat recuperation from
the chiller now in place; the installation will consist of heat
exchangers, a hot water tank and a hot water container, circu-
lating pumps and fittings; a return containers washing unit will
also be established with automatic detergent dosage and a
washings recuperation unit.

This task will have an environmental effect of enabling heat
recuperation and reducing dust and gas emissions by the
following amounts: dust: 0,0102 Mg/a, SO2: 0,0216 Mg/a,
NO2: 0,0284 Mg/a, CO: 0,0034 Mg/a, CO2: 9,369 Mg/a; water
consumption will be reduced by 780,0 m3 per year

Relevant sectors: The aid is granted to a food business
(production of meat and cured meat products)

Name and address of granting authority: The aid is granted
from the Wojewódzki Fundusz Ochrony Środowiska i Gospo-
darki Wodnej w Katowicach (Voivod Fund for the Protection of
the Environment and Water Management
in Katowice), ul.
Plebiscytowa 19, 40-035 Katowice.

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EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 262/19

Web address: www.wfosigw.katowice.pl

Other information:

The gross amount of aid (gross aid intensity) was calculated in
accordance with the definition laid down in Article 2(5) 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 agricultural products.
This is the relationship of the gross grant equivalent to the
eligible costs.

The gross grant equivalent resulting from the awarded partial
remission of preferential
loan was calculated in accordance
with the Rozporządzenie Rady Ministrów z dnia 11 sierpnia
2004 r. w sprawie szczegółowego sposobu obliczania wartości
pomocy publicznej udzielanej w różnych formach (Decree of
the Polish Council of Ministers of 11 August 2004 on the
method of calculating the value of public aid granted in various
forms) (Polish Official Gazette No 194, item 1983). The gross
grant equivalent: PLN 102 840.

Eligible costs: PLN 205 679,48.

Total gross aid: PLN 102 840 PLN/205 679,48 PLN = 50 %