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: 2006-12-01
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Spain, State aid, control of State aid, exchange of information, 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 292/06)

(Text with EEA relevance)

Explanatory remarks:

Aid scheme for SMEs, financed entirely by the Autonomous
Community
(EC)
No 1595/2004

Castile-Leon

Regulation

under

of

Aid No: XF 3/06

Member State: Kingdom of Spain

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving an indi-
vidual aid: Budget heading 13: Aid to SMEs active in the
processing and marketing of fishery and aquaculture products

Legal basis:

— Proyecto de orden de la Consejería de agricultura y gana-
dería por la que se aprueban las bases reguladoras de las
subvenciones a la transformación y comercialización de los
silvícolas y de la alimentación en
productos agrarios,
Castilla y León.

— Proyecto de orden de la Consejería de agricultura y gana-
dería por la que se convocan las subvenciones a la transfor-
mación y comercialización de los productos agrarios, silví-
colas y de la alimentación en Castilla y León.

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

Eligible costs: In accordance with Article 13 of Regulation
(EC) No 2792/1999, this aid scheme will relate exclusively to
the field of processing and/or marketing of fishery and aquacul-
ture products, assisting only those projects which contribute to
lasting structural improvement, have an adequate guarantee of
technical and economic viability, and also avoid the risk of
creating surplus production capacity.

In accordance with sections 2.0 and 2.4 of Annex III to Regu-
lation (EC) No 2792/1999:

(a) Projects in undertakings may involve capital investment in
(construction, enlargement,

production and management
equipping and modernisation of facilities);

(b) Capital

investment to improve conditions of hygiene or
human or animal health, to improve product quality or
reduce pollution of the environment and, where relevant,
to increase production itself, shall be eligible for assistance;

(c) The transfer of ownership of an undertaking shall not give

rise to the grant of aid.

‘processing and marketing of fishery
Under this aid scheme,
and aquaculture products’ means all operations,
including
handling, treatment, production and distribution, between the
time of landing or harvesting and the end-product stage.

— Annual

expenditure

planned

for

this

aid

scheme:

EUR 10 000 000

Investment
concerns:

shall not be eligible for assistance where it

— All decisions to grant aid will be issued between April and

December 2006

— The aid will be paid between 2006 and 2008

Maximum aid intensity: 35 % of gross eligible expenditure

Date of implementation: 17 April 2006

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: Subsidies may
be awarded under this scheme until December 2006

Objective of aid:

— fishery and aquaculture products intended to be used and
processed for purposes other than human consumption,
with the exception of investments intended solely for the
treatment, processing and marketing of fishery and aquacul-
ture product wastes;

— the retail trade.

Eligible expenditure will be as follows:

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

vable property;

— To help develop the industry involved in the processing
and/or marketing of fishery and/or aquaculture products

(b) The purchase of new machinery and equipment, including

computer software;

— To contribute to regional development

— This aid scheme uses Article 8 of Regulation (EC)

No 1595/2004

(c) General costs, such as architects', engineers' and consul-
tants' fees, feasibility studies, the acquisition of patents and
licences, up to 12 % of the expenditure referred to in (a)
and (b).

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Sector(s) concerned: Sectors involved in the processing and
marketing of fishery and aquaculture products

Name and address of the granting authority:

Consejería de Agricultura y Ganadería
Calle Rigoberto Cortejoso no 14
E-47014 Valladolid

Web address: http://www.jcyl.es/industriasagrarias

Other information:

1. Financing of the aid scheme

This aid scheme is financed exclusively with funds from the
Autonomous Community of Castile-Leon

2. Aid limits

accordance with Article

In
(EC)
No 1595/2004, this scheme will not be used to assist individual
projects whose eligible expenditure exceeds EUR 2 million or
whose amount of aid exceeds EUR 1 million per beneficiary.

of Regulation

15

3. Cumulation of aid

(a) Subsidies covered by this aid scheme may not be cumulated
with others co-financed by the FIFG or other European
Union Structural Funds.

(b) Subsidies covered by this aid scheme may be cumulated
with other State aid, provided the following rules are
respected:

(i) The total cumulated gross amount of aid must always

be below 60 % of eligible expenditure.

(ii) The total cumulated amount of aid must comply with
the restrictions imposed under section 2 above,
‘Aid
limits’.

4. Aid beneficiaries

Only enterprises meeting the definitions of micro, small and
medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the Commission Recom-
mendation of 6 May 2003 concerning the definition of micro,
small and medium-sized enterprises, notified under document
number C(2003) 1422) (2003/361/EC), may be beneficiaries
under this aid scheme. The Recommendation is included in
to Commission Regulation (EC) No 70/2001 of
Annex I
12 January 2001 on the application of Articles 87 and 88 of
the EC Treaty to State aid to small and medium-sized enter-
prises.

5. Aid Register

All aid applications submitted under this aid scheme and, as
appropriate, all approved awards of subsidy and payments, will
be entered in the Aid Register of the Community of Castile-
Leon.