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: 2008-08-15
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Belgium, Italy, Slovakia, Slovenia, State aid, agricultural product, 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 208/04)

XA Number: XA 53/08

Member State: Italy

Region: Provincia autonoma di Trento

Title of aid scheme: Spese per l'impianto e la tenuta dei libri
genealogici e l'espletamento dei controlli morfo-funzionali

Legal basis:

L.P. 4 del 28 marzo 2003 «Sostegno dell'economia agricola,
disciplina dell'agricoltura biologica e della contrassegnazione di
prodotti geneticamente non modificati» articolo 43, lettera a).

Deliberazione della Giunta provinciale di Trento n. 3132 del 28
dicembre 2007, modificata con deliberazione n. 514 del 29
febbraio 2008, criteri attuativi dell'articolo 43, lettera a) della L.
P. 4/2003

Duration of scheme: Aid will be granted until 31.12.2013 at
the latest

Objective of aid:

To ensure that up-to-date records are kept for the herd books
relating to the breeds and species of livestock interest that are
raised in Trento province, and to ensure that morpho-functional
tests are carried out in order to gauge the animals' growth and
productivity.

Article 16(1)(a) of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006 provides the
legal basis for the application of this aid scheme.

The maximum eligible expenditure budgeted for as regards the
herd books and morpho-functional
tests is based on the
numbers of farms and animals concerned in the year in which
the applications are presented (these can be deduced from offi-
cial AIA data).

Annual
EUR 2 000 000

expenditure

Maximum aid intensity:

planned

under

the

scheme:

Generally speaking, eligible costs are those incurred in the
keeping of herd books and for morpho-functional controls for
the farms and animals concerned in the year in question

The aid amount will represent 100 % of eligible expenditure for
activities relating to the establishment and maintaining of herd
books and 70 % of that relating to morpho-functional tests.
This expenditure reflects the organisational commitment and
associated costs involved in carrying out these services for the
respective species, as follows:

— cattle: EUR 460 per farm and EUR 62 per cow tested,

— equines: EUR 62 per farm and EUR 46 per mare tested,

— sheep and goats: EUR 265 per farm and EUR 41 per female

tested,

— rabbits: EUR 113 per farm and EUR 11 per female tested

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

the Commission's Directorate-General

Sector(s) concerned: Livestock (cattle, sheep and goats, pigs,
poultry and rabbits)

Name and address of the granting authority:

Provincia autonoma di Trento
Dipartimento Agricoltura e alimentazione
Servizio Vigilanza e promozione delle attività agricole
Via G.B. Trener, 3
I-38100 Trento

Website:

http://www.delibere.provincia.tn.it/scripts/gethtmlDeli.asp?Item=
0&Type=FulView

http://www.delibere.provincia.tn.it/scripts/viewAllegatoDeli.asp?
Item=0

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XA Number: XA 125/08

Other information:

Member State: Slovak Republic

Region: —

Title of aid scheme: Schéma štátnej pomoci na zabezpečenie
účasti chovateľov a pestovateľov na výstavách

Legal basis:

— § 2 nariadenia vlády SR č. 369/2007 Z. z. z 8. augusta
2007 o niektorých podporných opatreniach v pôdohospo-
dárstve,

— zákon č. 231/1999 Z. z. o štátnej pomoci v znení neskor-

ších predpisov,

— Article 15 of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006

Annual expenditure planned under the scheme:

The planned annual volume of funding under the scheme from
2008 is: SKK 10 million.

livestock
The total planned budget
and arable farmers in fairs over the period 2008-2013 is:
SKK 60 million

for the participation of

Maximum aid: Aid may be granted for up to 100 % of the
eligible costs of participation in a fair, up to the amount of the
grant awarded to the legal person per SME

Date of implementation: March 2008

Duration of aid scheme or individual aid award: Until
31 December 2013

Objective of aid: The aid is aimed at helping small and
medium-sized enterprises in the stock and arable farming sector
to take part in fairs approved by the Slovak Republic's Ministry
of Agriculture for the relevant calendar year

The State aid may be granted only to stock and arable farmers
(authorised to engage in the primary production of agricultural
products) meeting the definition of small and medium-sized
enterprises laid down in Annex I to Commission Regulation
(EC) No 70/2001 of 12 January 2001 on the application of
Articles 87 and 88 of the EC Treaty to State aid to small and
medium-sized enterprises by a third party in the form of rebates
of up to 100 % of the eligible costs of their participation in
fairs.

Aid may not be provided in the form of a direct cash payment
to the aid beneficiary

Approved:
M. Ľubomír MIČEK, PhD.
Director-General, Rural Development Section, Ministry of Agriculture
of the Slovak Republic

XA Number: XA 127/08

Member State: Belgium

Region: État fédéral/Federale staat

Title of aid scheme:

Calamité agricole: Arrêté royal considérant comme une calamité
agricole la sécheresse des mois de juin et juillet 2006 suivie par
les pluies abondantes du mois d'août 2006, délimitant l'étendue
géographique de cette calamité et déterminant l'indemnisation
des dommages.

Landbouwramp: „Koninklijk Besluit waarbij de droogte van de
maanden juni en juli 2006, gevolgd door de overvloedige
regenval van de maand augustus 2006, als een landbouwramp
wordt beschouwd, de geografische omvang van deze ramp
wordt afgebakend en waarbij de schadeloosstelling van de
schade wordt vastgesteld”

Legal basis:

Economic sector(s) concerned: Primary production of
agricultural products listed in Annex I to the EC Treaty

the

Loi du 12 juillet 1976 relative à la réparation de certains
dommages causés à des biens privés par des calamités naturelles

Name and address of the granting authority:

Granting authority:

Ministerstvo pôdohospodárstva SR
Dobrovičova ul. č. 12
SK-812 66 Bratislava
Tel. (421) 2 59 26 61 11

Website: http://www.land.gov.sk/index.php?navID=161&id=592

Scheme administrator:

Pôdohospodárska platobná agentúra
Dobrovičova ul. č. 12
SK-815 26 Bratislava
Tel. (421) 2 59 26 61 11

Website:
(owing to restructuring of the Paying Agency's website)

http://www.land.gov.sk/apa/index.php?p=DP_metpok

12 juli 1976 — Wet betreffende het herstel van zekere schade
veroorzaakt aan private goederen door natuurrampen

Annual
expenditure
EUR 9 574 000 (1 year)

planned

under

the

scheme:

Maximum aid intensity: 70 %

Reduction of 30 % under the Royal Decree of 8 November
2007 amending the Royal Decree of 7 April 1978 setting
varying rates for each portion of the total net value of the
damage suffered and determining the excess and reduction for
calculating compensation for certain forms of damage caused to
private property by agricultural disasters

Date of implementation: The Royal Decree will come into
force on the day of its publication in the Moniteur belge (which
will take place only after the 10-day period provided for in
Article 20 of Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006)

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Duration of scheme: One-off grant. Farmers will
receive
compensation after submission of an application for assistance
from the disaster fund accompanied by a statement detailing the
crop damage. The aid payments will be made in 2008

Objective of aid: This aid scheme is intended to provide
farmers with compensation, subject to certain conditions, for
crops that are covered by the Royal Decree and suffered exten-
sive damage as a result of the drought of June and July 2006
followed by the exceptionally heavy rains of August 2006.
It
falls under Article 11 of Regulation (EC)
therefore
No 1857/2006

Sector(s) concerned: Farms on which the following crops
suffered damage: flax, maize, permanent or temporary grass-
land, either grazed or cut, potatoes grown under contract,
peas grown under contract, cauliflowers grown under contract
(1st harvest), spinach grown under contract (1st harvest), beans
grown under contract (sown before 10 June 2006)

Name and address of the granting authority:
SPF Economie, P.M.E., Classes moyennes et Energie/SPF Econ-
omie, KMO, Middenstand en Energie
Direction générale «Potentiel économique»/Directoraat generaal
„Economisch Potentieel”
City Atrium C
Rue du Progrès 50/Vooruitgangstraat 50
B-1210 Bruxelles/B-1210 Brussel
No d'entreprise: 0314.595.348/Bedrijfsnummer: 0314.595.348

Website:
Version Fr/Versie Fr: http://economie.fgov.be/enterprises/Agri-
culture/home_fr.htm

Version Nl/Versie Nl: http://economie.fgov.be/enterprises/Agri-
culture/home_nl.htm

Version De/Versie De: http://economie.fgov.be/enterprises/Agri-
culture/home_de.htm

Version En/Versie En: http://economie.fgov.be/enterprises/Agri-
culture/home_en.htm

Other information:
The Belgian State undertakes to comply with Article 11 of
Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006. Consequently, only farms
which suffered losses of at least 30 % per crop will benefit from
compensation for the crop in question.

Institute observed that

The Royal Meteorological
these two
meteorological phenomena (drought in June/July and rain in
August) were of an exceptional nature (with a return period in
Belgium of more than 20 years). Furthermore,
the losses
suffered were caused by the immediate succession of the two
phenomena, with farmers therefore unable to attribute their
losses to either one or the other

E. GOFFIN
Director-General

XA Number: XA 131/08

Member State: Slovenia

Region: Območje občine Ilirska Bistrica

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving indivi-
dual aid: Državna pomoč za pospeševanje razvoja kmetijstva in
gozdarstva v občini Ilirska Bistrica, v obdobju 2007-2013

Legal basis: Pravilnik o dodeljevanju državnih pomoči za ohran-
janje in razvoj kmetijstva in gozdarstva v občini Ilirska Bistrica
za programsko obdobje 2007-2013

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

Year

2008

2009

2010

2011

2012

2013

Forecast annual expenditure in EUR

124 602

82 602

82 602

82 602

82 602

82 602

Maximum aid intensity:

2. Conservation of traditional landscapes and buildings:

1. Investment in agricultural holdings for primary production:

— for non-productive features, up to 100 % of actual costs,

— up to 50 % of eligible costs in less-favoured areas, or up

to 40 % in other areas,

— up to 60 % of eligible costs in less-favoured areas, or up
to 50 % in other areas,
if the investment is made by
young farmers within five years of setting up (these
investments must be set out in a business plan for the
development of
farming activities, as provided for by
Article 22(c), and the conditions laid down in Article 22
of Regulation (EC) No 1698/2005 must be met).

— for productive assets on farms, up to 60 % of costs, or
75 % in less-favoured areas, provided that the investment
does not entail any increase in the production capacity of
the farm,

— additional aid may be granted at a rate of up to 100 % to
incurred by using traditional
cover
materials necessary to maintain the heritage features of
buildings,

the extra costs

The purpose of the aid is investment to restore farm features,
to purchase equipment to be used for agricultural production
and to invest in permanent crops,
improve farmland and
manage pastures.

— up to EUR 10 000 per year for work undertaken by the
farmer for investment in non-productive heritage on the
agricultural holding.

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3. Relocation of farm buildings in the public interest:

— up to 100 % of the actual costs where the relocation
simply consists of the dismantling, removal and re-erec-
tion of existing facilities,

— where relocation results in the farmer benefiting from
more modern facilities, the farmer must contribute at
least 60 %, or 50 % in less-favoured areas. If the benefi-
ciary is a young farmer, this contribution is to be at least
55 % or 45 % respectively,

— where the relocation results in an increase in production
capacity, the contribution from the farmer must be at
least 60 %, or 50 % in less-favoured areas, of
the
expenses relating to this increase. If the beneficiary is a
young farmer, this contribution is to be at least 55 % or
45 % respectively.

4. Aid towards the payment of insurance premiums:

— the amount of municipal co-financing is the difference
between the
insurance
premiums from the national budget and up to 50 % of
eligible costs of an insurance premium for insuring crops
and fruit and insuring livestock against disease.

co-financing of

amount of

5. Aid for land reparcelling:

measures constituting State aid in accordance with the following
articles 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 agricultural products and amending
Regulation (EC) No 70/2001 (OJ L 358, 16.12.2006, p. 3):

— Article 4: Investment in agricultural holdings,

— Article 5: Conservation of traditional landscapes and build-

ings,

— Article 6: Relocation of farm buildings in the public interest,

— Article 12: Aid towards

the payment of

insurance

premiums,

— Article 13: Aid for land reparcelling,

— Article 14: Aid to encourage the production of quality agri-

cultural products,

— Article 15: Provision of technical support in the agricultural

sector

Economic sector(s) concerned: Agriculture

Name and address of the granting authority: Občina Ilirska
Bistrica, Bazoviška cesta 14, SLO-6250 Ilirska Bistrica

— up to 100 % of actual

legal and administrative costs

Website:

incurred.

http://www.uradni-list.si/1/ulonline.jsp?urlid=200812&dhid=94338

6. Aid to encourage the production of quality agricultural products:

Other information:

— up to 100 % of actual costs incurred;

this is to be
provided in the form of subsidised services and must not
involve direct payments of money to producers.

7. Provision of technical support:

farmers, consultancy services,

— up to 100 % of costs concerning education and training
the organisation of
of
forums, competitions, exhibitions and fairs, publications,
catalogues and websites, and the dissemination of scien-
tific knowledge. The aid is to be granted in the form of
subsidised services and must not involve direct payments
of money to producers

Date of implementation: The aid will not be granted until a
summary has been published on the European Commission's
website and not before 1 March 2008

Duration of scheme or individual aid award: 31 December
2013

Objective of the aid: To support SMEs

The measure for the payment of insurance premiums to insure
crops and fruit includes the following adverse climatic events
which can be assimilated to natural disasters: spring frost, hail,
lightning, fire caused by lightning, storm and floods.

The municipality's Rules meet the requirements of Regulation
(EC) No 1857/2006 concerning the measures to be adopted by
the municipality and the general provisions applicable (steps
preceding grant of aid, cumulation, transparency and moni-
toring of aid)

Anton ŠENKINC
Mayor of Ilirska Bistrica

XA Number: XA 132/08

Member State: Republic of Slovenia

Region: Območje Občine Destrnik

Reference to articles in Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006 and
eligible costs:

Chapter II of the draft Rules on granting State aid for preserving
and developing agriculture and forestry in the municipality of
Ilirska Bistrica for the programming period 2007-2013 includes

Title of aid scheme or name of company receiving indivi-
dual aid: Pomoč za ohranjanje in razvoj kmetijstva in podeželja
v Občini Destrnik, za programsko obdobje 2007-2013

Legal basis: Pravilnik o dodeljevanju državnih in drugih pomoči
ter ukrepih za programe razvoja podeželja v Občini Destrnik

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

— the aid is to be granted in the form of subsidised services
involve direct payments of money to

and must not
producers.

Year

2008

2009

2010

2011

2012

2013

EUR

16 500

22 000

17 500

18 000

18 500

19 000

Maximum aid intensity:

1. Investment in agricultural holdings for primary production:

— up to 50 % of eligible costs in less-favoured areas,

— up to 40 % of eligible costs in other areas,

— up to 60 % of eligible costs for the management of agri-
land in less-favoured areas, or up to 50 % in
cultural
other areas, if the investment is made by young farmers
within five years of setting up and is contained in the
business plan.

The purpose of the aid is investment to restore farm features
and to purchase equipment
to be used for agricultural
production, to invest in permanent crops, to improve farm-
land and to manage pastures.

2. Aid towards the payment of insurance premiums:

— the amount of municipal co-financing is the difference
between the
insurance
premiums from the national budget and up to 50 % of
eligible costs of an insurance premium for insuring crops
and fruit and insuring livestock against disease.

co-financing of

amount of

3. Aid for land reparcelling:

6. Conservation of traditional landscapes and buildings:

— up to 60 % of eligible costs, or up to 75 % in
less-favoured areas, for investments intended to conserve
heritage features of productive assets (farm buildings),

— up to 100 % of eligible costs for investment for the
purposes of conserving non-productive heritage located
on farms (sites of archaeological or historical interest),

— up to 100 % of additional aid to cover the extra costs
incurred by using traditional materials necessary to
conserve the heritage features of buildings

Date of implementation: The aid will not be granted until a
summary has been published on the European Commission's
website and not before 1 March 2008

Duration of
31 December 2013

scheme or

individual

aid award: Until

Objective of the aid: To support agriculture

Reference to articles in Regulation (EC) No 1857/2006 and
eligible costs:

for

rural development programmes

Articles 13 to 24 of the draft Rules on granting State and other
aid and measures
in
the programming period
the municipality of Destrnik for
2007-2013 include measures constituting State aid in accord-
ance with the following articles 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):

— Article 4: Investment in agricultural holdings,

— Article 5: Conservation of traditional landscapes and build-

ings,

— up to 50 % of actual

legal and administrative costs

incurred.

— Article 12: Aid towards

the payment of

insurance

premiums,

4. Aid to encourage the production of quality agricultural products:

— Article 13: Aid for land reparcelling,

— co-financing of up to 100 % of eligible costs. The aid is
to be granted in the form of subsidised services and does
not involve direct payments of money to producers.

— Article 14: Aid to encourage the production of quality agri-

cultural products,

5. Provision of technical support:

— up to 50 % of eligible costs concerning education and
training, consultancy services, the organisation of forums,
the dissemination of scientific knowledge, publications
and replacement services,

— Article 15: Provision of technical support

Economic sector(s) concerned: Agriculture

Name and address of granting authority: Občina Destrnik,
Vintarovci 50, SLO-2253 Destrnik

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Website:
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%20v%20Občini%20Destrnik.pdf

Other information:
The measure for the payment of insurance premiums to insure
crops and fruit includes the following adverse climatic events
which can be assimilated to natural disasters: spring frost, hail,
lightning, fire caused by lightning, storm and floods.

The municipality's Rules meet the requirements of Regulation
(EC) No 1857/2006 concerning the measures to be adopted by
the municipality and the general provisions applicable (steps
preceding grant of aid, cumulation, transparency and moni-
toring of aid)

Franc PUKŠIČ
Mayor of Destrnik