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: 2008-06-21
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Belgium, Estonia, Germany, Italy, State aid, aid to agriculture, control of State aid, exchange of information

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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

(2008/C 157/08)

Aid No: XA 23/08

Member State: Italy

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of individual aid granted to the company: Overall
annual expenditure under the scheme: EUR 1 million

Region: Provincia autonoma di Bolzano

Maximum aid intensity: 60 %

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving an indi-
vidual aid award: Criteri e modalità per la concessione di aiuti
in favore del settore zootecnico

Legal basis: Articolo 5, commi 4, 5 e 7 della legge provinciale
14 dicembre 1999, n. 10, e successive modifiche

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
aid granted to the company:
amount of
EUR 3 500 000

individual

Maximum aid intensity: 70 % and 100 %

Date of implementation: 1.1.2008

Duration of
31.12.2013

scheme or

individual

aid award: Until

Objective of aid: Article 15(2)(d) and Article 16(1)(a) and (b)

Sector(s) concerned: Raising of dairy cattle, other cattle, horses
and other equine animals, sheep and goats, swine/pigs and
poultry

Name and address of the granting authority:

Provincia autonoma di Bolzano
ripartizione provinciale Agricoltura
via Brennero, 6
I-39100 Bolzano

Website:

http://www.provincia.bz.it/agricoltura/publ/publ_getreso.asp?
PRES_ID=94007

Il direttore di ripartizione
Dr. Martin PAZELLER

Aid No: XA 35/08

Member State: Italy

Region: Friuli Venezia Giulia

Date of implementation: As from the publication of the iden-
tification number of the request for exemption on the website
the Commission's Directorate-General for Agriculture and
of
Rural Development

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: 31.12.2013

Objective of the aid: Aid to SMEs

Sector(s) concerned: NACE Code: A001 — Agriculture,
hunting and related service activities

Name and address of granting authority:

Regione autonoma Friuli Venezia Giulia
Direzione centrale risorse agricole, naturali, forestali e montagna
Servizio investimenti aziendali e sviluppo agricolo
Via Sabbadini, 31
I-33100 Udine

Website:

http://www.regione.fvg.it/asp/delibereinternet/
DGR3063_12_11_07_1_34_52_PM.pdf

Other information:

The aid is intended to support investments by SMEs in primary
production.

Aid will be granted in accordance with Article 4 of Regulation
(EC) No 1857/2006.

Eligible costs are as classified in Article 4(4) of Regulation (EC)
No 1857/2006.

Aid intensity varies between 40 % and 60 % pursuant
Article 4(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006

to

Per il direttore del Servizio investimenti aziendali e sviluppo agricolo

Il direttore centrale
dott. Augusto VIOLA

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving an indi-
vidual aid award: Regime di aiuto: Regolamento recante criteri
e modalità applicabili nella concessione degli aiuti ad imprese
per investimenti
la produzione primaria, erogabili ai
sensi della legge regionale 20 novembre 1982, n. 80

inerenti

Aid No: XA 89/08

Member State: Belgium

Region: Vlaanderen

Legal basis: Delibera di Giunta regionale n. 3063 del 7 dicembre
2007

Title of aid scheme/name of company receiving an indivi-
dual aid: Vlaamse Rundveeteelt Vereniging vzw

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Legal basis:

Sector(s) concerned: Livestock

Decreet van 21 december 2007 houdende de algemene uitga-
venbegroting van de Vlaamse Gemeenschap voor het begro-
tingsjaar 2008

Koninklijk besluit van 23 september 1971 betreffende de verbe-
tering van het rundveeras

Ministerieel besluit van 27 februari 1991 betreffende de verbe-
tering van het rundveeras

Name and address of the granting authority:

Departement Landbouw en Visserij
Duurzame Landbouwontwikkeling
Ellips, 6e verdieping
Koning Albert II laan 35, bus 40
B-1030 Brussel

Website:

http://www2.vlaanderen.be/ned/sites/landbouw/info/steun/eu.html

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of
aid granted to the company:
EUR 1 194 000

individual

Other information: —

Jules Van Liefferinge
Secretaris-generaal

Maximum aid intensity:

Up to 100 % of the administrative costs of establishing and
maintaining herd books.

Up to 70 % of the costs of tests performed by or on behalf of
third parties to determine the genetic quality or yield of live-
stock; there is no exemption for aid granted to cover the costs
the livestock or of
of checks undertaken by the owner of
routine checks on milk quality

Aid No: XA 93/08

Member State: Estonia

Region: Estonia

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

Date of implementation:

Legal basis:

Aid may be granted as from 1 March and, at the earliest, 15 days
after submission of an application.

Aid can be granted by means of an implementing decree. These
decrees are drawn up annually. A draft implementing decree has
yet to be drawn up, and will include a ‘standstill’ clause

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: The subsidy
will be granted in the period to 31.12.2008

Objective of the aid:

Vlaamse Rundveevereniging (VRV) is a recognised association
which maintains the herd books for various breeds of cattle. It
indicates that it will use the aid to pay the administrative costs
of establishing and maintaining herd books, entering the birth
data and genealogical records in the database, and producing
and issuing zootechnical and pedigree certificates.

The VRV also carries out tests to determine the genetic quality
or yield of breeding stock. These tests relate to milk quality.

The measure comes under Article 16 of Regulation (EC)
No 1857/2006 and fulfils the conditions thereof.

Article 16(1)(a): aid at a rate of up to 100 % to cover the
administrative costs of the establishment and maintenance of
herd books.

1) Maaelu ja põllumajandusturu korraldamise seadus § 45 lõige

3 ja § 58 lõige 1;

2) Põllumajandusministri 18.01.2005. a määrus nr 6 ‘Põlluma-
jandusloomade aretustoetuse saamiseks esitatavad nõuded
ning toetuse taotlemise ja taotluse menetlemise kord’

Planned annual expenditure for the scheme or overall
amount of
aid granted to the company:
individual
EEK 20 000 000 per year

Maximum aid intensity: 70 %

Date of implementation: 15.2.2008

Duration of scheme or individual aid: February 2008-Decem-
ber 2011

Objective of aid:

Livestock sector.

The aid is granted in accordance with Article 16 of Regulation
(EC) No 1857/2006.

The eligible expenditure is that for keeping herd books or pedi-
gree records and carrying out performance tests or assessing
genetic value.

The aid is granted in the form of subsidised services and does
not involve direct payments to producers

Sector(s) concerned: Rearing of bovine animals, horses, sheep
and poultry

Article 16(1)(b): aid at a rate of up to 70 % of the costs of tests
performed by or on behalf of third parties, to determine the
genetic quality or yield of
livestock, with the exception of
controls undertaken by the owner of the livestock and routine
controls of milk quality

Name and address of the granting authority:

Põllumajanduse Registrite ja Informatsiooni Amet
Narva mnt 3
EE-51009 Tartu

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Website:

https://www.riigiteataja.ee/ert/act.jsp?id=840380

http://eoigus.just.ee/?act=6&subact=1&OTSIDOC_W=208300

Other information: —

Aid No: XA 97/08

Member State: Federal Republic of Germany

Region: Freistaat Sachsen

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving indivi-
dual aid: Förderrichtlinie des Sächsischen Staatsministeriums für
Umwelt und Landwirtschaft zur Absatzförderung der Land- und
Ernährungswirtschaft (RL AbsLE)

Legal basis:

Förderrichtlinie des Sächsischen Staatsministeriums für Umwelt
und Landwirtschaft zur Absatzförderung der Land- und Ernäh-
rungswirtschaft (RL AbsLE)

Haushaltsordnung des Freistaates Sachsen (Sächsische Haushalts-
ordnung — SäHO)

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme or overall
amount of
aid granted to the company:
individual
EUR 0,84 million per year

Maximum aid intensity:

— participating in events and activities, such as trade fairs,
product presentations, markets etc., up to a maximum 80 %,

— seminars and training courses up to 100 %,

— studies on the market situation and marketing concepts for

quality programmes up to 80 %,

— introducing management systems up to 50 %

Date of implementation: 1.2.2008

Objective of the aid:
Aid to agricultural enterprises for trade promotion and Com-
munity marketing. This aid to SMEs is granted within the frame-
work of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006 under:

— Article 14 (Aid to encourage the production of quality agri-
cultural products) especially for market research activities,
product conception and design,
introduction of quality
assurance schemes such as the ISO 9000 or 14000 series
including initial certification; aid is granted in kind by
means of
and involves no direct
payments of money to the producers, membership of the
implementing organisations is not a condition for access to
the services,

subsidised services

— Article 15 (Provision of technical support in the agricultural
sector) especially for education and training, participation in
trade fairs and exhibitions (participation fees, costs of publi-
cations, the rent of exhibition premises), the dissemination
of scientific knowledge in a generally understandable form,
information on recognised quality systems and
factual
generic
information on products, publications
factual
presenting neutral factual information on producers from a
given region or of a given product, a service which is open
to everyone; aid is granted in kind by means of subsidised
services and involves no direct payments of money to the
producers, membership of the implementing organisations
is not a condition for access to the services

Economic sectors concerned: Agriculture — Primary produc-
tion of products covered by Annex I to the Treaty

Name and address of the granting authority:
Sächsische Landesanstalt für Landwirtschaft
August-Böckstiegel-Straße 1
D-01326 Dresden

Website:
http://www.smul.sachsen.de/de/wu/aktuell/foerderung/5_1045.htm

Other information:
Sächsisches Staatsministerium für Umwelt und Landwirtschaft
Referat 23 „Förderstrategie“
Postanschrift: D-01076 Dresden
Tel. (49) 351 564 68 47

Duration of
31.12.2013

scheme or

individual

aid award: Until

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