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: 2008-06-24
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Cyprus, France, State aid, agricultural holding, 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

(2008/C 159/05)

Aid No: XA 109/08

Member State: France

Region: French overseas departments (FOD)

Title of aid scheme: Aides en faveur du secteur de l'élevage
dans les départements d'Outre-mer (DOM)

Legal basis:

— Articles L621-1 à L621-11, articles R621-1 à R621-43 et

articles R684-1 à R684-12 du Code rural

The aid will concern the actions listed in Article 16 of Regu-
lation (EC) No 1857/2006

Sectors concerned: Ruminants sector and intensive production
sector

Name and address of the granting authority:

ODEADOM
12, rue Henri Rol-Tanguy
TSA 60006
F-93555 Montreuil Cedex

— Article 16 of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006

Website:

— Projet de décision du directeur de l'ODEADOM relatif à un
régime d'aides en faveur du secteur de l'élevage dans les
départements d'Outre-mer

Annual
EUR 270 000

expenditure

Maximum aid intensity:

planned

under

the

scheme:

— up to 100 % for aid to cover the administrative costs of the

establishment and maintenance of herd books,

http://www.odeadom.fr/?page_id=12#5

Aid No: XA 112/08

Member State: France

Region: French overseas departments (FOD)

— up to 70 % for aid covering the costs of tests performed to

determine the genetic quality or yield of livestock,

Title of aid scheme: Aides aux investissements dans les exploi-
tations agricoles des départements d'Outre-mer (DOM)

— up to 40 % for investment aid relating to the introduction at
farm level of innovative animal breeding techniques or prac-
tices

Date of implementation: On receipt of an acknowledgement
of receipt from the Commission

Duration of the aid scheme: Until 31.12.2013 and until
31.12.2011 for investment aid relating to the introduction at
farm level of innovative animal breeding techniques or practices

Objective and type of aid:

The aid is destined for the livestock sector in the French over-
seas departments, and is financed from the budget of the Office
de développement de l'économie agricole des départements d'Outre-mer
(ODEADOM) (the overseas departments agricultural economy
development office). This aid cannot be combined with any
similar aid financed by the POSEI France programme.

The purpose of the aid will be:

— to improve livestock genes by using innovative animal
breeding techniques (embryo transfer, the introduction of
innovative selection techniques or practices into holdings),

— to establish, develop and maintain herd books of

local

breeds,

— to perform tests to determine the genetic quality or yield of
livestock (performance checks, dermatophilosis resistance
checks, etc.).

Legal basis:

— Articles L621-1 à L621-11, articles R621-1 à R621-43 et

articles R684-1 à R684-12 du code rural

— Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006

— Projet de décision du directeur de l'ODEADOM relatif à un
les investissements dans les
régime d'aides portant sur
exploitations agricoles des DOM accordé conformément au
règlement (CE) no 1857/2006

Annual
EUR 970 050

expenditure

planned

under

the

scheme:

Maximum aid intensity: Up to 75 % of eligible costs

Date of implementation: On receipt of an acknowledgement
of receipt from the Commission

Duration of the aid scheme: Until 31.12.2013

Objective and type of aid:

The aid is intended for investment in the agricultural sector of
the French overseas departments, and is financed from the
budget of the Office de développement de l'économie agricole des
départements d'Outre-mer (ODEADOM) (the overseas departments
agricultural economy development office). This aid cannot be
combined with any similar aid financed by the POSEI France
programme.

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The objective of this aid will be, in the fruit, vegetable and horti-
cultural sector in the French overseas departments, to guarantee
a regular supply to the local market by developing production
adapted in quantity and quality and to diversify out-of-season
production. It will also aim to improve the competitiveness of
products for export in the perfume and aromatic plants sector.

In the livestock sector the objective of the aid will be to increase
fodder crops, develop holdings' production and equipment and
establish and improve production methods,
improve hygiene
conditions, animal welfare standards and cut production costs.

The eligible expenses may include:

(a) construction, acquisition or

improvement of

immovable

property;

(b) the purchase or lease-purchase of machinery and equipment,
including computer software, up to the market value of the
asset;

(c) general costs linked to expenditure under points (a) and (b),
such as architects, engineers and consultation fees, feasibility
studies, the acquisition of patents and licences;

Legal basis: Απόφαση Υπουργικού Συμβουλίου με ημερομηνία
6.2.2008

Annual expenditure planned or overall amount of aid
granted to the company: The total amount of EUR 1 869 939
is expected to be fully committed within the first six months of
2008

Maximum intensity of aid: The intensity of the aid is 80 %,
and 90 % in less favoured areas, of the difference between the
2007 production value (the result of multiplying the average
yield in the year the damage occurred by the average selling
price obtained during that year) and the value of normal
production, which is obtained by multiplying the yield in the
reference period (the preceding three years) by the average
selling price obtained during that period

Date of implementation: The aid can be paid once the aid
scheme is approved (February 2008)

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: The scheme
will end on 30.6.2008

(d) compliance with newly introduced minimum environ-

Objective of aid:

mental, hygiene and animal welfare standards;

(e) the purchase of

than land for construction
purposes costing up to 10 % of the eligible expenses of the
investment.

land other

The maximum amount of aid granted to one company will not
exceed EUR 500 000

Sectors concerned:

Fruit and vegetables (subsistence and market-garden crops, roots
and tubers, fresh fruit, citrus fruit, dry fruit), semi-permanent
fruit crops, viticulture, horticulture, herbs, medicinal plants,
plants used for perfume extraction, stimulant plants and rice.

Ruminants (beef and dairy cattle, sheep and goats) and intensive
production (pigs, poultry and rabbits) sector

Name and address of the granting authority:

ODEADOM
12, rue Henri Rol-Tanguy
TSA 60006
F-93555 Montreuil Cedex

Website:

http://www.odeadom.fr/?page_id=12#5

Aid No: XA 113/08

Member State: Cyprus

Region: —

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving indivi-
dual aid: Σχέδιο παραχώρησης αποζημίωσης για τις ζημιές που
προκλήθηκαν από άκαιρες βροχοπτώσεις σε χορτομάζα σιτηρών ή
ψυχανθών κτηνοτροφικών φυτών για σανοποίηση

The aid scheme is based on Article 11 of Regulation (ΕC)
No 1857/2006 and provides for aid to compensate producers
for loss of plants (hay) caused by an adverse climatic event
which can be assimilated to a natural disaster (unseasonal rain
in May 2007).

In May 2007 unseasonal rain caused damage to feed grain and
legumes which had been cut for drying, before they had been
baled.

The rain was recorded throughout Cyprus and lasted from
8 to 18 May 2007, with peaks on 11 May 2007 and 17 May
2007. Total rainfall
in the areas where the damage occurred
fluctuated between 219 % and 920 % of normal rainfall. The
rains followed a period of
lasting two weeks,
which is the usual haymaking period.

fine weather,

Damage occurred on 105 104 decares (10 510,4 hectares) of
(barley, wheat, oats and ray grass) and on
cereal crops
9 201 decares (920,1 hectares) of fodder legumes (vetch, peas,
louvana, favetta).

Beneficiaries of the scheme are farmers (small or medium-sized
holdings) who, as a result of the unseasonal rain in May 2007,
suffered losses corresponding to over 30 % of average annual
production of a similar crop during the preceding three years
and submitted on time a ‘declaration of damage’ together with
all the supporting documents required.

Data concerning the average yields and average prices during
the reference period and during the year the damage occurred
have been prepared by the Statistical Service of the Ministry of
Finance.

Estimates of the damage have been made by staff at the District
Agricultural Offices, in accordance with the rules in force

Sector(s) concerned: The scheme concerns plant production
only, specifically the production of fodder grain and legumes

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Name and address of granting authority:

Υπουργείο Γεωργίας, Φυσικών Πόρων και Περιβάλλοντος
Λεωφόρος Λουκή Ακρίτα
CY-1412 Λευκωσία

granted to compensate farmers for income losses due to quaran-
tine obligations

Sector(s) concerned: Animal production (pig, sheep/goat and
cattle farming)

Website: www.moa.gov.cy/da

Other information:

Christodoulos Fotiou
Deputy Director
Department of Agriculture
Ministry of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Environment

7 February 2008

Aid No: XA 114/08

Member State: Cyprus

Region: —

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving indivi-
dual aid: Αποζημιώσεις/ενίσχυση κτηνοτρόφων για την απώλεια
εισοδήματος που προκύπτει από τους κτηνιατρικούς περιορισμούς
που έχουν τεθεί λόγω αφθώδους πυρετού (παράταση διάρκειας)

Name and address of granting authority:

Υπουργείο Γεωργίας, Φυσικών Πόρων και Περιβάλλοντος
Λεωφόρος Λουκή Ακρίτα
CY-1412 Λευκωσία

Website: www.moa.gov.cy

Other information:

This measure amends aid scheme ΧΑ 398/07 entitled:
‘Αποζη-
μιώσεις/ενίσχυση κτηνοτρόφων για την απώλεια εισοδήματος που
προκύπτει από τους κτηνιατρικούς περιορισμούς που έχουν τεθεί
λόγω αφθώδους πυρετού’, extending the deadline for the submis-
sion of applications from 31 January 2008 to 20 February
2008 and the deadline for completion of all actions from
29 February 2008 to 31 March 2008. The final date for
approving applications will also be 31 March 2008

Sotiris Ch. Michaël
For the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture, Natural
Resources and Environment

15 February 2008

Legal basis: Απόφαση Υπουργικού Συμβουλίου με ημερομηνία
5.12.2007

(1) See also the Commission Decision 2007/718/EC of 6 November 2007
foot-and-mouth

concerning certain protection measures against
disease in Cyprus (OJ L 289, 7.11.2007, p. 45).

Annual expenditure planned or overall amount of aid
granted to the company: The annual budget for 2008 is
EUR 5 126 000

Maximum intensity of aid: The aid intensity is 100 %, with a
maximum of EUR 120 000 per pig farmer and EUR 17 000
per owner of sheep/goat and cattle farming units

Aid No: XA 115/08

Member State: France

Date of implementation: February 2008

Region: French overseas departments (FOD)

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: 31.3.2008

Objective of aid:

The objective of the notified measure is to grant compensation
for loss of income to pig, sheep/goat and cattle farmers who
have been affected by restrictive measures taken by the public
authorities following detection by a Community laboratory of
cases of foot-and-mouth disease in Cyprus (1). Specifically, the
measures taken prohibited, inter alia, the export of pigs, pigmeat,
pig semen, and other types of meat. As a result, the weight of
the animals and,
in particular, the stocking density increased,
with adverse effects on the animals' welfare. In order to remedy
the situation some overweight animals had to be removed
immediately and aid granted to the livestock farmers
to
compensate for the resultant income losses. Aid is also granted
under the measure for loss of income resulting from the ban on
selling the animals' heads, liver and semen. Lastly, for sheep and
goat farmers, the measure provides for compensation for loss of
income due to additional feeding costs incurred as a result of
the ban on free grazing within the 10-kilometre surveillance
zone.

Title of aid scheme: Aides destinées à encourager la production
de produits agricoles de qualité dans les départements d'Outre-
mer

Legal basis:

— Articles L621-1 à L621-11, articles R621-1 à R621-43 et

articles R684-1 à R684-12 du code rural

— Article 14 of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006

— Projet de décision du directeur de l'ODEADOM relatif à un
régime d'aides destinées à encourager la production de
produits agricoles de qualité dans les départements d'Outre-
mer

Annual
EUR 453 000

expenditure

planned

under

the

scheme:

Maximum aid intensity: Up to 100 %

Date of implementation: On receipt of an acknowledgement
of receipt from the Commission

The measure is based on Article 10 of Regulation (EC)
No 1857/2006, which provides that aid of 100 % may be

Duration of the aid scheme: Until 31.12.2013

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Objective and type of aid:
The aid is intended to encourage the production of quality agri-
cultural products in the French overseas departments and is
financed from the budget of the Office de développement de l'éco-
nomie agricole des départements d'Outre-mer
(the
overseas departments agricultural economy development office).
The aid cannot be combined with any similar aid financed by
the POSEI France programme.

(ODEADOM)

The purpose of the aid will be to increase, through market
research activities and training, the value of agricultural produc-
tion and thereby help the entire agricultural sector to adapt to
the demands of consumers. The aim is therefore to boost
product quality.

This aid will be used in particular to fund actions to support the
introduction of a quality assurance programme and measures to
raise product visibility. The aid will aim to encourage producers
to improve the quality of their products and for this to be
recognised by buyers. This will increase the added value of local
produce, and meeting standards and gaining certification will
guarantee product quality to buyers. In the case of low-volume
production facing strong external competition, these measures
local market, etc.) and
will open up niche markets (tourism,
increase the value of these products.

This aid scheme will also fund market research activities for
local sectors in order to gain sound knowledge of the local
market and trends (needs, market outlets, etc.) and adapt
production to the outcome of these studies in order to conquer
parts of the internal market (aim of increasing supply to the
local market). In addition, market research activities may be
funded prior to the launch of new sectors or new processed
products in order to gauge potential interest and uptake.

A prime example is the banana sector, which needs a regular
update of its position on the world market in order to carry out
a regular review of its strategic approach.

The aid will concern the actions listed in Article 14 of Regu-
lation (EC) No 1857/2006.

In accordance with point 5 of this Article, aid will be granted in
kind and must not involve direct payments of money to benefi-
ciaries. In addition, the aid will be accessible to any producer in
the area in question who meets the same objective conditions,
in accordance with Article 14(6) of the agricultural exemption
Regulation

Sectors concerned:

Fruit and vegetables (subsistence and market-garden crops, roots
and tubers, fresh fruit, citrus fruit, dry fruit), semi-permanent
fruit crops, viticulture, horticulture, herbs, medicinal plants,
plants used for perfume extraction, stimulant plants and rice.

Ruminants sector and intensive production sector.

Cane and sugar sectors.

Banana sector

Name and address of the granting authority:
ODEADOM
12, rue Henri Rol-Tanguy
TSA 60006
F-93555 Montreuil Cedex

Website:
http://www.odeadom.fr/?page_id=12#5