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: 2007-12-14
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: France, Italy, Slovenia, State aid, agricultural holding, aid to agriculture, control of State aid, exchange of information, small and medium-sized enterprises

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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

(2007/C 302/11)

XA Number: XA 125/07

Member State: France

Region: Département de Saône-et-Loire

Title of aid scheme: Aides aux investissements de diversification agricole

Legal bases:

— Article 4 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006 of 15 December 2006.

— Art L 3231-2 et subséquents du Code général des collectivités territoriales permettant aux collectivités

territoriales d'accorder des aides pour favoriser le développement économique.

— Délibération du Conseil régional de Bourgogne du 15 janvier 2007

— Délibération du Conseil général du 27 mars 2007.

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme: EUR 150 000 in aid annually, according to needs and
depending on availability of funds

Maximum aid intensity:

Title of the activity

Nature of eligible expenditure

Amount of eligible expenditure
in EUR (excl. tax)

Aid for diversification: support
for innovative and unusual agri-
cultural projects (*) that encou-
rage farmers to set up in rural
areas

Fixed production equipment,
excluding replacement equip-
ment

Min.

5 000

(*) Innovative and unusual agricultural projects: bison, ostriches, worm-farming, snail-farming, etc.

General rate of
assistance for
scheme

Max.

30 000

30 %

Date of implementation: As soon as acknowledgement of receipt has been received from the European
Commission.

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: 6 years, subject to budgetary resources

Objective of aid: The objective is to contribute to the diversification of agricultural activity in the depart-
ment by helping initiatives that are conducive to the growth of new forms of production, supporting inno-
vative or unusual agricultural projects that encourage farmers to set up in rural areas.

Sector(s) concerned: All agricultural production sectors in the department

Name and address of the granting authority:

MONSIEUR LE PRÉSIDENT DU CONSEIL GÉNÉRAL DE SAÔNE-ET-LOIRE
Direction de l'Équipement rural et de l'agriculture
Service des Affaires Agricoles
Espace Duhesme
18 rue de Flacé
F-71026 Macon Cedex 9

Web address: http://www.cg71.com

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XA Number: XA 126/07

Member State: Italy

Region: Regione Autonoma Friuli Venezia Giulia

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving an indi-
vidual aid award: Legge 1329/65 «Sabatini» — Agevolazioni
per l'acquisto o la locazione finanziaria di nuove macchine uten-
sili o di produzione. Settore agricolo

Legal basis:

Legge 28 novembre 1965, n. 1329

Regolamento concernente criteri e modalità per la concessione
delle agevolazioni di cui alla L 1329/65 approvato con delibera-
zione della Giunta regionale n. 1387 dell'8 giugno 2007

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of individual aid granted to the company: Total
budget for all the production sectors receiving incentives under
Law No 1329/65: EUR 15 000 000

Maximum aid intensity:

Up to 50 % of eligible investments by undertakings active in
less-favoured areas or the areas referred to in Article 36(a)(i), (ii)
and (iii) of Regulation (EC) No 1698/2005, designated by the
Member States in accordance with Articles 50 and 94 of that
Regulation.

For undertakings active in other areas, the gross aid intensity
may not exceed 40 % of eligible costs.

Date of implementation: The aid scheme will enter into force
on 1 July 2007 and in any case ten working days after this
form is submitted, in accordance with Article 20(1) of Regu-
lation (EC) No 1857/2006 on exemptions.

Duration of
31 December 2013

scheme or

individual

aid award: Ends

Objective of aid:

To help SMEs with the purchase or financial
machine-tools or manufacturing
equipment
EUR 1 000 in total.

lease of new
costing over

Eligible investment must pursue one or more of the following
objectives:

The aid measure falls under Article 4 of Regulation (EC)
No 1857/2006 published in OJ L 358 of 16 December 2006.

Sector(s) concerned: SMEs active in the sector of primary agri-
cultural production listed in Annex I to the EC Treaty

Name and address of the granting authority:

Regione Autonoma Friuli Venezia Giulia
Direzione centrale attività produttive
Servizio
industriale
Via Trento, 2
I-34132 Trieste

promozione

sostegno

e

comparto

produttivo

Web address:

http://www.regione.fvg.it/istituzionale/delibere/delibere.htm

Other information:

Director, Servizio sostegno e promozione comparto produttivo
industriale

Antonio Feruglio

XA Number: XA 150/07

Member State: Republic of Slovenia

Region: State aid covering the entire territory of the Republic of
Slovenia

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving indivi-
dual aid: „Podpora strokovnim prireditvam, stanovskemu in
interesnemu povezovanju“

Legal basis: 4. člen Uredbe o programih kmetijske strukturne
politike in kmetijske politike razvoja podeželja za leti 2007 in
2008

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

2007: EUR 292 104

2008: EUR 292 104

— reduction of production costs,

— improvement and re-deployment of production,

Maximum aid intensity: To provide technical support in agri-
culture, the intensity of aid to cover presentations given by
experts and for high-level and interest-group based networks
totals up to 100 % of eligible costs.

— improvement in quality,

Date of implementation: Starts 17 July 2007

— preservation and improvement of the natural environment,

hygiene conditions and animal welfare standards.

Duration of
31 December 2008

scheme or

individual

aid award: Ends

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Objective of the aid: Technical support to SMEs

Reference to Articles of Commission Regulation (EC)
No 1857/ 2006 and eligible costs:

Article 4 of the Decree on the programmes of agricultural struc-
tural and rural development policy for 2007 and 2008 includes
measures constituting State aid in accordance with Article 15
(technical support for agriculture) of Commission Regulation
(EC) No 1857/2006 of 15 December 2006 on the application
of Articles 87 and 88 of the Treaty to State aid to small and
medium-sized enterprises active in the production of agri-
cultural products and amending Regulation (EC) No 70/2001
(OJ L 358, 16.12.2006, p. 3).

for

non-governmental

expert presentations,

Aid to make
information and
training will be granted in the form of subsidised services
of
non-for-profit
for
cooperation between farmers that are SMEs,
therefore the
requirement is fulfilled that aid may be granted only to small
and medium-sized enterprises active in agricultural production.

forms

and

Economic Sector(s) concerned: Agriculture

Name and address of granting authority:

Ministrstvo za kmetijstvo, gozdarstvo in prehrano RS

Web address:

http://www.uradni-list.si/1/ulonline.jsp?urlid=200758&dhid=90280

Other information:

Date: 3 July 2007

Signature of person responsible:

Branko RAVNIK
Acting Director-General
Directorate of Agriculture

XA Number: XA 151/07

Member State: France

Region: All, since these measures may be financed by any
regional or local authorities (regional councils or general coun-
cils) wishing to do so.

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving indivi-
dual aid: Aides à l'assistance technique dans le secteur de l'éle-
vage

Legal basis:

Code Rural, partie législative, articles L 621-1 à L 621-11.

Projet d'arrêté du ministre de l'agriculture et de la pêche

Code général des collectivités territoriales, articles L 1511-1 et
suivants

individual

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of
aid granted to the company:
EUR 26 million/year from the National Inter-trade Office for
Livestock and Livestock Products, subject to budget allocations,
and an unspecified amount from regional and local authorities.

Maximum aid intensity: Up to 100 %

Date of implementation: The aid scheme will be implemented
from the date of acknowledgement of receipt by the Commis-
sion, subject to the corresponding appropriations being avail-
able.

Duration of scheme or individual aid: 7 years

Objective of aid:

This aid scheme is in line with Article 15 of Commission Regu-
lation (EC) No 1857/2006 of 15 December 2006.

The National
Inter-trade Office for Livestock and Livestock
Products will introduce livestock sector aid programmes aimed
at providing stock farmers with specific technical assistance
centred, depending on the programme, around the following
themes:

— animal disease prevention,

food safety and traceability,
including by introducing the ‘hygiene package’
(applying
Regulation (EC) 178/2002 of the European Parliament and
of the Council of 28 January 2002 laying down the general
principles and requirements of food law, establishing the
European Food Safety Authority and laying down proce-
(EC)
dures
food
No 852/2004 of
the
Council of 29 April 2004 on the hygiene of foodstuffs, and
Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 of the European Parliament
and of the Council of 29 April 2004 laying down specific
hygiene rules for food of animal origin),

the European Parliament and of

safety, Regulation

in matters

of

— reduction of constraints at work,
ergonomics and design of buildings,

improvement of work

— improvement of practices favouring respect for the environ-

ment and animal welfare,

— assistance in the sphere of genetic improvement,

— segmentation of markets, in particular by introducing and

backing up quality measures.

These aid programmes will
involve defraying the costs of
consultancy services provided by producer groups or other orga-
nisations acting vis-à-vis stock farmers within the framework of
collective agreements introducing, based on the above themes,
individual and specific livestock monitoring. It will also be a
question of supporting the consultancy programmes enabling
those agreements to be drawn up and monitored.

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The aid scheme will make it possible to finance the costs of
technical support and advice provided within that framework,
limited to the costs relating to the supply of that service. No aid
will be paid to stock farmers.

Steps will be taken to ensure that no stock farmer whose
holding does not satisfy the Community criteria for small and
medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) will benefit from a subsidised
technical assistance service. Subject to this restriction, the aid
will be granted in the form of subsidised services, accessible to
all stock farmers, without having to be members of producer
organisations or other structures.

Regional and local authorities (regional councils and general
councils) wishing to do so will be able to grant aid under the
same conditions as those adopted by the Office for Livestock in
respect of
to compliance with the
subject
authorised limit rates.

scheme,

this

Sector(s) concerned: Livestock sector

Name and address of the granting authority:

Interprofessionnel de

Office National
Productions
80, avenue des Terroirs de France
F-75607 Paris Cedex 12

l'Élevage

et de

ses

Web address:

http://www.office-elevage.fr/aides-nat/aides-nat.htm

local authorities

Other information: Regional or
supple-
menting the financing by the Office for Livestock must do so
subject to the same conditions as those adopted by the Office
for Livestock and verify compliance with the aid limits, with the
help of
for agriculture and
forestry, by reference to the limits laid down in Article 15(2)(a),
(b), (c), (d) and (e) of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006, the frame-
work for this scheme.

the departmental directorates