Information communicated by Member States regarding State aid granted under Commission Regulation (EC) No 70/2001 on the application of Articles 87 and 88 of the EC Treaty to State aid to small and medium-sized enterprises
Date: 2007-09-06
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Spain, State aid, control of State aid, exchange of information, 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 70/2001 on the application of Articles 87 and 88 of the EC Treaty to State aid to
small and medium-sized enterprises

(2007/C 207/03)

XA number: XA 100/07

Member State: Spain

Region: Comunidad Valenciana

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving an indi-
vidual aid: Régimen de ayudas compensatorias por los costes
de prevención y erradicación de Salmonelosis en gallinas pone-
doras.

Legal basis: Orden, de la Consellería de Agricultura, Pesca y
Alimentación, por la que se establecen ayudas compensatorias
por los costes de prevención y erradicación de Salmonelosis en
gallinas ponedoras.

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of
individual aid granted to the company: The
overall amount of the estimated budget appropriation for the
following financial years will be:

2007 financial year: EUR 400 000

2008 financial year: EUR 300 000

2009 financial year: EUR 200 000

Maximum aid intensity: Aid may reach up to 80 % of expen-
diture made, without exceeding a maximum of EUR 1 per
animal covered by the measures, in accordance with the census
in the official databases as at the date of entry into force of this
aid scheme.

Date of implementation: On the day following its publication
Journal of the Community of Valencia, once
in the Official
acknowledgement of
receipt has been received from the
Commission.

Duration of
31.12.2009.

scheme or

individual

aid award: Until

Objective of aid: The objective is prevention and eradication of
salmonellosis of importance in terms of public health, on farms
on which laying hens are kept.

Article 10: Aid in respect of animal and plant diseases and pest
infestations.

Eligible costs will relate to the following services which associa-
tions provide for egg-producing poultry farms: health controls,
tests for the disease, purchase and administration of vaccines,
products,
purchase

administration of

phytosanitary

and

slaughter and destruction of affected animals, cleaning, disinfec-
tion, insect removal and rat extermination with regard to instal-
lations and equipment, using authorised products and appro-
priate methods.

Sector(s) concerned: Production sector. Egg-producing poultry
subsector.

Name and address of the granting authority:

Consellería de Agricultura, Pesca y Alimentación
C/ Amadeo de Saboya, no 2
E-46010 Valencia

Web address: https://www.docv.gva.es/

Other information: —

The Director-General for Agricultural Research,
Development and Innovation

Eduardo Primo Millo

XA number: XA 113/07

Member State: Spain

Region: Navarra

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving an indi-
vidual aid: Ayudas para paliar los daños ocasionados por las
lluvias e inundaciones ocurridas en los meses de marzo y abril
en la Comunidad Foral de Navarra.

Legal basis: Orden Foral del Consejero de Agricultura, Gana-
dería y Alimentación por la que se regulan las ayudas para paliar
los daños ocasionados por las lluvias e inundaciones ocurridas
en los meses de marzo y abril en la Comunidad Foral de
Navarra.

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of
aid granted to the company:
EUR 2 800 000.

individual

Maximum aid intensity: Aid of up to 70 % for reduced
income resulting from an adverse climatic event.

Aid of up to 80 % to compensate for damage to farm equip-
ment caused by an adverse climatic event.

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Date of implementation: 1 June 2007.

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: 1 June 2007
until 31 December 2007.

Objective of aid: To cover income lost by owners of small and
medium-sized agricultural holdings: Article 11(2) of Commis-
sion Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006.

Aid to compensate for damage to farm equipment: Article 11(6)
of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006.

Sector(s) concerned: Owners of
production holdings in the agricultural sector.

small and medium-sized

Name and address of the granting authority:

Gobierno de Navarra — Departamento de Agricultura, Gana-
dería y Alimentación
C/ Tudela, 20
E-31003 Pamplona

Internet address:

http://www.cfnavarra.es/bon/076/F0708527.htm

Other information: —

XA number: XA 118/07

Member State: Spain

Region: Comunitat Valenciana

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving an indi-
vidual aid: Proyecto de orden de la Conselleria d'Agricultura,
Pesca i Alimentació, por la que se adoptan medidas fitosanitarias
para la erradicación y control del organismo nocivo Xantho-
monas campestris pv. Pruni (Smith) Dye (Xanthomonas arboricola pv.
Pruni).

Legal basis:

1. Directiva 2000/29/CE del Consejo, de 8 de mayo de 2000,
relativa a las medidas de protección contra la introducción
en la Comunidad de organismos nocivos para los vegetales o
productos vegetales y contra su propagación en el interior de
la Comunidad.

2. Ley no 43/2002, de 20 de noviembre, de Sanidad Vegetal.

3. Real Decreto no 58/2005, de 21 de enero, por el que se
adoptan medidas de protección contra la introducción y difu-
sión en el territorio nacional y de la Comunidad Europea de
organismos nocivos para los vegetales o productos vegetales,
así como para la exportación y tránsito hacia países terceros.

4. Real Decreto no 1190/1998, de 12 de junio, por el que se
regula los programas nacionales de erradicación o control de
organismos nocivos de los vegetales aún no establecidos en
el territorio nacional.

5. Ley no 38/2003, de 17 de noviembre, General de Subven-

ciones.

6. Decreto Legislativo de 26 de junio de 1991, por el que se
aprueba el Texto Refundido de la Ley de Hacienda Pública de
la Generalitat Valenciana.

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of individual aid granted to the company: The fore-
cast implementation costs of the programme to eradicate the
quarantine pest detected in various parcels in the municipal
districts of Jávea and Gata de Gorgos in the province of Alicante
are estimated to total EUR 182 085 for 2007, and are broken
down as follows:

— Surveillance and fact-finding programme
(to be implemented by the phytosanitary
services):

EUR 113 085

— Destruction of infected plant material:

EUR 19 000

— Compensation for plant material destroyed:

EUR 50 000

Maximum aid intensity: 100 % of the market value of the
plant material destroyed.

Date of implementation: From the date when the eradication
and control rules enter into force, without prejudice to emer-
gency phytosanitary measures taken since the quarantine pest
was identified.

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: Until the pest is
eradicated. Eradication will be declared once at least two years
have passed without new cases being detected which test posi-
tive for the bacteria.

if the phytosanitary measures are approved in
Consequently,
2007, eradication will not be able to be declared before the end
of 2009.

Objective of aid: Article 10: Aid in respect of animal and plant
diseases and pest infestations.

The proposed measures aim to eradicate and control the disease
of plant species of the genus Prunus, which is caused by the
bacteria Xanthomonas campestris pv. pruni (Smith) Dye (Xantho-
monas arboricola pv. pruni), and to regulate compensatory aid
relating to implementation of the aforementioned phytosanitary
measures on the territory of the Community of Valencia.

The following costs will be eligible:

(a) Those relating to grubbing and destruction performed by
the Administration itself will take the form of aid in kind.

(b) The value of the planting or of the affected plant material
destroyed, valued in accordance with the scales laid down in
Annex I to the Aid Order.

Sector(s) concerned: Plant species of the genus Prunus.

Name and address of the granting authority:

Generalitat de la Comunitat Valenciana
Conselleria d'Agricultura, Pesca i Alimentació
C/ Amadeo de Saboya, no 2
E-46010 Valencia

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Web address: Subject to approval and publication.

The draft Order can be consulted in the section ‘Proyectos de
[Proposed Agricultural Aid
Regímenes de Ayuda Agrarios’
Schemes] on the website of Valencia's Ministry of Agriculture,
Fisheries and Food, which can be accessed via the following link:

http://www.agricultura.gva.es/

http://www.agricultura.gva.es/especiales/ayudas_agrarias/pdf/
proyecto_de_orden_ayudas_erradicacion_y_control_xanthomo-
nas_campestris.pdf

Once published, it can be consulted at:

https://www.docv.gva.es/portal/

http://www.gva.es/cidaj/cas/sc1/menu.htm

Valencia, 18 May 2007

Head of Agri-Food Protection Sector
Emiliano Cerdá Esteve

XA number: XA 124/07

Member State: Spain

Region: —

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving an indi-
vidual aid: Subvenciones destinadas a la promoción de las
mujeres en el medio rural.

Legal basis: Orden APA/1899/2006, de 6 de junio, por la que
se establecen las bases reguladoras para la concesión de subven-
ciones destinadas a la promoción de las mujeres en el medio
rural y su modificación mediante la orden APA/.../2007, de ...
de ..., (pendiente de publicación en el Boletín Oficial del Estado).
Esta modificación se realiza para adaptar dicha Orden APA/
1899/2006, al cambio normativo producido por la sustitución
del Reglamento (CE) no 1/2004 de la Comisión, de 23 de
diciembre de 2003, sobre aplicación de los artículos 87 y 88
del Tratado CE a las ayudas estatales para las pequeñas y
medianas empresas dedicadas a la producción, transformación y
comercialización de productos agrarios, al cual se acogía, por el
nuevo Reglamento (CE) no 1857/2006 de la Comisión, de 15 de
diciembre de 2006, sobre la aplicación de los artículos 87 y 88
del Tratado CE a las ayudas estatales para las pequeñas y
medianas empresas dedicadas a la producción de productos
agrícolas y por el que se modifica el Reglamento (CE) no
70/2001.

Asimismo,
la citada orden de bases reguladoras debe cumplir
también el nuevo Reglamento de la Ley de Subvenciones, apro-
bado por Real Decreto 887/2006, de 21 de julio, motivo por el
cual se han introducido pequeños retoques en la misma.

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of
the
planned budget expenditure, to be granted to the recipients
overall, will total EUR 400 000 in 2007.

individual aid granted to the company:

Maximum aid intensity: 80 % of the amount of each project,
without exceeding 30 % of
the total public expenditure in
respect of each recipient body. This is without prejudice to the
provisions in Article 19 of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006
regarding cumulation with other aid.

Date of implementation: from the date when the call for grant
proposals is published in the Boletín Oficial del Estado.

Duration of
31 December 2007. Proposals for aid will be invited annually.

aid award: Until

scheme or

individual

Objective of aid: The aid essentially falls under Article 15 of
Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006.

Aid will cover the eligible expenses described in Article 15(2)(a)
(i), 15(2)(a)(ii), 15(2)(c), 15(2)(d)(ii), 15(2)(d)(iii) and 15(2)(d)(iv).

— Main objective: development of projects to be implemented
by rural women's associations at national level, which aim
to promote women in rural areas.

— Secondary objectives: promotion and advice on starting up
innovative companies which are active in primary agri-
cultural production in the rural environment and provide
implementation of gender-based
new jobs
studies, and attendance at
forums where knowledge is
exchanged on the situation of rural women.

for women;

— Eligible expenditure: staff, equipment, office materials, instal-

lations, journeys, subsistence allowances and the like.

Sector(s) concerned: The agricultural sector and rural diversifi-
cation activities

Name and address of the granting authority:
Ministerio de Agricultura, Pesca y Alimentación
Dirección General de Desarrollo Rural
C/ Alfonso XII, no 62
E-28014 Madrid

Internet address: http://www.mapa.es/

Other information: The activities subsidised aim to promote
rural women and to support projects which they undertake in
rural areas through the provision of advice, attendance at events
providing them with information, and research into social and
working conditions. Furthermore, encouragement is given for
recipients to diversify their possible activities.

The director-general
Francisco Amarillo Doblado