Information communicated by Member States regarding State aid granted under Commission Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006 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 of agricultural products and amending Regulation (EC) No 70/2001
Date: 2007-08-18
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Netherlands, Spain, State aid, aid to agriculture, control of State aid, farmer, small and medium-sized enterprises

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NOTICES FROM MEMBER STATES

Information communicated by Member States regarding State aid granted under Commission Regu-
lation (EC) No 1857/2006 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 of agricultural products and amending
Regulation (EC) No 70/2001

(2007/C 192/08)

XA Number: XA 10/07

Member State: Netherlands

Region: Provincie Limburg

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

Subsidieverordening Inrichting Landelijk Gebied Limburg

— Paragraph 1.5:

Improving knowledge and innovation in
agriculture

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

— Paragraph 1.5: EUR 250 000 for the 2007-2013 period

— Paragraph 1.6: EUR 1 000 000 for the 2007-2013 period

— Paragraph 1.7: EUR 600 000 for the 2007-2013 period

— Paragraph 1.8: EUR 3 000 000 for the 2007-2013 period

— Paragraph 1.10: EUR 1 980 000 for the 2007-2013 period

— Paragraph 1.6:

Farmers' expertise groups

— Paragraph 1.11: EUR 300 000 for the 2007-2013 period

— Paragraph 1.7:

development

Idea
vouchers

with

expertise

— Paragraph 1.12: EUR 30 000 for the 2007-2013 period

— Paragraph 1.8:

Product-market combinations (PMCs)

— Paragraph 1.13: EUR 200 000 for the 2007-2013 period

— Paragraph 1.10: Sustainable
production

soil-based

agricultural

— Paragraph 1.15: EUR 150 000 for the 2007-2013 period

— Paragraph 1.11: Study of the application of ‘new manure’

as a substitute for artificial fertiliser

— Paragraph 1.12: Exploring

cooperation

landscape
quality and promoting the marketing of
local produce

on

— Paragraph 1.13: Applying expertise to improve environ-

mental quality

— Paragraph 1.16: EUR 745 000 for the 2007-2013 period

— Paragraph 1.18: EUR 90 000 for the 2007-2013 period

(These amounts are an estimation of the maximum share of the
available funds that will go to farmers. Most of these paragraphs
will,
in fact, also form the basis for aid to be granted to
non-farmers (other entrepreneurs under the de minimis rule and
non-entrepreneurs))

— Paragraph 1.15: Sustainable farm model, dairy farms

Maximum aid intensity:

— Paragraph 1.16: Bioenergy

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

to a maximum of EUR 50 000 per structure per year.

— Paragraph 1.18: Demonstration farms

self-sufficient

in

energy

— Paragraph 1.6: a maximum of 80 % of the eligible costs, up

to a maximum of EUR 63 000 per expertise group.

Legal basis: Artikel 11, lid 3 Wet Inrichting Landelijk Gebied,
juncto subsidieverordening inrichting Landelijk Gebied

— Paragraph 1.7: a maximum of 50 % of the eligible costs, up

to a maximum of EUR 3 250 per enterprise per year.

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— Paragraph 1.8: a maximum of 50 % of the eligible costs, up

to a maximum of EUR 25 000 per project.

— Paragraph 1.10: a maximum of 90 % of the eligible costs,

up to a maximum of EUR 900 per ha.

— Paragraph 1.11: a maximum of 75 % of the eligible costs,

up to a maximum of EUR 100 000 per project.

— Paragraph 1.12: a maximum of 50 % of the eligible costs,
up to a maximum of EUR 5 000 per exploratory study.

— Paragraph 1.13: a maximum of 60 % of the eligible costs,

up to a maximum of EUR 23 000 per project.

— Paragraph 1.15: a maximum of 75 % of the eligible costs,

up to a maximum of EUR 50 000 per project.

— Paragraph 1.16: a maximum of 75 % of the eligible costs,

up to a maximum of EUR 50 000 per project.

— Paragraph 1.18: a maximum of 50 % of the eligible costs,

up to a maximum of EUR 30 000 per project.

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) No 1857/2006.

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

Objective of aid:

— Paragraph 1.5: aid applies to the costs of organising training
under Article 15(2)(a), and/or the hiring of outside expertise
for know-how exchange aimed at new innovative ideas.
Hiring outside expertise is a consultancy service which does
not constitute a continuous or periodic activity nor relate to
the enterprise's usual operating expenditure, in accordance
with Article 15(2)(c).

— Paragraph 1.6: aid applies to the costs of organising training
under Article 15(2)(a), and/or the hiring of experts for
advice to improve skills and enterprise. Hiring outside exper-
tise is a consultancy service which does not constitute a
continuous or periodic activity nor relate to the enter-
prise's usual operating expenditure,
in accordance with
Article 15(2)(c).

— Paragraph 1.7: aid applies to the costs of replacement
services during the absence of the entrepreneur in connec-
tion with training in accordance with Article 15(2)(a) and/or
to the hiring of outside expertise for drawing up business

plans and feasibility studies. Hiring outside expertise is a
consultancy service which does not constitute a continuous
or periodic activity nor relate to the enterprise's usual oper-
ating expenditure, in accordance with Article 15(2)(c).

— Paragraph 1.8: aid applies to the costs of replacement
services during the absence of the entrepreneur in connec-
tion with training in accordance with Article 15(2)(a) and/or
to the hiring of outside expertise for the development of
innovative ideas. Hiring outside expertise is a consultancy
service which does not constitute a continuous or periodic
activity nor relate to the enterprise's usual operating expen-
diture, in accordance with Article 15(2)(c), aimed at forming
product-market combinations.

— Paragraph 1.10: aid applies to the costs of replacement
services during the absence of the entrepreneur in connec-
tion with training in accordance with Article 15(2)(a) and/or
the costs of consultancy services which do not constitute a
continuous or periodic activity nor relate to the enter-
in accordance with
prise's usual operating expenditure,
Article 15(2)(c), aimed at making soil-based agriculture
more sustainable and improving biodiversity.

— Paragraph 1.11: aid applies to the costs of replacement
services during the absence of the entrepreneur in connec-
tion with training in accordance with Article 15(2)(a) and/or
the costs of consultancy services which do not constitute a
continuous or periodic activity nor relate to the enter-
prise's usual operating expenditure,
in accordance with
Article 15(2)(c), aimed at harnessing the opportunities for
processing and applying digestate as a substitute for artificial
fertiliser.

— Paragraph 1.12: aid applies to the costs of organising
training and replacement services during the absence of the
entrepreneur in connection with training in accordance with
Article 15(2)(a) and/or the costs of consultancy services
which do not constitute a continuous or periodic activity
nor relate to the enterprise's usual operating expenditure, in
accordance with Article 15(2)(c), aimed at exploring oppor-
tunities for regional cooperation between operators.

— Paragraph 1.13: aid applies to the costs of organising
training and replacement services during the absence of the
entrepreneur in connection with training in accordance with
Article 15(2)(a) and/or the costs of consultancy services
which do not constitute a continuous or periodic activity
nor relate to the enterprise's usual operating expenditure, in
accordance with Article 15(2)(c), aimed at developing exper-
tise and studies for soil-based agriculture projects.

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— Paragraph 1.15: aid applies to the costs of replacement
services during the absence of the entrepreneur in connec-
tion with training in accordance with Article 15(2)(a) and/or
the costs of consultancy services which do not constitute a
continuous or periodic activity nor relate to the enter-
prise's usual operating expenditure,
in accordance with
Article 15(2)(c), aimed at investigating new forms of organi-
sation for sustainable dairy farms.

— Paragraph 1.16: aid applies to the costs of organising
training and replacement services during the absence of the
entrepreneur in connection with training in accordance with
Article 15(2)(a) and/or the costs of consultancy services
which do not constitute a continuous or periodic activity
nor relate to the enterprise's usual operating expenditure, in
accordance with Article 15(2)(c), aimed at studies looking
into the generation of energy from biomass.

— Paragraph 1.18: aid applies to the costs of organising
training and replacement services during the absence of the
entrepreneur in connection with training in accordance with
Article 15(2)(a) and/or the costs of consultancy services
which do not constitute a continuous or periodic activity
nor relate to the enterprise's usual operating expenditure, in
accordance with Article 15(2)(c), aimed at studies looking
into energy self-sufficiency at individual farm level.

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: —

Aid No: XA 38/07

Member State: The Netherlands

Region: —

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving indivi-
dual aid: Investeringen op het
terrein van energiebesparing.
Titel 5, § 1, van het Openstellingsbesluit LNV-subsidies

Legal basis: De artikelen 2, 4 en 7 van de Kaderwet LNV-subsi-
dies en de artikelen 1:3, 1:8, 1:15 en 1:16 van de Regeling
LNV-subsidies

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

2007: EUR 8 300 000,00

2008: EUR 14 500 000,00

2009: EUR 8 900 000,00

2010: EUR 4 800 000,00

Maximum aid intensity: 25 %

Date of implementation: Applications may be submitted from
14 May until 25 May 2007. In subsequent years, applications
may be submitted on a date to be indicated in the Official
Gazette.

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: 31 December
2010

Objective of aid: Primary objective:
to reduce production
costs. Secondary objective: to preserve and improve the natural
environment. The
is based on Regulation (EC)
No 1857/2006. Investment directed at saving energy is eligible.

subsidy

Economic sector(s) concerned: Agricultural holdings, in par-
ticular glasshouse horticultural holdings

Name and address of the granting authority:

De Minister van Landbouw, Natuur en Voedselkwaliteit
Bezuidenhoutseweg 73
2500 EK Den Haag
Nederland

Website: www.minlnv.nl/loket

Other information: This aid scheme is a follow-up to the
one-off aid grant notified to the European Commission under
No XA 99/06.

XA number: XA 70/07

Member State: Spain

Title of aid scheme: Ayudas para compensar los daños extra-
ordinarios causados por la sequía en las explotaciones ganaderas
extensivas

Legal basis: Orden APA/…/2007, de … de mayo, por la que se
establecen las bases reguladoras y se aprueba la convocatoria de
ayudas para compensar pérdidas extraordinarias producidas por
la sequía en pastos en la campaña 2005/2006

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme: EUR 3,5
million in 2007

Maximum aid intensity: The aid which each beneficiary might
receive, plus compensation paid by insurance bodies, plus any
aid which might have been received from the Autonomous
Community administration, will not exceed 80 % of
the
recorded losses on the farm, as laid down in Regulation (EC)
No 1857/2006.

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The aid will be calculated taking into account the information
on the vegetation index for the areas affected,
in the period
between 1 February and 30 June 2006. Eligible areas will be
those where the vegetation index was below the quantity which
results from deducting 0,8 times the standard deviation from
the average index. This equates to damage greater than 30 % of
normal production.

The aid quantities will be:

This aid is established under Article 11 of Regulation (EC)
No 1857/2006, relating to ‘Aid for losses due to adverse
climatic events’, and meets the provisions in Article 11(2) to (6),
(9) and (10).

Sector(s) concerned: This aid is intended for the extensive
livestock farming sector in the Autonomous Communities of
Islands, Catalonia, Castile-La
Andalusia, Aragon, Balearic
Mancha, Castile-Leon, Extremadura and Murcia.

Type of livestock

Minimum aid quantity
(EUR/animal)

Maximum aid quantity
(EUR/animal)

Cattle and horses

Sheep and goats

12

1,8

48

7,2

Name and address of the granting authority:

Entidad Estatal de Seguros Agrarios (ENESA)
Ministerio de Agricultura, Pesca y Alimentación
C/ Miguel Ángel, 23 — 5a planta
E-28010 Madrid

Internet address: enesa@mapya.es

If, throughout the entire period under consideration (15 ten-day
periods), the vegetation index was below the quantity which
results from deducting 0,8 times the standard deviation from
the average index, the aid will therefore be EUR 48/animal for
cattle and horses, and EUR 7,2/animal for sheep and goats.

The aid for each recipient will be calculated taking into consi-
ten-day periods when this level of
deration the number of
drought was recorded.

Once the aid has been calculated, ENESA [State Agricultural
Insurance Body] will ask AGROSEGURO [Combined Agri-
cultural Insurance Group] to certify the compensation which
may have been received from the insurance bodies. Similarly, it
will ask the Autonomous Communities concerned to certify the
aid which they may have granted for the damage. The total aid
must not exceed 80 % of the recorded losses on the farm.
Should the limit be exceeded, the aid calculated under the above
Order will be reduced in line with that percentage.

Aid number: XA 71/07

Member State: Spain

Region: Catalonia

Title of aid scheme or name of the company receiving an
individual aid: Subvenciones para la incentivación de la mejora
de la eficiencia energética en invernaderos agrícolas

Legal basis: Orden ARP/501/2006, de 25 de octubre, por la
que se aprueban las bases reguladoras de las subvenciones para
la incentivación de la mejora de la eficiencia energética en inver-
naderos agrícolas, y se convocan las correspondientes al año
2006 (DOGC 4751 de 31.10.2006)

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

Date of implementation: The aid may be granted from when
the Order enters into force, within no more than 6 months.

2006: EUR 450 000

Objective of aid: The objective is to compensate livestock
farmers for business losses incurred on affected farms as a result
of having to supplement livestock feed following the loss of
pasture areas through drought.

It should be pointed out that the agricultural insurance frame-
work includes insurance which covers the risk of drought in
pasture areas, underwriting losses
in the case of extreme
drought or — and this amounts to the same thing — damage
exceeding 50 % of production (when the vegetation index is
below the quantity which results from deducting one times the
standard deviation from the average vegetation index).

Maximum aid intensity: The maximum subsidy per applica-
tion will be 30 % of
the eligible investment and may be
increased in the following circumstances:

— 5 % when the applicant is a young farmer,

— 2 % when the applicant is a woman.

Date of implementation: 1.11.2006

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: 16.4.2007

Objective of aid: The objective of the aid is to assist invest-
ment in agricultural holdings for the purpose of
improving
energy efficiency in greenhouses (Article 4).

It was found that, in certain districts, the damage exceeded 30 %
of production and was not covered by the insurance policies. It
is therefore necessary to establish aid to compensate livestock
farmers for these losses.

Investment relating to the improvement of installations, heating
systems and materials is eligible, as is any improvement which
involves a quantifiable saving and improvement in energy effi-
ciency in greenhouses.

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Eligible costs are those listed in Article 4(4)(a) and (b), i.e. those
relating to construction, acquisition or improvement of installa-
tions, plus those relating to the purchase or lease-purchase of
equipment and machinery needed to improve greenhouse effi-
ciency.

Sector(s) concerned: Production of products listed in Annex I
fishery and aquaculture products
to the Treaty, except
covered by Council Regulation (EC) No 104/2000 and products
falling under CN codes 4502, 4503 and 4504 (cork products)

for

Name and address of the granting authority:

Departamento de Agricultura, Ganadería y Pesca
Generalitat de Catalunya
Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes, 612-614
E-08007 Barcelona

Web address:

https://www.gencat.net/diari_c/4751/06297022.htm

Other information: —

event, and to help with the costs met by the farmer as a result
of the event (cost of repositioning vines, cost of pruning and
regeneration of
in accordance with
Article 11(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006.

frozen parts of vines),

Sector(s) concerned: Crop production: vines

Name and address of the granting authority:

Consejería de Agricultura
C/ Pintor Matías Moreno, no 4
E-45004 Toledo

Internet address:

provisionally at:

www.jccm.es/agricul/paginas/ayudas/agricultura/vinedo.htm

once published, at:

www.jccm.es/cgi-bin/docm.php3

XA number: XA 74/07

Member State: Spain

Region: Castilla-La Mancha

XA number: XA 77/07

Member State: The Netherlands

Region: —

Title of aid scheme: Ayudas para paliar los daños ocasionados
en el viñedo afectado por las heladas acaecidas en los primeros
meses de 2006

Legal basis: Orden de 15.3.2007, de la Consejería de Agricul-
tura, por la que se declaran como fenómeno climático adverso
asimilable a desastre natural
las heladas acaecidas en los dos
primeros meses de 2006 en determinados municipios de
Castilla-La Mancha y Orden de 17.4.2007, de la Consejería de
Agricultura, por la que se establecen las bases reguladoras de la
concesión de ayudas para paliar los daños ocasionados en el
viñedo afectado por las heladas acaecidas en los primeros meses
de 2006

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of
EUR 1 600 000 over four years

individual aid granted to the company:

Maximum aid intensity: 47 % of the damage

Date of implementation: 16 June 2007

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: Four years
following the Order's entry into force

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving indivi-
dual aid: Regeling LNV-subsidies (omschrijving steun: Beroep-
sopleiding en voorlichting voor primaire landbouwonderne-
mingen, onderdeel collectieve adviezen)

Legal basis:

— Regeling LNV-subsidies: artikel 1:2, artikel 1:3, artikel 1:20;
artikel 2:1; artikel 2:3, eerste lid, aanhef en onderdeel a,

— Openstellingsbesluit LNV-subsidies

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of individual aid granted to the company: The aid
scheme is funded from the top-up (EUR 11,32 million) for
sheet 111 of the 2007-2013 Rural Development Programme

Maximum aid intensity: For agricultural holdings, 50 % of the
costs of
the consultancy service, up to a maximum of
EUR 1 500 per year per farm

Date of implementation: The Ministry of Agriculture, Nature
and Food Quality Subsidies Scheme comes into force on 1 April
2007. No payments will be made before the 2007-2013 Rural
Development Programme has been approved.

Objective of aid: To compensate for the reduction in income
from the sale of the product resulting from the adverse climatic

Duration of
31 December 2013

scheme or

individual

aid award: Ends

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Objective of aid: The aid scheme applies to collective consul-
tancy services that are not continuous or recurrent (as is the
case for routine tax consultancy, regular legal services or adver-
tising).

Within this framework, advice on farm development may be
sought in the following areas only:

(a) consultancy services with regard to research, excluding
quality checks and product testing, to be carried out by
experts with a view to developing high-quality agricultural
products;

(b) business development (including starting up a farm, moder-

nising and expanding);

(c) cessation of farming;

(f) drawing up a water or nature management plans for the

farm;

(g) developing partnerships.

The aid scheme complies with Article 15(2)(c), (3) and (4) of
Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006.

Sector(s) concerned: All agricultural holdings that produce
products listed in Annex I to the EC Treaty

Name and address of the granting authority:

Ministerie van Landbouw, Natuur en Voedselkwaliteit
Postbus 20401
2500 EK Den Haag
Nederland

(d) applying quality legislation to the farm;

Internet address: www.minlnv.nl/loket

(e) risk management;

Other information: —