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: 2008-04-24
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Germany, Hungary, Spain, State aid, United Kingdom, aid to agriculture, 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
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

(2008/C 102/05)

Objective of aid:

Aid No: XA 244/07

Member State: Hungary

Region: Entire country

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

A 2007. évben tavaszi
termelők hitelhez jutási lehetőségének támogatása

fagykárt

szenvedett mezőgazdasági

Legal basis:

— Commission Regulation (EC) No 1860/2004 of 6 October
2004 on the application of Articles 87 and 88 of
the
EC Treaty to de minimis aid in the agriculture and fisheries
sectors (OJ L 325, 28.10 2004, p. 4).

The objective of the aid is the mitigation of damage suffered by
agricultural producers in the form of frost damage as a conse-
quence of the adverse climatic conditions in spring 2007. Agri-
cultural producers suffered significant loss of income (50-100 %
crop failure). To compensate for their loss of income — besides
aid to mitigate damage — there are preferential loans which can
be complemented by provision of a guarantee. In less favoured
areas the guarantee covers 90 % of the loan.

We apply Article 11 of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006.

The maximum intensity of
damages,
80 % of loss of income

interest-rate subsidy and provision of guarantee)

aid attainable

(mitigation of
is

Sector(s) concerned: Plant production sector (vines, fruit)

— 2006. évi LXXXVIII. törvény a nemzeti agrár-kárenyhítési

Name and address of the granting authority:

rendszerről.

— 24/2007. (IV. 17.) FVM rendelet az Európai Mezőgazdasági
Vidékfejlesztési Alap társfinanszírozásában megvalósuló
támogatások esetében a kedvezőtlen adottságú területek és
az azokhoz tartozó települések megállapításáról.

— A földművelésügyi és vidékfejlesztési miniszter 66/2007.
(VII. 26.) FVM rendelete a 2007. évben tavaszi fagykárt szen-
vedett mezőgazdasági termelők hitelhez jutási lehetőségéről.

Földművelésügyi és Vidékfejlesztési Minisztérium
Kossuth Lajos tér 11.
H-1055 Budapest

Website:

http://www.fvm.hu/main.php?folderID=1846&articleID=10748&
ctag=articlelist&iid=1

http://www.fvm.hu/main.php?folderID=1846

— A földművelésügyi és vidékfejlesztési miniszter /2007. (…..)
FVM rendelete a 2007. évben tavaszi fagykárt szenvedett
mezőgazdasági termelők hitelhez jutási lehetőségéről szóló
66/2007. (VII. 26.) FVM rendelet módosításáról

András MÁHR
State Secretary

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of individual aid granted to the company: Planned
annual expenditure: HUF 250 million

Maximum aid intensity: The intensity of aid towards mitiga-
tion of damages and the intensity of aid towards the loan and
loan guarantee support must not, taken together, amount to
more than 80 % of loss of income

Date of implementation: From September 2007

Aid No: XA 292/07

Member State: United Kingdom

Region: England

Title of Aid scheme or name of company receiving an indi-
vidual aid:

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: 31 December
2007

Culled & Fallen Stock Disposal Scheme

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Legal basis:

Section 1 of the Agriculture Act 1986

Sector(s) concerned: The scheme applies to the cattle, sheep,
goat, pigs and deer sectors of the farming industry who are
within the designated FMD risk area

Name and address of the granting authority:

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of individual aid granted to the company: 2007:
Estimated at GBP 100 000 to a maximum of GBP 500 000 per
month for as long as an FMD risk area exists and not more
than GBP 1 million in total

Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
Nobel House
17 Smith Square
London SW1P 3JR
United Kingdom

Maximum aid intensity: The aid will be limited to restricting
economic losses caused by quarantine obligations resulting from
a disease outbreak which has been formally recognised by
public authorities and will not exceed 100 % of the costs asso-
ciated with dealing with the requirements of the scheme

Date of implementation: 24 October 2007

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: The scheme
will be closed once the FMD designated risk area has been lifted
and restrictions removed. It is anticipated that this will be before
31 December 2007. Defra will inform the Commission when
the risk area has been lifted and confirm closure of the scheme

Objective of aid: The Culled and Fallen Stock Disposal Scheme
(CFSDS) will be open to small and medium sized producers of
Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) susceptible species within the
designated FMD risk area, who are facing economic losses as a
result of quarantine obligations associated with controlling the
disease. The scheme is intended to lessen the producer income
losses. The CFSDS will be a voluntary scheme and affected
producers facing financial hardship will be able have their fallen
and culled stock collected and disposal of free of charge. Produ-
cers will not be compensated for the value of their animals. The
100 % subsidy for collection and disposal will be delivered
through the National Fallen Stock Company (NFSCo) and
payments will be made direct to the collection and disposal
service providers using the existing National Fallen Stock
Scheme pricing and collector infrastructure

Eligible costs:

Under the CFSDS, producers of FMD susceptible species (cattle,
sheep, goats, pig and deer) within the FMD risk area who are
facing income losses as a result of the FMD restrictions can
choose to cull their animals and have them, and other fallen
stock, collected and disposed of for free by registered NFSCo
collectors. NFSCo will administer the scheme and will invoice
Government for 100 % of the costs incurred and will pass this
on in full to the collectors of the culled and fallen stock.

The scheme complies with Article 10 of Regulation (EC)
No 1857/2006 paragraph 2(a)(11) where
aid must be
limited to income losses due to quarantine obligations and at
paragraph 2(a)(b) that the gross aid intensity must not exceed
100 %. The scheme will only be made available to small and
medium-sized enterprises

Website:

http://www.defra.gov.uk/animalh/diseases/fmd/movements/fallen-
stock.htm

Signed and dated on behalf of the Department for Environment,
Food and Rural Affairs (UK competent authority)

Neil MARR
Agricultural State Aid
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Area 8D, 9 Millbank
C/o Nobel House
17 Smith Square
Westminster
London SW1P 3JR
United Kingdom

Aid No: XA 293/07

Member State: Federal Republic of Germany

Region: Nordrhein-Westfalen

Title of aid scheme:

Untersuchungs- und Hygieneprogramm Nordrhein-Westfalen
zur Reduzierung der Salmonellenprävalenz in Hühner haltenden
Betrieben

Legal basis:

— Tierseuchengesetz vom 22.

Juni 2004 (BGBl.

Berichtigt: 8. Dezember 2004, BGBl.
jeweils geltenden Fassung

I S. 3588)

I S. 1260;
in der

— § 11 des Ausführungsgesetzes zum Tierseuchengesetz vom

4.6.63 (GV.NRW 1963 S. 203)

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme:

2007: EUR 135 000

2008: EUR 405 000

Half of the funding is to be provided by the Land authorities
and half by the animal disease fund

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Maximum aid intensity:

Website:

The aid is to be granted in the form of payments in kind
covering 100 % of:

http://www.munlv.nrw.de/verbraucherschutz/pdf/UHP-NRW.pdf

Other information:

— the costs of testing droppings in the period 1 September

2007 to 31 December 2008 (to determine the status),

Internet address of the Ministry of the Environment and Conser-
vation, Agriculture and Consumer Protection:

— the costs of testing egg shells and yolk in the case of farms
testing positive for category 1 salmonella in droppings,

verbraucherschutz-nrw.@munlv.nrw.de

— the costs, where category 1 salmonella is found in eggs, of:

— losses resulting from the safe disposal of eggs,

Aid No: XA 294/07

— destruction and disposal,

— cleaning and disinfection.

80 % of the value of the birds lost

Member State: Federal Republic of Germany

Region: Freistaat Bayern

Title of aid scheme:

Date of implementation: From 1 September 2007

Richtlinie zur Förderung der Bereitstellung technischer Hilfe im
Agrarsektor — Förderung von Beratungsleistungen im Rahmen
der Verbundberatung

Duration of scheme: Up to 31 December 2008

Legal basis:

Objective of aid:

The applicable provision is Article 10 of Regulation (EC)
No 1857/2006.

The purpose of the scheme is to grant State aid to reduce the
incidence of salmonella on hen farms.

Under Regulation (EC) No 2160/2003, salmonella testing must
be carried out regularly from 1 February 2008. Also under that
Regulation, from 1 January 2009 certain measures must be
taken on farms testing positive for salmonella (destruction and
safe disposal of the birds, safe disposal of the eggs, and cleaning
and disinfection measures).

to

the

order

poultry

prepare

industry

In
in North
Rhine-Westphalia for these compulsory measures, a testing and
hygiene programme has been drawn up, designed to give farms
the opportunity to considerably reduce the incidence of salmo-
nella before the entry into force of the restrictive measures on
1 January 2009, thus reducing the risk of potential restrictions
being applied

Sector(s) concerned: Agriculture,
processing/marketing (poultry and eggs)

livestock production and

Richtlinie zur Förderung der Bereitstellung technischer Hilfe im
Agrarsektor — Förderung von Beratungsleistungen im Rahmen
der Verbundberatung — die ist wiederum gestützt auf Artikel 9
Abs. 3 des Bayerischen Gesetzes zur nachhaltigen Entwicklung
der Agrarwirtschaft und des ländlichen Raums (Bayerisches
Agrarwirtschaftsgesetz — BayAgrarWiG) vom 8. Dezember
2006

expenditure

Annual
scheme:
planned
EUR 5 million for consultancy services in accordance with
Article 15(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006

under

the

Maximum aid intensity: Up to 50 %

Date of implementation: Annual

Duration of scheme: Up to 31 December 2010

Objective of aid:

To improve the competitiveness of Bavarian agriculture and
optimise process and product quality.

Legal basis of State aid: Article 15(2) of Regulation (EC)
No 1857/2006

Sector(s) concerned: Agriculture — subsidised services

Name and address of the granting authority:

Name and address of the granting authority:

Ministerium für Umwelt und Naturschutz, Landwirtschaft und
Verbraucherschutz des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen
Schwannstr. 3
D-40476 Düsseldorf

Bayerische Landesanstalt für Landwirtschaft (LfL)
Abteilung Förderwesen und Fachrecht
Menzinger Straße 54
D-80638 München

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Queries may be addressed to:

Bayerisches Staatsministerium für
Landwirtschaft und Forsten
Referat B 1
Ludwigstr. 2
D-80539 München
Tel. (49-89) 21 82 22 22

Website:

http://www.stmlf.bayern.de/agrarpolitik/programme/26373/rilivbb.
pdf

Other information: None

Aid No: XA 296/07

Member State: Spain

Region: Navarra

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving an indi-
vidual aid:

Ayudas a los planes de asistencia técnica y al fomento de los
productos de calidad agroalimentaria, por
las cooperativas
agrarias de Navarra en el marco de la integración cooperativa

Legal basis:

Orden Foral de la Consejera de Desarrollo Rural y Medio
Ambiente por la que se aprueban las ayudas a los planes de asis-
tencia técnica y al fomento de los productos de calidad agroali-
mentaria, por las cooperativas agrarias de Navarra en el marco
de la integración cooperativa

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of
aid granted to the company:
EUR 500 000

individual

Maximum aid intensity: 75 % of expenditure on encouraging
the production of quality agricultural products.

75 % of expenditure on technical support in the agricultural
sector

Date of implementation: 15 November 2007

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: 15 November
2007 to 31 December 2010

Objective of aid:

To encourage the production of quality agricultural products.
Article 14(2)(a) of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006. Eligible
costs: costs of activities relating to market research and to the
conception and design of quality products within the context of
designations of origin and geographical indications.

(d),

and

15(2)(c),

technical

in the
(f)

support
(e)

sector.
agricultural
To cover
of Regulation
(EC)
Article
fees for consultancy services
No 1857/2006. Eligible costs:
provided by third parties; organisation of, and participation in,
exchange
expenditure on
competitions and fairs;
vulgarisation of scientific knowledge and information on quality
systems, generic products and the latter's nutritional benefits,
without mentioning enterprises; expenditure on publications
containing information about the products

forums,

Sector(s) concerned: Small and medium-sized enterprises
active in the production of agricultural products, particularly
agri-food cooperatives

Name and address of the granting authority:

Gobierno de Navarra. Departamento de Desarrollo Rural y
Medio Ambiente
C/ Tudela, 20
E-31003 Pamplona

Website:

http://www.cfnavarra.es/agricultura/COYUNTURA/AyudasEsta-
do/pdfs/STN007039%20OF.pdf

Other information:

Dirección General de Desarrollo Rural y Medio Ambiente
C/ Tudela, 20
E-31003 Pamplona
Tél. (34) 848 42 29 33
E-mail: izabalzv@cfnavarra.es
Gobierno de Navarra