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: 2007-04-26
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Czechia, Germany, Netherlands, State aid, agro-industry, 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 Commis-
sion 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, proces-
sing and marketing of agricultural products

(2007/C 91/08)

XA number: XA 2/07

Internet address:

Member State: Federal Republic of Germany

Region: All German Länder as aid providers

www.bmelv.de > Landwirtschaft > Förderung > GAK

Other information: —

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving indivi-
dual aid: Principles for promoting measures to improve the
genetic quality of farm animals

XA Number: XA 8/07

Legal basis: Rahmenplan der Gemeinschaftsaufgabe „Verbesserung
der Agrarstruktur und des Küstenschutzes“

Member State: Federal Republic of Germany

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of individual aid granted to the company: EUR 20
million per year

Maximum aid intensity: A maximum of 60 % of costs that
arise within the framework of
the measures set out in the
‘Objective of aid’ section. Furthermore, the subsidy is limited to
the following amounts:

EUR 10,23 per cow per year,

EUR 0,69 per fattening pig for all fattening pigs inspected by
the end of the fattening period and sold during the financial
year in question,

EUR 2,76 per sow's litter for all sow's litters inspected during
the financial year in question,

EUR 0,28 per month for each fattening bovine undergoing
inspection by the end of the fattening period,

EUR 0,61 per animal for all fattening lambs inspected by the
end of the fattening period and sold during the financial year in
question.

Date of implementation: 1 January 2007

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: December
2010

Objective of aid: Collection and analysis of data on main-
taining and improving the genetic quality of farm animals in
breeding programmes. To this end, the service provider will
carry out tests and collect and analyse data. The service provider
will be paid at the market rate, with the costs covered partially
by aid and partially borne by the farmer. The cost of routine
milk quality checks is not covered by aid

This measure is based on Article 15 (Support for the livestock
sector).

Sectors concerned: Cattle, pig and sheep farming.

Region: All the German Länder as aid-granting authorities

Title of aid scheme: Framework plan for
‘improving agricultural structure and coastal protection’

the joint

task

Legal basis: Rahmenplan der Gemeinschaftsaufgabe „Verbes-
serung der Agrarstruktur und des Küstenschutzes“

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme: Approxi-
mately EUR 1 billion for all measures under the framework plan
for the joint task of improving agricultural structure and coastal
protection, the majority of which will be used to part-finance
the national framework plan in accordance with Article 15(3) of
Regulation (EC) No 1698/2005.

Maximum aid intensity for:

— Investment in agricultural holdings: maximum 40 % and

maximum EUR 400 000 over three marketing years

— Support for advice to individual holdings in connection with
management systems: maximum 80 % and maximum EUR
2 000

— Land consolidation: maximum 90 %

— Cost of establishing producer groups: maximum 60 %, but
in total not more than EUR 400 000 per group over five
years.

Date of implementation: 15 February 2007

Duration of scheme: Until 31 December 2010

Objective of aid:

— Investment in agricultural holdings (‘Agrarinvestitionsförder-

ungsprogramm (AFP)’)

In order to support agriculture which is competitive, sustain-
able and environment-friendly,
takes proper account of
animal welfare and is multifunctional, aid can be granted to
promote investment
in agricultural undertakings for the
primary production of agricultural products. The interests of
consumers, the development of rural areas and the preserva-
tion of biodiversity are to be taken into account just as
much as the improvement of living, working and production
conditions

Name and address of the granting authority: Aid is granted
by the relevant provincial authorities.

The measure is based on Article 4 (investment in agri-
cultural holdings).

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— Support for advice to individual holdings in connection with

— Grundsätze für die Förderung zur Marktstrukturverbes-

management systems (AFP)

serung (Zusammenschlüsse)

Support will be granted for advice to individual holdings
which goes beyond routine advice and which relates to the
application of documentation systems. The measure is
intended to help farmers comply with the standards of
modern agriculture with its emphasis on quality, and in par-
ticular with the requirements under Articles 4 and 5 of and
Annexes III and IV to Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003
(cross-compliance). The advisory services will be provided
by public and private bodies which must be approved by the
Länder. The records from the documentation systems form
the basis for the holding-based advice. The measure is in
principle open to all aid recipients and is paid to the advi-
sory bodies as a contribution

The measure is based on Article 15 (provision of technical
assistance in the agricultural sector)

— Land consolidation (principles

for promoting integrated
rural development (promoting reorganisation of rural land
ownership))

The objective of support is to reorganise rural land owner-
ship and the arrangement of rural areas in order to improve
agricultural structures in procedures under the Law on land
consolidation and the Law on agricultural adjustment,
including measures to ensure a sustainably efficient natural
balance and plans for voluntary exchange of use. Procedural
costs arising are eligible for support

The measure is based on Article 13 (aid for land consolida-
tion).

— Cost of

establishing producer
promoting market structure improvement
groups))

groups

(principles
for
(formation of

The assistance is aimed at supporting the establishment and
working of groups and improving the competitiveness of
firms involved in processing and marketing agricultural
products, thereby contributing to ensuring sales or creating
profit advantages at producer level

The assistance helps to adapt the collection, processing and
marketing of agricultural products to market requirements
with regard to the nature, quantity and quality of
the
products on offer

The promotion of groups is based on Article 9 (aid for
producer groups).

Sector(s) concerned: Agriculture

Name and address of the granting authority: The aid will be
granted by the relevant Land authorities.

Web address:

www.bmelv.de > Landwirtschaft > Förderung > GAK > Rahmen-
plan 2007

— Grundsätze

für die

einzelbetriebliche

Förderung land-

wirtschaftlicher Unternehmen

— Grundsätze für die Förderung der integrierten ländlichen
Entwicklung (Förderung der Neuordnung des ländlichen
Grundbesitzes)

http://www.bmelv.de/cln_044/nn_751002/DE/04-Landwirtschaft/
Foerderung/GAK/Rahmenplan/Rahmenplan2007.html__nnn=true

Other information: —

XA Number: XA 9/07

Member State: Netherlands

Region: Province of North Brabant

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving indivi-
dual aid: M. M. Donkers, Elsendorpseweg 86, Elzendorp

Legal basis: Volgens AWB (art. 4:23 lid 3 sub d) en provinciale
ASV (art. 33) aangemerkt als incidentele subsidie

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of
aid granted to the company:
EUR 38 000 in 2007

individual

Maximum aid intensity: 40 %

Date of implementation: February/March 2007

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: December
2007

Objective of aid: Implementation in 2007 of a new generation
of air washers which reduce emissions of odours, ammonia and
particulate matter. These air washers will be demonstrated,
three years. The scheme
tested and studied for a period of
involves aid for investment in environmental measures over and
above the statutory requirements to improve air quality.

State which of Articles 4 to 12 inclusive applies and the
costs eligible for the scheme or individual aid: Article 4(2)
(B), Article 4(3)(D) and Article 4(4)(A)

Economic sector(s) concerned: Livestock production sector,
specifically primary pig farming

Name and address of the granting authority:

Provincie Noord-Brabant
Brabantlaan 1
Postbus 90151
5200 MC 's-Hertogenbosch
Nederland

Internet address for legal basis:

http://wettenbank.sdu.nl/wettenbank.sdu.nl/demo/awb_main.html

http://www.brabant.nl/Beleid/Regels%20en%20kaders/Algemene
%20subsidieverordening.aspx?docindexid={6E5EE4A7-1D3F-
480A-900D-975DD48879C6}

Other information: —

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XA Number: XA 11/07

XA Number: XA 12/07

Member State: Netherlands

Region: Province of Limburg

Member State: Netherlands

Region: Province of Limburg

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving indivi-
dual aid:

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving indivi-
dual aid:

Subsidieverordening
Limburg
(Subsidy Ordinance for Rural Development in the Province of
Limburg)

Landelijk Gebied

Inrichting

Limburg
Subsidieverordening
(Subsidy Ordinance for Rural Development in the Province of
Limburg)

Landelijk Gebied

Inrichting

— Paragraph 1.1: reparcelling and exchange of plots of land by
agreement to improve the structure of agriculture (legal and
land registry costs)

— Paragraph 6.4: promoting groundwater-friendly land use

(part of reparcelling; legal and land registry costs)

— Paragraph 1.2: planned sites for intensive livestock farming;

— Paragraph 1.4: merging intensive livestock farms on sustain-

able sites;

— Paragraph 1.5: improving knowledge and innovation in agri-

culture (Greenport);

Legal basis: Artikel 11, lid 3 Wet Inrichting Landelijk Gebied,
juncto Subsidieverordening inrichting landelijk gebied Limburg

— Paragraph 1.9: extensification of dairy farms;

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of individual aid granted to the company: Approxi-
mately EUR 10 000 000 for the 2007-13 period

Maximum aid intensity: Up to a maximum of 100 % of legal
and land registry costs (surveying and registration costs)

Date of implementation: Grants shall be awarded only after
Subsidieverordening Inrichting Landelijk Gebied Limburg has
been approved by the Minister for Agriculture, Nature and Food
Quality in accordance with Article 11(3) of the Wet Inrichting
Landelijk Gebied and not before this Subsidy Ordinance has
been notified in accordance with Regulation (EC) 1857/2006.

— Paragraph 6.1: restoration of natural areas that have dried

out;

— Paragraph 6.4: promoting groundwater-friendly land use.

Legal basis: Artikel 11, lid 3 Wet Inrichting Landelijk Gebied,
juncto Subsidieverordening inrichting landelijk gebied Limburg

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of individual aid granted to the company:
— Paragraph 1.2: EUR 3 000 000 for the 2007-13 period;

— Paragraph 1.4: EUR 60 000 for the 2007-13 period;

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: From 2007
until 31 December 2013 inclusive

— Paragraph 1.5: EUR 1 250 000 for the 2007-13 period;

Objective of aid: Aid for reparcelling, to meet the legal and
administrative costs, in accordance with Article 13.

Economic sector(s) concerned: The aid scheme applies to
small and medium-sized agricultural holdings (farms) active in
the primary production of agricultural products.

Name and address of the granting authority:

Provincie Limburg
Limburglaan 10
Postbus 5700
6202 MA Maastricht
Nederland

Internet address: www.limburg.nl

Other information: —

— Paragraph 1.9: EUR 4 500 000 for the 2007-13 period;

— Paragraph 6.1: EUR 3 000 000 for the 2007-13 period;

— Paragraph 6.4: EUR 1 200 000 for the 2007-13 period.

(These amounts are an estimation of the maximum share of the
available funds that will go to farmers. The same paragraphs
will, in fact, also form the basis for aid to be granted to non-
entrepreneurs.)

Maximum aid intensity:
— Paragraph 1.2: a maximum of 60 % of the eligible costs, up
to a maximum of EUR 1,2 million per planned site,
in
accordance with Articles 4(2)(e), 4(4)(a) and 4(4)(c);

— Paragraph 1.9: a maximum of 60 % of the eligible costs, in

accordance with Articles 4(2)(e), 4(4)(a) and 4(4)(c);

— Paragraph 6.1: a maximum of 60 % of the eligible costs, in

accordance with Articles 4(2)(e), 4(4)(a) and 4(4)(c);

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— Paragraph 1.4: a maximum of 50 % of the eligible costs, up
to a maximum of EUR 20 000 per project, in accordance
with Articles 4(2)(e), 4(4)(a) and 4(4)(c);

— Paragraph 1.5: a maximum of 50 % of the eligible costs, up
in accordance with

to a maximum of EUR 1,25 million,
Articles 4(2)(e), 4(4)(a) and 4(4)(c);

Name and address of the granting authority:

Provincie Limburg
Limburglaan 10
Postbus 5700
6202 MA Maastricht
Nederland

Internet address: www.limburg.nl

— Paragraph 6.4: a maximum of 50 % of the eligible costs, up
to a maximum of EUR 50 000 per project, in accordance
with Articles 4(2)(e), 4(4)(a) and 4(4)(c).

Other information: —

(Farmers only; the same paragraphs will also form the basis for
aid to be granted to non-entrepreneurs.)

Date of implementation: Grants will be awarded only after
Subsidieverordening Inrichting Landelijk Gebied Limburg has
been approved by the Minister for Agriculture, Nature and Food
Quality in accordance with Article 11(3) of the Wet Inrichting
Landelijk Gebied and not before this Subsidy Ordinance has
been notified in accordance with Regulation (EC) 1857/2006.

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: From 2007 to
31 December 2013 inclusive

Objective of aid:

— Paragraph 1.2: aid applies to the costs of feasibility studies
and business plans as well as to constructing and improving
property in line with the objectives set out in Article 4(3)(a)
to (d);

— Paragraph 1.9: aid applies to the costs of constructing and
improving property in line with the objectives set out in
Article 4(3)(a) to (d);

— Paragraph 6.1: aid applies to the costs of constructing and
improving property in line with the objectives set out in
Article 4(3)(a) to (d);

— Paragraph 1.4: aid applies to the costs of feasibility studies
and business plans focusing on constructing and improving
property in line with the objectives set out in Article 4(3)(a)
to (d);

— Paragraph 1.5: aid applies to the costs of feasibility studies
and business plans as well as to constructing and improving
property in line with the objectives set out in Article 4(3)(a)
to (d);

— Paragraph 6.4: aid applies to the costs of feasibility studies
and business plans focusing on improving property in line
with the objectives set out in Article 4(3)(a) to (d).

XA Number: XA 14/07

Member State: Netherlands

Region: Province of Limburg

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving indivi-
dual aid:

Limburg
Subsidieverordening
(Subsidy Ordinance for Rural Development in the Province of
Limburg),

Landelijk Gebied

Inrichting

Paragraph 5.1: creation, restoration and conservation of natural,
semi-natural and heritage sites.

Legal basis: Artikel 11, lid 3 Wet Inrichting Landelijk Gebied,
juncto Subsidieverordening inrichting landelijk gebied Limburg

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of
aid granted to the company:
individual
EUR 400 000 for the 2007-13 period.

(This amount is an estimation of the maximum share of the
available funds that will go to farmers. The same paragraph will,
in fact, also form the basis for aid to be granted to non-entre-
preneurs.)

Maximum aid intensity: Up to a maximum of 100 % of the
eligible costs for non-productive landscape features and up to a
maximum of 60 % for (partially) productive landscape features.
As part of the aid, a maximum of EUR 10 000 per year may be
granted for work carried out by the farmers themselves or by
their employees. (Farmers only; the same paragraph will also
form the basis for aid to be granted to non-entrepreneurs.)

Date of implementation: Grants shall be awarded only after
Subsidieverordening Inrichting Landelijk Gebied Limburg has
been approved by the Minister for Agriculture, Nature and Food
Quality in accordance with Article 11(3) of the Wet Inrichting
Landelijk Gebied and not before this Subsidy Ordinance has
been notified in accordance with Regulation (EC) 1857/2006.

Economic sector(s) concerned: The aid scheme applies to
small and medium-sized agricultural holdings (farms) active in
the primary production of agricultural products.

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: From 2007
until 31 December 2013 inclusive

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Objective of aid: The objective is to conserve traditional land-
scapes by granting aid for the costs of creating and restoring
traditional landscape features such as standard orchards, hedge-
rows, rows of pollarded trees, lynchets, sunken lanes and ponds
in accordance with Article 5.

Economic sector(s) concerned: The aid scheme applies to
small and medium-sized agricultural holdings (farms) active in
the primary production of agricultural products.

Name and address of the granting authority:

Provincie Limburg
Limburglaan 10
Postbus 5700
6202 MA Maastricht
Nederland

Internet address: www.limburg.nl

Name and address of the granting authority:

Other information: —

Provincie Limburg
Limburglaan 10
Postbus 5700
6202 MA Maastricht
Nederland

Internet address: www.limburg.nl

Other information: —

XA Number: XA 15/07

Member State: The Netherlands

Region: Province of Limburg

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving indivi-
dual aid:

Limburg
Subsidieverordening
(Subsidy Ordinance for Rural Development in the Province of
Limburg)

Landelijk Gebied

Inrichting

XA Number: XA 16/07

Member State: Czech Republic

Region: —

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving an indi-
vidual aid: Podpora poradenství v zemědělství – Metodická
činnost k podpoře zemědělského poradenského systému

Legal basis: Zákon č. 252/1997 Sb., o zemědělství

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of individual aid granted to the company: Up to
CZK 15 million

Maximum aid intensity: Up to 100 % of proven expenditure,
up to a maximum of CZK 500 000, per methodological tool

Paragraph 1.14: relocation of dairy farms

Date of implementation: From 16 February 2007

Legal basis: Artikel 11, lid 3 Wet Inrichting Landelijk Gebied,
juncto Subsidieverordening inrichting landelijk gebied Limburg

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: Until 31
December 2013

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of individual aid granted to the company: Paragraph
1.14: EUR 700 000 for the 2007-13 period

Objective of aid: The aid is granted on the basis of Article 15
(Provision of technical support in the agricultural sector) of
Commission Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006.

Maximum aid intensity: Paragraph 1.14: a maximum of 40 %
of the costs of dismantling the facilities at the old site, moving
them and re-erecting them at the new site, up to a maximum of
EUR 100 000 per relocation.

Date of implementation: Subsidies shall be granted only after
Subsidieverordening Inrichting Landelijk Gebied Limburg has
been approved by the Minister for Agriculture, Nature and Food
Quality in accordance with Article 11(3) of the Wet Inrichting
Landelijk Gebied and not before this Subsidy Ordinance has
been notified in accordance with Regulation (EC) 1857/2006.

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: From 2007
until 31 December 2013

Objective of aid: Relocating and closing down farms in the
public interest, with particular focus on nature and the quality
of the landscape and environment, in accordance with Article 6.

Economic sector(s) concerned: This aid shall apply to small
and medium-sized agricultural holdings (farms) active in the
primary production of agricultural products.

The objective is to assist with methodological activities under
the agricultural consultancy system and create methodological
tools for the practical application of scientific and research
knowledge, particularly with regard to legal requirements and
good agricultural practice. Aid applicants submit a plan for the
creation of methodological tools for agricultural undertakings
and consultants. The plans which best fulfil the practical require-
ments will be selected for implementation

The selection will be made by a committee from the Research,
the
Training and Establishment Activities Department of
Ministry of Agriculture of the Czech Republic, together with a
representative from the farming sector, acting on a proposal
from the National Advisory Board for Agriculture and Rural
Development of
the Czech
Republic. Projects will be evaluated and allocated a score, and a
list will be drawn up in order of rank; applicants will be
awarded a grant
the available
resources are exhausted.

the Ministry of Agriculture of

in the proposed order until

Sectors(s) concerned: Primary agricultural production

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Name and address of the granting authority:
Ministerstvo zemědělství ČR
Těšnov 17
CZ-117 05 Praha 1

Web address:
http://www.mze.cz/Index.aspx?deploy=1802&typ=2&-
ch=74&ids=1802&val=1802

Other information: The Ministry of Agriculture of the Czech
Republic declares that the conditions laid down in Commission
Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006 will be met, i.e. the aid will be
targeted at small and medium-sized enterprises engaged in
primary agricultural production, and in particular the conditions
mentioned in Article 15 of Commission Regulation (EC)
No 1857/2006 will be fulfilled. Applicants are mainly public
research institutions and universities, but also other bodies
involved in research. The measures are aimed at the practical
application of research results in the farming sector

Projects are targeted at designing and distributing methodolo-
gical materials which can be used in the management of agri-
cultural undertakings. The project
are
contained in the rules published on the granting of aid.

selection criteria

XA Number: XA 17/07

Member State: Czech Republic

Region: —

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving an indi-
vidual aid: Podpora poradenství v zemědělství – Regionální
společné zemědělské politiky,
přenos
zejména požadavků na plnění cross compliance, zajišťovaný
prostřednictvím Krajských informačních středisek pro rozvoj
zemědělství a venkova (KIS)

informací o realizaci

Legal basis: Zákon č. 252/1997 Sb., o zemědělství

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of individual aid granted to the company: Up to
CZK 10 million

Maximum aid intensity: Up to 100 % of proven costs, up to a
maximum of CZK 500 000 a year, for each regional informa-
tion centre for agricultural and rural development, which will
supply services to the final beneficiary, i.e. the person receiving
technical support.

Date of implementation: From 16 February 2007

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: Until 31
December 2013

Objective of aid: The aid is granted on the basis of Article 15
(Provision of technical support in the agricultural sector) of
Commission Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006.

The objective of the aid is to support consultancy activities
carried out by accredited consultants for agricultural entities,
regional transfer of information on the common agricultural
policy and standards of good farming practice, and information
on rural development programmes and consumer protection
(food safety)

Information will be provided free of charge using various
methods, particularly electronic means of
communication
(internet, e-mail, SMS), but also in paper form (letters, informa-
tion leaflets and similar) and through personal contacts (in the
course of seminars and consultations); it will be supplied in a
non-discriminatory manner to all target groups in the region
focusing on the area's agricultural and rural development
problems

The eligible costs are:

— actual cost of organising information services;

— travel expenses;

— fees for consultancy services which neither constitute a
continuous or periodic activity nor relate to the enterprise's
usual operating expenditure.

Sectors(s) concerned: Primary agricultural production

Name and address of the granting authority:
Ministerstvo zemědělství ČR
Těšnov 17
CZ-117 05 Praha 1

Web address:
http://www.mze.cz/Index.aspx?deploy=1802&typ=2&-
ch=74&ids=1802&val=1802

Other information: The Ministry of Agriculture of the Czech
Republic declares that the conditions laid down in Commission
Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006 will be met, i.e. the aid will be
targeted at small and medium-sized enterprises engaged in
primary agricultural production, and in particular the conditions
mentioned in Article 15 (Provision of technical support in the
agricultural sector) will be fulfilled.